Can't Wait Wednesday

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about what we have yet to read. Generally they are books that have yet to be released, but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine. 

Release Date: April 10, 2018

Author: Jessica Leake

Genre: Mythology / YA

Pages: 384

The ancient land of Éirinn is mired in war. Ciara, Princess of Mide, has never known a time when Éirinn’s kingdoms were not battling for power, or Northmen were not plundering their shores. 

The people of Mide have thankfully always been safe because of Ciara’s unearthly ability to control her enemies’ minds and actions. But lately, a mysterious crow has been appearing to Ciara, whispering warnings of an even darker threat. Although her clansmen dismiss her visions as pagan nonsense, Ciara fears this coming evil will destroy not just Éirinn, but the entire world. 

Why I'm Waiting: I've been reading more Norse set mythology the last year, and this one sounds right up my alley.

HAPPY RELEASE DAY - Bygone Badass Broads

Series: Bygone Badass Broads - Twitter Series

Author: Mackenzi Lee

Pages: 176

Based on Mackenzi Lee’s popular weekly Twitter series of the same name, Bygone Badass Broads features 52 remarkable and forgotten trailblazing women from all over the world. With tales of heroism and cunning, in-depth bios and witty storytelling, Bygone Badass Broads gives new life to these historic female pioneers. Starting in the fifth century BC and continuing to the present, the book takes a closer look at bold and inspiring women who dared to step outside the traditional gender roles of their time. Coupled with riveting illustrations and Lee’s humorous and conversational storytelling style, this book is an outright celebration of the badass women who paved the way for the rest of us. 

I'm super excited for this book! In fact I'm hoping to snag a copy of this today from my local bookstore. History isn't always kind to women who broke all the rules to do something extraordinary and ground breaking. 

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme started by the Broke and the Bookish, but is not run by That Artsy Reader Girl.  Each week they chose a new meme and bloggers pick their Top Ten Books, TV Shows, Movies, etc that fit that theme. This week the theme is: Books I Could Re-Read Forever!

1. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
2. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
3. Anno Dracula by Mr. Kim Newman

1. The Crown Tower by Micheal J. Sullivan
2. The Woman in Black by Susan Hill
3. The Last American Vampire by Seth Grahame-Smith

1. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
2. Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
3. Fool by Christopher Moore

1. Unholy Night by Seth Grahame-Smith

HAPPY READING!!

Cover Release - The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Pirates

Yes, I still need to finish the first book, because I had to return it to the library before I was finished. But! I have it back on hold and I will finish it this time. What little I managed to get there the first was amazing, and I'm so excited that Felicity is going to get her own book! Not to mention I'm in love with these covers!

Felicity Montague is through with pretending she prefers society parties to books about bone setting—or that she’s not smarter than most people she knows, or that she cares about anything more than her dream of becoming a doctor.

A year after an accidentally whirlwind tour of Europe, which she spent evading highwaymen and pirates with her brother Monty, Felicity has returned to England with two goals in mind—avoid the marriage proposal of Callum Doyle, a lovestruck suitor from Edinburgh; and enroll in medical school. However, her intellect and passion will never be enough in the eyes of the administrators, who see men as the sole guardians of science.

But then a small window of hope opens. Doctor Alexander Platt, an eccentric physician that Felicity idolizes, is looking for research assistants, and Felicity is sure that someone as forward thinking as her hero would be willing to take her on. However, Platt is in Germany, preparing to wed Felicity’s estranged childhood friend Johanna. Not only is Felicity reluctant to opening old wounds, she also has no money to make the trip.

Luckily, a mysterious young woman is willing to pay Felicity’s way, so long as she’s allowed to travel with Felicity disguised as her maid. In spite of her suspicions, Felicity agrees, but once the girl’s true motives are revealed, Felicity becomes part of a perilous quest that will lead her from the German countryside to the promenades of Zurich to secrets lurking beneath the Atlantic. 

HAPPY READING!!

Can't Wait Wednesday

Can't Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about what we have yet to read. Generally they are books that have yet to be released, but don't have to be. It is based on Waiting on Wednesday, hosted by the fabulous at Breaking the Spine. 

Release Date: March 6, 2018

Author: Lorie Langdon

Genre: Young Adult / Re-Telling

Pages: 336

​Olivia Brownlow is no damsel in distress. Born in a workhouse and raised as a boy among thieving London street gangs, she is as tough and cunning as they come. When she is taken in by her uncle after a caper gone wrong, her life goes from fighting and stealing on the streets to lavish dinners and soirees as a debutante in high society. But she can’t seem to escape her past … or forget the teeming slums where children just like her still scrabble to survive.

Why I'm Waiting: Oliver Twist is one of my favorite Victorian Era novel, and I'm excited to see a re-telling of this story with a gender swap for Oliver!

