What's On My Kindle? - Vacation Edition

Welcome to the fourth installment of What's On My Kindle?

What exactly is What's On My Kindle? This is my own little thing that I am going to be getting out every Saturday or Sunday (depending on what the evil thing known as RL does to me).  Within this post I'll list a few of the books that are currently on my TBR list on my Kindle.  Some are freebies (or were when I bought them), and others I paid for with gift cards, or had a few spare bucks to spend on a book.

All of them, I fully intend on getting to, at some point (and taking a massive chisel to my to-read list and hopefully hack it down to under 1000, again).

Vacations are wonderful things.  I read some on the bus, almost finished one book, and kicked myself forgetting to transfer one book over (that's been remedied).  I'd created a list of five books that I intend to read and review during my vacation, and so far I am failing horribly!

No, really, I am.

I think I only got about 300 words written on my CampNaNoWriMo manuscript as well, which means that when I get back to the real world I will have to hunker down on all sorts of things.  I blame a good friend as the distraction for all day Friday & most of Saturday, but I've not seen him since he helped me move, so it was a good distraction - pool time and video games and stupid videos on Youtube.  We had  fun.

I however, today, will probably spend a bit of time reading, trying to finish at least one of the books on today's list.

The books that are currently on my Kindle for vacation are:

1. Insurgent by Veronica Roth - This is the second book in the Divergent series and I am seriously in love with this series.  Re-read book one (Divergent) and am nearly done with Insurgent.  I got it in a two book set from the library.

2. Dark Hearts by T. R. Stoddard - T.R. Stoddard is an Indie author who I know personally.  Her stuff is fantastic.  No, seriously.  I adore her to bits. I knew her before she was an awesomely published author!  It's true! This is a dark fantasy book, that will keep your attention through the whole thing.  Highly recommend this and her other works (and if I'm right Dark Hearts is still on sale @ Amazon for $0.99!)

3. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs - This is a fantasy/horror/sci-fi type novel.  This novel has already won two awards, including The Kitschies Nominee for Golden Tentacle (Debut) (2011).  An abandoned orphanage on an island. Jacob is sixteen and his adventure starts after a horrific family tragedy.

4. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things by Carolyn Mackler - This book simply because I enjoy creating a TBR reading list from books that have been challenged/banned/etc.  I mean if they are challenged that means that they've got something in them that is right on point and it pisses people off enough to challenge them (or it makes people fear the content in them and thus they are challenged!).

5. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher - This is on my list because it seems like an awesome book (and it is also one of those that I've not read yet on the banned/challenged book lists that I've printed out recently).

That is my vacation reading list, and thus far I've done a rather craptastic job of keeping up with it.  That will change.  I've got all day today to read (the only interruption being BOWLING with my nephew who jut turned 8 yesterday!)

Going on an Adventure

*squee*

So, as of tomorrow @ 10 am, I will be out of work for five days.  Why you ask? I am going on a trip, an adventure of sorts as I will be taking a Greyhound bus from Lake City (current residence) to Orlando (previous residence).  I'm going home to see my nephew for his 8th birthday! Woot! I'm also gonna get to spend time with the beagles, inlcuding meeting the new Miss Farrah.  YAY for puppies right?

Well, I also will have some books with me, because I'm NOT going on a five hour bus trip without READING MATERIAL.  I may be a bit crazy, but I'm not stupid.  I have no intention of being bored for the duration of the trip, and I've pretty much devised a book list to read while I'm on the bus! YAY me.

I will be spending tomorrow (after working a horrid shift of 3am-10am) getting groceries, including snacking foods for me to have on the bus; ensuring that my Kindle, PSP, GBA, camera and cell phone are fully CHARGED.  I will also be packing and triple checking that I have EVERYTHING packed that I will need for this trip. Bus ticket is printed out, purchased by my mom, who I adore.  So, yeah, gonna be awesome.

