Top Ten Tuesday is a feature hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week the topic is
Books On My Autumn 2022 To-Read List
Here they are . . .
What books are you planning to read in autumn?
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Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Can't-Wait Wednesday - Carrie Soto Is Back
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a feature hosted at Wishful Endings where people showcase an upcoming book they are looking forward to.
This week I'm anticipating . . .
Title: Carrie Soto Is Back
Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Pages: 368
Publisher: Hutchinson
Release Date: 30th August 2022
Blurb from Goodreads:
Carrie Soto is fierce, and her determination to win at any cost has not made her popular.
By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach.
But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan.
At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.
In spite of it all: Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback.
By the time Carrie retires from tennis, she is the best player the world has ever seen. She has shattered every record and claimed twenty Slam titles. And if you ask her, she is entitled to every one. She sacrificed nearly everything to become the best, with her father as her coach.
But six years after her retirement, Carrie finds herself sitting in the stands of the 1994 US Open, watching her record be taken from her by a brutal, stunning, British player named Nicki Chan.
At thirty-seven years old, Carrie makes the monumental decision to come out of retirement and be coached by her father for one last year in an attempt to reclaim her record. Even if the sports media says that they never liked the 'Battle-Axe' anyway. Even if her body doesn't move as fast as it did. And even if it means swallowing her pride to train with a man she once almost opened her heart to: Bowe Huntley. Like her, he has something to prove before he gives up the game forever.
In spite of it all: Carrie Soto is back, for one epic final season. In this riveting and unforgettable novel, Taylor Jenkins Reid tells a story about the cost of greatness and a legendary athlete attempting a comeback.
Why I'm Anticipating This Book:
Like most people, I'm looking to seeing what Taylor Jenkins Reid serves up next (pun intended)!
While I haven't enjoyed the other books as much as some people, I like the characters and the author's writing.
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
Top Ten Tuesday - Books From My Past Seasonal TBR Posts I STILL Haven’t Read
Top Ten Tuesday is a feature hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week the topic is
Books From My Past Seasonal TBR Posts I STILL Haven’t Read
I was actually pleasantly surprised that I've read most of the books from my past seasonal TBR posts, and there were only FIVE books that I haven't read yet!
Here they are . . .
Do you have any books from your past seasonal TBRs that you haven't read yet?
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
Top Ten Tuesday - Books with Nature On the Cover
Top Ten Tuesday is a feature hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week the topic is
Books with __ On the Cover
I decided to go with nature as there are some really gorgeous covers out there with flowers and leaves.
Here are my picks . . .
Do you like any covers with nature on the cover?
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Can't-Wait Wednesday - Portrait of a Thief
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a feature hosted at Wishful Endings where people showcase an upcoming book they are looking forward to.
This week I'm anticipating . . .
Title: Portrait of a Thief
Author: Grace D. Li
Pages: 384
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Release Date: 14th April 2022
Blurb from Goodreads:
Ocean’s Eleven meets The Farewell in Portrait of a Thief,
a lush, lyrical heist novel inspired by the true story of Chinese art
vanishing from Western museums, about diaspora, the colonization of art,
and the complexity of the Chinese American identity.
History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now.
Will Chen plans to steal them back.
A senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son that has always been his parents’ American Dream. But when a shadowy Chinese corporation reaches out with an impossible—and illegal—job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago.
His crew is every heist archetype one can imagine—or at least, the closest he can get. A conman: Irene Chen, Will’s sister and a public policy major at Duke, who can talk her way out of anything. A thief: Daniel Liang, a premed student with steady hands just as capable of lockpicking as suturing. A getaway driver: Lily Wu, an engineering student who races cars in her free time. A hacker: Alex Huang, an MIT dropout turned Silicon Valley software engineer. Each member of his crew has their own complicated relationship with China and the identity they’ve cultivated as Chinese Americans, but when Will asks, none of them can turn him down.
Because if they succeed? They earn fifty million dollars—and a chance to make history. But if they fail, it will mean not just the loss of everything they’ve dreamed for themselves but yet another thwarted attempt to take back what colonialism has stolen.
With poetic language, a fun, commercial hook, and a plot that spans the Western world, Portrait of a Thief is both a cultural heist and an examination of the Chinese American identity, as well as a necessary critique of the lingering effects of colonialism that readers won’t want to miss.
History is told by the conquerors. Across the Western world, museums display the spoils of war, of conquest, of colonialism: priceless pieces of art looted from other countries, kept even now.
Will Chen plans to steal them back.
A senior at Harvard, Will fits comfortably in his carefully curated roles: a perfect student, an art history major and sometimes artist, the eldest son that has always been his parents’ American Dream. But when a shadowy Chinese corporation reaches out with an impossible—and illegal—job offer, Will finds himself something else as well: the leader of a heist to steal back five priceless Chinese sculptures, looted from Beijing centuries ago.
His crew is every heist archetype one can imagine—or at least, the closest he can get. A conman: Irene Chen, Will’s sister and a public policy major at Duke, who can talk her way out of anything. A thief: Daniel Liang, a premed student with steady hands just as capable of lockpicking as suturing. A getaway driver: Lily Wu, an engineering student who races cars in her free time. A hacker: Alex Huang, an MIT dropout turned Silicon Valley software engineer. Each member of his crew has their own complicated relationship with China and the identity they’ve cultivated as Chinese Americans, but when Will asks, none of them can turn him down.
