tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8090436278983211152024-03-05T18:01:37.427-05:00The Testy BadgerMy test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter. ~Thomas HelmEmmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04546402345969817150noreply@blogger.comBlogger157125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-809043627898321115.post-21438561797536048972016-06-21T20:31:00.000-04:002016-06-21T20:31:58.805-04:00Where I've Been<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My posts lately have been sporadic at best, but mostly non-existent. I've still be reading, albeit at a much slower pace than usual. There are a few reasons for this: the renovations on my house (which are now over - thank God), work, and my general state of mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While the renovations were being done I had no free time at home, I'd get home from work and entered a construction zone, which I had to navigate around, and pack up everything and move it from room to room depending on where they would be working the next day. This made every evening awful and every weekend awful. At one point I was sleeping in the dining room, and for a few months we didn't even have a kitchen - which made figuring out dinner a complete nightmare every night.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I've also been slammed with work, which I normally don't mind, but this particular workload has been frustrating to deal with. The project that is causing most of the trouble was supposed to have been completed in January; my boss is hoping for an end of July release, which I'm seriously doubting. On top of that project there are others that are not going well, it stresses me out just thinking about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finally, I've been pretty depressed lately. It's a general discontentment with my life, and I'm the type of person to shrug off my problems because I know others have it much worse, so why should I complain? It's not a good frame of mind to have, I know, but I've gotten pretty good at dealing with it through the years as it comes and goes. This is the worst it's been though, my coping mechanisms haven't been helping much. I get pretty burnt out pretending everything is going well (this is my usual mechanism, fake it until you make it - act happy until you actually are), but I usually have evenings and weekends to recharge before I have to face the world again. Not being able to decompress while home paired with the double stress of my work and trying to act like I'm okay has seriously been taking a toll on me and making it much harder to snap out of it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">On top of all of this the past year I seem to be getting more bad news than good. There's been quite a few deaths in my family that have been rough. Then there's my pets, one of my cats died a year ago, she was pretty young when it happened. My other cat is currently recovering from surgery (she's the youngest of my menagerie - and my favorite). Figuring out what was wrong with her and getting her better has been an awful (and expensive) process which started back in February. The other two I worry about too, the dog is aging and the last cat is losing a lot of weight (I'm being optimistic and saying it's a positive result of his diet change). Then there's work - they announced back in April that our facility would be closing next year. I'm one of the fortunate few that gets to keep my job since I can work remotely. Quite a few of my friends will be losing their jobs, some coworkers have already found new jobs and left. A few of my friends are also going remote, including two of my closest, one of which moving farther away - not too far thankfully, but it will still be a difficult adjustment not seeing everyone everyday. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The trip to Europe helped a bit, it's been the only good thing that's happened to me so far this year. While I was there I was actually happy for most of the time. However, there were still some rough days. Unfortunately my worst day was the part of the trip I was most looking forward to. Coming home from the trip made everything else worse though, so the respite didn't last long and now it seems even more daunting to overcome this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">For a while my video game helped, but since the trip even that is losing its appeal. One thing I did post trip was shift my work hours earlier (yay jet lag!) so now I'm home earlier and can relax for a bit outside with a book. It seems to be helping. I've even forced myself to sit and write some reviews (<i>Flawed </i>and <i>The Serpent King</i> will be coming soon! And hopefully I build up the energy to actually finish writing the <i>Alexander Hamilton</i> review). It will be a slow process, but I'll be back. I'm going to start up Top Ten Tuesdays again - for real, I've had a few false starts - and put out at least one review a month, until I get back into the swing of writing reviews after reading the books.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Baby steps. That with a few good things happening in my life should get me out of this funk.</span>Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04546402345969817150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-809043627898321115.post-13231289844411565412016-06-07T08:07:00.002-04:002016-06-07T08:07:40.640-04:00Top Ten Tuesday [36]<h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="color: #d47629; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 26px; font-stretch: normal; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; position: relative;">
