So last week itself was nothing to speak of, but the weekend – oh, the weekend! Some of you might know that this is the weekend of #24in48, a readathon, and it’s still going! So my update will be super short because I’ve got reading to do and fun to have! My ‘score’ doesn’t exactly stay the same, so I won’t be updating you how I’ve been doing, but suffice to say that I’ve already reached my goal for the review copies I wanted finished, so I’m rejoicing 😀
~ We Need To Talk About Some Books I’m Reading ~
One of the books I finished this weekend was The Spaceship Next Door by Gene Doucette, AND IT’S A MASTERPIECE. It had the right amount of everything – mystery, thrill, adventure, wistfulness and humor. It had amazingly fleshed out characters and a wonderful plot that was told in a way that kept you glued to the book. And it might just be me, but there were parts I was a little bit too chicken to read at night – although it’s not meant to be a horror book at all, before the resolution of the mystery, things got… Mysteriously creepy. Anyway! I will be reviewing this book sometime in August, but you should absolutely mark it as to-read or put it on a wishlist NOW.
~ Last Week On The Blog ~
Last week we had a review of a mythological thriller with a great premise, but middling delivery called The Anomaly and finally! A discussion post about whether ARC reading is sort of like school reading for the summer used to be. You can click the banners to check out the posts:
~ Coming Up Next Week~
Next week we will have a review of one of the sweetest books I’ve read this year (will mend a bad mood for sure) – The Girl Who Chased the Moon, and a buddy read review of Six of Crows (loved it!) along with Marie @ Drizzle and Hurricane Books.
~ Little Book Haul ~
Thankfully, I didn’t haul all that much this week! Considering my readathon reads, hopefully I will have hauled less this week than I have books finished 🙂 Altered Carbon had a super high rating from most of my Goodreads friends and it was on sale, so there were no doubts there, and one of my favorite authors, Catherine Valente, has recently had a baby (or is currently… having one. I’m sorry for my inability to follow events…) and she thanked her readers for helping her out through Patreon cause that is the only thing that allowed her go on leave to spend time with her baby. Which is what prompted me to go buy her book to support her (plus! Space Opera!!) So you should go buy it too or maybe even visit her Patreon and pitch in. Catherine writes wonderful stuff. If you’re at a loss, my favorite is Deathless and I will not cease to recommend it. I’m also not paid to do this, just in case you’re wondering. I just really love what Valente writes <3
Sorry for the slightly boring update! Gotta go back to the readathon though 🙂 So how has your week been?
As usual, I’m linking up with the Sunday post meme at Kimba’s book blog and Stacking The Shelves over at Tynga’s Reviews.
I’m Evelina and I try to blog about books that matter, with a bit of fun there too! Disability and equality will be topics you see a lot, but there’s also a lot of scifi, fantasy and… GIFs. I’m also the proud founder of #ARCsAnonymous.
It’s been a week(s) of sickness for me, unfortunately! I did get to buy a few books this week because there was a sale at the local bookstore!! I’m glad I managed to finish reading Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik this week because it was amazing! You HAVE to read it, Evelina!
P.S. I look forward to your Six of Crows review :O
There seem to never be sales in my local ones xD or maybe I just never find out about them 😀 I don’t really read too many fantasy novels, which is why I haven’t started the Novik series!
Good luck with the Readathon! It sounds like a lot of fun, but I just finished a week of Readathon-ing with the Biannual Bibliothon, so I didn’t participate 😀 Will you participate in the Dewey’s Summer 24 Hours Readathon next week? 🙂
Thank you! I don’t think I participated in that one cause I was too tired of readathons at that point 😀 but maybe I will in October 🙂
Wow The Spaceship Next Door sounds good! Glad to know about that one. And good luck with the readathon! Congrats on hitting your goal already. 🙂
THanks for sharing about Catherine Valente, and hope you like Altered Carbon!!
I think you’d love The Spaceship Next Door, I can really recommend it 🙂
I’m glad you are enjoying the readathon. I got distracted from reading yesterday, and I know today will not be any less busy, so it looks like the 24in48 will be more like 2in48 for me, and that’s just a normal day.
Thank you! Well as long as you got some reading done 🙂
Wishing you luck on the reading challenge! Enjoy your new books as well. 🙂
Thank you 🙂
You have made me so curious about The Spaceship Next Door. I look forward to your full review. Have fun with he read – a – thon. Congratulations on reaching your goal.
Oh yes, you definitely need to read The Spaceship Next Door 🙂
I hope the readathon is going REALLY well. I’ve read The Frequency of Aliens, which is the sequel to The Spaceship Next Door and you’ve sufficiently inspired me to go and track it down:).
