What Are You Reading Wednesdays (7)

What Are You Reading Wednesdays #WAYRW is a weekly feature on It’s A Reading Thing. Everyone is welcome to participate. You can answer the questions in the comments section of the weekly #WAYRW post or link back to your #WAYRW post on your blog in the comments section as well. 

How to participate:

Grab the book you are currently reading and answer three questions:
1. What’s the name of your current read?
2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

A Gathering of Shadows By V. E. Schwab
"For an instant, another death flashed through her mind, another body on her blade, a boy in a castle in a bleak white world.  Not her first kill, but the first that stuck.  The first that hurt."
Yes, if I could be in Red London...and a Royal...and have magic...

Bookmarks (6)

A bookmark can make a lovely and useful keepsake for a wedding or shower

What Are You Reading Wednesdays (7)

What Are You Reading Wednesdays #WAYRW is a weekly feature on It’s A Reading Thing. Everyone is welcome to participate. You can answer the questions in the comments section of the weekly #WAYRW post or link back to your #WAYRW post on your blog in the comments section as well. 

How to participate:

Grab the book you are currently reading and answer three questions:
1. What’s the name of your current read?
2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

He tightened a strap.  Strong, capable hands - so at odds with the finery he usually wore to dazzle the rest of the world into thinking he was something else entirely.  "Do not make a sound, do not touch anything but the object she took from me."  Rhys looked up hands braced on my thighs.  Bow, he'd once ordered Tamlin.  And now here he was, on his knees before me.  His eyes glinted as if he remembered it, too   Had that been a part of his game - that facade?  Or had it been vengeance for the horrible blood feud between them?

Yes yes Yes yes!  I said yes when it was A Court of Thorns and Roses in the beautiful Spring Court and I would say yes again now that it is in the beautiful Night Court (the dream part, not the nightmares, I should specify).

Bookmarks (5)

This is my oldest bookmark.  I got it when I was a kid but I can't remember if it was a gift or I bought it when my very own money.  It has been through years of handling by my own childish hands and several cats.  It even has a shred of the original yarn tassel left.  It was the only book mark I had for a very long time.  Seeing it makes me smile.

What Are You Reading Wednesdays (6)

What Are You Reading Wednesdays #WAYRW is a weekly feature on It’s A Reading Thing. Everyone is welcome to participate. You can answer the questions in the comments section of the weekly #WAYRW post or link back to your #WAYRW post on your blog in the comments section as well. 

How to participate:

Grab the book you are currently reading and answer three questions:
1. What’s the name of your current read?
2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

I Could Pee on This and other poems by Cats
by Francesco Marciuliano

My Life Is Ruined
That was just for you
That was just our little joke
So we could share a little laugh
Just the two of us alone
But you took that special moment
You posted it online
Now forty million people think
I bark like a dog
And so I hide under the covers
Cursing your very name
Saying you better get a good lawer
Or me a great agent

HA HA!  This IS my world!  Pretty sure all of my cats have thought all the things in this book at one time or another!

Bookmarks (4)

This is my forever bookmark.  I think it might have been a birthday gift once upon a time  It is very sturdy (not paper) and is impervious to kitty teeth or fraying (due to fidgeting while reading).  And Carousel Horses are my favorite imaginary creatures.

What Are You Reading Wednesdays (5)

What Are You Reading Wednesdays #WAYRW is a weekly feature on It’s A Reading Thing. Everyone is welcome to participate. You can answer the questions in the comments section of the weekly #WAYRW post or link back to your #WAYRW post on your blog in the comments section as well. 

How to participate:

Grab the book you are currently reading and answer three questions:
1. What’s the name of your current read?
2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a couple of sentences.
3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

The Night Guest by Fiona McFarlane

"It's good, though, to be a big girl in this job.  That's what I've noticed. I've met nurses though, tiny girls, with the strength of ten men.  Never underestimate a nurse."

The world is the current world so I already do live in it.  Except, the main character can hear a tiger in her living room at night.  So that is a little creepy for those of us (me) who have to sleep with a light.

August Wrap Up & September Library Book Haul

August flew by and there was a lot going on due to plumbing leak which then caused the air conditioning to short out, relocating ten cats to a much smaller house, and traveling for work.  There really wasn't much time for reading.  Three books were audio and all but 3 I actually started in July.

Favorite read of the month:  Every Heart A Doorway - hands down!  I must own this book.

Least Favorite:  This one is hard but I have to go with 'Til Death Do Us Part.  It was just boring.

Most educational:  The Last Telegram - historical WWII fiction, I learned a lot about the history of silk and silk production in England.

Book Club:  Not A Drop to Drink - Gritty and realistic post-appocalyptic;  reads like a Western for Girls.  We did a bifecta and also read the sequel (not shown because I just finished it today)

Library Haul 

Most anticipated:  A Court of Mist & Fury

Surprise find:  The Night Guest

The rest have been on my GoodReads TBR for awhile and they happened to all be available.

Happy Reading!