I like crazy challenges, and I like to read. Since May looks to hold a full month of typesetting for me, I’m mixing up my usual daily routine in order to give myself some downtime away from the computer. In short, I’m gonna READ!
My bedside stack is twenty-odd books high, and I have Continue reading #amreading: A Book a Day in May
I adored the Whizz Pop Chocolate Shop by Kate Saunders! Oz and Lily aren’t sure what to think about their family’s unexpected inheritance, a big house with an old, boarded up chocolate shop on the first floor. Back in the day, it was Continue reading #amreading: Kate Saunders
While superhero tales aren’t exactly my preferred genre (that would be a meld of magic/fantasy/mystery/adventure), it’s definitely on a neighboring shelf. I grew up watching caped crusaders and dynamic duos on Saturday morning cartoons, so when I was in the mood for something different … I nabbed Sidekicked by John David Anderson. Continue reading #amreading: Sidekicked
While I prefer to read bound books (the kind that pile up on every shelf and flat surface in my home), I do collect digital books on my electronic reader … and listen to them while I do odd jobs around the house (laundry, dusting, and the like). My current “listening” book is Curiosity House: The Shrunken Head by Lauren Oliver and H. C. Chester, a middlegrade adventure that mixes misfits and mystery.
I’ve enjoyed it so much, I’m added the sequel to my To Read list!
After finishing Book 2, I launched straight into the third volume of Henry H. Neff’s The Tapestry series—The Fiend and the Forge. So far, I Continue reading #amreading: The Fiend and the Forge
From the author of Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy. I caught wind of a new release from the author of a book I read a couple years ago. Karen Foxlee’s setting in Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy was intriguing, and I liked her spunky asthmatic heroine. I still quote her. “Bring your brain to the party.” Foxlee’s latest adventure promises more mysterious magic. I’m excited to curl up with this one. #BoughtIt
On a completely unrelated note, I keep
trying to spell her last name as Floxlee.
I can’t imagine why.
So happy I bought The Tapestry series. Finished Bk1: The Hound of Rowan and immediately grabbed Bk2 off my shelf. Mr. Neff’s story Continue reading #amreading: The Second Siege
The Hound of Rowan by Henry H. Neff is another library find. I spotted the first volume on the shelves in our YA section and picked it up for a closer look at the art. Six pages into the story—I’m not kidding, it only took six pages— Continue reading #amreading: The Hound of Rowan
This is a slender volume I picked up at the library. Two chapters in, I knew I was in kindred spirit territory and ordered my own copy. A Nearer Moon by Melanie Crowder is Continue reading #amreading: A Nearer Moon
From the author of The Twistrose Key. I love finding out that an author who wrote a story I enjoyed has a new book coming out. Since Tone Almhiell charmed me with her world-building in The Twistrose Key, I pre-ordered her latest middlegrade adventure, which is due to release in August 2016. Can’t wait to be carried back to the world of Sylver!
C. J. Milbrandt 