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I'm still alive! And back in the states! This open top ten list coincided perfectly with my return from the trip (I got back late Sunday night). A perfect way to kick start my blog again, I was able to read quite a few books while away (hooray long train rides and flights!) so I have some reviews lined up to write.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><b>9 - Arriving at the Destination - </b>I absolutely love the anticipation of arriving, especially when I'm flying. I love the window seat on planes, as we make our approach I'm glued to the window, watching my destination materialize beneath me, and get larger and larger until we bump onto the runway and we're <i>there</i>. It's the best feeling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms, sans-serif;"><b>10 - The People </b>- The people I'm travelling with, when you travel with amazing people the overall experience of the trip is so much better. The people you meet during your travels, it's so much fun to meet people and give advice and tips to them and they do the same to you, we found some really cool places this trip that way! </span></div>
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04546402345969817150noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-809043627898321115.post-10109819829930900572016-04-01T07:00:00.000-04:002016-04-07T16:15:18.473-04:00The Wishing Boy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">1 - <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Love that Split the World</i> by <b>Emily Henry</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finished on March 12, 2016. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">2 - <i style="font-weight: bold;">Winter </i>by <b>Marissa Meyer</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finished on November 21, 2015. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">3 - <i style="font-weight: bold;">A Madness so Discreet</i> by <b>Mindy McGinnis</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finished November 4, 2015. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">4 - <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Immortal Heights</i> by <b>Sherry Thomas</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finished on October 27, 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">5 - <i style="font-weight: bold;">Immersed </i>by <b>Katie Hayoz</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finished on October 25, 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">6 - <i style="font-weight: bold;">Carry On </i>by <b>Rainbow Rowell</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finished on October 18, 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">7 - <i style="font-weight: bold;">Crenshaw</i> by <b>Katherine Applegate</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finished on October 9, 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">8 - <i style="font-weight: bold;">The Epic Adventures of Lydia Bennet </i>by <b>Katie Rorick </b>and <b>Rachel Kiley</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finished on October 6, 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">9 - <i style="font-weight: bold;">Illuminae</i> by <b>Amie Kaufman</b> and <b>Jay Kristoff</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finished on September 29, 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Finished on September 22, 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1 - <b>Burning City - Larry Niven </b>and<b> Jerry Pournelle </b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2 - <b><i>Watership Down </i>- Richard Adams</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">M</span><span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">y all-time favorite book. You really can't beat communist bunnies. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3 - <b><i>Sirens of Titan</i> - Kurt Vonnegut</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My favorite Vonnegut book (and to put things in perspective, Vonnegut is in my top 5 favorite authors) although <i>Cat's Cradle</i> is a close second. I haven't read either of them in a long time and I've been dying for a reread.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4 - <b><i>Nightfall</i> - Issac Asimov </b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">My favorite short story I've ever read. This story is so amazing. There are no words for this one, I get the feels every time I read it, every time I think about it. Amazing stuff, Asimov is a literary genius.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5 - <b><i>Martin the Warrior</i> - Brian Jacques</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I grew up loving the Redwall series, but this book is by far my favorite. Martin is so much more awesome than Matthias and Mattimeo, and the others are equally amazing: Gnoff, Grumm, Laterose </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6 - <b><i>Timeline</i> - Michael Crichton</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Another one of my top 5 favorite authors - and this is my favorite book by him. Travelling back in time to medieval France with a bunch of medieval historians and archaeology students? Yes please. This book <i>may</i> have been my inspiration to get a degrees in history and French with a minor in archaeology. You never know, they quantum foam just may make me roam.