Linking up with the usual crew for the Sunday meme at Kimba’s book blog.
~ On The Blog ~
This week I’ve posted a review about rogue mages! It was a fun read, as well as a fun review to write. I’ve also posted a review for Get Well Soon, but not on the blog – on Goodreads, and you can read it here if you want, but it wasn’t a great book.
~ Reading This Week ~
Reading this week has been uneventful. Bit of a slump content-wise!
The Finding of Martha Lost comes out next week and I was super hyped about it when I downloaded it. Trains, books, lost people and items? Sounds wonderful! Alas. It’s just plain weird, incoherent (at least, to me), I hate the MC, and the worst thing is that not even secret rainbow-color-coded libraries are saving the book! Now that’s sad. I am super disappointed.
I’m also finishing reading Quackery, a book I’ve told you about before. And although I’ve had to skip a few chapters about middle-ages surgery and eating mummies, it has been a very informative and fun book! Truly recommended.
I’ve also been finishing Shift, or more like… torturing it. Or torturing myself to finish it. Gah… Also so disappointed. The first book in the Silo series, Wool, has been simply brilliant, but Shift has just been a grating, dragging grey slab of boredom with wayyyy too many pages. I am disappoint, son.
When The English Fall has been the only gem this week! I’m loving it so far. Unfortunately, I have started reading it a little too early, cause it only gets published like a month later, so I had to pry myself away from it, but I’m totally loving it so far. It’s about these people of the old ways (not certain, Amish, something else?) living on while an apocalypse happens to the rest of us, although it’s not really affecting them, cause their entire world doesn’t hinge on electricity. So far it’s an amazingly written story, gripping from the get go. Can’t wait to be done with all the others and get back to this story.
~ Next Up On The Blog ~
Next week I will have a review for The Finding of Martha Lost, and I can promise you it will be fun. I didn’t like the book much, but I have plenty to say about it! In a pretty sarcastic way!
I’m also joining the Anne of Green Gables Readalong! If this book has been on your shelves for much too long, just as it’s been on mine, you can join us for the rest of the year here (link on the picture). Jane at the Greenish Bookshelf is hosting it and I am quite excited!
~ Little Book Haul ~
~ On The Blogs~
This week I found a delightful blog by Louise at Genie Reads! And she has shared something very relevant to most of us – how we struggle with requesting too many books! Here’s a post about Killing the Request Button on Netgalley.
~ General Rambling ~
This time I don’t have anything in particular to share, because I’m finally having a cozy weekend to share. So instead, I’m going to share a quote I LOVED from Felix Yz by Lisa Bunker, a book I will be reviewing soon. It’s super diverse and I urge you to check it out! It comes out June 6th and I’m sure you will love it.
How has your week been and what are you planning on reading next week?
I’m Evelina and I blog about books that made an impression on me. I love middle grade, women’s, scifi and some literary too.
Sorry that you didn’t enjoy some of the books you read. Glad that you’re at least enjoying some of them. Anyway, Thanks for sharing the post about NetGalley. I’m having a fear of that website. I’ve only requested two books so far. Thanks for giving me advice about it. It’s a fun site but it’s scary, to be honest. It’s like a trap. Hehe..
Have a wonderful week and happy reading, Avalinah.
I love your name. Beautiful.
It IS like a trap! But I think you are fine, you just requested two 🙂 I have requested over 20 in May and got approved for 11 xD but it’s okay!
Anne of green gables has been on my TBR for years I really want to get to it soon. Have a great week.
Oh cool, will you join us? 🙂
I think I might read Ann of Green Gables with my homeschool Language Arts class this coming year. I don’t think I ever read it when I was young! Hope you have a great week!
Yeah, I haven’t either 🙂 thank you!
Well at least there was gem in your reading this week!! Love the quote you shared 🙂 Have a great week ad happy reading!
Thank you!
I’m curious about that Anne of Green Gables Read Along. I’ve been itching to reread some of my favorites, and continue with the series, as I missed some of the books.
Enjoy your books this week! Thanks for visiting my blog.
You should maybe join us then 🙂
Bummer about Shift! Hate it when a series w/a promising start goes like that. 🙁
I am kinda curious about Brother’s ruin though after seeing your review earlier in the week.
Good luck with the readalong! Goodreads has so many awesome groups, I feel like I haven’t even scratched the surface, you know?
This time it’s a blog readalong, not GR, but thanks 🙂 the book is already proving to be loads of fun!
