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
June Reads
Favorite Read from June:
Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman
Shadow and Bone and Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo (re-reads)
Notable Quote from June:
Margot would say she belongs to herself....
June 30, 2014
June 29, 2014
Fierce Reads Spring 2014 Recap & Giveaway
This past Saturday I was fortunate enough to attend a stop on the Spring 2014 Fierce Reads tour.
I’ve been blogging now for just over two years, and this is actually the first big author signing I’ve attended. To be fair, I did get to see Lois Lowry this past winter, but the event she was at was more focused on her work The Giver and its various adaptations over the years. The Fierce Reads event was more promotional, more current, and - dare I say it? - more fun.
The authors in attendance...
June 26, 2014
Review: Pointe by Brandy Colbert
Pointe by Brandy Colbert
Published: 2014, G.B. Putnam’s Sons
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
Source: Library
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The past few years of Theo Donovan’s life haven’t been easy. Her best friend was last seen four years ago, she’s been battling with anorexia since then, and she has reached the point where serious, competitive dancers such as herself must...
June 24, 2014
Review: The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Published: William Morrow Books, 2013
Genre: Adult Fantasy
Source: Library
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Oh, Neil Gaiman. Every book of yours that I’ve read has further convinced me that your writing style and my reading preferences are just not going to mesh. And so, after reading your most recent release, I am going to respectfully...
June 20, 2014
Ready to Become a Fan of... E. Lockhart
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 to...
June 17, 2014
Top Ten Books On My Summer TBR list
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week we're listing the books that have made it to the top of our Summer 2014 TBR piles.
New & Upcoming Summer Releases:Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo — Obviously. Today is its release day, but I'm actually holding off for a few days so that I can buy a new shiny copy for Bardugo to sign...
June 16, 2014
Review: Unsticky by Sarra Manning
Unsticky by Sarra Manning
Published: 2012, CB Creative Books
Genre: Adult Romance
Source: Purchased
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We're broken. It's like we have all these jagged edges that scare other people off, but when we're with each other, our jagged edges fit together and we're almost whole.
From an outsider’s perspective, it may appear as though Grace Reeves is living the fashionista’s...
June 12, 2014
Review: The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski
The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski
Series: The Winner’s Curse, #1
Published: 2014, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Source: Library
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Arin wondered if she would lift her eyes, but wasn’t worried he would be seen in the garden’s shadows.
He knew the law of such things: people in brightly lit places cannot see into the dark.
If...
June 10, 2014
Top Ten Books I've Read So Far This Year
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week we are sharing our favorite books read so far in 2014.
As I don't want to end up listing a full one-quarter of the books I've read thus far just to make the ten-book quota, I only chose those books that have merited 5 or 4.5 stars from me.
All the Truth That's in Me by Julie Berry [my review]Something Real by...
June 9, 2014
Review: Something Real by Heather Demetrios
Something Real by Heather Demetrios
Published: 2014, Henry Holt and Company
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
Source: Library
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I’m sitting here on the Kaye Gibbons Show, and all I can think is that the whole country is sick. Sick with this idea that it’s good to be known and seen by as many people as possible, to show every part of our lives...
June 5, 2014
Series Review: The Lumatere Chronicles by Melina Marchetta
Opening Thoughts
At the beginning of this year I decided to finally read through Melina Marchetta’s Lumatere Chronicles. I’d had plans to do so for a while now - I’d read and enjoyed Finnikin of the Rock and was so convinced by others that the later installments are even better that I bought copies of the entire trilogy.
I’ve been working through this series since the beginning of the year: reading...
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