Monday, February 15, 2016

It's Monday and I haven't finished a book this week...

This was a weird reading week for me. I realized somewhere around Wednesday that I hadn't really been reading anything. I picked up The Gone-Away World and I'm really enjoying it, but it's not exactly a speedy read. I'm about halfway through it, so hopefully I will finish it soon!

On the blog in the past few days, I reviewed Twain's End and checked in for the readalongs of Alexander Hamilton and Headstrong.

                                             The Gone-Away World       

This week, I'm hoping to read The Bluest Eye and Ariel Lawhon's upcoming Flight of Dreams

           The Bluest Eye   Flight of Dreams (Advance Reading Copy - Not For Sale)         

It's Book Blogger Appreciation Week! Today is the first day and we are supposed to pick five books that represent us. This was a surprisingly difficult thing to narrow down!

I think the books that impacted me the most as a child were the Narnia books and A Wrinkle in Time. Narnia taught me to expect world-building and magic to amaze me and A Wrinkle in Time made me believe that girls could be complicated and spunky and heroes. As an adult, I love nonfiction that stretches me and makes me think about life in new ways; The Empathy Exams is a great example of this. I read a lot of fiction. I tend to gravitate toward really excellent historical fiction like A Constellation of Vital Phenomena or People of the Book. 


Are you taking part in Book Blogger Appreciation Week? What are you reading right now?

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8 comments:

  1. Totally know how weeks like that go! I've had The Gone Away World on my shelves for so long - can't wait to see what you think in the end.

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  2. I have had weeks like that where I did not finish a book. Sometimes life just gets in the way.

    Theresa (The Truth About Books)
    See my answers here

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  3. I really want to read Flight of Dreams. I love the cover and the whole story seems very intriguing. Though I don't think I'd want to ride in or is it on one of those.

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  4. So many people are reading Ariel Lawhon's book...I'll need to get to it soon!

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  5. A appreciated A Wrinkle in Time a lot more as an adult - I had to read it in school, which pretty much ruined it for me for years!

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  6. Narnia was a big part of my childhood. I didn't read A Wrinkle in Time until I was older but I loved it too. I wish I had gotten in on that Alexander Hamilton readalong!

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  7. Narnia really affected how I judge world building skills too. I feel I hold really high expectations for world building, and it can be difficult to fall in love with a book when it doesn't have that awe inspiring foundation.

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  8. Flight of Dreams is really good.

    I hope you enjoy it, and I hope you are having a good week.

    Elizabeth
    Silver's Reviews
    My It's Monday, What Are You Reading

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