![]() ![]() ![]() King of Scars (Nikolai Duology #1) by Leigh Bardugo ![]() The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQusiton You Should See Me in a Crown by Leah JohnsonĪurora Rising by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman Need help remembering the events in a book? The folks at Recaptains and Book Series Recaps can help!Īny post with a spoiler in the title will be removed.Īny comment with a spoiler that doesn't use the spoiler code will be removed.Īny user with an extensive history of spoiling books will be banned. Book suggestions, discussions, and questions are definitely encouraged! January Book Club Discussion: A Sky Beyond the Storm (An Ember in the Ashes #4) by Sabaa Tahir Young Adult literature isn't exclusive to only young adults, so here's a place for both the young and the young at heart to discuss books, news, movies based on books, and everything else related to YA. ![]()
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![]() In doing so, she becomes embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, discovering her own capacity for bloodshed. To win a place at the Court, she must defy him-and face the consequences. ![]() Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe. ![]() They will live forever.Īnd Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. They're beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. ![]() Discover Holly Black's blood thirsty bestselling The Folk of the Air series in this gorgeous hardcover gift set including: The Cruel Prince, The Wicked King, and The Queen of Nothing. ![]() ![]() ![]() The younger version of Marie-Laure will also be played by a newcomer, as Nell Sutton will portray the child version of the character and this is also her acting debut. All the Light We Cannot See will be her screen debut.Īccording to the Hollywood Reporter, she is a Fulbright Scholar and a doctoral student in rhetoric at Penn State University. The Teaser Sets Up A Mysterious And Beautiful EpicĪria Mia Loberti is starring as Marie-Laure LeBlanc, and she won the role after a worldwide search. Hopefully, he delivers a series that’s just as good as the book. Shawn Levy will have a lot of eyes on him on November 2. ![]() In 2015, it received a Pulitzer Prize and the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction. It also spent over 200 weeks on the New York Times bestsellers list. All the Light We Cannot See is one of the most anticipated, upcoming book-to-screen adaptations because it's such a popular and beloved book.Īccording to Variety, the tale sold nearly 15 million copies worldwide. The two stories are told mainly from their perspectives, and though they are on different paths, it’s clear that one day their lives will connect and collide. Marie-Laure is a young blind French girl and Werner is a German boy who becomes a soldier during WWII. Our two main characters are Marie-Laure LeBlanc and Werner Pfennig. ![]() The novel is a powerful one that follows three main characters, two of whom are young people trying to survive during World War II. ![]() ![]() ![]() It shows the important parts of their growing relationship without all the extra parts of their lives. This novella was a funny, lighthearted read that is nice for people not looking for a long book. The novella shows them living together over the course of four months, and you get to see the progression of their friendship into something more. When Mara shows up on his doorstep, he tries to buy her out, but she refuses. Unfortunately, her mentor’s nephew, Liam, owns the other share of the house, and he is not looking for a new roommate. The first novella in the book is “Under One Roof.” This story follows Mara, an environmental scientist who inherited half a house from her mentor, who was the only real family she had. The three novellas follow three best friends who live in different states, falling in love. For many, this is the first time being able to read these novellas because many people do not enjoy, or have access to audiobooks. Ali Hazelwood (“The Love Hypothesis”) released a book titled “Loathe to Love You,” which includes three novellas she released only as audiobooks in 2022. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() These are my first two five star reads of the year. If you haven’t read either of these, I HIGHLY recommend you do. And she’s seriously sensory, like I felt like I could taste all the food her characters made in the books. She doesn’t back away from discussing Vietnamese culture or autism, and she does it flawlessly. She writes compassionate, complex characters that make it feel like you are reading a rom-com for the first time. So, drum roll please, both of the books were by Helen Hoang.