Posted May 31, 2015 in Faith, Reading / 4 Comments
Tagged as Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, Birthday Month Reading Challenge, Catholic, Catholic Book, Color Coded Challenge, Finishing the Series Challenge, Monthly Wrap-Up, Mythology Reading Challenge, Polish, Read 2015, Rereading Challenge, School, What's In a Name Reading Challenge, You Read How Many Books Challenge
Posted May 29, 2015 in Life / 0 Comments
Seven Quick Takes is a weekly link-up hosted by This Ain’t The Lyceum.
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Only four more days left in the school year! I highly doubt much will happen next week learning-wise. We have class picnics, awards ceremonies, and an early out the last day. Not to mention that grades have to be entered by the end of the day on Monday so the rest of the week really doesn’t count. Hopefully it will be an easy week.
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I am getting sick of the rain. Sure, I know we need it, bad. Still, I just wait it would hold off until I was home before it begins pouring. At least it will be nice and green out for a bit.
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For Memorial Weekend I had the house to myself. Well, it was the cat and I. It was a nice weekend to read and clean in relative silence. I needed that.
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Tagged as Essential Oils, Library, Montana, School, Seven Quick Takes, World Youth Day
Posted May 29, 2015 in Reading / 14 Comments
The Friday 56 is a weekly meme hosted by Freda’s Voice.
Rules
- Grab a book, any book.
- Turn to page 56 (or 56% on ebook).
- Find any sentence that grabs you.
- Post it.
- Link it at Freda’s Voice.
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Tagged as Friday 56, Library
Posted May 28, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Ruin and Rising by
Leigh Bardugo Series: The Grisha Trilogy #3 Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (2014)
Hardcover (422 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Shadow and Bone,
Siege and Storm,
Six of Crows Also in this series: Shadow and Bone,
Siege and Storm Reading Challenges: 2015 Finishing the Series,
Read 2015 Synopsis
The Darkling rules Ravka from his shadow throne.
Now the nation’s fate rests with a broken Sun Summoner, a disgraced tracker, and the shattered remnants of a once-great magical army.
Deep in an ancient network of tunnels and caverns, a weakened Alina must submit to the dubious protection of the Apparat and the zealots who worship her as a Saint. Yet her plans lie elsewhere, with the hunt for the elusive firebird and the hope that an outlaw prince still survives.
Alina will have to forge new alliances and put aside old rivalries as she and Mal race to find the last of Morozova’s amplifiers. But as she begins to unravel the Darkling’s secrets, she reveals a past that will forever alter her understanding of the bond they share and the power she wields. The firebird is the one thing that stands between Ravka and destruction—and claiming it could cost Alina the very future she’s fighting for.
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Tagged as 4 star, Finishing the Series Challenge, Library, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge
Posted May 27, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Hollow City by
Ransom Riggs Series: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #2 Publisher: Quirk Books (2014)
Hardcover (400 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children,
Library of Souls Also in this series: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children,
Library of Souls Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
This second novel begins in 1940, immediately after the first book ended. Having escaped Miss Peregrine’s island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London, the peculiar capital of the world. Along the way, they encounter new allies, a menagerie of peculiar animals, and other unexpected surprises.
Complete with dozens of newly discovered (and thoroughly mesmerizing) vintage photographs, this new adventure will delight readers of all ages.
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Tagged as 5 star, Library, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge
