For previous posts and future FFF topics check out my Friday Favorite Five page here. There are a ton of books in fantasy featuring dragons, so this was a hard list for me to come up with because it's just tough to narrow down. Also, you have all sorts of dragons--some that are typical 'destroy … Continue reading Friday Favorite Five: Books Featuring Dragons
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Book Review: Year One by Nora Roberts
Summary: It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more than half of the world's population was decimated. Where there had been order, there was now … Continue reading Book Review: Year One by Nora Roberts
Book Review: Spinning Silk by T. Cook
Summary: A weaver’s genius ignites the jealousy of her peers, the possessiveness of her mill’s proprietress and the hopes of an unborn nation. Furi knows she was born to create, but the fabric of her life otherwise weaves mysteries. These things are more than they appear: Shin, the gardener, with his unlikely power over life … Continue reading Book Review: Spinning Silk by T. Cook
New Arrivals!
Recently have added a few new books to Mt. ToBeRead! I've come to terms with the fact that I'll never catch up on reading all the books I own and I'm okay with that. It's the only way I don't feel guilty about constantly acquiring new books. 🙂 These are actually from two separate book … Continue reading New Arrivals!
Book Review: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Summary: When the beautiful and precocious sisters Sally and Gillian Owens are orphaned at a young age, they are taken to a small Massachusetts town to be raised by their eccentric aunts, who happen to dwell in the darkest, eeriest house in town. As they become more aware of their aunts' mysterious and sometimes frightening … Continue reading Book Review: Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman
Book Review: Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien de Castell
Summary: Falcio is the first Cantor of the Greatcoats. Trained in the fighting arts and the laws of Tristia, the Greatcoats are travelling Magisters upholding King’s Law. They are heroes. Or at least they were, until they stood aside while the Dukes took the kingdom, and impaled their King’s head on a spike. Now Tristia … Continue reading Book Review: Traitor’s Blade by Sebastien de Castell
This Week in Reading: Second Verse, Same as the First
So this past week was pretty busy. I didn't have as much time for reading as I'd hoped. Taking care of kittens ended up being a little more time consuming than I'd imagined. Also, my husband came down with a flu and then I came down with it this past weekend. I am typing this … Continue reading This Week in Reading: Second Verse, Same as the First
Friday Favorite Five: Movie Adaptations
For previous posts and future FFF topics check out my Friday Favorite Five page here. Favorite Five Movie Adaptations These days we have so many adaptations of things coming out it's sort of hard to keep up. That also gives me a lot of things to choose from here. Everyone has different thoughts on … Continue reading Friday Favorite Five: Movie Adaptations
This Week in Reading: Monstrous Gentlewomen and Brass Cities
Ah, last week I had a pretty good week in reading. I finished up both audiobooks and one print book and started another one. I also went on another mini-book buying spree, some old and some new, and picked up a few new things from an audible sale so I should have another book haul … Continue reading This Week in Reading: Monstrous Gentlewomen and Brass Cities
Monthly Wrap Up: August 2018
August has still been a pretty busy month for me with social activities and work--we're short staffed and for two weeks out of the month I was pretty much on my own and it left me feeling burned out and not like doing much of anything once I was home. Yet, somehow I managed to … Continue reading Monthly Wrap Up: August 2018
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