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">7 - <b><i>1984</i> - George Orwell </b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is probably the book I reference the most in the real world (have you seen the state of the US lately?) But on my blog I don't think I've ever mentioned it. I really love this book, it's so amazing and I'm unhappy to say that his predictions are coming true, if a few decades off.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">8 - <b><i>Pride and Prejudice</i> - Jane Austen</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Of course this one would make the list. I'm such a romantic and this is pretty much the greatest romance ever written. Seriously, I've yet to meet a girl who didn't want a Mr. Darcy of her own.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">9 - <b><i>Fairy Godmother</i> - Mercedes Lackey</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Hey look! another of my top five favorite authors made the list! And this one might be my favorite book by her, although some of her other stuff is pretty amazing too. I love how she turned fairy tales into horrible things that people dread being a part of. The world she created in this book is just fantastic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">10 - <b><i>The Summer Prince</i> - Alaya Dawn Johnson</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There's something about this book that I just love, I can't put words to it and so it usually goes without much mentioning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">And my three favorite series that I probably talk too much about:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1 - <b>Red River - Lauraine Snelling</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I keep finding ways to bring up Thorliff, but hey, when you've been crushing on a character for almost your whole life and the series continues so he grows up with you, what else can you do?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2 - <b>Anna/Lola/Isla - Stephanie Perkins</b> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It kind of bothers me that this series doesn't have a name...But I seriously love these books, and I've noticed, like Thorliff, I keep finding ways to mention them.</span></div>
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<br /><br /><b>The first in a thrilling new four-book fantasy series from New York Times bestselling author Cinda Williams Chima, set in the same world as her beloved Seven Realms series, a generation later</b><br />Adrian sul’Han, known as Ash, is a trained healer with a powerful gift of magic—and a thirst for revenge. Ash is forced into hiding after a series of murders throws the queendom into chaos. Now Ash is closer than he’s ever been to killing the man responsible, the cruel king of Arden. As a healer, can Ash use his powers not to save a life but to take it? <br /><br />Abandoned at birth, Jenna Bandelow was told that the mysterious magemark on the back of her neck would make her a target. But when the King’s Guard launches a relentless search for a girl with a mark like hers, Jenna assumes that it has more to do with her role as a saboteur than any birth-based curse. Though Jenna doesn’t know why she’s being hunted, she knows that she can’t get caught.<br /><br />Eventually, Ash’s and Jenna’s paths will collide in Arden. Thrown together by chance and joined by their hatred of the king, they will come to rescue each other in ways they cannot yet imagine.<br /><br />Set in the world of the acclaimed Seven Realms series a generation later, this is a thrilling story of dark magic, chilling threats, and two unforgettable characters walking a knife-sharp line between life and death. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">After being abruptly separated from Nicolas le Breton during the battle to save Mont Saint Michel from the English siege in 1424, Katelyn Michaels finds herself back in her normal twenty-first century life as an American teenager. Depressed and anxious to be reunited with Nicolas, she is comforted when a series of events and impressions lead her to believe she is being prepared for another mission as a Watchman. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">After her beloved mentor, Jean le Vieux, comes to her in a dream and gives her the injunction to “Learn of the Maiden and take her the sword,” Katelyn understands that her mission involves assisting one of the most iconic figures in all of French History. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">1 - <b>Gale Hawthorne</b> - <i>The Hunger Games</i> - I'm very much not a fan of Gale's, and no, it's not because I totally in love with Peeta. Gale is a jerk, especially as the series progresses, I don't understand how/why people love him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">2 - <b>Ron Weasley</b> - <i>Harry Potter Series - </i>I'm specifically talking about Ron <i>from the books</i> they completely changed his character in the movies. I love Ron in the movies, Ron in the books? I wanted to punch him in the face more often then not, he's so self-centered and he's an imbecile. The only thing he has going for him is that he was able to befriend the boy who lived before anyone else had the chance, oh, and he knows how to play a good game of chess. Why Hermione fell for him I will never understand, she could do so much better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">3 - <b>Bill Compton</b> - <i>Sookie Stackhouse</i> - Again, from the actual books not the TV show, they really like changing awful characters into better ones for the screen. Bill is such a creeper. As the series goes on you realize how truly awful he is. Sookie is <i>lucky</i> she was able to mostly cut ties with him and only has to deal with him under Erik's protection.