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 October:
I'm actually not sure. I enjoyed a number of these, but nothing really stood out to me. If I had to pick, I'd go with Starglass by Phoebe North.
Notable Quote from October:And...
October 31, 2014
October 23, 2014
Review: Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Attachments by Rainbow Rowell
Published: 2011, Plume
Genre: Adult Romance, Realistic Fiction
Source: Purchased
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Money and time, those were the two things that he always heard people complaining about, and he had plenty of both. There wasn’t anything Lincoln wanted that he couldn’t afford...
What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying....
October 21, 2014
Top Ten Newer Series I Want To Start
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week we're discussing new series (those that started being published within the past two years) that we'd like to start reading ourselves.
Born of Illusion series by Teri Brown — I love it when authors can convincingly intermix historical eras/events with the fantastical. And this is about Houdini...
October 17, 2014
Ready to Become a Fan of... Katherine Longshore
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 read...
October 14, 2014
Ten Places Books Have Made Me Want To Visit
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week we're essentially listing our top ten bookish locations. We were given latitude over whether to choose real or fictional places, so I chose to select five in these two subcategories.
Real Destinations from Books:
Tarpon Springs, Florida from Where the Stars Still Shine by Trish Doller
Paris from The Chocolate...
October 13, 2014
Review: The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters
The Cure for Dreaming by Cat Winters
Published: October 14, 2014, Amulet Books
Genre: Young Adult Historical Fiction, Paranormal
Source: Publisher via Netgalley
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Olivia Mead’s life in 1900 Oregon is slowly but inexorably undergoing a sort of social turmoil. A number of states have already granted women the right to vote, and, although a recent vote...
October 7, 2014
Review: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han
Series: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, #1
Published: 2014, Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
Source: Purchased
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Margot would say she belongs to herself. Kitty would say she belongs to no one. And I guess I would say I belong to my sisters and my dad, but...
October 5, 2014
Showcase Sunday #18
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.
It may look like I spent a lot of money on books, but only two were full price here. The rest...
October 2, 2014
Review: I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai & Christina Lamb
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban by Malala Yousafzai & Christina Lamb
Published: 2013, Little, Brown and Company
Genre: Memoir, Nonfiction
Source: From my university
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Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.
Most people know who Malala is, at least on some level. As the subtitle...
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