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Single lady date - Peruvian steak fries, PB&J stout, and this fun book. I‘m trying to be okay with being alone and this was a good couple hours...
#BFCR4 checkin for our final week:
36,164 steps
Yoga 7/7 days
Run 6/7 days
I read some books but I didn‘t keep good track... 😆

A bath with one of my absolute favourite books. TGIF!

Recommended to me by my teenager, this was a fun, fanciful story with a vision of what it might look like to confront hatred with compassion. There were a couple of steamy scenes that made me second-guess abandoning pre-screening all of my daughter's reading, but then I realized that I rarely feel a pull to censor a book for her because of violence, and I got caught up wondering why I'd be okay with her reading about bloodshed but not smooching.🤔

A strange, fascinating, wonderful, beautiful book. I haven‘t read anything else quite like this. I loved this unique fairytale.

This is the fourth year in a row that I have "assigned" myself these books for my October reading and so far I have failed to follow through. October is only halfway over so maybe I'll get to one or two of these yet. ???

#QuotsyOct19 Day 13: #Enchanted

Finally getting round to #7days7covers and starting with this beautiful cover for Uprooted by Naomi Novak which I read for my IRL book club earlier this year.
Anyone got any good recs for standalone fantasy? They‘re so often part of a series......

#7Days7Covers #CoverCrush Day 5

7 days, 7 covers you love, no explanation. Try to tag someone new each day.

Anyone else interested, consider yourself tagged as well!

#7days7covers #covercrush Day 5

Join in the fun!

Decided earlier today to take another stab at this audiobook. I tried it last summer and never got past fifteen minutes. What I heard of the story was fine, but I couldn‘t stand the narrator. (Maybe it was because I was pregnant? 🤔😆) Now, I still don‘t love her but I can deal because the story so far is intriguing at least.

And incidentally, #CoverCrush Day 7!
#7covers7days

#7Days7Covers#CoverCrush
Day 4

#7days7covers #covercrush

Thank you for the tags @Crazeedi and @sudi !!!

Have you played yet, @Sunraven ?

Day One.

#7covers7days #covercrush

Uprooted is wonderful for #audiocrochet and warm autumn days.
I did enjoy it more the second time around.
Although the bad decisions by the main character still leave a bitter taste in my mouth

For all my misgivings, it is a good book for autumn days and some crocheting #audiobook #audiocrochet

Listening to #audiobook version of Uprooted as I walk. The voice and cadence of the reader is somewhat aggravating for me. I am Russian, and the version of Eastern European accent the reader uses is - very, very odd. The cadence is halting, as if the speaker is struggling with English language, pausing to remember a word. Is that how I sound like? :(

Trying to give this book another chance, since I loved Spinning Silver.

Impressions so far - a wizard tried to teach a sorceress. Hilarity ensues

I found this picture on Google and it‘s PERFECTION. Perfect rendering of the relationship between the two main characters in this book. It took me a few chapters to really get into, but I‘m so glad I stuck with it! The mythology nerd in me was thrilled with the references to Baba Yaga (among others). Loved it!

I wanted to love this. I stuck it out until page 320, but it was a chore to read. It is a modern day fairytale for sure. I love the evil woods aspect. I did not, however, like the characters. The main character was so undeveloped I did not feel attached to her at all. The Dragon was insufferable. The author foreshadowed that he would have redeeming qualities, but with only 100 pages left a lot would have had to happen to change my mind.

Fridays are my favorite.

This morning I took part one of a test for a possible new job. It went very well. Now I‘m resting. I have been coloring while watching Supernatural. I am about ready to continue on with my book. It‘s been interesting so far, even though I find the main character slightly annoying. She keeps making bad decisions.

After passing my road test and finally getting my licence (just before my 31st bday!), I rewarded myself by driving to a bookstore and buying two faves!!

#bookhaul

I read some reviews of this before reading, you know, as one does. A lot of people compared it to Beauty and the Beast. There were MAYBE one or two things that were similar, but no! It is not a retelling at all. What had me curious about this was I had heard that Ellen bought the rights to it!
Though it's not my favourite book of the year, I did enjoy it and I'm glad I read it.

I really like the story, and fair tale vibe, but found it difficult to get through. The POV was hard to follow at times, and I found myself getting confused as to what was happening. The romantic relationship seemed to come out of nowhere since there didn‘t seem to be much build up. I also found myself thinking it could have ended several times before it actually did.

