Audiobook. "Re-reading" for the second time. The first two times I read it in March, so I've jumped the gun a bit this time around, but I felt like I needed to hear it again.
I love this book so much! I loved physically reading it the first time, but there's something about all those magical descriptions that is just so well suited to being read aloud.

I loved this book! I don't *enjoy* crying while reading, but I know it's a good book if it makes me cry.

This book is pretty cute, I'm glad I have some more in the series to read, eventually.

Can we have the next book, please? Now? Ugh, it was so, so good! Still a little bit in love with Jupiter North...

I really enjoyed this book. The cover is what drew me in, and discovering it was a Canadian story, and had been made into a movie, I immediately needed to know more. I watched the trailer and fell in love. Then read the book and realized the trailer lied. But I still loved the book! Now I'm just dying to watch the movie and see just how different they really are!

"... because we're real best friends, not lame fake friends trying to impress each other with how fascinated we are with culture and learning."

Finally got my paperback copy of this beauty a week or so ago, and since the monthly challenge for May in one of my book groups (TBR and Beyond on Facebook, check us out!) is middle grade books, I am ALL OVER this one first! Loving it so far!

I listened to the audiobook and it was so captivating. I really enjoyed the story, and the ending took me by surprise, which I love! 😀

I really wanted to love this book (I mean, look at it!?;?), but I just didn't. ? The story was just "ok"; the characters were fine, but I didn't feel drawn in enough to care for them... The imagery and flower descriptions are beautiful, no question about that. But the overall story was just... Meh.

Such a sweet little collection of Santa letters from long ago, perfect to put me in a Christmas-y giving mood! ❤️

😭😭 How sweet?! I just want to hug them ❤️

I liked this book quite a bit, but the ending made me angry. There were a couple twists: one I had seen a spoiler about so I knew it was coming, but the second I didn't see coming and it hurt.

This really got me when I read it today...

I had pretty high expectations for this book, and they were met. I really enjoyed the adventure, loved the characters, was relatively surprised by the ending, and am looking forward to the next book! ❤️

I'm not gonna lie to you guys, I've developed a bit of a crush on Cormoran Strike. And I'm totally shipping Cormoran and Robin. Does it happen in the next book? Does it?!
Anyway, this is a really great murder mystery series. This one was a tad darker and more grisly than the first, but I still enjoyed it.

I had never heard of this series, but "garage sale mystery" intrigued me so I picked this one up for 25¢. It's a pretty typical murder mystery pocket paperback. It is book 4, so I was kind of missing some of the history between characters, but it reads pretty well. No real romance, just a good old mystery. ?

I pretty much hated this book and have a hard time believing that this came from the same woman who wrote the Harry Potter series.

Oh man, this book! So many people raved about it, so I was anxious to get to it. Then I started and it had a really slow start for me. I liked it ok, but I wasn't in love with and almost had to force myself to keep going. After about 3/4 I was getting into it, and then that ending... I get it. I get the rave reviews. All the bloody feelings!!!

Currently listening to the audiobook. I'm on the last disc. Honestly, has anybody enjoyed this book?? I need to know...

I'm really enjoying this book so far! I'm about halfway through, and finally finding it easier to keep the characters straight. It definitely has some strong Gossip Girl vibes, I like it.

Just finished reading this one. Really good! Highly recommend!

"'Wendy,' he said, 'you could tuck us in at night... None of us has ever been tucked in at night... And you could darn our clothes, and make pockets for us. None of us has any pockets.'
How could she resist?"
?

"Wendy, one girl is more use than twenty boys." - Peter Pan

"Once I had opened a book and read its pages, those characters could never be taken away from me. Even if the books were burned, they would still live on in my mind. They couldn't die or betray you, friends on paper proved much more lucrative than real ones."

Just got my first book sleeve - how cute is it?! Love it!

Oh and I'm almost finished A Darker Shade of Magic and really enjoying it 😊

Found this gem at Dollar Tree, and it's pretty good so far! About a girl detective, and I certainly live me some girl detectives! ☺

Into part 3 now, and things are getting exciting!

I am loving the weirdness of this story, and the beautiful artwork! :)

"He didn't look up. He wound the scarf around his fingers until her hand was hanging in the space between them. Then he slid the silk and his fingers into her open palm. And Eleanor disintegrated."

Oh my heart ?

"...When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I'm going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes..." Anne Shirley ?

"Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world." - Anne Shirley
????

"Once, when nobody was looking, Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, 'You are sweet,' and slipped it under the curve of Anne's arm. Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert."
Oh my heart... ?❤ and so it begins.

"Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive - it's such an interesting world. It wouldn't be half so interesting if we knew all about everything, would it? There'd be no scope for imagination then, would there?"
Anne Shirley

I enjoyed this book, I think it was a good debut into YA dystopian for a contemporary romance author.

It's hard to imagine where/when the story takes place as there is no year mentioned, the world seems very much like our own today, and there has been no major world war to provoke a system upheaval.

It ended far too abruptly in a clean little package that screams "SEQUEL!" Overall, an interesting dystopian read.

Amazing! Sad for all the losses, but it's a relatively happy ending.

Loved it!

I loved this book! I went in with certain expectations, having read Matt Haig's "The Radleys." It is geared toward a younger audience, but I enjoyed the playful silliness, and the awesome illustrations (when was the last time I read a book with illustrations?!)
I think it's an excellent retelling of the story of Father Christmas, and Matt did a great job of tying everything together. :)
New Christmas tradition!

Love the silly bits and amazing drawings in this book!

"If only James had never told him."

Wow, what a strange little magical world! I was really excited to get this book in my October OwlCrate. I hadn't really heard of it before but it sounded amazing so I started it right away. I enjoyed it, but it's definitely weird and a bit creepy and not for everyone.

"Sleep is larger than any night, so even the night can be lost inside it."

I loved this book! It felt a lot like The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye. A rediscovering of self, new experiences, adventures... it's all there :) It even made me tear up once or twice.

I know these feelings, and so appreciate the recognition of them - knowing I'm not the only one...

😢 J.K. Rowling, why you do dis to meeee?

*sigh* It took a while, but I finally finished The Order of the Phoenix and just... wow. I teared up at the end. So much more action than the previous books, and it's really long, but it's such a great story, it's worth it.

Ohhh snap! You want some ice for that burn, Umbridge? :O
Haha, I love Professor McGonagall :)

My October book haul, so far! Really happy to have found all these for $1 each! But I think I'm most excited about Perfect by Rachel Joyce. I absolutely loved The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Frye so I'm really hoping this one will be as good. :)

Just finished reading... what a wild ride! Gillian Flynn is a master of suspenseful mysteries and unexpected endings. This was definitely, for me, a can't-put-it-down kind of read.

So this book didn't really meet my expectations. I was expecting it to be like The Fault in Our Stars, which it is not.
It's an ok read. The characters are interesting and likeable, but I found the ending left me unsatisfied. See my blog for a bit longer review.
http://a-msbookreviews.blogspot.ca/?m=1

Just finished chapter 10, where we meet Luna Lovegood. She's so strange and quirky, I love her!

I love Louise Penny's books, and this one was no different. The story was captivating, the new characters interesting, and the ending somewhat surprising. At one point the progress of the story felt slow, and there's a spelling error that bothered me, but all that aside, it's a great murder mystery/ crime fiction read!