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">4 - <b>Lola Nolan </b>- <i>Lola and the Boy Next Door</i> - Lola was the only character in the entire series that I just didn't get. I like her, but I couldn't relate, at all. And it did take me a couple reads to actually like her. I think the main thing that bothers me about her is that she has to dress up extravagantly and make a spectacle of herself. It's as though she does that to hide who she really is, which is an awesome person - why else would Cricket love her or Anna and St. Clair be friends with her?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">5 - <b>Ky Markham</b> - <i>Matched</i> - I didn't totally hate Ky, I just didn't understand the appeal of him. Also, Xander, way better, and with a way cooler name.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">6 -<b>Jacob Black</b> - <i>Twilight</i> - Jacob is super creepy and rapey. Of course they made him more palatable in the movies, but in the books it was a kid trying desperately to get with Bella, like forcing himself on her. Not cool.</span><br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04546402345969817150noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-809043627898321115.post-26775938193320266402016-03-02T08:27:00.002-05:002016-03-02T08:27:10.176-05:00Waiting on Wednesday [31]<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Big and sweeping, spanning the refined palaces of Osfrid to the gold dust and untamed forests of Adoria, </span><em style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The Glittering Court</em><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;"> tells the story of Adelaide, an Osfridian countess who poses as her servant to escape an arranged marriage and start a new life in Adoria, the New World. But to do that, she must join the Glittering Court. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Both a school and a business venture, the Glittering Court is designed to transform impoverished girls into upper-class ladies capable of arranging powerful and wealthy marriages in the New World. Adelaide naturally excels in her training and even makes a few friends: the fiery former laundress Tamsin and the beautiful Sirminican refugee Mira. She manages to keep her true identity hidden from all but one: the intriguing Cedric Thorn, son of the wealthy proprietor of the Glittering Court.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">When Adelaide discovers that Cedric is hiding a dangerous secret of his own, together, they hatch a scheme to make the best of Adelaide’s deception. Complications soon arise—first, as they cross the treacherous seas from Osfrid to Adoria, and later, when Adelaide catches the attention of a powerful governor.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">But no complication will prove quite as daunting as the potent attraction simmering between Adelaide and Cedric. An attraction that, if acted on, would scandalize the Glittering Court and make them both outcasts in wild, vastly uncharted lands. . . </span><br />
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04546402345969817150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-809043627898321115.post-70931748713315536952016-03-01T09:05:00.001-05:002016-03-01T09:05:29.134-05:00February Round Up<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hey guys! I'm still alive. Life has been crazy lately. The renovation is still going on at my house (since October, I'm getting super sick of it!) and I've kind of been in a reading slump. <i>Alexander Hamilton</i> is amazing, but it's so blasted long! I've only completed one book so far this year, and I keep putting off writing a review for it. Along with being overworked and coming home to a construction zone I did something stupid, I bought a PS4...then this happened.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Nate is so awesome, I love him! But then my friend kept talking about the game he started playing, so I abandoned Nate and started playing the new game... I'm coming to the conclusion that my friend is a bad influence, he needs to stop finding things to obsess over, because he talks about to the point where I start getting into it and I get equally obsessed. First <i>Hamilton</i> and now this:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I spend pretty much every free second playing this game, it's really not good, but the game is really really fun. Not only does my friend play, but my brother plays to, so it's something we can do together since he lives almost 4 hours away. I'm trying to readjust my schedule to accommodate reading <i>and</i> gaming, but my current <i>Destiny</i> obsession is just too great and the books I've been reading are so dense.