It’s so frustrating to read books we look forward to only to find them rather lacking. I’m glad you’ve found some that work really well for you, though.
Have a wonderful week ahead and happy reading 🙂
Thanks Lexxie, you too! 🙂
A bit of a hit and mix week but looks like you are on the up swing. I don’t know if I’ve ever read Anne of Green Gables. Might be time to try.
I’ve started now, and it’s the most adorable little book ever 🙂 strongly recommended! You should join us 🙂
Ooh that book from the quote sounds really good and I should check that out further! And I’m seeing stuff about Anne of Green Gables EVERYWHERE at the moment. Is it because of the tV show reboot?! I’m guessing. My sisters are always talking about it on Facebook but like I read the first book when I was 12 or whatever and I didn’t even care. No dragons, probably.I’m so terrible hahah. I’ve been reading a TON lately and getting through a lot of library books which is good! I’m about to start When Dimple Met Rishi which I’m excited… Read more »
Yeah, that book was great! I’ll be posting a review in a few weeks time 🙂 you should still be able to get on it NetGalley, I think. You would not believe how diverse that book is. TV show reboot, huh? I didn’t even know there was one 😀 problems with living under a rock 😀 maybe though? Cause it seems that’s what brought Handmaid’s Tale round as well, although it’s been around forever before the show came out. So far I’m adoring Anne. It’s just so very cute. No dragons, though 😀 you’re right about that. Although I’m pretty… Read more »
I’ve always meant to read Anne of Green Gables. It’s a classic. I really should have read it by now, but I haven’t. So many books, so little time. Have a great week!
Anne is really worth it, you should join us 🙂 have a good one too!
I would like to take a run at Quackery, it is exactly the kind of pop non fiction I love to read. And NetGalley? I never hesitate to press the button on NetGalley. I have a horrible review rate and it has not once affected my requests that I can tell. People are allowed to change their mind!
You should totally get Quackery! I think it’s available till October, so plenty of time 🙂 and I have actually noticed a big change about how much I get approved on NetGalley once I reached like 25%. Like, back when I was at 10%, nobody ever approved me, but then I got to 25%, it’s like everyone does xD maybe it’s cause I’m outside of the UK/US regions? Still though, it’s a pretty low percentage, so I’m not complaining 😀
Yay! Welcome to the read along! I’m so glad you are enjoying Anne so far. 🙂
Thanks! Yeah, it’s totally great, I’m so glad the readalong motivated me to finally get to the book 🙂
lol I have an issue refraining from NetGAlley too so I should check Louise’s post 🙂 I think you mentioned Felix Yz before and I added it to GR! 🙂
I think everyone has that issue with NetGalley, haha 😀 glad you dropped by on my blog! 🙂
Reading slumps are the WORST. There’s nothing like a slew of uninteresting novels to make you sad and lethargic. I hope your upcoming reads are more engaging! Do you feel like you are at a point where you need to jumpstart your reading to get out of the slump? Or are you moving along steadily? I also read Louise’s post on Killing the Request Button– it’s some great advice, but I’m so bad at NetGalley! I request far more than I read. Shocker. For example, I wished for Felix Yz since you recommended it. I hope I get a copy… Read more »
Anne is great fun 🙂 and I honestly get Felix Yz! It’s a little bumbly, but it’s a great book. And so very diverse. Also, we are ALL bad at NG 😀 well, at least most of us 😀 as for reading slumps, it’s not that it was a slumps, my tempos were fine, but it’s just that every book I read was… kind of lame 😀 but I just read a really really good book (When The English Fall) so I think we’re back on track 🙂
Happy to see you are joining in on the Anne of GG read along! Have you started yet? I am about 90% through and cannot wait to talk about my AoGG feels 🙂
I’m like halfway done! Loving Anne so much 🙂
Argh. I’m so sorry – I’ve been off the blogosphere (totally offline in fact!) after a computer failure. 🙁 I’m only just getting to do the rounds now to try to catch up on THREE WEEKS. Yikes. Anyways.
I’m sorry to hear some of your recent reads have been kind of fails! That’s never nice.
Love the quote you shared! Thank you!!!
No worries, thank you for visiting! 🙂
I LOVE these weekly updates you do! This is so fun.
Quackery sounds awesome! I’m totally going to have to look into it.
Thank you for sharing that quote. Omg. It is SO amazing that we’re seeing more and more of this in MG lit. That makes my heart sing.
It IS so much fun 🙂 hope you can do one next week! And yep, you can still grab Quackery on NetGalley 🙂