March 2017 Wrap-Up

 

March Reads

I am so far behind so sorry this is late. I will try to get every thing got up again in the next few days.

Here are the books that David and I read for the month of March. As you probably have guessed I really enjoy mysteries and history. David is still struggling with reading so I still read to him or he listens to audio books.

This was my book club read for the month. It had both mystery and a little bit of history.

  This was the last book of a young adult  series. It was a really good series I thought.

Here is the book I read that isn't pictured.

To the Lighthouse by: Virginia Woolf. I did no like this book at all. It was February's book club read and it took me this long to finish reading. So that was a total of ten books for the month of March not to bad.

Lady Midnight Review

 

Lady Midnight Review

I am not sure how I want to write this review. It took me a long time to read this book. It wasn't because it was almost 700 pages but because it didn't hold my interest.
I liked her Mortal Instrument Series a lot more. I know I am one of the few who. This book talks about Emma and Julian which you hear about near the end of the Mortal Instrument Series.
Emma and Julien are parabatai.  They have been together since they were young; in fact they grew up together. Emma's parent are killed and she doesn't know who killed and she is searching for their killer. Julien ends up raising his younger brothers and sisters. There are killings happening in The L.A area and they are trying to figure out who is doing it. Emma is sure it is related to her parents murder, which happened five years earlier. The book finally gets interesting to me about 500 pages in. There at a lot of twist and turns and things do flash back to the Mortal Instrument series so you do need to read it to understand this book. I would say go ahead and read it because I am one of the few who really didn't get into it but will probably the second book because I need to know how things ends. I can't go into to much detail because it will give it away.

February 2017 Wrap-Up

 

February Books

The Yearling I read to David

Little Women isn't finished yet.

These were from the book club I'm in. All the light we cannot see was January's book but didn't get finished. It is actually a good book about WWII. This is the first Virginia Woolf book I have ever read. I didn't like and the funny thing is no one in the book club liked it except the person who chose it. The other book was a quick read and we had the author come to the library to talk with us. I wasn't able to make it to see the author.

Another book I read to David.

Other books I listened to this month were Antony and Cleopatra by: William Shakespeare

The Sonnets by: William Shakespeare

Not as many read this month. It has been a busy month for us. Sorry this is out late but life is active here in Pueblo, Colorado

January 2017

 

January books

I just thought you might be interested in the books that we read this month. Okay some of them are audio books. I didn't get pictures of all the books. The books not pictured that we read are The Burning Tide by Jonathan Auxier (this was read to David). Lye in Wait by Cricket McRae, another mystery. The Mistletoe Secret by Richard Paul Evans. Hermione Granger like the ones in picture three. Coal People by Rick J. Clyne this is a history book about miners. I love to read about history and mysteries. Night of the ninth dragon by Mary pope Osborne (David read this for school). The Audio books we listened to I survived the Nazi Invasion and the Battle of Gettysburg both by Lauren Tarshis. Stardust by Neil Gaiman (recommended by Ashley). The next bunch of books are by William Shakespeare Hamlet, Pericles: Prince of Tyre, Timon of Athens, All of Henry the fourth, all of Henry the sixth, Henry the fifth, Henry the eigth and Richard the third. William Shakespeare is more enjoyable to listen to than to read. I listen to books when I am cooking, baking, crocheting, sewing or cleaning the house. It makes it more enjoyable. Besides there are many books out there that I want to read but I simply don't have enough time so this helps and I love it. I also listen to books in the car when we are driving around or I am waiting to get the boys from school. Since the radio has so many ads it gets frustrating so I do this instead. Until next month and I will try to remember to get pictures of all the books.

November 2017 book Haul

 

November Book Haul

Here are the books that I bought this month. Not too many this month. There wasn't a book sale through the library and I didn't make it to the thrift store this month. Some of these book I bought when I was in Connecticut.  In the first photo I ordered two books from the Book of the Month Club, one is about the Oregon Trail and the other is written by Tom Hanks so wanted to see how he writes since I like his acting. May Higgins Clark came out with a new book so of course I had to buy it. There is also a new book about Laura Ingalls Wilder, she was my favorite growing up. The Robert Frost book is something new I want to try reading. The little book on the end is the book I got at one of the stores in Massachusetts.
The second photo are two books one of the managers recommended for me to read. One is an author from Denver which is close to home. The other two were recommended from some you tube channel I watch. Our Dark Duet is actually the second book in a series and yes I do have the first book.
Looking forward to reading these in the next few months.

Old Weekly Wrap-Up

 

November 27-30 books read

The last four days of November I only got two books read. The total pages for the two books was 856. Tara has already done a review on this series in her book blog called biggsbookreview.blogspot.com. There are two books in this series.

So for the month of November I read 16 books which came to a total of 4749 pages. I have 3 books I didn't finished. That is pretty good for taking off a week of reading.

The Only Black Girls In Town Review

 

The Only Black Girls In Town Review

The Only Black Girls In Town

By: Brandy Colbert

Little, Brown
Books for young Readers

Children's Fiction

368 pages

Publish Date 10 March 2020

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I really enjoyed reading this book. It read quickly and kept you turning pages.

The story takes place in a little town in California. There is a family that when the story starts are the only black family and then across the start a new black family moves in. The new family is only a mom and daughter. The other family is a daughter and her two dads. They become friends even though they are nothing a like. Alberta is from the other family that has live in the town since she can remember and Edie is from New York and dealing with the divorce of her parents. Al loves to surf and her best friend is going through some issues and so she starts to hang out with Edie which she is excited about. Edie misses her dad and is learning how to deal with this loss. Edie finds some old journals in the attic of her new home and she invites Al over to read them. There is a mystery about these journals. What is in the journals and what is the mystery about them? You have to read the book to find out.

I had a blast reading this book and gave it 5 stars. I highly recommend that you read it.