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Right before my obsession got to be full force I even started writing a bit, something that I haven't done since high school, but that turned into I need to do way too much research that the internet isn't helping much with. And of course, it took away from <i>Destiny </i>time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One amazing thing happened this month (actually since the New Year since I haven't done one of these since December) I got to see <i>Book of Mormon</i>!! So good, so amazingly good. I love Trey Parker and Matt Stone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I went into the city with one of my best friends kind of on a whim, but it was an amazing day, things were still set up from Valentine's Day so there were golden hearts in Times Square which were pretty cool. We also killed time in Forever 21, and unfortunately it looks like 90s fashion is back. Hooray for pleather and overalls!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm still getting my OwlCrates, and I really should do more unboxing stuff, but they get delivered to work and how crazy things have been I didn't even open this month's until I got home and looked in was like AMAZING! then put it back in the box to play <i>Destiny...</i>did I mention I have a really bad problem with that game? But I digress, in January I got an awesome Dumbledore pop figure. He's now joined Loki and Yoda as my work desk guardians.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm intrigued by the January book, <i>Words of Ink and Shadow</i>. It's about the Bronte sisters, I've never read their works, so I'm really not in too much of a rush to read it. Not to mention it doesn't fit into my current historical period obsession (founding of the US)...or the time period for the research I need to do (1910s).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">February's box was way cooler, I can't wait to pick up <i>The Love that Split the World. </i>That one's been on my TBR for a while. There was also an awesome tote bag with all the couples from the Lunar Chronicles! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, I didn't really do anything in February. Not even my nails - it's difficult to play well while not smudging the nail polish! March should have much more. I signed up for a jewelry making class to learn new tricks and skills. My first class is tonight so I'm excited!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Because of the renovation I had to clear out all of my bookshelves, and now I'm refilling them, but in doing so I'm doing my best to purge books. There's going to be a huge giveaway (similar to the summer one, a few winners that get a nice collection of books each) at some point in the near-ish future. I'd like to have it done by May, but we'll see how ambitious I am. There's going to be a small giveaway this month, so keep your eyes open for that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm trying really hard to get back into the swing of blogging. The reno should be done at the end of March, so by mid April my life should get back into some semblance of a routine, so bear with me for another month or so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I meant to keep up with the Top Ten Tuesdays and Waiting on Wednesdays, but for the former, the topics haven't been much fun and required too much of my time to figure out what I'd do for them, and the latter...I'm lazy. And I typically write entries while at work but I've been so swamped since December that my back log got used up and now Thursday mornings I go 'crap! I missed both days, oh well, next week!' rinse, recycle, repeat. I actually went to do a TTT today then realized I forgot to write up this post. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Be patient with me! TTT and hopefully WoW will resume next week and tomorrow respectively. </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Good things are coming in the future, I just need to stop playing my PS4 and get stuff done! At the very least in May/June there will be (hopefully) lots of reading on my travel days. That is, unless my friend gives me something new to obsess about while we're away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I'm also going to be updating the blog links and stuff as well. The twitter link doesn't work (thanks for that Words and Peace!) and I'm not sure what else doesn't work, so I'll be looking into that. </span></div>
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I'm going on an epic trip this spring to both France and Italy, so I'm currently all about everything for those countries and getting super excited for it, so this freebie is books that I'm planning on reading before I get there! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So maybe I just finished rereading this book. I had forgotten Josh's last name so I skimmed the first chapter to find it, and of course, I was hooked. I love Josh... But I'm planning on reading this one again (twice within 5 months is not a record for number of times I've read this book in that time span). I might just plan it so I'm reading Anna and Isla on the flight over. Although my friend may think I'm weirder than he originally thought with my squeeing over Josh...so that might not be a good idea... I did however add a trip to Album (the French one, not the American one) to the itinerary. I almost want to add Pompidou, but since there will most likely be no kissing on the escalators I decided against it.</span></div>
