Clock Rewinders #4

Sunday 20th May, 2012 By 12 Comments

Clock Rewinders is the brain-child of Tara from 25-Hour Books and Amanda from On A Book Bender, showcasing the past week on the blog, in the blogosphere, books, the weird and the wonderful.

The Past Week at Once Upon A Time
Random Thoughts

I honestly haven’t really been around much this week. With absolutely having to check out Diablo III (once I worked out how to get it to install on my PC) and working and being shattered, I’ve barely had time to read or participate much at all in Bout of Books which sucks! It’s only on every few months and I just didn’t have time. *sobs* On the other hand.. Diablo III is wicked awesome, despite not putting in too much time. Perhaps 4 or 5 hours overall? Hoping to catch up on the American Gods read along and finish Watermelon this coming week though and pick up Black Dawn.

Around The Blogosphere
  • Logan announced the Outlander Read Along! Which I still need to read but highly doubt I’ll be able to fit in. However, read alongs are a lot of fun so go sign up.
  • Karina has been busy this week. First I adored her review of The Darkening Dream so much that it made me consider giving it another try. Then she posted a few tips for bloggers who want to host international giveaways, followed up by a great example of why Fishpond is awesome.
  • This is actually a post from myself on my other blog highlighting a fantastic offer from a friend of mine. Basically, if you’re looking for great, reliable, affordable hosting for your WordPress blog and like Squishables, check this post out before next Friday.
  • Vicky is looking for bloggers to take part in two upcoming blog tours.
  • I seem to have had further success in recruiting Morganville lovers. Check out Shirley’s reviews for Glass Houses and The Dead Girls’ Dance. Then go pick them up yourselves. ;)
Not Quite The Blogosphere
Search Terms

Okay so.. most of these just don’t make sense so I didn’t even bother commenting but felt the need to share anyway.

  • once upon a tea pup - Umm.. *melts*
  • snow leopard with a sunflower
  • animals that have tails
  • cuddle up your time
  • what age range is glass houses suitable for rachel caine – It’s teen :) A tiny bit of violence, death and peril but nothing too horrendous. I’d say 13+ but it’s enjoyable for us adults too.
  • in my schedule where do i find time to read? – Amanda has kindly answered that one here.
What Am I Reading?

Finished: *ahem*..

Started: American Gods by Nail Gaiman, Watermelon by Marian Keyes

What Next? Black Dawn by Rachel Caine!

Actually it’s continued with American Gods and Watermelon but hey, you get the idea.

Incoming

If you’d like to see what I picked up this week, click the ‘read more’ link.

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Julie Kagawa Q&A

Friday 18th May, 2012 By 2 Comments
Hey guys. :) To go with my review for The Immortal Rules a couple of weeks back, I have a little treat in the form of a Julie Kagawa Q&A for you today. Hope you enjoy!
How is The Immortal Rules different from the Iron Fey series, aside from the obvious vampires instead of faeries?

The Immortal Rules is much darker then The Iron Fey series.  There is more blood, violence, and death, and the world is very harsh, desolate, and bleak.  Very different then the surreal beauty of the Faery lands.

Will there be, or are you considering writing, any novellas for the Blood of Eden series?

Actually, there will be a Blood of Eden novella featured in a coming anthology about finding love in the apocalypse.  I can’t say more about it, but be on the lookout for that.

What do you enjoy outside of literature?

Martial Arts. My hubby and I are practioners of kung-fu and Kali. We spend a lot of hours throwing each other around and hitting each other with sticks. It’s wonderful stress relief and great exercise. Also video games, which gives me both inspiration and needed down time.

Could you please share something with us that has made you laugh recently?

The antics of my chickens. When I go out to feed them and play with them, they always want to climb on me. Most recently, one climbed up to my shoulder and then tried to jump on my head. She failed because I was laughing too hard to sit still.

Do you prefer writing about the Faeries or the Vampires?

I loved every minute of writing The Iron Fey series, but after four books and two novellas, I was ready to move on to something different.  I’d been wondering if I could write something a little darker, and The Immortal Rules was the perfect opportunity for that.  But I loved writing them both, and I don’t think I could choose a favourite between the fey and the vamps.

