Get to Know Me! 2107 Love-a-Thon Questionnaire

Love-a-thon 2017 will be taking place from February 18, 2017 -February 20, 2017.  This will be my first year participating in the Love-a-thon and I’m so excited!  🙂 ❤  The purpose of the Love-a-thon is to bring the online book community together, meet new booklovers across all social media platforms and to spread love to those online booklovers we have already met along the way.  This years hosts of the Love-a-thon are Alexa of Alexa Loves Books, Cece of The Novel Hermit, Kristin of Super Space Chick and Mel of The Daily Prophecy.

Questionnaire

An Introduction to Me and My Blog

1. What’s your name? Where in the world are you blogging from?

My name is Becky and I’m blogging from the US.

2. Tell us your history with reading.  Were you always a reader?  Were you a reluctant reader?  Was there a book that convinced you to become a reader?

Yes, I have been a reader all of my life.  However, through different stages of life the amount of reading I’ve done has greatly fluctuated.   I was taught the importance of reading at a very young age and I learned to read pretty easily. I remember many trips to the local library.  My favorite days in elementary school were library days and school book fairs. There wasn’t just one book that convinced me to be a reader, there were several.  🙂 I will talk about those books in the Book Talk section of this post below.

3. How did you get involved in the online book community?

I started in the online book community at Goodreads.  I don’t remember how I heard about/found out about Goodreads.  I received a message from Crystal at Sweeter Reads asking if I’d like to join her book club.  Sure!  It looked like an interesting group of ladies reading books that interested me.  That was about 3 years ago, I’m still an active member and I throughly enjoy being a part of Sweeter Reads.  Sweeter Reads helped me to grow my reading by leaps and bounds!  I enjoy talking to fellow booklovers about books and life in general.  The conversations added an extra element to my reading that I never realized was missing.

The next way I got involved with the book community was Bookstagram (Instagram).  I started my Bookstagram feed, Inmyreadingnook, about a year and a half ago.  I enjoy posting monthly photo challenges, what books I’m reading, chatting with even more booklovers and viewing their photos through Bookstagram.

I learned how to crochet through YouTube and then one day I decided to search YouTube for book related videos.  Wow!  I was so surprised to see that there was an extremely active BookTube community.  I started searching for BookTubers to watch and I never stopped.  It’s so much fun to get to know booklovers through their videos.  My TBR pile has grown expedentially due to Booktubers and I don’t regret it one bit!  😉  I’m extremly shy and not good in front of a camera, so I don’t think making videos is for me.  But…you never know!  😉  Sometimes, we surprise ourselves with the things we accomplish as we continue to grow and change.  I’ll never say never…

My newest venture into the online book community is this book blog.  I have been consistently posting on this blog since June of 2016.  It is a learning experience and a work in progress, but I’m enjoying the ride.  I’ve met some lovely book bloggers and I’m hoping to meet many more through this ❤ 2017 Love-a-thon ❤ .

I have also just paired this blog with a Twitter feed.  You can find me on Twitter @InMyReadingNook.  I’d love to have you join me there for lots of bookish content as well.  🙂

4. How did you choose your primary platform (blog, Instagram, Youtube, etc.)?  How did you come up with your blog name?

I have just tried several platforms to see which ones work best for me.  I like to interact with others through these platforms so that is a big factor in what platforms I choose to focus on.  At this moment Bookstagram has the most followers for me, but I am hoping to learn more about blogging to grow this blog into my primary platform.

My blog name came about from some good old brainstorming from my family and I.  We kept throwing out name suggestions until I heard one that just seemed to fit. When my husband suggested “In My Reading Nook”, I thought “Yes!  That’s it!”  🙂  In My Reading Nook was started that very same day.

5. What’s your favorite thing about the online book community?

My favorite thing about the online book community is getting to know fellow booklovers and sharing our love of books with each other.

6. What sort of posts can readers expect from you?

Musing Mondays, Teaser Tuesdays, Top 5 Wednesdays, Book Reviews, Challenges/Tags, etc.  As this blog grows, I would like to also post some discussion blog posts.

7. What book genres do you talk about most?

I talk about whatever book genres I am currently reading.  I’m a mood reader and I read from a wide range of genres.  My favorite genres are historical fiction, literary fiction, thrillers, fantasy, contemporary and YA.  I have a goal this year to read more classics and modern classics as well.

Favorites

1. Favorite food?  Beverage?

My favorite food is Italian food and my favorite Beverage is Teapigs teas, especially their English Breakfast Tea.

2. Favorite color?

My favorite color is purple.

3. Favorite things to do apart from reading?

My favorite things to do besides reading are crochet and adult coloring.  I find both of these hobbies to be very relaxing.

4. Favorite TV shows?

My favorite Tv shows are This Is Us, Gilmore Girls, Friends and Impractical Jokers.  My kids started watching Impractical Jokers and when I saw some of the show, I couldn’t stop laughing!  I don’t usually like shows or movies that I call “stupid funny”, but there’s something about this show.  It just feels good to laugh sometimes.  🙂

5. Favorite Places to shop?

Book Outlet of course!  🙂

Book Talk

1. Favorite childhood books?

When I was young I enjoyed The Berenstein Bears series, The Pokey Little Puppy, The Little Engine that Could, Sesame Street books, The Little Miss series as well as many others. Then, I moved on to the Ramona Quimby series, Judy Blume books, The Secret Garden, The Babysitter’s Club series and Sweet Valley High. Yes, I was a child of the 80’s! In middle school, I enjoyed the Anne of Green Gables series. High school, for me, became more about required school reading and meeting my future husband. Yes, I married my high school sweathert!   My personal reading diminished drastically. I would buy a book, from time to time, but after reading a few chapters, I’d put it aside.

2. Favorite books read in the last five years?

   

    

         

    

 

Whistling Past the Graveyared: Goodreads

The Storyteller: Goodreads

In the Blood: Goodreads

The Husband’s Secret: Goodreads

Caraval: Goodreads

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: Goodreads 

The Book Thief: Goodreads

Orange: Goodreads

Slammed: Goodreads

Every Day: Goodreads

I’ll Be Seeing you: Goodreads

Blue Heaven: Goodreads 

Where are the Children: Goodreads

Wonder: Goodreads

Winter Solstice: Goodreads

Before I Go to Sleep: Goodreads

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire: Goodreads 

The Night Circus: Goodreads

The Crown’s Game: Goodreads

Jane Eyre: Goodreads

It Ends with Us: Goodreads

The Taker: Goodreads

The Life We Bury: Goodreads

The Nightingale: Goodreads

Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet: Goodreads 

We Never Asked for Wings: Goodreads

Dark Matter: Goodreads

3. Favorite genres?

My favorite genres are historical fiction, literary fiction, thrillers, fantasy, contemporary and YA.  I have a goal this year to read more classics and modern classics as well.

4. A book you want to see made into a film or TV show?

 

The Night Circus: Goodreads

Caraval: Goodreads

5. Book BFF? Book family?

 

Anne of Green Gables: Goodreads

Harry Potter: Goodreads

My book BFF would be Anne Shirley from the Anne of Green Gables series.  I think she would be a lot of fun to be friends with.  Anne found the joys in the simple aspects of life and I think that would be a refreshing change from the busy lives we live today.

For book family, I’m going to go with the stereotypical choice of the Weasley family from Harry Potter.  I can’t think of a better family!

6. Books you want to read in 2017?

    

    

    

    

  

Lilac Girls: Goodreads

Small Great Things: Goodreads

The Black Prism: Goodreads

The Gracekeepers: Goodreads 

Peace Like a River: Goodreads 

The Thirteenth Tale: Goodreads 

Cinder: Goodreads

A Court of Mist and Fury: Goodreads

The Name of the Wind: Goodreads

The Forgotten Garden: Goodreads

Faithful: Goodreads

Cruel Beauty: Goodreads

The Bookshop on the Corner: Goodreads 

11/22/63: Goodreads

Iscariot: Goodreads

Rebecca: Goodreads

A List of Cages: Goodreads

I Capture the Castle:  Goodreads 

The Tenent of Wildfell Hall: Goodreads

The Zookeeper’s Wife:  Goodreads

September: Goodreads

The Shell Seekers: Goodreads 

Beauty and the Beast Lost Book: Goodreads 

Margot: Goodreads

Review: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

“Standing happy and slightly drunk in my kitchen, I’m unaware that tonight is the end of all this. The end of everything I know, everything I love.

No one tells you it’s all about to change, to be taken away. There’s no proximity alert, no indication that you’re standing on the precipice. And maybe that’s what makes tragedy so tragic. Not just what happens, but how it happens: a sucker punch that comes at you out of nowhere, when you’re least expecting it. No time to flinch or brace.”

– pg 1 “Dark Matter” by Blake Crouch

What if you were abducted and you wake up to find everything you know about your life suddenly no longer exsists? no wife? no child? no longer a science professor at the local college? That’s what happens to Jason Dessen in Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. That is all the reader needs to know before going into this amazing thriller! It is best to go into Dark Matter as blind as possible and let Crouch take you on an incredible mind blowing ride.

There is some science to this story in a few small places. Some of that did go over my head, but I was easily able to grasp enough of it to understand all that was needed. It is such a small part of the book that I wouldn’t let that deter you from picking up this amazing book!

I loved the writing style and pacing of this book. Blake Crouch tells most of the story in very short paragraphs, most are only one sentence long. Surprisingly, for this story it works very well and keeps the reader reading at a very thrilling pace.

I really enjoyed the underlying themes in this book. I loved the exploration of family versuses career. I think that it’s something many of us think about and at times struggle to find balance in. I liked where Blake Crouch takes Jason and Daniela regarding family versuses career.

I also loved how Blake Crouch writes Jason and Daniela’s relationship. I love the underlying themes of love, loyalty and family that are explored through the characters of Jason and Daniela within the pages of Dark Matter. Is the grass always greener on the other side? Crouch explores this in a very interesting way throughout this book.

Although Dark Matter by Blake Crouch is most definitely an amazing, mind bending, action packed thriller, Crouch also explores love, life, family and career in this book. I throughly enjoyed not just the thriller aspects of this book, but how Blake Crouch masterfully weaves so much exploration of family throughout the book too. I highly recommend this book! It will take you on such a wild ride! By the time you are done, it will have challenged you to think about what is most important in life and how far you are willing to go to protect it.

Teaser Tuesday (Jan. 3)

Teasr Tuesday is now being hosted by Ambrosia at her blog, The Purple Booker.

Here’s what you do for Teaser Tuesday:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Goodreads

“Standing happy and slightly drunk in my kitchen, I’m unaware that tonight is the end of all this.  The end of everything I know, everything I love.

No one tells you it’s all about to change, to be taken away.  There’s no proximity alert, no indication that you’re standing on the precipice.  And maybe that’s what makes tragedy so tragic.  Not just what happens, but how it happens: a sucker punch that comes at you out of nowhere, when you’re least expecting it.  No time to flinch or brace.”

– pg 1  “Dark Matter” by Blake Crouch

“One of the things I love most about Daniela is her honesty.  She has a direct link hardwired from her heart to her mouth.  No filter, no self revision.  She says what she feels, without a shred of guile or cunning.  She works no angles.”

– pg 93  “Dark Matter” by Blake Crouch

Those are my teasers for this Tuesday.  If you posted a Teaser Tuesday, feel free to post the link here.  I’d love to get a taste of what you are reading.  There’s always room on Mt. TBR for just one (…or two…or three…) more books, right?

Musing Mondays (Jan. 2)

Musing Mondays is now being hosted by Ambrosia at her blog, The Purple Booker.

Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:

• I’m currently reading…
• Up next I think I’ll read…
• I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
• I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
• I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
• I can’t wait to get a copy of…
• I wish I could read ___, but…
• I blogged about ____ this past week…

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: Have you joined any challenges in reading for the new year? Do you have any general goals book or even not book related for 2017?

I’m currently reading…

Goodreads

I just started reading Dark Matter by Blake Crouch yeasterday.  I’m about 60 pages in and so far so good!

Up next I think I’ll read…

Goodreads

Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt was selected for me for my most recent Recommendation Swap.  I’m really looking forward to jumping into this book!

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION: Have you joined any challenges in reading for the new year? Do you have any general goals book or even not book related for 2017?

I answered these questions in my Bookish Goals for 2017 post.  Please check out that post to see what reading challenges I will be joining this year and what reading goals I have set for myself.

As far as general goals, I don’t really make New Year’s resolutions.  I do try to set goals for myself throughout the year, but I don’t specifically make goals for myself at New Year’s time.

Do you make New Year’s resolutions?  Reading goals for the New Year?

Feel free to post your Musing Monday link.  I’d love to read what you’re musing about this Monday

7th Annual End Of Year Survey – 2016 edition!!

Jamie from The Perpetual Page-Turner has created a wondeful year end survey.  Although this is the 7th annual edition, as a new book blogger this will be my first time answering these questions.

So, here we go!

Number Of Books You Read:47
Number of Re-Reads:1 (I hope to add more re-reads into my 2017 reading)
Genre You Read The Most From: YA…

When I went through my Goodreads history for 2016, I was shocked to see so many YA books that I read in 2016.  Before this year, I wasn’t much of a YA reader as I’m not a teen or even a young adult and thought this genre wasn’t for me before this past year.  Although, I have enjoyed many of the YA books I’ve read, I think 2017 will contain more adult books.  That’s not to say that I won’t read any YA, just not as many YA books.

1. Best Book You Read In 2016?

 

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2. Book You Were Excited About & Thought You Were Going To Love More But Didn’t?

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 3. Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read?  

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 4. Book You “Pushed” The Most People To Read (And They Did)?

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 5. Best series you started in 2016? Best Sequel of 2016? Best Series Ender of 2016?

Best Series starter:  

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Best Sequel: 

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Best Series Ender: I’m going to loosely interpret this one and use a duology I completed.  I only completed one series this year and I didn’t enjoy the ending to that series at all.

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 6. Favorite new author you discovered in 2016?

Rosamunde Pilcher

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7. Best book from a genre you don’t typically read/was out of your comfort zone?

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 8. Most action-packed/thrilling/unputdownable book of the year?

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 9. Book You Read In 2016 That You Are Most Likely To Re-Read Next Year?

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OR

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10. Favorite cover of a book you read in 2016?

 

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11. Most memorable character of 2016?

Francie from

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AND

Ove from 

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 12. Most beautifully written book read in 2016?

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13. Most Thought-Provoking/ Life-Changing Book of 2016?

Way to hard to choose just one….

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AND

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 14. Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2016 to finally read? 

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 15. Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2016?

“The Nolans just couldn’t get enough of life. They lived their own lives up to the hilt but that wasn’t enough. They had to fill in on the lives of all the people they made contact with.”

-pg. 52 “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” by Betty Smith

“Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact then others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed onto the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.

…He was letting me know that I was the biggest wave he’d ever come across. And I brought so much with me that my impressions would always be there, even when the tide rolled out.”
-pg. 214-215 “It Ends with Us” by Colleen Hoover

“‘The day you gave your father’s eulogy? I know you didn’t freeze up, Lily. You stood at the podium and refused to say a single good thing about that man. It is the proudest I have ever been of you. You were the only one in my life who ever stood up for me. You were strong when I was scared.'” A tear falls from her eye when she says, “‘Be that girl, Lily. Brave and bold.'”

-pg. 336 “It Ends with Us” by Colleen Hoover

16.Shortest & Longest Book You Read In 2016?

Shortest Book:

120 pages

       Goodreads

Longest Book: 

870 pages

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17. Book That Shocked You The Most

(Because of a plot twist, character death, left you hanging with your mouth wide open, etc.)

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18. OTP OF THE YEAR (you will go down with this ship!)

