Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly link-up hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
This week’s list is Ten Books for Readers Who Like X. I picked Fairy Tale Retellings!
Top Ten Tuesday: Books for Readers Who Like Fairy Tale Retellings
Tag: Fairy Tales
Review: Scarlet
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.
Find the book: Goodreads
Top Ten Tuesday: All Time Favorites from My Shelves
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly link-up hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.
This week’s list is the Top Ten All Time Favorites. I’m choosing to focus on the favorites on my shelves. These are all books that I own and love. In no particular order, I give you My All Time Favorites from My Shelves.
February 2015 in Review
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
Review: Cinder
Cinder by Marissa Meyer Series: The Lunar Chronicles #1
Publisher: Square Fish (2012)
Paperback (390 pages)
Rating:
Also by this author: Scarlet, Cress, Fairest
Also in this series: Scarlet, Cress, Fairest
Reading Challenges: 2015 Alphabet Soup, 2015 Fairytale Retelling, Read 2015
Synopsis
Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.
Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future.
Find the book: Goodreads