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[Review] The Greatest Love Story of All Time by Lucy Robinson

Thursday 17th May, 2012 By 4 Comments

Author: Lucy Robinson
Series: None
Genre: Chick Lit
Publisher: Penguin
Pages: 496
Published: April 12th 2012
Source: Review copy from publisher
Goodreads | Amazon (UK/US) | Book Depository

First Sentence
My friends broke into my flat.
Blurb

It’s Fran’s thirtieth birthday and things are good . . .

She’s bluffed her way into a Very Posh Job and her outlandishly handsome and talented boyfriend Michael is escorting her to the Ritz with a bulge the shape of a ring box in his pocket.

But something has gone wrong. Very wrong. By the end of the evening Fran is howling in bed with a bottle of cheap brandy and one of Michael’s old socks.

In her quest to figure out why her life has suddenly gone down the pan, Fran comes up with a failsafe plan: live like a badger, stalk a stranger called Nellie and cancel her beloved Gin Thursdays in favour of drinking gin every night. But then Fran’s friends force a very different plan on her and it’s nowhere near as fun. How could eight dates possibly make her feel better?

But eventually she agrees. And so begins the greatest love story of all time . . .

Thoughts

It feels like yonks ago I read and fell in love with this book, looking at my Goodreads page, I suppose a month ago is a fair while, but hey that’s why I take notes and I do remember how much I absolutely adored this book, to the point that I told off Ms. Lucy on Twitter for making me actually cry and I couldn’t read anything else for three whole days afterwards and I told a random lady in Tesco to buy it because it’s really really good (as well as many other people). *ahem* Yes.

Lucy’s writing style pulls you in from the very first page when Fran is telling us about how and why her friends broke into her flat, only to be disgusted by the state they find her in, and demanding that she go on this “Eight Date Plan” while on her 3 month break from her boyfriend Michael. She has this fantastically hilarious way of wording things, and it’s such a British sense of humour. So often I’d burst out laughing at something or other1 and I’d get the “what are you laughing at?” look from my other half.

“Walking out of the building and into the cold, hard afternoon sun, I caught sight of Michael’s bottom. I’d not realized I was a bottom sort of girl until that moment but Michael’s was exquisite. Small, manly and firm, with just a hint of muscle. I wanted to cup it gently. And then firmly. And maybe give it a soft slap just to be sure.”

My only major criticism of the writing style itself was the overuse of exclamation marks. Whilst they did add a lot more excitement to the text, often they added a little too much.

Fran is just so absolutely mental and Bridget Jones-like with her clumsy, drunken, lovesick stalking ways. She has low self esteem yet loves her life and when she suspects her currently ex-boyfriend of dumping her on her birthday to date a posh, gorgeous girl called Nellie Daniels she gets a little crazy. Whilst it could all have been fixed by a simple text, it did make for a hilarious read and things wouldn’t have worked out quite the way they did. And that was a pretty freaking epic ending. I’m also completely in love with the side characters. Dave the Glaswegian cameraman who always seems to have a cigarette in his mouth and there for Fran through thick and thin. Barmy Stefania the nutty European, exact origin unknown. Duke Ellington the evil cat. And the dates! My word, they’re so hilarious! Though it isn’t all hilarity. Fran’s mother has been dealing with an alcohol problem for years and there are some very heartfelt dealings with that problem as she tried to get her mum to go to Alcoholics Anonymous. They all give the story a kick of life and it wouldn’t have been quite the same without them.

Should you read this book? Hell to the yes. There is a lot of swearing and a teeny tiny bit of sex but it’s not too adult in my honest opinion. I thoroughly believe that it’s too brilliant to miss. Often, I find chick lit has a lot of trouble with predictability but here I just didn’t see any of the twists coming and.. Kay, finished gushing. If you have a secret penchant for chick lit while nobody’s looking or a great stonking love of it, give The Greatest Love Story of All Time a go! I love it so much and I’m sure you’ll enjoy it.

  1. and yes, I’ve stolen ‘back rug’ [↩]
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American Gods Read Along: Chapters 1-6

Wednesday 16th May, 2012 By 1 Comment


I’m still very behind on this read along, I should be onto part three by now, or reading for it anyway, but I’ve just finished chapter 6. However, I have time to catch up and here are my first bundle of answers for my participation. Be warned, if you haven’t yet read it, these contain spoilers.

