{TTT} Quotes from Books I Read in the Past Year

Posted November 17, 2015 in Reading / 8 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly link-up hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.

So I haven’t participated in a while because of life getting in the way. This week I am making sure to have this post ready early and this week’s list is the Top Ten Quotes from Books I Read in the Past Year. While I don’t keep the best track of quotes, these are the best of the ones I have kept track of. They are listed in no particular order except the first one which had to be listed first for reasons.

Dream a Little DreamA Wrinkle in TimeBeauty
Hollow CityDark TriumphThe Sea of MonstersThe Dream Thieves
Becoming DarknessIsland of the Blue DolphinsThe Pharaoh's Daughter
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{Review} The White Rose – Running and Magic and Romance

Posted November 16, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} The White Rose – Running and Magic and RomanceThe White Rose by Amy Ewing
Series: The Lone City #2
Publisher: Harper Audio (2015)
Audiobook
{8 hours and 31 minutes} (320 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: The Jewel, The Black Key
Also in this series: The Jewel, The Black Key
Reading Challenges: 2015 Color Coded, Read 2015

Synopsis

Violet is on the run. After the Duchess of the Lake catches Violet with Ash, the hired companion at the Palace of the Lake, Violet has no choice but to escape the Jewel or face certain death. So along with Ash and her best friend, Raven, Violet runs away from her unbearable life of servitude.
But no one said leaving the Jewel would be easy. As they make their way through the circles of the Lone City, Regimentals track their every move, and the trio barely manages to make it out unscathed and into the safe haven they were promised—a mysterious house in the Farm.
But there’s a rebellion brewing, and Violet has found herself in the middle of it. Alongside a new ally, Violet discovers her Auguries are much more powerful than she ever imagined. But is she strong enough to rise up against the Jewel and everything she has ever known?
The White Rose is a raw, captivating sequel to The Jewel that fans won’t be able to put down until the final shocking moments.

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{F56} Emerald Green

Posted November 13, 2015 in Reading / 14 Comments

Emerald Green

Emerald Green is the third and final book in the Ruby Red trilogy by Kerstin Gier. This entire series was originally written in German and translated into English. I found this series while perusing the shelves of the library and I am so glad I did. It is such an interesting time travel series.

From Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier: (page 56)

He looked, if possible, even more remorseful.
“I promise you nothing like that will ever happen again.”

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{Review} A Mad, Wicked Folly – Historical Fiction on Suffragettes and Freedom in England

Posted November 12, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} A Mad, Wicked Folly – Historical Fiction on Suffragettes and Freedom in EnglandA Mad, Wicked Folly by Sharon Biggs Waller
Publisher: Viking Books (2014)
Hardcover (448 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Welcome to the world of the fabulously wealthy in London, 1909, where dresses and houses are overwhelmingly opulent, social class means everything, and women are taught to be nothing more than wives and mothers. Into this world comes seventeen-year-old Victoria Darling, who wants only to be an artist—a nearly impossible dream for a girl.
After Vicky poses nude for her illicit art class, she is expelled from her French finishing school. Shamed and scandalized, her parents try to marry her off to the wealthy Edmund Carrick-Humphrey. But Vicky has other things on her mind: her clandestine application to the Royal College of Art; her participation in the suffragette movement; and her growing attraction to a working-class boy who may be her muse—or may be the love of her life. As the world of debutante balls, corsets, and high society obligations closes in around her, Vicky must figure out: just how much is she willing to sacrifice to pursue her dreams?

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