What Are You Reading Wednesdays (10)

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?

Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd ~ A Flavia de Luce Novel ~ by Alan Bradley

"The expression on his darkened face was ghastly:  a look of sheer horror.  The eyes bulged out in a  start that might have been amusing if their owner had not been dead.  The nostrils were flared and cavernous, like those of a horse about to bold:  as if they had flung themselves open in one last desperate attempt to drawn in oxygen.  The corners of the open mouth, inverted as they were - turned up instead of down, in mockery of a smile - made it clear that the man had, at the instant of death, been terrified.

I think yes.  The books are set in 1950's England that still has scars but has recovered a bit from WWII.  More than the time/location, I would like to BE Flavia De Luce and know stuff about chemistry.

Bookmarks (7)

My favorite ~ A spooky romance ~ Jack and Sally

"My dearest friend if you don't mind,

I'd like to join you by your side,

Where we could gaze into the stars,

And sit together now and forever

For it is plain as anyone can see

We're simply meant to be"

From A Nightmare before Christmas

Don't forget All Hallows Read

Give a book for Halloween

Art by Introverted Wife

What Are You Reading Wednesday (9)

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 Edge of Winter by Luanne Rice

"Lying on her bed, feeling the room spinning around, Mickey pictured him in all sorts of terrible situations:  hiding, scared, even kidnapped.  Or-and this was almost the worst-on a secret vacation with the woman he now loved more than Mickey and her mother.  Was he drinking again?  The thought was a knife in her back.  Not only that, but Mickey now had to worry about the owl and the U-boat, and what it all meant."

I do live in this world.  This is contemporary adult fiction of the chic lit variety but with a save nature theme and some WWII American coastal history.

September Wrap Up

September was a great reading month, thanks in part to nice weather that made reading on the screen porch a possibility.

A Handful of Dust was the sequel to the August book for Dogwood Belles Bookclub and Biblical was the September book.  Biblical seems misnamed; it is a very smart book similar to On Fire But Not Burning.

A Tree Grow in Brooklyn was for the September Read-A-Long at GoodReads hosted by Katie of Life BetweenWords (link to her review on BookTube is HERE).

Fan Girl is the book I wish I had read before starting college.

The Night Guest was a DNF for me.  I had to read ahead to see if the main character's cats would be ok (yes) and spoiled the ending a bit (it wasn't that surprising).  I just wasn't invested enough to keep going and the plot was slow moving.  It just wasn't the book for me.

Where They Found Her was a good solid mystery.  At first it seemed like there were way too many characters with points of view but it all came together well.  Trigger warning - the story does revolve around the death of an infant.

A Gathering of Shadows and A Court of Mist and Fury are both sequels to books I read earlier this year.   Court is my favorite book of the year so far (even over Six of Crows).  I haven't had a book crush in awhile and this one does it!

Don't forget about All Hallows Read - give a book for Halloween
(Art by Introverted Wife)

What Are You Reading Wednesdays (8)

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?

Blue Lily, Lily Blue (Book III, The Raven Cycle) by Maggie Stiefvater

"The key lines, the corpse roads, the death roads, Doodwegen if you believe the Dutch, but who does, this is how we used to carry our dead," Malory said.  "Coffin-bearers traveled along the funeral roads in order to keep the soul intact.  To take a crooked path was to unseat the soul and create a haunting, or worse."

I already do in live in this world.  It is present day Virginia - some where south of Richmond, in sight of mountains but not in the mountains.  I guess all that superstition flew out the window when the Scotch, Irish and Welsh settled in the mountains.  Straight roads don't exist....or maybe that is why there are so many 'haint' tales in the region....

Give a scary book for Halloween this year.  It's a treat that lasts longer than a lollipop.  (Art work by Introverted Housewife) http://intbride.blogspot.com