1.      What were your initial impressions of Shadow and Mr. Wednesday?

Shadow, first of all, comes across as a very quiet man. We know he’s in prison but you aren’t convinced that he has really done anything wrong, as such, and as the novel goes on we do get hints that in fact it was for his wife Laura that he went to prison. Whilst he isn’t a particularly exciting character to begin with, you connect with him. That is the beauty of Gaiman’s writing. You’re sad for him, you want him to run, you want him to live a safe life but knowing that the accident that killed Laura and his friend may not have been entirely accidental, you know that he can’t.

Mr. Wednesday I think I worked out exactly who he was from the beginning, and he is such an interesting character isn’t he? Not entirely “good”, but I didn’t find myself hating him for it. Okay, towards the beginning he made me feel a little uneasy but eventually my opinion changed and I found myself enjoying his presence.

2.      What do you think of Shadow’s wife, Laura? As the novel goes on, does your opinion change?

She is an enigma, is she not? From the beginning when Shadow tells us about her and we experience their phone call before he comes home, it’s very clear that she loves him and he loves her. They are very sweet. But then she dies. And we meet her again. When we meet her again she is different. Being dead she can no longer make use of morals and so her explanation of the affair is quite crass and you feel for Shadow, though, despite it all, he doesn’t seem to blame her so much. This part was very eerie and dark. Mysterious, as well. We are not told how she came to be undead. She appears again towards the end of chapter 6 and whilst she still makes me a little uneasy, it’s also clear that she still loves Shadow on some level, or perhaps it’s the coin around her neck? As she protects him.

3.      Gaiman uses a lot of foreshadowing and similes. Do you like his writing style?

I love it! I adore all the hints and foreshadowing and .. ugh it’s amazing. He makes you feel. He creates such clear visual images in your mind. And the foreshadowing and the folklore and mythology is just.. mgmjdnfhask. I’m in love, okay? It’s beautiful in a gothic kind of way. He just seems to see the world through this magical and slightly gothic lense.

4.      Do you like the side stories of what the gods are up to while Shadow and Mr. Wednesday go about their business? Do you have a favorite?

Yes! They add layers to the story. If it was just Shadow and Wednesday it could easily become quite formulaic but with these little side stories there is something else, another aspect and it’s so interesting. I loved the story of the Cornish girl who got upto all sorts of trouble before marrying her ‘master’ and having his children, particularly.

5.      Do you agree with Shadow and Mr. Wednesday not sharing fortunes? Would you share one?

It is supposed to be bad luck or some such, so I see where it came from. Though it seems to be more of a European tradition as opposed to an American one as Shadow did originally ask to see Wednesday’s. I would, but that’s because I don’t believe in it, whereas for them it’s something quite real and so they are perhaps quite right to keep them to themselves.

6.      What do you think of the Clockwork story? Czernobog says “the quickest way is sometimes the longest” do you agree?

It’s so haunting. Didn’t it just give you chills? “That is the world as it is. That is the real world. It is there, in that box.” P135. I mean, come on! *shudder* The world really is a magical and dark place filled with ghouls and creatures beyond our imagination, but those taken by the modern times can’t see it. That is how I saw the clockwork story and as such I jotted down a little quote.

I think it’s difficult to ‘agree’ with “the quickest way is sometimes the longest” because we don’t entirely understand what it means yet. I think it’s important to note that they reached their destination by taking a spiral path. Spirals in pagan religion are a way to raise energy and as such this probably indicated how they were able to get in to Wednesday’s mind for the meeting. How did they get in there? Going round, and round, and round on the carousel. Raising energy. :)

7.      Do you hold to any legends?

No. Not any more. When I was younger I was a Wiccan, I evolved into a pagan and eventually just didn’t believe any more. I suppose on some level I still believe in energy, how it’s possible to raise energy and relax it within emotions, and perhaps I believe there’s.. something. But no. At some point I did believe in faeries. There is a lot of folklore in pagan Britain which survived the Roman invasion and I think I believed it at some point, but not any more.

8.      Who do you think abducted shadow?

I don’t know. They didn’t seem to know him, they just knew he had been seen with Wednesday. It wasn’t anybody a part of the US government, I don’t think, and it can’t have been the modern gods.. I think it’s a new enemy that hadn’t been met yet.

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Bout of Books: Challenge #3

Wednesday 16th May, 2012 By 5 Comments

Bout of Books Read-a-Thon May 2012

This challenge is hosted by Books Devoured.

Your Challenge is to choose any book cover and Re-Title it! You can choose anything you like and go the serious or humorous route!