(OTP = one true pairing if you aren’t familiar)

Elfrida and Oscar from 

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AND

Ove and Sofia from 

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19. Favorite Non-Romantic Relationship Of The Year

Francie and her father from 

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20. Favorite Book You Read in 2016 From An Author You’ve Read Previously

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21. Best Book You Read In 2016 That You Read Based SOLELY On A Recommendation From Somebody Else/Peer Pressure:

This book was recommended to me by my sister who very unexpectedly and tragically passed away on November 3rd, 2016.  While I enjoyed the book, I think even if I didn’t enjoy it, A Man Called Ove would have still been my best recommended book of 2016 solely because it was recommended to me during my last conversation with my sister.

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22. Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2016?

I don’t have fictional crushes.

23. Best 2016 debut you read?

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24. Best Worldbuilding/Most Vivid Setting You Read This Year?

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25. Book That Put A Smile On Your Face/Was The Most FUN To Read?

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26. Book That Made You Cry Or Nearly Cry in 2016?

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27. Hidden Gem Of The Year?

Too tough to choose just one…

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AND

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28. Book That Crushed Your Soul?

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29. Most Unique Book You Read In 2016?

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30. Book That Made You The Most Mad (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it)?

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1. New favorite book blog you discovered in 2016?

As a relatively new book blogger, I have enjoyed chatting about books and reading each and every book blog.  I can’t possibly choose a favorite!

2. Favorite review that you wrote in 2016?

Review: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

3. Best discussion/non-review post you had on your blog?

I have not posted any book discussions yet, but I hope to when my number of followers grows a little more.

My favorite non-review posts are Musing Mondays.

4. Best event that you participated in (author signings, festivals, virtual events, memes, etc.)?

Booktube-a-thon

5. Best moment of bookish/blogging life in 2016?

My favorite moment of my bookish blogging life in 2016 was meeting and talking to some wonderful fellow book bloggers.  🙂

6. Most challenging thing about blogging or your reading life this year?

My most challenging thing about blogging this year was just jumping into the book blogging world.  As a new blogger, taking the first steps of blogging and having the courage to put my thoughts out there was the most challenging.  Thankfully, the book blogging community has been so kind and welcoming.  I look forward to continuing to grow and learn about book blogging in 2017 as well as continuing to talk about books with many wondeful book bloggers!

7. Most Popular Post This Year On Your Blog (whether it be by comments or views)?

Review: P.S. I Like You by Kasie West

8. Post You Wished Got A Little More Love?

Review: Still Life by Louise Penny

9. Best bookish discover (book related sites, book stores, etc.)?

Book Outlet

Etsy Shop-Nerdy Grl Designs

10.  Did you complete any reading challenges or goals that you had set for yourself at the beginning of this year?

Yes, I completed the Goodreads Reading Challenge.  I set my goal at 40 books and I ended up reading 47 books this year.

I plan to set some more goals for 2017 and I will be blogging about my 2017 reading goals.  Keep an eye out for that post! 🙂

1. One Book You Didn’t Get To In 2016 But Will Be Your Number 1 Priority in 2017?

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2. Book You Are Most Anticipating For 2017 (non-debut)?

I haven’t paid a lot of attention to 2017 releases yet, but this one sounds like a fun, quick little read coming out in 2017…

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3. 2017 Debut You Are Most Anticipating?

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This book has been compared to The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern.  Yes Please!  Sign me up!  I can’t wait!!!

 4. Series Ending/A Sequel You Are Most Anticipating in 2017?

I am so behind on my series reads that I don’t have a series ending or sequel that I’m anticipating right now.

5. One Thing You Hope To Accomplish Or Do In Your Reading/Blogging Life In 2017?

One thing I hope to accomplish in my reading/blogging life in 2017 is to become a better blogger and continue to grow the blog.

6. A 2017 Release You’ve Already Read & Recommend To Everyone:

I haven’t read any 2017 releases yet.

It was a lot of fun answering these questions and looking back on my 2017 reading and book blogging.  If you do this End of Year Survey, please post a link below so that I can read your answers.  I’d love to read all about your 2016 reading journey.

