Reading Challenged

Saturday, June 22, 2013

Life on the Edge

Title: Life on the Edge
Author: Jennifer Comeaux

Publisher: Astreae
ISBN: 978-1-936852-87-1

Why Read?: Book Club
Challenges: New Adult, 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: This was a complex story with plenty of romance and skating action. It did feel like it could have been split in two halfway through with the run up to the Olympics (which was very climatic) and the budding romance between skater and coach, and then the part with the controversy and Olympics. However, it was a good example of New Adult and a cute, sweet romance.

Rating: 4 stars

Stacking the Shelves: 6/9-6/22

For review (here and on Bookloons):

A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger

Chasing Memories by Tia Silverthorne Bach

Script Kiddie by Michael F. Stewart

Won:

The Book of Madness and Cures by Regina O'Melveny

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Making Waves

Title: Making Waves
Author: Nell Dixon

Publisher: Astreae
ISBN: 978-1-936852-11-6

Why Read?: Book Club
Challenges: British Books, Free Reads, 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: This was a sweet and cute romance, but I really wanted more. I loved the premise, but things seemed to move rather quickly; I would have loved to see their whole three-week holiday.

Rating: 3 stars

Stacking the Shelves: 6/2-6/8

LibraryThing Early Review:

Plow the Bones by Douglas F. Warrick

Selections for Astraea Press Book Club:

Life on the Edge by Jennifer Comeaux

Making Waves by Nell Dixon

Monday, June 3, 2013

Shoggoth's Old Peculiar

Title: Shoggoth's Old Peculiar
Author: Neil Gaiman

Publisher: Harper Audio
ISBN: n/a

Why Read?: For Fun
Challenges: Audio Book, British Books, Free Reads, 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: With a this title, I had no clue what to expect, but I definitely got the unexpected. For a good two-thirds, the story seems like a humorous tale of a mislead American traveler on England's coast. But then Gaiman delivers a fun and interesting twist and caps it off with the perfect ending to make you wonder.

Rating: 5 stars

Sunday, June 2, 2013

Fahrenheit 451

Title: Fahrenheit 451
Author: Ray Brandbury

Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 0-345-41001-7

Why Read?: Book Club
Challenges: Book Blogger Recommendations, 100 Books in a Year

Thoughts: The start of this was good, but then it got a little slow after Clarisse disappeared. However, after Part 1, it really took off and the ending was not at all what I was expecting. Bradbury expresses some amazing view through some very poetic prose.

Rating: 4 stars