HAPPY READING!!

HAPPY RELEASE DAY - The Tombs

New York, 1882. A dark, forbidding city, and no place for a girl with unexplainable powers.

Sixteen-year-old Avery Kohl pines for the life she had before her mother was taken. She fears the mysterious men in crow masks who locked her mother in the Tombs asylum for being able to see what others couldn’t. Avery denies the signs in herself, focusing instead on her shifts at the ironworks factory and keeping her inventor father out of trouble. Other than secondhand tales of adventure from her best friend, Khan, an ex-slave, and caring for her falcon, Seraphine, Avery spends her days struggling to survive.

Like her mother’s, Avery’s powers refuse to be contained. When she causes a bizarre explosion at the factory, she has no choice but to run from her lies, straight into the darkest corners of the city. Avery must embrace her abilities and learn to wield their power—or join her mother in the cavernous horrors of the Tombs. And the Tombs has secrets of its own: strange experiments are being performed on “patients”…and no one knows why.

I love, love the Guilded Age of America. So much was going happening at the same time. We were making leaps and bounds with technology, but almost everyone was living pretty rough. It was definitely the best of times and the worst of times. Criminal activity was everywhere, but it was all so sensational. So I'm definitely down to read a book shoved in the middle of what it was really like to be in the melting pot!

HAPPY READING!!

Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme started by the Broke and the Bookish, but is not run by That Artsy Reader Girl.  Each week they chose a new meme and bloggers pick their Top Ten Books, TV Shows, Movies, etc that fit that theme. This week the theme is: Books I've Unfortunately Lost Interest In!

1. Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet
2. Inheritance Cycle Series by Christopher Paolini
3. Johnny One-Eye Series by David Stuart Davies

1. Swords of Albion by Mark Chadbourn
2. Timothy Wilde Series by Lyndsay Faye
3. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

1. Borden Dispatch Series by Cherie Priest
2. Sin Eater's Daughter Series by Melinda Salisbury
3. Vengeance Road Erin Bowman

1. Zebulon Finch by Daniel Kraus

HAPPY READING!!

Holly Black Event

I first discovered Holly Black's books while on vacation to see family in Arizona after my Senior Year of High School. On a whim I picked up Tithe to read on my flight and had it finished by the time we landed for my change over. In fact I liked it so much that I made a bookstore run to get the second book in the series Valiant. Which I then read at my Uncle's in a couple of hours. Since then I've been in love with Holly Black's work and moved way through the Spiderwick Chronicles. I've been so exited for her new book The Cruel Prince.

So it was totally worth the long day to finally get to hear Holly Black not only talk about her newest books, but about her career in writing. It's always fun to hear stories about the writing process you can relate to. Also to hear how the books you picked up on a whim came to be! It also reminded how much a loved the Modern Faerie Tales, and that because of college I never finished the series. So I'm thinking 2018 will my year of re-reads!

Overall it was an awesome event and probably the kick in the pants I need. I've sort of let my writing fall by the wayside of the last few years, and when I told Holly Black this she had none of it. She told me it was time to get my stuff out there because there was never going to be a right time. So, I guess it's time to knuckle down and get back to the grind. I'm glad I went to the event and I cannot wait to crack open The Cruel Prince!

 HAPPY READING!!

January Wrap up

So... This should have been posted like a week ago, but life got a bit busy on my end. I always seem to forget how busy Valentine's Day gets where I work, and every year it seems to take my surprise. I've also added a lot of stuff on my plate outside of work. Birthday stuff, gearing up for Comic-Con, and just a general full schedule of being out and about. Which means I've been a bit behind on getting some this, and other things posted. It's also meant I've not be doing a lot of reading... But I'm hoping with no holiday on the horizon until Easter I can get myself pulled back together and on track. Because January lead to a lot of reading!

Books Read: 9

Pages Read: 1187

 BINGO Books: 3 

Currently Reading: the Crown Tower & Golden Son

Favorite Book: I Hate Fairyland: Good Girl

DNF's: N/A

So a couple of years ago I fell in love with the Red Rising series. I was lucky enough to get to see Pierce talk about the final book in that series not long after I finished the first book. Sadly due to life and a dozen other books, I never finished series. But, with the Iron Gold finally out, I was reminded of my love for these books when a friend finally started (and finished) the series and for my birthday we went to see Pierce Brown talk about this new series. So I've finally picked the series back up and I have been reading it on my bus rides to and from work. I forget how much I enjoy Pierce Brown's writing and this world he's created. I've also forgotten how much there are moments I want to smack Darrow. But more that later. You can see all about the even here. 

For February I have a couple of events ahead of me: Holly Black & Tamora Pierce. 

HAPPY READING!!