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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.Books I Read
Favorite Read from January:
The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
Notable Quote from January:
They grew up on the outside of society. They weren't looking for a fight. They were looking to belong.
―S.E....
January 31, 2015
January 28, 2015
Review: The Young Elites by Marie Lu
The Young Elites by Marie Lu
Series: The Young Elites, #1
Published: 2014,
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Format: Hardcover
Source: Library
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Energy courses through me in relentless waves, feeding me even as I try to ignore the flood of power in my veins. In spite of everything, I feel a strange sense of glee.
All this chaos is of my own creation.
Although...
January 22, 2015
Review: Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin
Published: 2014, Feiwel & Friends
Genre: Middle Grade Contemporary
Format: Hardcover
Source: Library
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Where are you, Rain?
My heart starts to pound.
Two, three, five, seven, eleven, thirteen.
The most important things according to Rose Howard are following the rules, homonyms, prime numbers, and her dog, Rain....
January 20, 2015
Top Ten Most Anticipated Debut Novels For 2015
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week is a freebie week, so I decided to go back to a prompt from earlier this year that I hadn't posted yet: my top ten most anticipated debut novels for 2015.
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
Monstrous by MarcyKate Connolly
A Wicked Thing by Rhiannon Thomas
The Storyspinner by Becky...
January 18, 2015
Review: I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
I’ll Give You the Sun by Jandy Nelson
Published: 2014, Dial
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
Format: Hardcover
Source: Library
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I don’t know how this can be but it can: A painting is both exactly the same and entirely different every single time you look at it. That’s the way it is between Jude and me now.
As children, fraternal twins Noah and...
January 16, 2015
Ready to Become a Fan of... Sarah Addison Allen
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...
January 13, 2015
Top Ten 2014 Releases I Meant to Read
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week we're listing the books those 2014 releases we meant to read, but somehow never got around to over the past year.
The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison — So convinced was I that I'd love this that I went and bought a hardcover. I'm still pretty sure I'll love it when I get around to reading...
January 12, 2015
Review: Princess of Thorns by Stacey Jay
Princess of Thorns by Stacey Jay
Published: December 9, 2014, Delacorte Press
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Format: eARC
Source: Publisher via Netgalley
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A broken promise breaks something inside of you, leaving less of you than there was before.
In Jay’s continuation of Charles Perrault’s “Sleeping Beauty,” Sleeping Beauty and her family never receive...
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