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text 2018-07-02 15:53
Monthly Run Down - June 2018

 

Books I Read:

 

The Fragile Ordinary - 4 Stars - I liked Tobias and Comet

 

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - 3.75 Stars - Some useful information. I’ve caught myself debating whether I should Give a F*ck or not several times since I’ve read this. It’s a good start to putting things in life in perspective.

 

Studly Period  - 4.5 Stars - I was totally sucked into this book. Super cute but also super hot.

 

Can’t Let Go  - 4 Stars - Jude and Ryanne’s stubbornness both entertained and frustrated me.  

 

Loved - 3.5 Stars -  Some mixed feelings here but overall entertaining.  





DNF:

 

Bad Men and Wicked Women - Eric Jerome Dickey - This book took way too many detours from the main story line to keep my interest.



Currently Reading:



Killman Creek - Rachel Caine - Good insights so far

 

Improper English  - Katie MacAlister - I enjoy the chemistry brewing between Alix and Alex

 

Just a Guy: Notes from a Blue Collar Life  - Bill Engvall - Bill is such an “All American” guy




Year to Date Totals:



January: 9 books

February: 10 books

March: 9 books

April: 6 books

May: 10 books

June: 6 books

 

2018: 50 books

 

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good LifeThe Fragile OrdinaryStudly Period (The Ivy Years, #5.5)Can't Let Go (The Original Heartbreakers, #5)Loved (House of Night Other World #1)Bad Men and Wicked Women

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text 2018-07-01 20:30
June Books

 I had a really good month with 47 books. Part of that number was helped by the fact that I decided to clear out my reading list by reading some of my shorter books. In addition to reading 11 graphic novels this month, 13 of my books were under 300 pages (and 2 of those were even under 100 pages). I also finished several series I started years ago (IrredeemableRed QueenPrincess Jellyfish, and Assassination Classroom). My binge of The Dragonian series which started right at the end of May also ended in June. It was a productive reading month.

 

26 of my books were young adult. My most-read genres were contemporary, fantasy, and romance.

 

My favorite books were Archie, Vol. 5 - Mark Waid  and Children of Blood and Bone: The OrÏsha Legacy (Children of OrÏsha) - Tomi Adeyemi. My least favorite was Leah on the Offbeat - Becky Albertalli.

 

 

5 Stars

Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations - Amy Chua  Archie, Vol. 5 - Mark Waid  Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie  Children of Blood and Bone: The OrÏsha Legacy (Children of OrÏsha) - Tomi Adeyemi  So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo  Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - Roxane Gay  

 

4.5 Stars

Irredeemable Premier Vol. 4 - Mark Waid,Peter Krause,Diego Barreto Speak Easy, Speak Love - McKelle George  To All the Boys I've Loved Before - JennyHan  Girl Made of Stars - Ashley Herring Blake  P.S. I Still Love You - Jenny Han  Princess Jellyfish 1 - Akiko Higashimura  

 

4 Stars

Thunderlight - Adrienne Woods  Spring Awakening - Steven Sater,Duncan Sheik  Magpie Murders - Anthony Horowitz  Interlude with Tattoos - K.J. Charles  Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson  This Is Me: Loving the Person You Are Today - Chrissy Metz  Frostbite - Adrienne Woods  Moonbreeze - Adrienne Woods  

Princess Princess Ever After - Katie O'Neill  Being Jazz: My Life as a (Transgender) Teen - Jazz Jennings  Orange Is the New Black - Piper Kerman  Irredeemable Premier Vol. 5 - Mark Waid,Damian Couceiro,Diego Barreto  Gaslighting America: Why We Love It When Trump Lies to Us - Amanda Carpenter  Supergirl: Being Super - Joëlle Jones,Mariko Tamaki  Assassination Classroom (暗殺教室) 1 [Ansatsu Kyoushitsu vol. 1] - Yuusei Matsui 

 Beastly Bones: A Jackaby Novel - William Ritter  Not the Girls You're Looking - Aminah Mae Safi  Lies You Never Told Me - Jennifer Donaldson  

 

3.5 Stars

The Miseducation of Cameron Post - Emily M. Danforth Blood Water Paint - Joy McCullough  War Storm (Red Queen) - Victoria Aveyard Listen to Your Heart - Kasie West Final Draft - Riley Redgate  

 

