Series: The Grisha Trilogy

Item: Ruin and Rising
Rating: 4
Author: Amanda Marie

{TTT} Book & Series Recommendations I’ve Actually Read

Posted October 11, 2016 in Reading / 8 Comments

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

This week’s list is the Top Ten Books I Read on Recommendations. There are so many books that have been recommended to me, especially since I began this blog. I’m just going to list the six I can think of right now (though I am sure there are more) in no particular order.

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May 2015 in Review

Posted May 31, 2015 in Faith, Reading / 4 Comments

Things that Happened in May

The last full week of school has been completed! Really, this is a party worthy event.
We celebrated the Ascension, Pentecost, and Trinity Sunday. That is three great Sundays in a row.
You can tell that summer is fast approaching. The sun beats me up at 5am and it is still bright when I try to fall asleep after 9pm. It is crazy to think that just a few months ago (like December) it was dark when I was walking to work at 7:30am and dark when I was walking home at 4:30pm.
The school talent show was this past Tuesday. The teachers decided to do our own thing this year. We all got a variety of instruments and played Yellow Submarine. I will give you just one word for it: HILARIOUS!

Books I Read in May

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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

Review: Ruin and Rising – The Rescue of Ravka

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.

Find the book: Goodreads

Tagged as 4 star, Finishing the Series Challenge, Library, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge

Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Authors I’d Love to Meet

Posted May 12, 2015 in Reading / 8 Comments

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

This week’s list is the Top Ten Authors I’d Love to Meet.

1. Kristen Britain

Kristen Britain is the author of one of my favorite books of all time, Green Rider. I would absolutely love to meet her.

2. Marissa Meyer

I love the Lunar Chronicles so much. They are utterly amazing and Marissa Meyer must be awesome to write them.

3. Cassandra Clare

So I’ve only ever read City of Bones by Cassandra Clare but I loved it and I will be reading the rest of the series soon.

4. Emily Wibberley

I could take this time to say how much I adore Sacrificed and it would be completely true. Everyone should go read this awesome debut by this awesome author.
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April 2015 in Review

Posted April 30, 2015 in Faith, Reading / 2 Comments

This year is flying by. I can hardly believe that April is over already!

Things that Happened in April

My birthday!! I even got books for my birthday which greatly surprised me. Thanks so much, little sister!
Easter! I was able to attend one of my most favorite Masses of the entire Church year, the Easter Vigil! (Who doesn’t like candles and a three hour Mass?)
Field trips with the school kids! The bus rides are a bit longer than the ones where I grew up but we are in the-middle-of-nowhere, Montana.
Yesterday evening one of the sixth grade teachers passed away. It will be a terribly rough day today with the students. Any prayers would be greatly appreciated.