Spookathon & Victober Wrap Up

My goal was to participate in two readathons this month, Spookathon and Victober.  While I did participate in both readathons, my TBRs eneded up being overly ambitious for both readathons.  This month became a lot busier then I thought it was going to be.  Also, during Spookathon last week, most days I just wasn’t in the mood to read as much as I would have needed to in order to finish 3 or 4 books in 7 days.  I did read everyday, but not 200-250 pages a day.  This got me thinking about the speed in which we read combined with our true enjoyment/retention of what we are reading.  I have listened to other fellow booklovers thoughts, spoke to an employee at a used bookstore this past summer and chatted with my husband a bit about this topic.  I will be posting my thoughts on this topic in a lot more detail soon and I’m looking forward to discussing this topic with you further. For now, let me just say that I’m still a fan of readathons and will continue to join in on them from time to time.

Now here’s what I read for Spookathon:

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4/5 challenges met

-Read a thriller 

-read a book with Red on the cover 

-read a book with a spooky word in the title 

-read a book with a paranormal character/creature 

-read a 2016 release

I started the Spookathon with Horns by Joe Hill, but I ended up DNFing the book.  While I have enjoyed the other books by Joe Hill that I’ve read, this one just wasn’t for me.

Then, I picked up Night Film by Marisha Pessl and I finished the book today, two days after the end of Spookathon.  I read almost all of the book during Spookathon though.  I’m still thinking about what rating to give this book.  It had me on the edge of my seat throughout most of the book as a great thriller should do.  But, I’m not sure how I feel about the ending.  This book explores a very blurred line between reality and fantasy.  Towards the end of the book, the reader finally understands what happened…or do they?  At the very end there’s a twist that leaves everything open ended and the reader doesn’t know what if any of the almost 600 pages is truth.  This was an extremely well crafted story and I would recommend reading it, but I really don’t like not knowing if we trully have any resolution at all.  The reader doesn’t know for sure if the resolution that is given is accurate or not, Pessl’s last showing of blurred lines between reality and fantasy.

Co-Hosts of Spookathon:

Kayla-Books and Lala

Paige-Paige’s Pages

Shannon-Bookerly

Here’s what I read for Victober:

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2/5 challenges met

-Read a Victotian Novel in a Week

-Read a Victorian Gothic Novel 

-Read a Victorian Novel by a Female Author

-Read Victorian Fiction That’s Not a Novel

-Read a Victorian Novel Where the Plot is Afoot (there is a scheme)

I will be posting a full review of Jane Eyre soon.  I loved the book!  It took me longer to read then I planned, but I really enjoyed diving into a classic.  I will be reading the other classics I planned to read this month for Victober   (Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) just not during the month of October.  I look forward to adding more classics to my reading journey.

Co-hosts of Victober

Kate Howe-Kate Howe

Yamini-The Skeptical Reader

Ange-Beyond the Pages

Katie-Books and Things

Alysia-exlibris

Teaser Tuesday (Oct. 18)

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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by Jenn of Books And A Beat.

Here’s what you do for Teaser Tuesday:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

Goodreads

“Everyone has a Cordova story, whether they like it or not.”

-Prologue pg xi “Night Film” by Marisha Pessl

“He’s a myth, a monster, a mortal man.

And yet I can’t help but believe when you need him the most, Cordova has a way of heading straight towards you, like a mysterious guest you notice across the room at a crowded party.”

-Prologue pg xi “Night Film” by Marisha Pessl

Those are my teasers for this Tuesday.  If you posted a Teaser Tuesday, feel free to post the link here.  I’d love to get a taste of what you are reading.  There’s always room on Mt. TBR for just one (…or two…or three…) more books, right?

Musing Mondays (Oct. 17)

Musing Mondays is hosted by Jen at her blog, Books and a Beat.

