The Monthly Digest: May 2014

Welcome back to The Monthly Digest here at Late Nights with Good Books. With these posts I hope to recap everything reading- and blogging-related for the past month.   The Books  May Reads Favorite Read from May: Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta Notable Quote from May: "Our bodies aren't strangers,: he said, his voice ragged. "Our spirits aren't strangers."...

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Review: Fortune's Pawn by Rachel Bach

Fortune’s Pawn by Rachel Bach Series: Paradox, #1 Published: 2013, Orbit Genre: Adult Science Fiction Source: Purchased Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble I can’t help it, I’m not a subtle girl. When I see something I like, I go for it, and I liked what I saw very much. There are those books you read to learn from, to better appreciate stories and language and writing. There are...

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Review: Evertrue by Brodi Ashton

Evertrue by Brodi Ashton Series: Everneath, #3 Published: 2014, Balzer + Bray Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Source: Library Contains spoilers for Everneath (my review) and Everbound (my review) Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble "Do you feel that? This heart is yours. It belongs to you. It beats only for you. And somewhere out there is a heart without a home, and it beats for me,...

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Browsing for Books as a Book Blogger

Since I’ve now been blogging for just over two years, I’ve had some time to become adjusted to the changes in my reading habits blogging has caused. I now read more books and I read them faster in the span of a year. I read - and am aware of - far more new releases than I ever knew existed. I read each book a bit more critically now, knowing that I plan on recording my thoughts on it later. I buy a ridiculous amount of books and am hyperaware of book deals/sales. None of these changes in my...

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Review: Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi

  Boy, Snow, Bird by Helen Oyeyemi Published: 2014, Riverhead Books Genre: Historical Fiction, Retelling Source: Won Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble We’re friendly toward strangers because of a general belief (I don’t know where it comes from) that we’re born strangers and that the memory of how that feels never really leaves us. Boy, Snow, Bird is being touted as a historical...

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Top Ten Books on Friendship

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week we're discussing our top ten books on friendship. The Sisterhood series by Ann Brashares — I've only read the first two books, but I had to include this series on my list. The story revolves around four teenage girls from very different backgrounds and with very different personalities...

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Bout of Books 10.0: The Finish Line

Has a week already passed? This was definitely the fastest week I've had in quite some time. Fast mostly because it was just really, really busy. Books read: Rum Punch by Elmore Leonard And We Stay by Jenny Hubbard Something Real by Heather Demetrios Number of pages read: 807 So I didn't quite accomplish my goals. I did not read four books - I didn't even get through three complete...

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Ready to Become a Fan of...Leila Sales

Ready to Become a Fan of... focuses on those authors new and old whose works I have every intention of eventually reading, but haven't been able to devote the time to just yet. By discussing authors and their works that I'm sure I'll love, given the chance, hopefully I can be more easily compelled to take the next step in not simply acquiring one of their books, but actually take the time...

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Review: Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor

Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor Series: Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #3 Published: 2014, Little, Brown and Company Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Source: Purchased Contains spoilers for Daughter of Smoke & Bone (my review), Days of Blood & Starlight (my review) Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble History conditioned you for epic-scale calamity. Once, when she was...

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Review: “Night of Cake & Puppets” by Laini Taylor

“Night of Cake & Puppets” by Laini Taylor Series: Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #2.5 Published: 2013, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Source: Purchased Contains spoilers for Daughter of Smoke & Bone (my review), Days of Blood & Starlight (my review) Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble And...it’s like all my life I’ve been this tower standing...

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Bout of Books 10

It's time for another Bout of Books! I love how Bout of Books always seems to occur at a time when I can really devote my spare time to doing little more than reading. It's been super convenient like that for me. It won't be quite as convenient this week, but I think I can make it work. For a recap of what Bout of Books is: The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book...

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Review: Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer

Nowhere But Home by Liza Palmer Published: 2013, William Morrow Paperbacks Genre: Adult Contemporary Source: Library Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble During Whitney and Merry Carole’s little banter, everything comes rushing back. I can’t believe I was so naive. There is no coming back to North Star on my own terms. I may be older and wiser, but we are still the villains....

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