Because if they succeed? They earn fifty million dollars—and a chance to make history. But if they fail, it will mean not just the loss of everything they’ve dreamed for themselves but yet another thwarted attempt to take back what colonialism has stolen.
With poetic language, a fun, commercial hook, and a plot that spans the Western world, Portrait of a Thief is both a cultural heist and an examination of the Chinese American identity, as well as a necessary critique of the lingering effects of colonialism that readers won’t want to miss.
Why I'm Anticipating This Book:
This sounds like a fun, but important read that I can't wait to get my hands on a copy!
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Can't-Wait Wednesday - Wild and Wicked Things
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a feature hosted at Wishful Endings where people showcase an upcoming book they are looking forward to.
This week I'm anticipating . . .
Title: Wild and Wicked Things
Author: Francesca May
Pages: 432
Publisher: Orbit
Release Date: 31st March 2022
Blurb from Goodreads:
In the aftermath of
World War I, a naive woman is swept into a glittering world filled with
dark magic, romance, and murder in this lush and decadent debut.
On Crow Island, people whisper, real magic lurks just below the surface.
Neither
real magic nor faux magic interests Annie Mason. Not after it stole her
future. She’s only on the island to settle her late father’s estate
and, hopefully, reconnect with her long-absent best friend, Beatrice,
who fled their dreary lives for a more glamorous one.
Yet Crow Island is brimming with temptation, and the biggest one may be her enigmatic new neighbor.
Mysterious
and alluring, Emmeline Delacroix is a figure shadowed by rumors of
witchcraft. And when Annie witnesses a confrontation between Bea and
Emmeline at one of the island's extravagant parties, she is drawn into a
glittering, haunted world. A world where the boundaries of wickedness
are tested, and the cost of illicit magic might be death.
Why I'm Anticipating This:
An LGBTQIA+ Great Gatsby retelling potentially with magic?
Sign me up!
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
Can't-Wait Wednesday - The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Can't-Wait Wednesday is a feature hosted at Wishful Endings where people showcase an upcoming book they are looking forward to.
This week I'm anticipating . . .
Title: The Girl Who Fell Beneath the Sea
Author: Axie Oh
Pages: 336
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Release Date: 22nd February 2022
Blurb from Goodreads:
Deadly storms have
ravaged Mina’s homeland for generations. Floods sweep away entire
villages, while bloody wars are waged over the few remaining resources.
Her people believe the Sea God, once their protector, now curses them
with death and despair. In an attempt to appease him, each year a
beautiful maiden is thrown into the sea to serve as the Sea God’s bride,
in the hopes that one day the “true bride” will be chosen and end the
suffering.
Many believe that Shim Cheong, the most beautiful girl in the village—and the beloved of Mina’s older brother Joon—may be the legendary true bride. But on the night Cheong is to be sacrificed, Joon follows Cheong out to sea, even knowing that to interfere is a death sentence. To save her brother, Mina throws herself into the water in Cheong’s stead.
Swept away to the Spirit Realm, a magical city of lesser gods and mythical beasts, Mina seeks out the Sea God, only to find him caught in an enchanted sleep. With the help of a mysterious young man named Shin—as well as a motley crew of demons, gods and spirits—Mina sets out to wake the Sea God and bring an end to the killer storms once and for all.
But she doesn’t have much time: A human cannot live long in the land of the spirits. And there are those who would do anything to keep the Sea God from waking…
Many believe that Shim Cheong, the most beautiful girl in the village—and the beloved of Mina’s older brother Joon—may be the legendary true bride. But on the night Cheong is to be sacrificed, Joon follows Cheong out to sea, even knowing that to interfere is a death sentence. To save her brother, Mina throws herself into the water in Cheong’s stead.
Swept away to the Spirit Realm, a magical city of lesser gods and mythical beasts, Mina seeks out the Sea God, only to find him caught in an enchanted sleep. With the help of a mysterious young man named Shin—as well as a motley crew of demons, gods and spirits—Mina sets out to wake the Sea God and bring an end to the killer storms once and for all.
But she doesn’t have much time: A human cannot live long in the land of the spirits. And there are those who would do anything to keep the Sea God from waking…
Why I'm Anticipating This Book:
This sounds like such an interesting book! I can't wait to read it.
And how gorgeous is that cover?!
Tuesday, January 25, 2022
Top Ten Tuesday - New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2021
Top Ten Tuesday is a feature hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week the topic is
New-to-Me Authors I Discovered in 2021
Here are my picks . . .
Aiden Thomas - I read Cemetery Boys
Andrea Stewart - I read The Bone Shard Daughter
Rick Riordan - I finally read Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief
Kristin Cashore - I alo finally read Graceling
Liane Moriarty - I read Big Little Lies
Emily Henry - I read both Beach Read and You and Me on Vacation in 2021
Dean Atta - I read The Black Flamingo
Frank Herbert - I read Dune
Claire Legrand - I read Sawkill Girls
Christina Henry - I read The Ghost Tree
What new-to-you authors did you discover in 2021?
Tuesday, January 11, 2022
Top Ten Tuesday - Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection
Top Ten Tuesday is a feature hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week the topic is
Most Recent Additions to My Book Collection
Here are my picks . . .
What were the last books you hauled?
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