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This one is a result of me going overboard with my Hamilton obsession. Since I'm only halfway through <i>Hamilton</i>, also by Ron Chernow, I don't think I'll be reading this one any time soon. Besides, Washington isn't nearly as awesome as Hamilton was.</div>
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3 - Nyae Nyae !Kung Beliefs and Rites by Lorna J. Marshall</div>
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I minored in Anthropology in undergrad, so every once in a while I get interested in a cool cultural group and want to read an ethnography. This one my cousin recommended when I was visiting them. </div>
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Another recommendation from my cousin, Calvino's stuff sounds awesome, and this one sounds even more awesome. I will definitely be reading this one sooner rather than later.</div>
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A new Richelle Mead! Only two things could possibly be more exciting, a new Stephanie Perkins or <i>Winds of Winter</i> actually being released.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I really wanted to read this one, but I probably won't end up reading it...maybe if I stumble across it at the library I'll snag a copy, but I'm not going there in search for it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i> Becoming Josephine.</i> I don't typically read historical fiction unless there's a cool twist to it, but this was just a straight up accurate history through the eyes of Josephine Bonepart (hence the fiction). It was really awesome!</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Either <i style="background-color: transparent;">Illuminae or </i></span><i style="color: purple; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Reawakened</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">This week I am waiting on <i>The Love that Split the World </i>by Emily Henry (January 26, 2016)</span></blockquote>
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<br />Natalie Cleary must risk her future and leap blindly into a vast unknown for the chance to build a new world with the boy she loves. <br /><br />Natalie’s last summer in her small Kentucky hometown is off to a magical start... until she starts seeing the “wrong things.” They’re just momentary glimpses at first—her front door is red instead of its usual green, there’s a pre-school where the garden store should be. But then her whole town disappears for hours, fading away into rolling hills and grazing buffalo, and Nat knows something isn’t right.<br /><br />That’s when she gets a visit from the kind but mysterious apparition she calls “Grandmother,” who tells her: “You have three months to save him.” The next night, under the stadium lights of the high school football field, she meets a beautiful boy named Beau, and it’s as if time just stops and nothing exists. Nothing, except Natalie and Beau.<br /><br />Emily Henry’s stunning debut novel is Friday Night Lights meets The Time Traveler’s Wife, and perfectly captures those bittersweet months after high school, when we dream not only of the future, but of all the roads and paths we’ve left untaken.<br /><br /> </div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This sounds really intriguing, minus the football-ness to it. The disappearing world sounds so interesting! I can't wait to see what it actually is, a parallel universe or a vacuum within the existing world. Either would be awesome!</span></div>
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1 - Finish <i>Les Miserables</i> by Victor Hugo (I'm over halfway done, but I've been working on it since 2005)</div>
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2 - Read the two books that have been sitting on my night stand for over a year - <i>Rodin's Lover</i> and <i>Les Adventures de TinTin </i>before I go to France in May.</div>
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3 - Beat <i>Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time</i>. I haven't been playing this one too long (for me) only a year or so, but I do want to finish it before it drags on too long.</div>
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4 - Beat <i>Persona 4</i> before <i>Persona 5 </i>is released. This one will be trickier, I'm almost done with it, but <i>Uncharted</i> is so much more entertaining at this point! And my PS4 is shiny and new :)</div>
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5 - Watch <i>The Last Unicorn. </i>My best friend has been telling me to watch it for years, I finally got a copy fall of '14 and I still haven't watched it...</div>
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6 - See more Broadway shows. 2015 was a poor showing, only 4 (espcially compared to 2014 when I saw 9!). So far I have one confirmed: <i>Hamilton </i>(!!!!!!!!!!) so I need to work on what other shows I'm seeing.</div>
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7 - Start learning Swedish again. I was really into it last year, but then I stopped and never got back into it.</div>
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8 - Catch up and stay caught up with my TV shows. I really only stay on top of <i>Doctor Who</i>. I at least need to with <i>iZombie</i> and I'm so far behind on <i>Verbotten Liebe</i>, I don't even know if it's even worth it since Christian left the show, but it ended so I should at least watch Ollie to the end. Not to mention all of my other shows I love and can't seem to keep up with.</div>
