Posted October 22, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Earthbound by
Aprilynne Pike Series: Earthbound #1 Publisher: RazorBill (2013)
Paperback (366 pages)
Rating: Also by this author: Earthquake Also in this series: Earthquake Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
Tavia Michaels is the sole survivor of the plane crash that killed her parents. When she starts to see strange visions of a boy she’s never spoken with in real life, she begins to suspect that there’s much about her past that she isn’t being told.
Tavia immediately searches for answers, desperate to determine why she feels so drawn to a boy she hardly knows. But when Tavia discovers that the aunt and uncle who took her in after her parents’ death may have actually been responsible for the plane crash that killed them—and that she may have been the true intended victim—she flees for the safety of Camden, Maine, where the boy she sees in her visions instructs her to go.
Now, Tavia is on the run with no one to trust. No one, that is, except for her best friend and longtime crush, Benson.
Tavia feels torn between the boy who mysteriously comes to her at night and the boy who has been by her side every step of the way. But what Tavia doesn’t know is that the world is literally falling apart and that to save it she will have to unite with the boy in her visions. Only problem? To do so would mean rejecting Benson’s love. And that’s the one thing Tavia Michaels swore she’d never do.
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Posted October 19, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Encountering Truth by
Pope Francis Publisher: Image (2015)
Hardcover (416 pages)
Via: Blogging for Books Rating: Also by this author: The Joy of the Gospel,
Walking with Jesus,
The Name of God is Mercy Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
Experience the morning homilies of Pope Francis and witness how he continues to change the life of the Catholic Church.
Shortly after seven in the morning, Pope Francis gives a brief homily in the little Vatican chapel of Saint Martha, in front of an audience that is always different: gardeners, office workers, nuns and priests, as well as a growing group of journalists. It is a set appointment, and in some ways a revolutionary innovation, where a pope speaks to everyone, off the cuff, without any written text, as he would have done as a parish priest.
Encountering Truth is a collection of highlights from these homilies from March 2013 to May 2014. Along with summaries by Radio Vaticana (who recorded and transcribed the homilies) and commentary by Father Antonio Spadaro, SJ, these reflections provide moments of inspiration, simplicity, and a glimpse into the papal world very few ever get to experience.
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Posted October 16, 2015 in Reading / 10 Comments
Green Rider is one of my all time favorite books of ever. I first found the book when I was in eight grade, I believe, at Waldenbooks before they all closed years ago. I read it so fast and fell in love. Later, in high school, I recommended it to my friend and she loved it as well. We have anxiously awaited each book in the series and bemoaned the multi-year wait (like 3-5 years!!!) between each book.
I reread this series every year because I adore it that much. It is a gloriously epic fantasy novel with amazing world-building, complex characters, and an excellent plot. Even rereading it, I keep turning the pages because I am so drawn into this world. This is definitely a fantasy world I would not be too sad to have to live in. 🙂
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Posted October 15, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The Commander by
Emily Wibberley Series: The Last Oracle #1.5 Publisher: Paranoid Productions (2015)
eARC (15 pages)
Via: Author Rating: Also by this author: Sacrificed,
Divined Also in this series: Sacrificed,
Forsworn,
Divined Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
In this short story addition to Sacrificed (The Last Oracle, Book I), discover Riece’s point of view when he first met his new and beautiful prisoner, Clio, inside Morek’s great pyramid.
This story is best read after Sacrificed but can be read during any point in the series.
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Posted October 12, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
The Conspiracy of Us by
Maggie Hall Series: The Conspiracy of Us #1 Publisher: Putnam (2015)
Audiobook {9 hours and 34 minutes} (336 pages)
Via: Library Rating: Also by this author: Map of Fates Also in this series: Map of Fates Reading Challenges: Read 2015 Synopsis
Avery West’s newfound family can shut down Prada when they want to shop in peace, and can just as easily order a bombing when they want to start a war. Part of a powerful and dangerous secret society called the Circle, they believe Avery is the key to an ancient prophecy. Some want to use her as a pawn. Some want her dead.
To unravel the mystery putting her life in danger, Avery must follow a trail of clues from the monuments of Paris to the back alleys of Istanbul with two boys who work for the Circle—beautiful, volatile Stellan and mysterious, magnetic Jack. But as the clues expose a stunning conspiracy that might plunge the world into World War 3, she discovers that both boys are hiding secrets of their own. Now she will have to choose not only between freedom and family–but between the boy who might help her save the world, and the one she’s falling in love with.
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