Musing Mondays is a weekly meme that asks you to choose one of the following prompts to answer:

• I’m currently reading…
• Up next I think I’ll read…
• I bought the following book(s) in the past week…
• I’m super excited to tell you about (book/author/bookish-news)…
• I’m really upset by (book/author/bookish-news)…
• I can’t wait to get a copy of…
• I wish I could read ___, but…
• I blogged about ____ this past week…

THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION:  Who are the key players in your current book? (or current themes, if nonfiction)

I’m currently reading…

Goodreads

It’s October and the Spookathon Read-a-thon officially started today, so it’s time to read some thrillers/mysteries!  You can find more information about the Spookathon here: Spookathon TBR

Up next I think I’ll read…

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I bought the following book(s) in the past week…

I did really well this past week with my goal of not buying anymore books until I read some more of my TBR books sitting on my shelves.  I didn’t buy any new books this past week and I’m currently reading books I already owned.  But…I think that’s about to change!  Bookoutlet has a big Booktoberfest sale starting tomorrow.  So, I think I see some new books in my future!  😉

  THIS WEEK’S RANDOM QUESTION:  Who are the key players in your current book? (or current themes, if nonfiction)

I am currently reading Night Film by Marisha Pessl.  I’m 80 pages in and so far the key characters are:

• Scott McGrath-a disgraced investigative journalist
• Stanislas Cordova-a reclusive film director who has a “secret society” of followers of his gruesome films
• Ashley Cordova-daughter of Stanislas Cordova found dead at 24, believed to be suicide, child prodigy and amazing pianist since childhood

 

Spookathon TBR

Spookathon is a readathon running from October 17th, 2016-October 23rd, 2016.  It is a thriller/horror/mystery based readathon and is basically to read anything that you find to be a page turning read.

Hosts of Spookathon:

Kayla-Books and Lala

Paige-Paige’s Pages

Shannon-Bookerly

Truthfully, my TBR is probably an overly ambitious list for a week of reading, but I want to read all of them.  If I was to complete all of these books and all 5 of the challenges during Spookathon, I’d have to average reading 250 pages per day.  That’s a lot for me!  But, I read more then I ever thought I could in a week during Booktubeathon this past summer.  I’m going to try my best and see what happens!  If I complete 2 or 3 of these books during Spookathon, I’ll be happy!  🙂

Spookathon Challenges and TBR

-Read a thriller

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I’m really in the mood to read another Gillian Flynn thriller novel, but it only fits into this one challenge.  I’ve only read Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn so far.  I may read it after Spookathon and read a thriller that can cover more then one challenge during Spookathon.  I’m not sure yet.  Unless…”sharp” can be used for challenge #3 and could be considered a spooky word in a title?  I think I might be stretching that one though.

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-read a book with Red on the cover

I have multiple books that I hope to read during Spookathon with red on the cover.

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I was supposed to read Horns by Joe Hill over the summer for a Recommendation Swap through my book club.  I couldn’t get myself in the mood to pick this book up during the summer.  October seems like a much better time of year to read this book.  So, I’ll be reading it during Spookathon.  I’ve read a few of Joe Hill’s other books and enjoyed them. I’m hoping to enjoy reading this book as well.

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Replica by Lauren Oliver may seem like an odd choice for the Spookathon readathon, but I will explain more under the last two challenges.

-read a book with a spooky word in the title

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“Night” is a spooky word in the title for this challenge.

OR

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Can “sharp” be considered a spooky word in the title?  I’m not sure.  I might be stretching this one…

-read a 2016 release

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I don’t own a 2016 release that is a thriller, horror or mystery book.  I am trying not to buy books at the moment and read some of the many books on my shelves that I haven’t read yet.  However, I was in Target last week and they had the last copy of a signed first edition of Replica by Lauren Oliver.  I couldn’t resist purchasing this book!

I saw on Twitter that someone asked one of the Spookathon hosts about reading Replica for Spookathon.  They said that it could be used for the 2016 release challenge as well as the next challenge, the creature challenge.  Hmmm…so I decided to include Replica in my TBR too.

-read a book with a paranormal character/creature

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As I mentioned in the challenge above, through Twitter I found out that Replica could be used for this challenge because it includes clones, which could be considered reading a book with creautures.

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I think that Horns could count for this challenge as well, since it includes the Devil.

Will you be participating in Spookathon?  What will you be reading?

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Are you a seasonal reader?  What October book(s) are you most looking forward to reading?