3 Stars

Snow White: A Graphic Novel - Matt Phelan,Matt Phelan Deadly Class Volume 2: Kids of the Black Hole - Wes Craig,Rick Remender,Lee Loughridge  Starlight - Adrienne Woods Girls Against Girls: Why We Are Mean to Each Other and How We Can Change - Bonnie Burton  The Lies They Tell - Gillian French Generation X Vol. 1: Natural Selection - Christina Strain,Amilcar Pinna My So-Called Bollywood Life - Nisha Sharma Love & Other Carnivorous Plants - Florence Gonsalves  

 

2.5 Stars

Leah on the Offbeat - Becky Albertalli Ace of Shades - Amanda Foody  Crazy Beautiful - Lauren Baratz-Logsted Snotgirl Vol. 1: Green Hair Don't Care - Leslie Hung,Leslie Hung,Mickey Quinn,Bryan Lee O'Malley  

 

 

Books by author gender:

  • Male: 9
  • Female: 36
  • Male/Female Mix: 2

 

Books by format:

  • Physical: 26
  • Audio: 21
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text 2018-06-29 20:50
June 2018 Reading Wrap Up
Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story - Kurt Eichenwald
Wishing Lake (A Finding Home Novel) - Regina Hart
Drifting to You: Cape Fear Shipworks - Kianna Alexander
A Radiant Soul: A Sweet Way to His Heart Novella - Kianna Alexander
The Valcourt Heiress - Catherine Coulter

2018 is now half over....I feel like I have lived 4 2018s honestly. 

  

Read

1. Green River, Running Red: The Real Story of the Green River Killer - America's Deadliest Serial Murderer by Anne Rule - 3 stars

 

2. Winds of Salem (The Beauchamp Family #3) by Melissa de la Cruz - 3 stars

 

3. When Summer Comes (Whiskey Creek #3) by Brenda Novak - 3 stars

 

4. Drifting to You: Cape Fear Shipworks Novella by Kianna Alexander - 4 stars

 

5. The Valcourt Heiress (Medieval Song #7) by Catherine Coulter - 3.5 stars

 

6. A Radiant Soul: A Sweet Way to His Heart Novella by Kianna Alexander - 4 stars

 

7. Wishing Lake (Finding Home #3) by Regina Hart - 4.5 stars

 

8. After the Eclipse: A Mother's Murder; A Daughter's Search by Sarah Perry - 3 stars

 

9. The Spirit of '76: From Politics to Technology, the Year America Went Rock n' Roll by David Browne - 2.5 stars

 

10. Born a Crime by Trevor Noah - 2 stars

 

11. Conspiracy of Fools: A True Story by Kurt Eichenwald - 5 stars

 

  

 

 

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text 2018-06-29 13:05
June 2018 Round - Up

Hello everyone.

I hope it was a good month for everyone, so far for me it was even though I was in a bit of a reading slump, still am but I'm slowly getting out of it... I think. Also I'm writing this post almost a week early since I have some stuff coming up and not sure if I will be able to post in  time, so I figured I get it done now ( June 25th) .

On a happy note, tomorrow (June 26th, 2018) will be the release of Iron and Magic  (The Iron Covenant)  by Ilona Andrews, a new series in the Kate Daniels world surrounding Hugh d’Ambray and Elara Harper. I'm super excited about this book and hear only good tings about it, I will however wait for my paperback before I read it ;)

 

 

I'm currently reading The Prophecy, the fourth and final book in the Titan Series by Jennifer L. Armentrout. So far I'm really enjoying but I'm sad to say there are a few editing mistakes, that can be confusing sometimes. But overall I enjoy it and I really missed Seth, Josie and friends :)

 

The Prophecy (A Titan Novel) (Volume 4)

 

After that I think I be going back to The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon,the second book in The Bone Season Series. It is still very dense but great universe but I think this one is a lot easier to read now that I understand the world more. I just wish I wouldn't have waited so long between the books.

 

The Mime Order (The Bone Season, #2)

I don't have any real goals for July, other than just continuing to read some of my review copies for the most part. I've been switching between ARC and books on my TBR and that seems to be working fine, I might keep that up and for every review copy I read I will read a book of my TBR.

  Oh there will be a great new giveaway coming soon. Keep your eyes open for it :)

Kiersten White's Bright We Burn the third book in the The Conqueror's Saga will be released July 10.2018, I'm really looking forward to it and that is one book I must get in July for sure.

