Tag: Color Coded Challenge

Review: Green Angel

Posted March 7, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Green Angel by Alice Hoffman
Series: Green Angel #1
Publisher: Scholastic (2003)
Paperback (116 pages)
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup, 2015 Birthday Month, 2015 Color Coded, 2015 Re-Reading, Read 2015

Synopsis

This is how it happened.
Left on her own when her family dies in a terrible disaster, fifteen-year-old Green is haunted by loss and by the past. Struggling to survive physically and emotionally in a place where nothing seems to grow and ashes are everywhere, Green retreats into the ruined realm of her garden. But in destroying her feelings, she also begins to destroy herself, erasing the girl she’d once been as she inks darkness into her skin. It is only through a series of mysterious encounters that Green can relearn the lessons of love and begin to heal enough to tell her story.

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Tagged as 4 star, Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, Birthday Month Reading Challenge, Color Coded Challenge, Read 2015, Rereading Challenge, You Read How Many Books Challenge

Review: Scarlet

Posted March 4, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer
Series: The Lunar Chronicles #2
Publisher: Square Fish (2013)
Paperback (454 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: Cinder, Cress, Fairest
Also in this series: Cinder, Cress, Fairest
Reading Challenges: 2015 Color Coded, 2015 Fairytale Retelling, 2015 What's In A Name?, Read 2015

Synopsis

Cinder is back and trying to break out of prison—even though she’ll be the Commonwealth’s most wanted fugitive if she does—in this second installment from Marissa Meyer.
Halfway around the world, Scarlet Benoit’s grandmother is missing. It turns out there are many things Scarlet doesn’t know about her grandmother, or the grave danger she has lived in her whole life. When Scarlet encounters Wolf, a street fighter who may have information as to her grandmother’s whereabouts, she is loath to trust this stranger, but is inexplicably drawn to him, and he to her. As Scarlet and Wolf unravel one mystery, they encounter another when they meet Cinder. Now, all of them must stay one step ahead of the vicious Lunar Queen Levana.

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Tagged as 5 star, Color Coded Challenge, Fairy Tales, Fairytale Retelling Challenge, Read 2015, What's In a Name Reading Challenge, You Read How Many Books Challenge

February 2015 in Review

Posted February 28, 2015 in Faith, Reading / 2 Comments

It is so hard to believe it is the end of February already. This has been a crazy month.

Things that Happened in February

Lent started with Ash Wednesday the beginning of the month.
I got the nasty cold thing going around the school. I have to remember to thank my students for that one.
We had this really great false spring with temperatures in the 60s (Farenheit) and then we were down to the negatives again.
I left town twice this month! This is pretty big when the closest other places are 2+ hours away and there is a lot of snow on the ground.
I spent a great deal of time with my head in a book and I am perfectly okay with that.

Books I Read in February

The Holy Trinity in the Life of the Church

Tagged as Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, Apostolic Exhortation, Birthday Month Reading Challenge, Catholic, Catholic Book, Color Coded Challenge, Fairy Tales, Fairytale Retelling Challenge, Lent, Monthly Wrap-Up, Pope Francis, Read 2015, Rereading Challenge, School, What's In a Name Reading Challenge, You Read How Many Books Challenge

Review: Of Shadow & Stone

Posted February 19, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Of Shadow & Stone by Michelle Muto
Publisher: Skyscape (2015)
eARC (291 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Reading Challenges: 2015 Color Coded, Read 2015

Synopsis

Gargoyles were created centuries ago to protect mankind, but something went horribly wrong. Now only the sentinel—a mortal chosen to control the stone beasts—stands between them and their human prey.
When the latest sentinel is killed, Kate Mercer is destined to take his place. But Kate has enough going on in her life—like a skyrocketing film career, a delusional ex-boyfriend, and a crazed stalker who will stop at nothing to get to her. But the powers that be have decided, and Kate is transported to Shadow Wood, a mysterious castle that serves as a sanctuary for the supernatural. Although beautiful, Shadow Wood is no safe place for a mere mortal. Yet Kate is drawn not only to the gargoyles but also to Ian McGuire, a charming novelist who might be in the greatest danger of all.
As Kate decides whether to accept the most perilous role of her life, she discovers there are more secrets than answers within the castle’s walls. Her survival and Ian’s depend on her ability to master the gargoyles before time runs out. Is fate really cast in stone?

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Tagged as 4 star, Color Coded Challenge, NetGalley, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge

2015 Reading Challenges

Posted January 1, 2015 in Reading / 10 Comments

My 2016 Reading Challenges can be found here.

If you can’t tell by now, I like to read. A lot. I stumbled across some of these book challenges and I think some would be pretty cool. I figured it would probably be beneficial to put a post together of the book challenges I have decided to participate in for 2015.

I basically just keep adding to this list every time I hear about a new challenge that I think I can do. Since I have a slight book addiction (yes, I think I’m in denial), this list will likely get longer.

I give you My 2015 Reading Challenges List, listed in the order in which I became aware of them:

Tagged as Alphabet Soup Reading Challenge, Birthday Month Reading Challenge, Catholic, Catholic Book, Color Coded Challenge, Fairy Tales, Fairytale Retelling Challenge, Finishing the Series Challenge, Mythology Reading Challenge, Read 2015, Rereading Challenge, What's In a Name Reading Challenge, You Read How Many Books Challenge