Īfter reading these books, Helen Hoang has become one of my new favorite authors. But these books were amazing and completely deserving of all the stars. Out of the five books I’ve already finished this month, TWO have been five-star reads! That’s a lot for me - I hand four stars out to books like they’re candy. Even though it’s only the first month, I can tell 2020 is going to be a great reading year for me. ![]() ![]() ![]() Shortly before finishing his studies, Murakami opened the coffeehouse 'Peter Cat' which was a jazz bar in the evening in Kokubunji, Tokyo with his wife. His first job was at a record store, which is where one of his main characters, Toru Watanabe in Norwegian Wood, works. Murakami studied drama at Waseda University in Tokyo, where he met his wife, Yoko. ![]() He grew up reading a range of works by American writers, such as Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and he is often distinguished from other Japanese writers by his Western influences. Since childhood, Murakami has been heavily influenced by Western culture, particularly Western music and literature. His work has been described as 'easily accessible, yet profoundly complex'. Murakami Haruki (Japanese: 村上 春樹) is a popular contemporary Japanese writer and translator. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I don't read a lot of historical romances within a short time frame since they the story line's and conflict are too often the same and I tire of it easily. It is different in all the ways that count, and I am grateful for the breath of fresh air. The Art of Sinning by Sabrina Jeffries is now a favorite of mine among historical romance. But when their practical partnership leads to lessons in the art of sinning, can they find a bold and lasting love? Read more No stranger to scandal, Yvette agrees to be Keane’s subject-in exchange for his help gaining entry to the city’s brothels he knows intimately, so she can track a missing woman and solve a family mystery. When he meets Lady Yvette Barlow at a London wedding, he realizes she’s perfect for his work-and determines to capture the young heiress’s defiant spirit and breathtaking sensuality on canvas. ![]() He’d much rather sample bevvies of beauties abroad, in search of a model for the provocative masterpiece he’s driven to paint. Which works fine…except when the sinful suitors are members!Īmerican artist Jeremy Keane refuses to return home and take over his father’s business. George’s Club, guardians conspire to keep their unattached sisters and wards out of the clutches of sinful suitors. The first novel in the Sinful Suitors series by New York Times bestselling author Sabrina Jeffries! At St. ![]() ![]() ![]() Elsewhere in the house, figures, human in form though not in stature, moved silently and quickly. ![]() In their bedrooms, men and women slept, and dreamt their ordinary dreams. The mice lived on, undisturbed, because they posed no threat to the new masters. The cats, who had been their hunters, died with them. Now they were gone, killed not by starvation, or poisons, or traps, but by a new, strange, subtle and deadly weapon, wielded by creatures who still did not know the nature or the extent of their powers but who were learning. They had survived the periods of man’s absence, too. For fifteen centuries, man had waged war on them, and the rats had survived. They had come to this place a millenium and a half ago, with the first men who settled here. ![]() In the house itself, mice came out from holes and wainscots and fed on crumbs, vaguely aware that things were easier, now the cats and the rats had gone. Small creatures moved in the lawns and gardens, fish cruised in the lake. The house lay at the heart of the wilderness. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though avoiding fate would prove impossible when the only way to save my life was to surrender it by marrying the monster who’d destroyed it. Yet when he looked at me, touched me, dared to love me, the beliefs I’d worn as armor began to melt. Regardless of how I loathed him, the deceitful and dangerous male was my last hope. My savior and my doom returned, and this time, he wasn’t leaving without me. Such a betrayal called for severe consequences, and the price of releasing the biggest threat our kingdom had faced in hundreds of years was not one I would survive.īut upon discovering my uncle’s foiled plans for their prince, the Unseelie demanded vengeance, and an agreement was made. ![]() The creature I’d formed a tentative friendship with in my family’s dungeon was not the gentle, intriguing prince I’d thought him to be.Īnd I’d helped him escape my uncle’s clutches. I’d known exactly who he was-the Unseelie prince. Ella Fields delivers a treacherously tender love story set in an all-new fantasy world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. "What the peacock can do," she tells us, "is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life." The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. But no matter where she was transplanted-no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape-she was able to turn to our world's fierce and funny creatures for guidance. ![]() "Hands-down one of the most beautiful books of the year." -NPRįrom beloved, award-winning poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil comes a debut work of nonfiction-a collection of essays about the natural world, and the way its inhabitants can teach, support, and inspire us.Īs a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. ![]() |