Showing posts with label 2015 reading challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2015 reading challenge. Show all posts

11 Jun 2015

Third Sentence Thursday (5): Buffy the Vampire Slayer Vol 1

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Third Sentence Thursday (5): June 11, 2015
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 1 by John Vornholt, Arthur Byron Cover, and Alice Henderson
I was supposed to have this one done last week for my #TBRTakedown, but I am still chugging away at it. School has been really busy and I am not getting as much reading done as I would like. Hopefully I can catch up on the weekend! Without further ado, here are three third sentences from the first volume in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer novels!
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#summerRES2015 Challenge Book List!

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I am trying really hard to clear off my TBR pile by the end of this year so I am joining another reading challenge. The specifics of this one is to literally just read as much or as little as you want and any books are okay. So I will be using all my NetGalley reads as this reading challenge! That way I clear off my NetGalley list by the end of August 2015!
 
Fractured Dream by KM Randall 
Jesse's Girl by Miranda Kenneally
Poor Man's Fight (Poor Man's Fight #1) by Elliott Kay
Rich Man's War (Poor Man's Fight #2) by Elliott Kay
The Ugly Stepsister by Aya Ling 
Awake by Natasha Preston  
Center of Gravity by Laura McNeil
If You're Lucky by Yvonne Prinz 
The Single Game by Amanda Black  
Return of the Ascendant by Raine Thomas 
A Stellar Affair by Laurel Richards  
Dark Avenging Angel by Catherine Cavendish 
Descent by Tara Fuller  
Celtic Viking by Lexy Timms 
The Gateway Through Which They Came (The Gateway #1) by Heather Marie
The Gateway of Light and Darkness (The Gateway #2) by Heather Marie
The Seventh Crow by Sherry D. Ramsey
King Callie (Callie's Saga #1) by B. Lynch
Forecast by Elise Stephens  
The Soul Thief (Angel of Death Series #1) by Majanka Verstraete 
Ultimate Justice by Trevor Stubbs  
Prodigal & Riven by Sherry D Ficklin & Tyler H. Jolley 
The Jack of Souls by Stephen C. Merlino 

 So that is 23 books over those three months, I have faith that I can do it. I really want to get my NetGalley cleared off so I don't feel guilty when I request titles.
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5 Jun 2015

Sharon's Spring Challenge Reading List!

Sharon's Spring Challenge Reading List!

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Sharon's Spring Challenge (April 1 - June 30, 2015)

 1. Spring Ahead! The phrase "Spring forward, Fall back" helps people remember how Daylight Saving Time affects their clocks. At 2 a.m. on the second Sunday in March, we set our clocks forward one hour ahead of Standard Time. Read a book about time travel. 

I read Earth & Sky (Earth & Sky #1) by Megan Crewe on May 17th. This book features aliens and time travel!

2. Spring into action - to suddenly begin moving or doing something. Read a book where a character makes an impetuous decision. 
The entire Escape From Furnace series by Alexander Gordon Smith falls into this category. I read most of them in this time period.

3. Spring, a mechanical device that stores energy. Read a steampunk book - Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner." It includes fiction with science fiction, fantasy or horror themes. Most steampunk books have mechanical devices in them.

I read two steampunk books! Shadows of Asphodel by Karen Kincy and A Curse of Ash and Iron by Christine Norris.

4. Spring Cleaning. Spring cleaning is the practice of thoroughly cleaning a house in the springtime. The practice of spring cleaning is especially prevalent in climates with a cold winter. The most common usage of spring cleaning refers to the yearly act of cleaning a house from top to bottom which would take place in the first warm days of the year typically in spring, hence the name. However it has also come to be synonymous with any kind of heavy duty cleaning or organizing enterprise. A person who gets their affairs in order before an audit or inspection could be said to be doing some spring cleaning. Read a book that has been on your TBR list the longest. 

I don't know if it has been on there the longest, but it has been on there for almost two years, so I'm going to say that Hemlock Grove by Brian McGreevy is the one I read for this challenge.

5. Spring Break is a vacation period in early spring at universities and schools in various countries in the northern hemisphere. Read a book that takes place at a college or during spring break. 

 I read Parallel by Lauren Miller on May 1st. It takes place at a college and has some time travel so I chose for it to go under this category.

6. She’s/He’s no Spring Chicken. New England chicken farmers discovered that chickens born in the Spring bought better prices, rather than old birds that had gone through the winter etc. Sometimes farmers tried to sell the old birds as a new spring born chicken. Smart buyers often complained that a tough fowl was "no spring chicken" and so the term now is used to represent birds (and even people) past their plump and tender years. Read an old favorite or a book you have been putting off reading. 