VACATION READS

JULY 4-8 2013

1. Insurgent by Veronica Roth
   if I've not finished it before I leave
   Review to come
2. Dark Hearts by T. R. Stoddard
   Review definitely to come
3. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
   Review to come
4. The Earth, My Butt, and Other Round Things by Carolyn Mackler
   Review to come
5. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
   Review to come

So, other exciting news, I am participating in Camp NaNoWriMo, and will probably be working on my manuscript a little while I am on vacation.  So, we will see how my word count grows while I am away, or if I will be chasing my tail to catch up when I finally make it home and have to force myself back into the swing of things.

Anyway!

I am in a good mood, despite the fact that I think it is now pouring outside and I will be walking home in the rain in about fifteen minutes. Anyway! Time to sort things into proper categories on my Kindle and get ready to head home from the library.

<3

Martha

What's On My Kindle? - Episode 3

Welcome to the third installment of What's On My Kindle?

What exactly is What's On My Kindle? This is my own little thing that I am going to be getting out every Saturday or Sunday (depending on what the evil thing known as RL does to me).  Within this post I'll list a few of the books that are currently on my TBR list on my Kindle.  Some are freebies (or were when I bought them), and others I paid for with gift cards, or had a few spare bucks to spend on a book.

All of them, I fully intend on getting to, at some point (and taking a massive chisel to my to-read list and hopefully hack it down to under 1000, again).

All of today's books are box sets that I'd purchased for nothing or at most .99 when they were on sale earlier this year on Amazon.

Royal Princes of Ruthenia Box Set - This has two books in it, and it is one of my indulgences of reading Romance, not that I venture out of my YA Box often, but I do, and the box set was .99 cents...so yeah. It has two books in it, Royal Seduction and Royal Passion.  I have to be in a mood for romance, but I will get to it.

The Witches of Santa Anna- This was another .99 cent box set find that I couldn't turn down.  Really, I couldn't.  Seven books for .99? Really now? Yes please.  Considering that the next box set is priced at 9.99 and each of the subsequent books are priced @ 2.99, I will jump on this one for now.  The first seven books of this series are: Claimed, Tricked, Rumored, Hushed, Pursued, Enticed and Ruined.

The Grimm Diaries Prequels Vol 1-6 - Again, six books for .99.  I will eventually be buying the next two volumes of prequels which are both currently listing on Amazon for $2.99.  What if everything you knew about fairy tales was wrong? The book included in this are Snow White Blood Red narrated by The Snow White Queen, Ashes to Ashes and Cinder to Cinder narrated by Alice Grimm, Beauty Never Dies narrated by Peter Pan, Ladle Rotten Rat Hut narrated by Little Red Riding Hood, Mary Mary Quite Contrary narrated by the Devil, and Blood Apples narrated by Prince Charming.

Historical Romance Boxed Set - Two books in this one, and I paid .99 for it, and it's now listing for $5.99 on Amazon.  One of the books in here I read as an ARC and loved it.  The books included in this box set are: Of Noble Birth and Honor Bound (which is the one I read as an ARC copy).

The Betrayed Series: Ultimate Omnibus - This Carolyn McCray series is a highly praised and highly controversial technothriller, and I am looking forward to reading it and exploring what she's created.  This set not only includes all three full length novels in the Betrayed Series, but the prequel to the series, two bridge short stories (which are HIGHLY controversial) and a short story that takes place after the third book.  The books/stories in this series are: Ambush, 30 Pieces of Silver, Targeted, Havoc, Covert, Shiva, Mayhem.

Apocalypse Babes: The Complete Series - I managed to have .99 cents when this book series went on sale, and I grabbed it.  I'd read the first one, and wanted to read more in the series, right now it is listed at $4.99 on Amazon.  I love the tag line for these novels: No mad skillz, no sacred destiny, just a pink tracksuit that will take her places she never wanted to go... The books in this series are: The Z Word, The X Factor, iRobotronic, Kumbaya Much, Bite Me, and Apocalypse For Realz.

