Posted November 12, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
A 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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Tagged as 4 star, Library, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge
Posted November 9, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
Li Jun and the Iron Road by
Anne Tait Publisher: Dundurn (2015)
eARC (216 pages)
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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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Posted November 5, 2015 in Reading, Review / 2 Comments
These 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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Posted November 2, 2015 in Reading, Review / 0 Comments
The 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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Tagged as 3 star, Library, Read 2015, You Read How Many Books Challenge
Posted October 30, 2015 in Life, Reading / 8 Comments
Tagged as Color Coded Challenge, Fairy Tales, Monthly Wrap-Up, Pope Francis, Read 2015, School, You Read How Many Books Challenge
