Freebie from my Amazon WL.

Seth is laid off from work. His wife Lara just found out they are expecting a baby this summer. Seth plans on documenting the entire pregnancy with his brand new digital camcorder.

 

During an evening home watching television, the news reports that a swarm of cicada (Brood Ten) are expected to overwhelm the entire Northeast.

 

Brood Ten is vicious and ready to invade.

 

During a sweltering summer night, Brood Ten emerges and wreaks havoc with the electric grid, phone and cell service, wi-fi, food and water supply. Civilization as they know it is gone.

 

Seth and Lara are thrown back to the stone age in their own home with trillions of cicada trying to deposit their eggs and breed.

 

Fast paced and filled with tension, Brood Ten is the perfect summer read when you’re sitting outside listening to the cicadas sing.

First things first - was on Reddit, in r/books earlier today, when I came across this handy guide to the most interesting books that have been published this year.  As a frugal person above all else(at least, when it comes to books), it's good to know what the important pieces are, so that when I see them heavily discounted I won't brush past them as I look through the slush.   Above you should be able to see a selection of just some of the stuff in the first half of this year's list that I've found interesting enough to keep an eye out for, myself.

Besides that, I feel as though I've been neglecting my reading and reviewing, due to heavy, end-of-the-year school work, but although I will not be leaving school (yet!) things are about to get much easier shortly, due to the fact that for the first time - since I entered the school system proper back in grade school - I will no longer be a full-time student, but rather a part time student.  By the best of my estimations, I should be graduated by the end of summer.  No big fan fare, I just want out - desperately - at this point in time.

I don't know how to feel - maybe exhilarated? - but I can't help being frightened.  Money problems, mostly, which pisses me off, because I feel as though all of my money problems are due to the fact that I attended school to start with.  I really feel as though all of my personal problems are due to my having gone to college to begin with.

Anyway - I did a "head-count" of the books that I currently own, and I have estimated that I currently own *921 books* at this moment in time!   My best instincts tell me that I should give up buying books for now - what with the future being as tumultuous and uncertain as it seems to be, at the moment, but I think that it's impossible for me to pass up a book I want when it's at a price I cannot pass up.

Winter break is coming up - and with it, the freedom to do a little game playing, a lot of movie watching and even more reading and reviewing!