Day 2 #readingrush — I rate Uprooted by Naomi Novik somewhere between a pick and meh, leaning slight more to pick. I need to marinate on it a bit.

But I earned badges for book I meant to read last year & read in one spot the entire time. (Although it seems like they‘ve pulled the badges page down . . . probably a good thing since it hasn‘t been working.)

Total books: 4
Pages: 502 so far today/914 total

Absolutely loved this book. I believe it‘s going to be one I will read again and again.

I'm always a day behind on these!! :-)

1. I'm actually a dryad, & I loved this book.
2. Puffy!
3. I see more sunsets, so sunrises seem more magical when I do catch them.
4. Probably vacation - westward as usual!
5. In 4th grade I met my best friend, got my first bunny, & got a new brother!!

#friyayintro @howjessreads

Breakfast date with my book...
🥐☕🥐☕🥐☕🥐☕🥐
#openbook #readingtime #croissant #coffeetime #mummytime #bookmark #currentlyreading

Omyword I loved this book! It would have been a five star but I did get confused at some parts and there were two steamy scenes.
Otherwise: it was marvelous!! Definitely will buy this one when I come across it 🥰⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Enjoyed this read. Love the fairytale feel and enjoyed the darker aspects to the book.

THIS!! Still a little slow, like Spinning Silver, but I was much more invested this time around

I started out really liking the story. But my interest waned the more I read. The premise was good , but the characters and their actions were boring .

Day 15 of #30JuneBooks
My #booksource is mainly my local library. Whether I'm getting physical books from them or using #libby to borrow audio/ebooks, they are my where I go for books.
My second source is thrift stores, garage sales and library book sales. You get amazing books for super inexpensive and sure they are a little worn but that just adds character.
@howjessreads

I actually read most of the way through this because it‘s an easy read, but I‘m just so bored- when I realized I‘d started skimming I knew I had no interest in continuing. I know everyone loves this, but it wasn‘t for me. #unpopularopinion

#CurrentlyReading

#bookfitnesschallenge for week four—favorite read so far! I always have a hard time picking just one favorite, so I picked one of each—audiobook and print.😁I loved both of these, and they‘re both so different. From a YA novel in verse that made me think and cry and feel right along with Xiomara, to a fairy tale that takes “evil forest” to a whole new level and then turns it on its head—how can I pick just one?! Turns out I can‘t.😆

Day 2 of #30JuneBooks and #shelves
This is my TBR shelf in my room. It's got my library books, my books I keep trying to read and my Kindle (composition book cover)
@howjessreads

I still have a wonderful introverting Friday night ahead of me, but I don‘t think I‘ll finish any more in-progress reads, so here are my #MayStats. Some fantastic books this month! Uprooted was definitely my favorite, with The Poet X as a close second.

Format: 📚Print: 4 🎧Audio: 4 💻eBook: 1

Sources: 🏫Library: 4 📚TBR: 2 💸Purchased: 2 ♻️Re-read: 1

Genres: 🚀SFF: 2 📚Fiction: 1 🖋YA Poetry: 2 👩🏽‍🦱YA Fiction: 2 🔍Mystery: 2

POC author: 4

I think this one is great. It's inspired by Polish fairytales. But it is definitely its own. And not a series.

#wondrouswednesday
1) Fantasy or magical realism
2) I'm terrible at thinking up stuff like this but it would have to be one word, idk why it just would haha. Think, like, 'Uprooted' by Naomi Novik
3) Me and 2 friends after our final exam!! We'd just been trashed (a weird oxford tradition where your friends come and cover you in shaving foam and whatnot to help you celebrate finishing)
4) I was just revising for my exams so sadly not many at all!

#2019Book43
I loved this book. Yes, a few situations could have used a bit more buildup, and sometimes the use of magic was just a little too convenient, but the writing was absolutely beautiful, so I‘m willing to forgive everything else.

This was just fantastic. An unlikely heroine, a creepy creepy evil forest, an intimidating wizard, books of magic, and an arrogant prince... I loved the way Novik took fairy tale conventions in new and surprising directions, and offered depth and heart and beauty along the way. I couldn‘t put this down—except when I got so caught up in the story that I was too worried about what might happen next! I‘m so looking forward to Spinning Silver!

I got this one for Christmas... excited to finally read it!

Sweet fairy tale