Wait – you’ve read the sequel first? XD is it mostly a standalone? I actually didn’t even look into it because I like going into sequels without knowing much in advance. And yeah! The readathon went well, thank you 🙂
Hahaha you are excused to go back to the readathon! Reading asks time LOL
Lol xD
I love when they can get you glued to the book. I love creepy and this sounds really good. I will have to pick up a copy of The Spaceship Next Door! Good luck on your challenge! Have a wonderful week!
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Thank you! Yeah, you should really grab The Spaceship Next Door because it’s so amazing 🙂
Good luck with 24In48. That is quite a challenge. I admire all of you partaking in the challenge.
Thank you! I nailed it and I’m glad I participated, cause it made all the difference in this month’s number of books read 🙂
I’ve been meaning to read Deathless, so one of these days I hope to find time Good luck with the read-a-thon! I’m on vacation out of town so I couldn’t participate.
Thanks! And I’m sure you would love Deathless 🙂
Your updates are never boring haha! I always want to know all things <3 I hope the readathon went well in the end and was stoked you kicked the headache to pull through. I am so looking forward to finally buddy reading in September! Bring on Space Opera haha. That cover for The Girl Who Chased the Moon is stunning!
Thanks Danielle! I always feel like I don’t have anything to say on these updates cause come Sunday, and my brain is simply wiped or anything interesting that happened during the week xD oh, and yes! I am sooooo waiting for that buddy read too. Both excited about the book and excited about reading along with you 🙂
I always think I would love to read-athon but the timing never works out. I’m traveling or I’m working on the weekend or something. One day I will.
Enjoy your books! I’ll have to look into Deathless. Anne – Books of My Heart
Agreed, the timing really is hard to pull off a lot of times! Well, I hope one of those days the stars align for you 🙂
How awesome of the fans for helping Catherine spend time with her baby. That’s great. Good luck with the readathon – Yay for reading all the review books you wanted!
-Lauren
Thank you!
im excited to see what you thought about six of crows!!
I absolutely loved it 🙂
I bought Space Opera for my Kindle when it came out. You’ve TOTALLY sold me on The Spaceship Next Door and I haven’t even read your review. Your excitement must be contagious.
I’m glad to hear it! It’s such an amazing book 🙂
I’m doing the readathon, too, but I think I’ll only make it to 12 hours. I saw your Twitter updates, and I’m very impressed with how much you were able to read. Have a great week and enjoy your new books!
I actually burnt myself out with that readathon! Another is coming up, and I totally don’t want to do it. Imagine that -.- so really, I think your 12 hours is much smarter!
Ooo, I’m behind, I still need to read your discussion post! Really excited to read your review of Six of Crows next week. I wound up very disappointed by the Grisha trilogy, so I never bothered picking up the other duology. But I see so many good things about it in the book blogging community…which means of course I caved and bought both books not too long ago Glad to see you gave it such a high rating! Hope you have a great week, Evelina 🙂
I think you won’t regret it 🙂 and I was actually not sure if I want to read the Grisha books, because I’m less interested in that aspect of their universe, actually. The character development is AMAZING in Six of Crows though 🙂 I don’t think it will disappoint!
I had the week from hell which included hitting my knee, scraping my shin and stubbing my toe. Other than that it was all good 😉
Good luck with the Readathon!
Oh wow! That does sound like a hard week. And I’m sorry I’m only replying to this comment now x.x
Good luck with it and I can’t wait for an update on what you did get read!
Thank you, Laura! I actually read 1030 pages and finished Crooked Kingdom, The Spaceship Next Door, The Caseroom and mostly finished Killing It 🙂
The Girl Who Chased The Moon sounds good and the cover is so gorgeous!
I’ve never read Altered Carbon but I’ve seen some of the show on Netflix. I’m curious how close it is to the source material.
Have a good week!! 🙂
Yes, it was SUCH a good book 🙂 ah, I haven’t read that one yet either, and haven’t seen the show. I’ll let you know how it was after I read it 🙂
Pft. I love this update. I’m a huge fan of short and sweet recaps, honestly. There’s so much we could be talking about, but let’s get to the meat of things, shall we?! 😉 I’m so glad that you met your reading goal! That’s awesome!! I have never participated in a readathon like 24in48 or Dewey’s, but I do occasionally participate in Bout of Books. There’s something super fun about telling everyone, “Nope. Sorry. I have to read tonight.” XD I love it. But, I will admit, it’s hard for me to make time. Good for you!! How many books… Read more »
I read like three and a half? First of all, I finished Crooked Kingdom, and that says a lot, since it’s a huge and slow going book 😀 then I finished the said Spaceship and The Caseroom for a blog tour. Then read most of Killing It and started Canopy Harvest (which I’m still wrestling with since it’s just… nope.) I was finishing a lot of books though, so in terms of pages it was like three? 1030 pages xD