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{Review} Li Jun and the Iron Road – Chinese Workers on the Canadian Railroad

Posted November 9, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} Li Jun and the Iron Road – Chinese Workers on the Canadian RailroadLi Jun and the Iron Road by Anne Tait
Publisher: Dundurn (2015)
eARC (216 pages)
Via: NetGalley
Rating:
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Adapted from the award-winning TV miniseries “Iron Road,” starring Sam Neill and Peter O’Toole, the story of a woman whose search for herself helped shaped two nations. Set in the 1880s in southern China and the mountains of British Columbia, “Li Jun and the Iron Road” tells the story of a feisty street urchin nicknamed Little Tiger, who works in a fireworks factory and yearns to sail across the ocean to the country she knows as Gold Mountain. Sent by her dying mother to find her father, who had left years earlier, Little Tiger disguises herself as a boy and finds herself working on the railroad in Canada. When her deception leads to a forbidden love with a privileged son of a Canadian railroad tycoon, the results leave two worlds shaken.

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{Review} These Broken Stars – Survival and Forbidden Love

Posted November 5, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments

{Review} These Broken Stars – Survival and Forbidden LoveThese Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner
Series: Starbound #1
Publisher: Disney Hyperion (2013)
Hardcover (378 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: Illuminae, This Shattered World, Their Fractured Light
Also in this series: This Shattered World, Their Fractured Light
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Luxury spaceliner Icarus suddenly plummets from hyperspace into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive — alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a cynical war hero. Both journey across the eerie deserted terrain for help. Everything changes when they uncover the truth.

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{Review} The Selection Stories – The Prince & The Guard

Posted November 2, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} The Selection Stories – The Prince & The GuardThe Selection Stores: The Prince & The Guard by Kiera Cass
Series: The Selection #1.5
Publisher: HarperTeen (2014)
Audiobook
{4 hours and 35 minutes} (227 pages)
Via: Library
Rating:
Also by this author: The Elite, The One, The Heir
Also in this series: The Elite, The One, The Heir
Reading Challenges: Read 2015

Synopsis

Two novellas set in the world of Kiera Cass’s #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series are now available in print for the first time.
The Prince and The Guard both offer captivating views into the hearts and minds of the two men fighting to win America Singer’s love.
Before America arrived at the palace to compete in the Selection, there was another girl in Prince Maxon’s life. The Prince opens the week before the Selection begins and follows Maxon through the first day of the competition.
Raised as a Six, Aspen Leger never dreamed that he would find himself living in the palace as a member of the royal guard. In The Guard, readers get an inside look at Aspen’s life within the palace walls—and the truth about a guard’s world that America will never know.

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October 2015 in Review

Posted October 30, 2015 in Life, Reading / 8 Comments

October 2015 in Review

Things that Happened in October

  • This month has been utterly insane at the school. With short week and then assemblies and homecoming week and red ribbon week and everything that goes with all that. I definitely need a break and, hopefully, things will calm down in November.
  • Life has just been crazy. Enough said.
  • Blogversary!

Books I Read in October

Encountering TruthThese Broken StarsThe White RoseA Mad, Wicked Folly
The CommanderGreen RiderSnow Like Ashes
GracelingFirst Rider's CallRuby RedThe High King's Tomb
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{Review} Earthbound – Strange Magical Abilities and on the Run

Posted October 22, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments

{Review} Earthbound – Strange Magical Abilities and on the RunEarthbound 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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