Mimi's Mix - A Book From Each Series! - This box set will probably mess with my book OCD because they jump around in different series and it isn't always the first book in the series.  But, oh well. The books in this one are; Partners, His Devious Angel, and He's Her.

Review: The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

Title: The Handmaid's Tale
Author: Margaret Atwood
Format: e-book (Kindle edition)
Read: June 24-27
Rating: 4/5
Recommend: Yes

Summary: In this multi-award-winning, bestselling novel, Margaret Atwood has created a stunning Orwellian vision of the near future. This is the story of Offred, one of the unfortunate 'Handmaids' under the new social order who have only one purpose: to breed. In Gilead, where women are prohibited from holding jobs, reading, and forming friendships, Offred's persistent memories of life in the 'time before' and her will to survive are acts of rebellion. Provocative, startling, prophetic, and with Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit, and acute perceptive powers in full force, The Handmaid's Tale is at once a mordant satire and a dire warning. (Pulled from Goodreads)

Review: A classic and among one of those books that had been challenged repeatedly for many reasons.  I enjoy reading banned books, and going WTF at some of the reasons that are given for their "challenges."

There are so many questions left unanswered by the end of the book that I wish there were more.  The cliff-hanger had me simply staring at the book for several moments going..."That's it?..There's nothing more?"

Oh well, another "banned/challenged" book tossed into my epic pile of books.  There will be others..oh, yes, there will be others.  This is just a basic review and I will eventually be adding more to it as time goes on I think.

This review will soon also be available on my blog: <a href="http://caedyslibrary.blogspot.com">Confessions of a Bibliophile</a>.

What's On My Kindle? Episode 2

Welcome to the second edition of What's On My Kindle?

What exactly is What's On My Kindle? This is my own little thing that I am going to be getting out every Saturday or Sunday (depending on what the evil thing known as RL does to me).  Within this post I'll list a few of the books that are currently on my TBR list on my Kindle.  Some are freebies (or were when I bought them), and others I paid for with gift cards, or had a few spare bucks to spend on a book.

All of them, I fully intend on getting to, at some point (and taking a massive chisel to my to-read list and hopefully hack it down to under 1000, again).

No particular order this time, a variety of books from my "unsorted/to be read" category on my Kindle. Trust me, there are a lot of them, and this only glosses over the surface of the archives (as the account my Kindle is connected to is shared by 2 other Kindle users).  Enjoy!

AMERICAN GODS - Who doesn't love Neil Gaiman? Anything Neil Gaiman is WIN in my book.  Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a car crash.  On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr. Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.

TEN TINY BREATHS - Kacey Cleary’s whole life imploded four years ago in a drunk-driving accident. Now she’s working hard to bury the pieces left behind—all but one. Her little sister, Livie. Kacey can swallow the constant disapproval from her born-again aunt Darla over her self-destructive lifestyle; she can stop herself from going kick-boxer crazy on Uncle Raymond when he loses the girls’ college funds at a blackjack table. She just needs to keep it together until Livie is no longer a minor, and then they can get the hell out of Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is the first book in the Ten Tiny Breaths series.

THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER - This novel by Stephen Chbosky, is now a major motion picture.  I'd gotten it because I've heard mixed reviews about both the book and the movie, and when I get those I like too see about things myself.  High School freshman, Charlie, is shy, introspective, intelligent beyond his years and socially awkward.  He is a wallflower, and trying to navigate his way through first dates, mix tapes, family dramas, new friends, and even The Rocky Horror Picture Show! The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a deeply affecting coming-of-age story that will spirit you back to those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up.

THE GREAT GATSBY - What isn't to like about this story?! I loved it when I read it in high school, and I love it even now.  Eventually, I will see the new remake of this movie with Leo, and not because it has Leo in it.

THE COINCIDENCE OF CALLIE AND KAYDEN - There are those who don’t get luck handed to them on a shiny platter, who end up in the wrong place at the wrong time, who don’t get saved.  This is the first book in the coincidence series by Jessica Sorensen.  Callie does not have luck on her side when she turns twelve and everything was stolen from her.