Before we get into today’s post I should mention that I switched email subscription providers. I have moved from Google’s Feedburner for RSS Email delivery to Mailchimp. I mention this because I deactivated the Google one before MailChimps was ready, not my smartest moment, so you probably missed out on yesterday’s post. Yesterday’s post does tie into today’s post so just keep reading and you’ll see a spot where you’ll be able to click to go to yesterday’s post.
It’s the third Tuesday of the month so that means it’s time for a Literary Junkies Linkup. Literary Junkies is an online book club that is run by Taylor and Lesley, who I will be linking up with up, that also does a monthly linkup of literary themed questions. In the past few months they’ve started having a co-host and this month’s co-host is Cody from Catching Cody K, make sure to go check out all three of these ladies blogs. And now onto the questions.
What are you currently reading? Tell us about it.
I just finished Lord Haversham Takes Command by Heidi Ashworth. I’ll leave the Goodreads synopsis below but for an indepth review head to yesterday’s post.
“Lord Haversham feels as if he is always running, first from Lord and Lady Avery, his foolish parents, then from the consequences of a schoolboy prank gone awry. Now a secret service agent to the young Queen Victoria, he has run back to England from traitors who seek his life. Little does he know he is running into danger of a different kind; the perceptive, sapphire-blue gaze of his childhood love, Miranda Crenshaw. How is he to win her heart without giving away his secret and endangering the life of the Queen?”
What book first made you fall in love with reading?
I’ve read books for as long as I can remember. I was reading way above my level before I had even started preschool. I’m not saying this to brag, I’m saying this to explain that I have read so many books I can’t even keep track of all of them in my head. I read all of these books because for me it was an escape; an escape from being the weird girl in a cast in Kindergarten, an escape of being the chubby girl who didn’t wear cool clothes in elementary school, an escape from being the girl with the shaved head in middle school, and an escape from being the new girl with two moms in high school. Books have always been an escape for me and they have been an introduction to a world that was better than the one I was living in. The books that I escaped into the most were the Fear Street books by R.L. Stine. I’m not sure if it was because I read these books so fast that I was able to read so many of them and thus able to escape more often or if it was because the town of Shadyside was way more messed up than the kids in my town…
Summer is a great time for series. What are your series recommendations?
For sure I would have to recommend the Sookie Stackhouse series. Not only is it a great book series but it the TV series based on it also comes on during the summer. Hunter Games is another series I recommend, while not a lite read you can start the series during the summer, watch the first movie, and be ready for the premiere of the second movie this November. When I’m feeling nostalgic I like to go back to The Babysitters Club and the Fear Street Series.
Does a song come to mind with the book you are currently reading? If so what is it.
I don’t have a particular song that comes to mind when thinking about the book that I just finished.
Are you participating in any summer reading challenges?
Yes I am participating in the Semi-Charmed Summer Reading Challenge. You can read my post about my book selections here.
What are you currently reading?
Have you read Divergent yet? If you liked hunger games you’ll LOVE Divergent!
No I haven’t read that one yet but I want to!
I have totally been wanting to read the Sookie Stackhouse books! I’m just afraid I’ll start and not finish. That happens when a book doesn’t hold m interest. Are they really good?
They start out really good and they end really good but there are a few books in the middle that are a bit “Meh”