Double-Stacked Bookshelves

Teaser Tuesdays:  The Unbearable Lightness of Scones Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB @ Should Be Reading . Here are the rules: grab whatever you're reading, open to a random page, select no more than two sentence (NO SPOILERS), share the title and author, and GO! Today's teaser: "Grown-ups spoke as if the world were simple; as if people behaved nicely to one another.  But Bertie knew that they did not.  When you were a boy, as he was, and saw the world the way in which boys saw it, it all looked very different.  Olive and Tofu would fight because that's what people like that did:  they fought.  And it would end up with Tofu spitting on Olive, and Olive screaming and perhaps even trying to stab Tofu with the syringe from her junior nurse's kit." --page 88-89           ----- The Unbearable Lightness of Scones by Alexander McCall Smith Happy reading!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and it's a way to share what you're loving in list form. The topic changes every week, so there is always something new to discover! This week's topic is:  Books That Were Difficult To Read .  There are always those few books that are pesky to get through for various reasons.  These are the ones I had trouble with: The Silence of Mockingbirds: The Memoir of a Murder by Karen Spears Zacharias Difficult to read because of the subject matter and my personal connection to those involved in the events discussed in the book.  Good overall...aside from the author's writing style and sense of attack toward certain people and woe-is-me attitude.  I also don't like how Spears changed the title recently in an effort to garner more sales...or something. The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown A good read overall, but the Shakespearean lines interspersed throughout made the book clunky.  Al...

Bookish Bingo hosted by Great Imaginations has come to an end and I loved participating in this challenge.  Over the course of July, August, and September I was able achieve three Bingos and plow through the following books: 3 Bingos Completed B1, B2, B3, B4, B5 B5, I4, Free, G2, O1 B2, I2, N2, G2, O2 Books Completed B1: A Stand-Alone Novel: Belle Cora by Phillip Margulies B2: Starts with S, U, M, E or R: The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin B3: A Series Finale: Allegiant by Veronica Roth B4: A Blue Cover: In Paradise by Peter Matthiessen B5: Music/Dance Themes: Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell I2: A Thriller: The Supernatural Enhancements by Edgar Cantero I4: A Summer Release: Top Secret Twenty-One by Janet Evanovich (released June 17th, 2014) N2: Set on a Boat: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers N4: Strong Sibling Relationship: The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown G1: Set During Summer: That Summer by Lauren Willig ...

Another month/season, another challenge!  Though I'm still participating in the Summer Libary Challenge hosted by Kate and Kristen @ The Book Monsters , another book event has popped up on my radar and it looks like too much fun to pass up (plus, they will work together).  Discovered through The Book Monsters, but hosted by Kara, Lyn, and Bekka @ Great Imaginations , Bookish Bingo is a reading challenge with set guidelines for each square on the grid.  The goal:  knock out the squares to get a bingo (or more!).  Sounds like a rip-roaring good time to me! Here's the Bingo card Here are the rules: One square per book.  For instance, Mockingjay starts with M and is also a series finale, but can only count for one square. All reading must be done during the months of July, August, and September. Enter the giveaway!  Multiple Bingos gets you more entries and a fully covered card gets you five extra entries.  Woohoo At ...

Teaser Tuesdays:  That Summer   Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly meme hosted by MizB @ Should Be Reading . Here are the rules: grab whatever you're reading, open to a random page, select no more than two sentence (NO SPOILERS), share the title and author, and GO! Without further ado... "Tentatively, Julia jiggled the pasteboard panel.  When tentative didn't work, she gave it a good yank.  Whoever it was had stuck the false back in good and hard.  The panel popped free, Julia staggered back, and something plopped heavily into the cavity of the wardrobe, raising a heavy cloud of dust" --page 90           ----- That Summer by Lauren Willig So many treasures to be found... Happy reading!

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and it's a way to share what you're loving in list form. The topic changes every week, so there is always something new to discover! This week's theme is:  Books on my Fall TBR List.  I was kind of hoping that the fall version of Bookish Bingo (hosted by Great Imaginations ) would be posted by now so that I could coordinate the two lists, but alas.  Regardless, here are the ten books I'm hoping to get through this fall (my favorite season) and all happened to be housed on my personal bookshevles!  No excuses...right? Gillian Flynn Gone Girl With the movie coming out very soon, and with all the great things I've heard about it, this is definitely a must read for this Fall. Cornelia Funke Inkspell and Inkdeath (two for one) I've been meaning to finish this series for a while and figure that now is a great time to snuggle in and do it! Alice Hoffman The Dovekeepers I think thi...

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and it's a way to share what you're loving in list form. The topic changes every week, so there is always something new to discover! This week's theme is:  Authors I've Only Read One Book From But NEED to Read More .  It's been a while since I've done a Top Ten Tuesday, so I'm getting back in the swing of things.  Here's my list for this week! Gillian Flynn I've read Sharp Objects and really enjoyed it.  Gone Girl is on my TBR list for sure...I've heard fantastic things and, since the movie is coming out soon, I should probably get on that! Margaret Atwood While I wasn't super impressed with Cat's Eye , I've heard fantastic things about Atwood's other works.  Particularly The Handmaid's Tale . John Boyne I recently discovered the brilliance that is John Boyne when I read his latest work, The House of Special Purpose .  I now NEED to read ...