I’ve just gone into random.org, picked a number, found it on Goodreads, deciding that cover was crap, scrolled up, picked another and that’s why I chose this book. There’s really no real method to my madness.

Let’s see though. I don’t like the title ‘Un Lun Dun‘ particularly and this novel is about an alternative almost Wonderlandesque kind of version of London so…

The London Wilderness

Beware the giraffe shifters..

What do you think? A new career for me, yes? I might be the worst person.. scratch that.. the second worst person in the world for naming things!

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Ratings Icons and Their Meanings

Tuesday 15th May, 2012 By 12 Comments

Hannah’s Rating System

Hi there. You may have noticed recently that we have done away with the star rating system. I find it utterly pointless after so long because my ratings now do not, in fact, fit in as well with my ratings from the beginning. I’m much more likely to give a book a 3 star rating these days, and opinions on the meaning of a 3 star rating differ from person to person anyway. It all started to become very confusing and I just had to do away with it. I also find a star rating takes away from a review. While having these at the top, often people will check the rating and decide not to bother with the review. Now, you might argue that my new idea isn’t much better with this in mind, however, I disagree. Now with the rating system being located at the bottom, it becomes more of a conclusion than a part of a review and I like to hope that this post will explain what each of my ratings actually mean. There can be no interpreting them wrong because they are my own ratings.

I have wanted to use this system for a while now and when I found these gorgeous chrome images I knew it was time to make the switch. Sadly, myself and Naithin didn’t entirely see eye to eye on the change and we each had our own pretty solid idea of what we wanted to do, whilst agreeing that a change was needed. So we’re using both. This is a personal blog with two different people contributing so we really see no reason why we can’t use our own methods. I like a blog to be about personality and this is just another way we have tried to incorporate that into this little space on the web.

Following I shall list my new rating system with the descriptions that match up to them the best. (Hopefully soon I’ll get around to adding one for “It’s okay”)

Hannah’s Rating Examples

Too freaking awesome for words. New favourite.

Loved it. Definitely want my copies in good condition as books with these ratings would be in pride of place and I would re-read and force on others as well.

Really liked it. May read again, definitely recommend to others, but still had a few flaws.

Liked it. Nothing special, probably wouldn't read it again, but an enjoyable read.

Meh. While the book had good points and I can see others liking it, it just didn't grab me.

Couldn't finish the book I enjoyed it that little. Chances are you won't see this icon but it's there incase it's ever needed.

 

Naithin’s Rating System

When Hannah suggested we do away with the star rating system, I agreed and thought that was a brilliant idea for many of the same reasons she did.

A 3-star rating to one person might mean that the book was liked, another might see that as merely being ‘OK’ and some few might even count it a terrible rating!

Our agreement on the matter seemed to terminate at that point. Luckily, it found a rejoin point at, ‘Let’s agree to do our own and give our reviews a touch of personal flavour!’, so there we have it, I now have a flavour. Yesss!

Anyhow, what I’ve done is heavily inspired by Gamespot’s Review system. If you take a look here for example, you can see over on the right-hand side a series of buttons which are kind of like achievements. For the game. But like… Achievements the game itself has earned.

Frankly I think this is a brilliant idea, and I think I’ve even seen it crop up on a few book blogs as well to either supplement or replace more standard rating systems. I’ve gone with the latter option and removed star ratings from reviews I post here on the blog.1

I have actually posted: [Review] Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) by Brandon Sanderson using this new system already.

At the top of the review, where the star rating used to sit, you’ll see an Emblems line, immediately below which you may see an array of little… well, emblems, that denote some of the best characteristics of the book.

Naithin’s Rating Examples

Here are some of the Emblems a book may be awarded:


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I want to point out that these emblems are not merely awarded for possessing the relevant attribute. They’re awarded for excellence in that attribute.

For example, it is not sufficient to merely have a sad (or joyful) moment to earn the ‘Shed a Tear‘ emblem. It has to make my eyes leak! At least a little! Mistborn didn’t make this happen for me, but Sanderson’s much later written The Way of Kings did and so if I were to review that again under this system, it would be awarded this emblem.

Similarly, being funny isn’t enough to win the ‘Laughed out Loud‘ emblem. The emblem name makes its criteria fairly well known though. Or with the, ‘Oh, Snap’ emblem it doesn’t count if the twist or reveal makes no sense or had nothing at all to foreshadow it. Likewise it loses the whole ‘Oh, Snap‘ element if it is foreshadowed so heavily they may as well have just come out and told you much earlier.

