Year: 2015

SQT: What A Week!

Posted May 22, 2015 in Life / 0 Comments

Seven Quick Takes

Seven Quick Takes is a weekly link-up hosted by This Ain’t The Lyceum.
This is my first time linking-up.

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I had an interesting week compounded with a headache which started last Friday and is just starting to go away. I have tried just about everything and now it is finally deciding to go away!

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This week has also been the last full week of the school year. Only eight more days left! I might be more excited than my students. I know we all need the break.

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Speaking of breaks. We have a three day weekend. Thank you, Memorial Day. After all of the stuff that went down this week, I definitely need this long weekend.

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Review: The Jewel – Luxury or Slavery

Posted May 21, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

Review: The Jewel – Luxury or SlaveryThe Jewel by Amy Ewing
Series: The Lone City #1
Publisher: HarperTeen (2014)
Audiobook
{10 hours and 12 minutes} (358 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: The White Rose, The Black Key
Also in this series: The White Rose, The Black Key
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

The Jewel means wealth. The Jewel means beauty. The Jewel means royalty. But for girls like Violet, the Jewel means servitude. Not just any kind of servitude. Violet, born and raised in the Marsh, has been trained as a surrogate for the royalty—because in the Jewel the only thing more important than opulence is offspring.
Purchased at the surrogacy auction by the Duchess of the Lake and greeted with a slap to the face, Violet (now known only as #197) quickly learns of the brutal truths that lie beneath the Jewel’s glittering facade: the cruelty, backstabbing, and hidden violence that have become the royal way of life.
Violet must accept the ugly realities of her existence… and try to stay alive. But then a forbidden romance erupts between Violet and a handsome gentleman hired as a companion to the Duchess’s petulant niece. Though his presence makes life in the Jewel a bit brighter, the consequences of their illicit relationship will cost them both more than they bargained for.

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Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Vintage Photographs and Magical Children

Posted May 20, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – Vintage Photographs and Magical ChildrenMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
Series: Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children #1
Publisher: Quirk Books (2011)
Paperback (356 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: Hollow City, Library of Souls
Also in this series: Hollow City, Library of Souls
Reading Challenges: 2015 Re-Reading, Read 2015

Synopsis

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of curious photographs.
A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.

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