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9 - Reach my weight loss goal. This is a big one for me, I tend to self-sabotage a lot when I'm trying to lose weight, so I'm going to try really really hard not to this time and actually achieve my goal - and maintain it.</div>
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10 - Stop being passive about certain things in life. Another big one for me, I hate being forward with stuff, I kick back and wait for things to happen to me. It's never worked out well in the past and I really want to try to overcome that so things can actually have a chance to work in my favor rather than not start at all.</div>
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So December has been insane, which is why there haven't been many posts, and why this one is posted late. I had so much vacation time that I had to use so I took a trip to New Mexico to visit my cousin, which was awesome. We went on lots of hikes and I found some really cool pottery and worked stone (top and bottom respectively in the right picture) as well as dinosaur fossils and petrified wood (the fossil is in my hand in the left picture).</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I went into the city to see <i>Allegiance, </i>sadly my only Broadway show this fall, which was amazing! Lea Salonga and Telly Leung were brilliant and George Takei was awesome. I'm so happy I got to see it with the original cast! I hope it can beat out <i>Hamilton</i> for some Tony's...</span></div>
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I didn't do too terribly much this month. When I was in New Mexico I made some pottery on my cousin's wheel. It was the first time I'd ever used one.</div>
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I also learned how to turn a wooden bowl from my cousin's husband. The bowl on the top had a crack in the wood so it shattered when I was hollowing it out, so I have a pendant that I can make a cool necklace out of as well as a shallow bowl. The bowl on the bottom was my first attempt at it and I love it! The wood I used is awesome too!</div>
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I made this guy for my friend for Christmas, I absolutely love it! I almost wanted to keep him for myself! I think he's my favorite mouse I've made (narrowly beating out my Link mouse I made a few years ago for another friend). It's the 11th Doctor (Matt Smith) from Doctor Who if you couldn't tell. I even made him a sonic screwdriver!</div>
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This is Miss Jen Fabulous's design (if you like nail art, check her out, she's amazing!), the polar bear is super cute! I did this one for Christmas.</div>
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This was my New Years Eve design, I found a similar one on Pinterest. I absolutely loved this one, it took forever to do and sadly didn't last long.</div>
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Since I've been so busy I haven't had much time to read, let alone write/post. I'm going to try my hardest to get back on track for January, but stupidly I grabbed two insanely long books to read, a biography on Alexander Hamilton (I'm a little bit obsessed with the musical right now - I blame my friend 100% for that) and <i>The Way of Kings</i>. I'm going to try to break up the reading with shorter books so I can get some reviews done, but it may be difficult to get away from Hamilton, he's so interesting! Don't give a history nerd an amazing historical figure to read about when they don't have time to devote to it. Seriously, I'm itching to write a thesis on the revolution and I can't stop reading about all the players in it!</div>
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Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04546402345969817150noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-809043627898321115.post-39016302537568273752015-12-28T07:00:00.000-05:002015-12-28T07:00:15.757-05:00Somewhere in Between<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">by Katie Li</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Two friends find a portal to another dimension and use this “in-between place” to avoid the stress of their everyday lives. What they don’t realize is that every time they enter, they alter reality.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Pseudo-punk Magnolia and underachieving gamer-geek Rom are two unlikely friends who only hang out during their walks home together after school. When they find the a portal that leads to different worlds, they use the “in-between place” as an escape from their lives in high school, then later, after college. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Their visits through the portal bring them teetering along a tight-rope of fantasy and reality, where they don't always believe what is in front of them, not even their feelings for each other. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">The book is about changes—the ones that you can control, and the ones that you can’t. It’s about commitment and friendship. It’s about the stages in between where you have nothing but the unknown ahead of you.