 

and

  1. I suppose if you really wanted to know what I would give something in a star rating, then you can cheat and look on either Goodreads or Amazon. If you do, just bear in mind what they say their stars are worth! [↩]
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Bout of Books: Challenge #2

Tuesday 15th May, 2012 By 3 Comments

Bout of Books Read-a-Thon

Today’s challenge is hosted by Nyx Book Reviews.

The Book Confessions challenge consists of two parts. I know some of you have a lot of stories and love to tell them, but others need some more motivation. Therefore you can choose one of the two options. If you feel like doing them both, I won’t stop you!

As my “shocking, embarrassing, or funny” book related stories are neither interesting, nor really worth mentioning as I would be neither scared, scarred, red faced, nor particularly laughing over the memory, I’ll go with the “this or that” option.

Physical book or eBook? Physical book
Paperback or Hardcover? Paperback
Reality or Make-believe? Make-believe
Adult or Young-Adult? Adult
Dog ears or Bookmarks? Bookmarks
Breaking the spine or Barely open the book? Barely open the book
Tea or Coffee? Coffee
Reading in bed or On the couch? On the couch
Series or Standalone? Series
Original or TV Adaptation? Original
Defy motion sickness or Audiobooks? Wait what?
Author crushes or Who-was-that-guy-again? Author crushes
Interview or Guest post? Guest post

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Bout of Books: Challenge #1

Monday 14th May, 2012 By 4 Comments

Bout of Books Read-a-Thon

Today’s challenge is hosted by Sarah Says Read.

“What do you like best about readathons? Do you have any readathon traditions or rituals? If this is your first readathon, what do you like so far? Discuss away!”

Actually, I do believe that this is the only read-a-thon I have ever and do take part in. Other read-a-thons seem to be about just reading as much as you can in the given time and I just can’t do that. I love the relaxed atmosphere of Bout of Books. It’s so fun and I’ve made so many friends by taking part. In the past, it’s brilliant.

As for traditions and rituals.. hm.. Not really. I use the same update template each time and aim to read no more than I usually aim to read I just like to join in with everybody else.

For me, the fun lies in the community spirit surrounding Bout of Books. Everybody gets together because of a love of reading, finds a few new blogs to follow, Twitter friends, maybe some bookish recommendations. It’s going to be different for everybody but because of the flexibility that gives people the chance to take away from the read-a-thon what they most want out of it and I adore that.

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Announcing the Warbreaker Group Read!

Monday 14th May, 2012 By 24 Comments

After the fantastic success and fun that came out of participating in Carl’s Mistborn Group Read, Amanda and I both both decided we could do with a little more Sanderson in our reading lives.

Warbreaker is a book of his that neither of us have read yet, despite it being so readily available.

It’s available in the usual print and eBook formats to be sure, but you can even pick-up a free copy for your eReader, or to read on your PC and in a number of formats including straight in your browser if you like.

I wouldn’t change ELANTRIS, but I’ve always kind of wished that I could write a book that actually focused on what it was LIKE to have to live with all of the expectations of being transformed into a deity. How would that affect a person? What if they, themselves, didn’t believe that their powers made them a god—yet everyone else did believe it? Could you have a god who didn’t believe in his own religion?

-Brandon Sanderson, 2007.

It seems to explore some interesting ground, so it sounds to be a perfect book for a Group Read. If you’d like to join in, we’ll be following a format similar to Carl’s, with having broken the book into 5 sections (split over 5 weeks), and questions going out to participants on a Saturday, in order to have posts ready for Tuesday. The change of days is so that if this does overlap slightly with the Mistborn #2 Group Read, our days do not clash! :)

Edited the post days to Tuesday, thanks to SueCCCP kindly pointing out I had overlooked Carl’s Neverwhere Readalong post dates. Sorry!

Section One: Prologue – Chapter 12.
Reading: Monday 21 May, Questions Out: Saturday 26 May, Posts: Tuesday 29 May.

Section Two: Chapter 13 – Chapter 23.
Reading: Tuesday 29 May, Questions Out: Saturday 2 June, Posts: Tuesday 5 June.

Section Three: Chapter 24 – Chapter 34.
Reading: Tuesday 5 June, Questions Out: Saturday 9 June, Posts: Tuesday 12 June.

Section Four: Chapter 35 – Chapter 49.
Reading: Tuesday 12 June, Questions Out: Saturday 16 June, Posts: Tuesday 19 June.