I had been putting off reading The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan but finally got around to it and am glad I did.

7. Spring to mind - to appear suddenly or immediately in your thoughts. Read a book that was released in 2015 or the newest book on your TBR list. 

 Surprisingly, I have read lots of books that were released in 2015. My favourite one was The Corridor (The Corridor #1) by A.N. Willis because it explores multi-universe theory.

8. Spring in his step If you walk with or have a spring in your step, you walk energetically in a way that shows you are feeling happy and confident. Read a book that has a character who exhibits these characteristics or an action genre book. 

 I read Powerless by Tera Lynn Childs and Tracy Deebs. Kenna may be a "ordinary" but she does everything in her power to save her mom and that is what a hero is to me.
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3 Jun 2015

Bustle's Summer Reading Challenge 2015!

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Bustle has a summer reading challenge with seven distinct categories for books! I am going to take part and read these all before August 31, 2015! (Hopefully) I am also going to try and clean up my TBR by fitting books I want to read into these categories.

 A Book Set In the Summer: Duh. If you’re stuck on the under-air conditioned subway going to work like most of us still have to do even though it’s summer, read a book where the characters instead get to spend long days at the beach, barbecues, and on vacations. And if you’re lucky enough to be doing the same, just try not to brag too hard on Instagram and make the rest of us jealous.

 I picked up The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han on my last book haul so I will definitely be reading this one!

 A Travel Memoir: All my travel memoirs are Instagram snaps because I’m totally #normcore. But you should dive into a real memoir this summer, because wanderlusting writers are releasing all kinds of exceptional stories set in remote destinations. I don’t think it’s just to make us jealous comparing our own summer vacation plans, but I can’t confirm.

 While it isn't a happy-go-lucky book about travel, I will be using A House In The Sky by Amanda Lindhout for this one because she does travel a lot.

 A Book Set In a Country You’ve Never Been To: Even if you can’t literally hop a plane and travel this summer, you should venture into new landscapes by reading a book set in a country you’ve never had the opportunity to visit. Maybe it’s somewhere in Africa or in the outback of Australia, or maybe it’s along the Mediterranean or somewhere in the Far East. Or hey, maybe it’s Canada, you never know. Just read and pretend you’re there.

 What is better than an English resort and a chance to live out my dreams vicariously through a book? Cause that is what I'll be doing with Austenland by Shannon Hale

 A Road-Trip Book: Although we can’t all take Kerouac’s lead and spread love down Route 66, summer is the one time we feel like we might be able to. A road trip is a quintessential summer activity — after all, it’s hard to road trip in blizzards — and so it’s the perfect time to read a story about some epic ones.


In Golden by Jessi Kirby, Parker takes the road less travelled by and therefore I am taking that as her completing a roadtrip.

 A Book About New Love: To celebrate the quintessential summer fling you’ve heard about in all the country songs, the season wouldn’t be complete without reading a novel about a new love. Whether it’s YA or adult fiction, a first big love or infatuation can make you sweat even with the air conditioning is on full blast.

 Bustle recommended Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen for this and since I haven't finished it yet, I'm going to use it for this one!

 A Book About Family: I don’t know about you, but summer for me brings back a rush of family vacation childhood memories, from the time you were a kid and it was the best time of the year to when you were a teenager and you were just so over it. To honor the season, you must read a book that centers on family, the more eccentric the better.

 Because I can't do a reading challenge without a science fiction book, I am going to use What’s Left of Me (The Hybrid Chronicles #1) by Kat Zhang as my book about family considering it is two girls sharing one body. They are family, right?

 A Book of Short Stories: Sometimes you are far too busy going on summer adventures to read a complete novel, and we aren’t the kind of people to discourage adventure. A book of short stories is perfect to carry along with you and read in between shenanigans, something you can pick up and put down along the way.

 Not so much short stories as a collection of novellas, The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare is one that I should have finished months ago but have not yet started.
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22 May 2015

The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time #2) by Robert Jordan

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The Great Hunt (The Wheel of Time #2) by Robert Jordan

Goodreads Synopsis
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. For centuries, gleemen have told of The Great Hunt of the Horn. Now the Horn itself is found: the Horn of Valere long thought only legend, the Horn which will raise the dead heroes of the ages.

And it is stolen.

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The Eye of the World (The Wheel of Time #1) by Robert Jordan

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The Eye of The World (The Wheel of Time #1) by Robert Jordan

Goodreads Synopsis
The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth returns again. In the Third Age, an Age of Prophecy, the World and Time themselves hang in the balance. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow.

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