This weekend is Dewey’s 24-Hour Read-a-thon. This is my third time participating in the event, but my first time participating in October. The previous Read-a-thons I participated in were a celebration of the end of a school semester. This time around, I find myself in vastly different circumstances. I have a full time job and I’m living alone in a foreign country where English books aren’t so freely accessible. I’m […]
I read two indie fantasy novels that recently caught my eyes in the blogsophere. I don’t usually read these sorts of stories, but the premises, reviews and bargain prices of these two prompted me to have a go. The Word Changers by Ashlee Willis Rating: ★★½ [ratings guide] Cute premise – what avid reader doesn’t love the idea of entering a book? I thought Posy and Kyran were cute, […]
Author: Shirley Jackson Title: The Haunting of Hill House Format/Source: eBook/Amazon Published: 1959 Publisher: Penguin Length: 182 pages Genre: Suspense Why I Read: Loved We Have Always Lived in the Castle; part of Estella Society readalong Read If You’re: A lover of a terror or haunted houses, but prefer modern over Victorian Quote: I would like to watch her dying, Eleanor thought, and smiled back and said, ‘Don’t be silly.’ […]
Author: Robin Sloan Title: Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore Format/Source: eBook/library Published: October 2012 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Length: 304 pages Genre: General fiction/mystery Why I Read: Liked the idea of a 24 hour bookstore, stumbled across some reviews that remind me to read it Read If You’re: A Google superfan?? Quote: “You and I will have a son, and we will name him Hadoop, and he will be a […]