The Monthly Digest: September 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 Favorite read from September: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Notable quote from September: “Miss Fitt, you know curiosity gets men killed."I grinned. "Then I daresay it's good I'm a woman.”   ―Susan...

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Top Ten Books On My Fall 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 Fall 2014 To-Be-Read piles.  New & Upcoming Fall Releases: Exquisite Captive by Heather Demetrios — Because I adored Demetrios' debut, Something Real. And because she's apparently a friend of a friend (which is awesome). And because...

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Review: Firebug by Lish McBride

Firebug by Lish McBride Series: Firebug, #1 Published: September 23, 2014, Henry Holt and Co. BYR Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Source: Publisher via Netgalley Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble Ava possesses the unique ability to set things on fire with her mind. In her world, she’s referred to as a firebug and considered to be a highly desirable magical being. Her mother, another...

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Review: Salt & Storm by Kendall Kulper

Salt & Storm by Kendall Kulper Published: September 23, 2014, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Source: Publisher via Netgalley Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble For all his experience with spells, he still didn’t understand what I have always known so well: magic seldom works the way you want. Avery Roe’s life has been planned out for her since...

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Top Authors I've Only Read One Book From But Need to Read More From Soon

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week we are discussing those authors we've read only one book from so far, but fully intend on reading more from in the near future.   Author: Julie Berry  Book read: All the Truth That's in Me Why: I cannot properly explain how in awe I am of Berry's All the Truth That's in Me. It's short,...

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Review: Four: A Divergent Collection by Veronica Roth

Four: A Divergent Collection by Veronica Roth Series: Divergent, #0.1-0.4 Published: 2014, Katherine Tegen Books Genre: Young Adult Dystopian Source: Library Contains spoilers for Divergent (my review), Insurgent (my review), Allegiant (my review) Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble I'm not sure bravery is something you acquire more of with age, like wisdom --but maybe here, in...

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Heir of Fire Tour (with Sarah J. Maas, Susan Dennard, and Erica O'Rourke)

I can't believe I'm already up to book event #3 for the year (or ever, really). I met up with a friend who now lives in the Chicago area to attend the Heir of Fire signing at Anderson's Bookshops in a nearby suburb this past Sunday, September 7, 2014. Sarah J. Maas explained that for the tour, her publisher Bloomsbury allowed her to pick the author friends to accompany her at the various stops. Also...

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Review: The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen

The Queen of the Tearling by Erika Johansen Series: The Queen of the Tearling, #1 Published: 2014, Harper Genre: Adult Fantasy Source: Library Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble "You're young and reckless, Lady, It's a desirable quality in a warrior, but not in a queen." Kelsea Raleigh has the dubious honor of being the rightful heir to the Tearling throne, a position that no...

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Showcase Sunday #17

Showcase Sunday is a weekly meme hosted by Vicki at Books, Biscuits and Tea. Its aim is to showcase our newest books or book related swag and to see what everyone else received for review, borrowed from libraries, bought in bookshops and downloaded onto eReaders this week. All in all, August was a fairly light month of book acquisitions. And of these eight books,...

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Review: The Dinner by Herman Koch

The Dinner by Herman Koch (Translated by Sam Garrett) Published: 2013, Hogarth (Originally 2009) Genre: Adult Literary Fiction Source: Library Goodreads · Amazon · Barnes & Noble Happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn't have to be validated. Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way. Brothers Paul and Serge have arranged to dine at a fancy...

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ARC August: A Recap

Well, August is over. And, strangely, I'm actually excited for the fall. Perhaps part of the reason is that I'm no longer feeling quite as daunted by the books I need to read in September. ARCs read:   Salt & Storm by Kendall Kulper (to be published September 23, 2014) Firebug by Lish McBride (to be published September 23, 2014) Lies We Tell Ourselves by Robin Talley (to be published...

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