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Merriweather, Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px;">Inspired by the work of Haruki Murakami and films like Eternal Sunshine of A Spotless Mind, Somewhere In Between is metaphysical coming-of-age story about defining love and finding yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 21px;">Magnolia was a very weak and insecure person, while at the same time she was fantastically unique, smart, and fun. In trying avoid dealing with people she ended up ingraining herself with a bad group of people and she wasn't able to extricate herself from them. Rom on the other hand was unforgivably himself even though he tended to be very shy. He never tried to change himself for other people for any reason, either people appreciated who he was and were his friends, or they didn't and he didn't spare them a second thought.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;">Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;">Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend—the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;">Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This book made an appearance as a <a href="http://testybadger.blogspot.com/2015/08/waiting-on-wednesday-16.html">Waiting on Wednesday</a>. I read <i>Cinder</i> back when it was first published, and I've been hooked to the series ever since. I remember when <i>Cress</i> came out we had a bad snow storm, and I had to force myself to put the book down so I could shovel. Fortunately <i>Winter</i> didn't come out in February, so I didn't have to worry about shoveling snow, just raking leaves.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This book continues shortly after where <i>Cress</i> leaves off, but with no major developments to the story. Everyone is still in the Rampion plotting except for Scarlet who's making friends with a wolf.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">This book really introduced a new character, Winter, who was pretty awesome. She was so smart and intuitive and really played up her lunar sickness to make herself seem pathetic and unremarkable. We got to see a lot of returning characters as well. Thorne was as awesome as always, as were Cinder, Iko, Scarlet, and Kai. We got to learn a lot more about other characters like Jacin and Wolf as well as see Cress really grow - be heroic.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Reading this book I wasn't quite sure what to expect. Some authors it's obvious they won't be killing anyone off, other authors you know no one is safe. But with Meyer, she wasn't shy of killing characters, so you just didn't know who would survive. Some characters were obvious she wouldn't be killing, but others, there was no coming back from what was done to them, so how could they all have a happy ending?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The ending was perfect for the series, as epic and amazing as the previous books. Meyer did a fantastic job of tying everything together while leaving plenty of unknowns to ponder and imagine the conclusions. I would love to read a novella that takes place years later just to see where everyone ended up and what exactly happened with everything in the works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I give this a 10/10. I absolutely loved this book! What a fantastic conclusion to the series! Pretty sure the Lunar Chronicles just made it into my top 5 favorite series ever written.</span>Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04546402345969817150noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-809043627898321115.post-5525908063279821042015-12-02T08:00:00.000-05:002015-12-02T08:00:12.064-05:00Waiting on Wednesday [27]<div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-8035580445690260417" itemprop="description articleBody" style="background-color: white; color: #323232; line-height: 18.2px; position: relative; width: 546px;">
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<span style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;">This week I am waiting on <i>Nevernight </i>by Jay Kristoff (May 31, 2016)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;">In a land where three suns almost never set, a fledgling killer joins a school of assassins, seeking vengeance against the powers who destroyed her family.</span><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;">Daughter of an executed traitor, Mia Corvere is barely able to escape her father’s failed rebellion with her life. Alone and friendless, she hides in a city built from the bones of a dead god, hunted by the Senate and her father’s former comrades. But her gift for speaking with the shadows leads her to the door of a retired killer, and a future she never imagined.</span><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><br style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;" /><span style="color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.8px; line-height: 19.32px;">Now, a sixteen year old Mia is apprenticed to the deadliest flock of assassins in the entire Republic — the Red Church. Treachery and trials await her with the Church’s halls, and to fail is to die. But if she survives to initiation, Mia will be inducted among the chosen of the Lady of Blessed Murder, and one step closer to the only thing she desires.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><i>Illuminae</i> was so amazing, I'm banking on that anything by Kristoff would be at least half as good, which would still be an awesome read. Not to mention it just sounds amazing.</span></div>
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