Section Five: Chapter 50 – End.
Reading: Tuesday 19 June, Questions Out: Saturday 23 June, Posts: Tuesday 26 June.

If you would like to sign up, you can do so below! I’ll be running Mister Linky to keep track of participants of each section. In order to get the questions early, please be sure to leave a comment with a valid email address (in the email field, it doesn’t need to be public and I won’t be sharing it!).

So get involved and spread the word! :)

Oh, and if you’d like to be involved with asking the questions for one of the weeks, let us know! Otherwise, Amanda and I shall alternate weeks, beginning with Amanda’s questions for Section One. :)

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Clock Rewinders #3

Sunday 13th May, 2012 By 18 Comments

Clock Rewinders is the brain-child of Tara from 25-Hour Books and Amanda from On A Book Bender. Amanda opened it up to the rest of us and I hopped in to join everybody else in showcasing the past week on the blog, in the blogosphere, books, the weird and the wonderful.

The Past Week at Once Upon A Time
Random Thoughts
  • I managed to read a little in work this week. Shhhh!
  • I started two books. One for a read along, one to read in between. Both are the first of my own books that I have read in months. Maybe even close to a year. Both are amazing.
  • I neeed to get a printer for my pc and a corkboard for my room for some of the absolutely gorgeous cover art out there!
Around The Blogosphere
  • Vicky from Books, Biscuits and Tea this week discussed ‘Is Blogging Becoming a Popularity Contest?‘ and I can raise my hand and honestly say that this is something I noticed from the very beginning, but that doesn’t make it any better and Vicky raised some good points here.
  • There is a giveaway for a Kindle Fire going on over at The Fiction Pixie for US and Canadian folk. Don’t miss out!
  • I recently read a debut chick lit by Lucy Robinson that I adored (review to come soon™) and Chloe published a fun interview this past week with the author of said book.
  • There’s a cover reveal over at The Unread Reader that actually made my jaw drop. I want these as posters on my wall and I am way past the age when posters were ‘cool’. There’s also a chance to win an ecopy of Fairy Metal Thunder at the end of the post.
  • It’s one of my favourite blogger’s blogoversary on the 13th and she’s doing a few posts to celebrate! I’ll go ahead and link the tag.
  • I have to say, I’ve been avoiding Fifty Shades of Grey because it simply doesn’t appeal to me at all (sorry, it doesn’t), but this post with comments included at Books of Amber has put me off even reading it out of curiosity.
Not Quite The Blogosphere
  • Not really a part of the blogosphere, per sé, but I felt this needed sharing regardless: The Fairy Reel by Neil Gaiman
  • I just found a Reddit section dedicated to steampunk ponies. Win.
  • Last week I posted a Discworld reading guide, this week I discovered its’ source. This might be my new favourite website.

And of course, Bout of Books begins tomorrow! If you still haven’t heard about it, Bout of Books is a no pressure read-a-thon focused on having fun and reading what you can rather than as much as you can. Great for folk who don’t have time/are slow readers/just plain want to enjoy a read-a-thon, it’s full of challenges, community interaction, and the odd giveaway and is a fantastic way to meet new book bloggers. Even if it’s past the “sign up date”, don’t think it’s too late to join in! We don’t mind if you find out a little late, you’re very welcome.

Bout of Books Read-a-Thon

Search Terms
  • fantasy world map of internet – I’m not sure if this is awesome or just plain weird.. no, it’s definitely awesome. Fantasy-cyberpunk? Yes please!
  • reviews of dinner at mine chris smyth – *hangs head in shame* my review is coming soon™
  • doctor couldnt find my vein – then you could be a part of the living dead
What Am I Reading?

Finished: Dinner at Mine by Chris Smyth

Started: American Gods by Nail Gaiman, Watermelon by Marian Keyes

What Next? Currently undecided. Too much choice!

So I finally finished Dinner at Mine which turned out to be a better read than it started out as though still not the best book I’ve ever read, and then started American Gods for the read along which has turned out to be an absolutely amazing read so far, and I also picked up Watermelon as a nice cheerful read inbetween which also happens to be amazing so far. It’s going to take me a little while to read these and so I don’t know what kind of mood I’ll be in by the end, hence I haven’t bothered to choose my next read yet.

Err.. this post got a bit long so the incoming is behind the cut unless you’re in a reader. :)

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