 

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Now to my June reads,as always you will find the buy links in the review that are linked .

If you live in the US have a great 4th of July

 

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Have a great July and Happy Reading!

 


Ain’t She a Peach? by Molly Harper

 

 

An Atlanta ex-cop comes to sleepy Lake Sackett, Georgia, seeking peace and quiet—but he hasn’t bargained on falling for Frankie, the cutest coroner he’s ever met.

Frankie McCready talks to dead people. Not like a ghost whisperer or anything—but it seems rude to embalm them and not at least say hello.

Fortunately, at the McCready Family Funeral Home & Bait Shop, Frankie’s eccentricities fit right in. Lake Sackett’s embalmer and county coroner, Frankie’s goth styling and passion for nerd culture mean she’s not your typical Southern girl, but the McCreadys are hardly your typical Southern family. Led by Great-Aunt Tootie, the gambling, boozing, dog-collecting matriarch of the family, everyone looks out for one another—which usually means getting up in everyone else’s business.

Maybe that’s why Frankie is so fascinated by new sheriff Eric Linden…a recent transplant from Atlanta, he sees a homicide in every hunting accident or boat crash, which seems a little paranoid for this sleepy tourist town. What’s he so worried about? And what kind of cop can get a job with the Atlanta PD but can’t stand to look at a dead body?

Frankie has other questions that need answering first—namely, who’s behind the recent break-in attempts at the funeral home, and how can she stop them? This one really does seem like a job for the sheriff—and as Frankie and Eric do their best Scooby-Doo impressions to catch their man, they get closer to spilling some secrets they thought were buried forever.

 

4 ★

 


Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

 

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised.

With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.

 

 

4-4 ½★ 

 

 


Hunting Prince Dracula by Kerri Maniscalco

 

 

Following the grief and horror of her discovery of Jack the Ripper’s true identity, Audrey Rose Wadsworth has no choice but to flee London and its memories. Together with the arrogant yet charming Thomas Cresswell, she journeys to the dark heart of Romania, home to one of Europe’s best schools of forensic medicine…and to another notorious killer, Vlad the Impaler, whose thirst for blood became legend.

But her life’s dream is soon tainted by blood-soaked discoveries in the halls of the school’s forbidding castle, and Audrey Rose is compelled to investigate the strangely familiar murders. What she finds brings all her terrifying fears to life once again.

     

 

 5★ 

 


The Valiant by Lesley Livingston

 

Fallon is the daughter of a proud Celtic king, the sister of the legendary warrior Sorcha, and the sworn enemy of Julius Caesar.

When Fallon was a child, Caesar’s armies invaded her homeland, and her beloved sister was killed in battle.

Now, on the eve of her seventeenth birthday, Fallon is eager to follow in her sister’s footsteps and earn her place in the fearsome Cantii war band. She never gets the chance.

Fallon is captured and sold to an elite training school for female gladiators—owned by none other than Julius Caesar. In a cruel twist of fate, the man who destroyed Fallon’s family might be her only hope of survival.

Now Fallon must overcome vicious rivalries and deadly fights—in and out of the arena. And perhaps the most dangerous threat of all: her forbidden yet irresistible feelings for Cai, a young Roman soldier.

 

 

 4★

 


The Night Ferry by Lotte & Soren Hammer

 

 

Sixteen children and four adults are killed in a devastating boat crash in Copenhagen. Detective Chief Superintendent Konrad Simonsen is called in, only to discover that this was no accident and that one of the passengers has a very personal connection to the homicide team.

Reeling from this revelation and not knowing who to trust, Simonsen follows a trail that eventually leads him to Bosnia and a network of criminal misconduct. All evidence points towards one shady figure: a high-ranking army specialist with a suspicious past. But the more Simonsen digs, the further the truth slips from his grasp.

     

 4 ★


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review SPOILER ALERT! 2018-06-15 15:10
The Walker Papers Series by C.E. Murphy Comes to an End

 

Originally published at midureads.wordpress.com on June 15, 2018.

 

I started reading this series back in 2012. Now that I have finished it, I am going to miss reading about Joanne’s road to self-discovery and some amazing male characters — who didn’t take over her story or act like assholes.
 
Above is an infographic on why I loved this series the way I did!
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