Quote-Tastic Monday #33

 

This one is simple and just about sharing your favorite quotes and the books they come from! Hosted by the FABULOUS Anna at Herding Cats & Burning Soup

 

Cover taken from Goodreads.com

 

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”

 

 

A few of you might've noticed that I've been reading this one for the last week or so (I've been taking my time with it because the writing is brilliant and I want to finish it but don't at the same time). This is my favourite verse in the book, and has been even before I read it as it's very popular and I think if there's any part of a book I'd get tattooed on me it would be this (and a Harry Potter one of course). I just love it.

 

 

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #86

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a meme hosted by Book Journey and is a great way for others to find out what you are planning to read this week and, best of all, see what others are reading.

 

Read Last Week:

 

I didn't finish any books last week, but I finished one today:

 

 

Currently Reading:

 

 

Up Next:

 

 

Cat Thursday #32

Welcome to the weekly meme that celebrates the wonders and sometime hilarity of cats! Join us by posting a favorite LOL cat pic you may have come across, famous cat art or even share with us pics of your own beloved cat(s) and then link up at the host's site: The True Book Addict. It's all for the love of cats!

 

 

Waiting On Wednesday #96

 

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Jill at Breaking The Spine and is where we can talk about books we are looking forward to being released.

 

 

Summary:

 

It's 2015, and Patricia Cowan is very old. "Confused today," read the notes clipped to the end of her bed. She forgets things she should know—what year it is, major events in the lives of her children. But she remembers things that don’t seem possible. She remembers marrying Mark and having four children. And she remembers not marrying Mark and raising three children with Bee instead. She remembers the bomb that killed President Kennedy in 1963, and she remembers Kennedy in 1964, declining to run again after the nuclear exchange that took out Miami and Kiev.

Her childhood, her years at Oxford during the Second World War—those were solid things. But after that, did she marry Mark or not? Did her friends all call her Trish, or Pat? Had she been a housewife who escaped a terrible marriage after her children were grown, or a successful travel writer with homes in Britain and Italy? And the moon outside her window: does it host a benign research station, or a command post bristling with nuclear missiles?

Two lives, two worlds, two versions of modern history. Each with their loves and losses, their sorrows and triumphs. My Real Children is the tale of both of Patricia Cowan's lives...and of how every life means the entire world.

Summary & Cover taken from Goodreads.com

Length: 320 pages (Hardcover)

Expected Publication Date: May 20th 2014 by Tor Books

 

Why I'm Waiting:

 

The main reason I want to read this one so badly is because it sounds so different from anything that I've ever read and sounds completely amazing as well.

 

 

Summary:

 

In a world where an industrial revolution is powered by magic, Tyen, a student of archaeology, discovers an sentient book in an ancient tomb. Vella was once a young sorcerer-maker, until she was transformed into a useful tool by one of the greatest sorcerers of history. Since then she has been gathering information, including a vital clue to the disaster Tyen’s world faces.

Elsewhere, in an land ruled by the priests since a terrible war depleted all but a little magic, Rielle the dyer’s daughter has been taught that to use magic is to steal from the Angels. Yet she knows from her ability to sense the stain it leaves behind that she has a talent for it, and that there are people willing to teach her how to use it, should she ever need to risks the Angels’ wrath.

Further away, a people called the Travellers live their entire lives on the move, trading goods from one world to another. They know that each world has its own store of magic, reducing or increasing a sorcerer’s abilities, so that if one entered a weak world they may be unable to leave it again. Each family maintains a safe trading route passed down through countless generations and modified whenever local strife makes visiting dangerous. But this is not the only knowledge the Travellers store within their stories and songs, collected over millennia spent roaming the universe. They know a great change is due, and that change brings both loss and opportunity.

Summary & Cover taken from Goodreads.com

Length: 528 pages (Hardcover)

Expected Publication Date: May 24th 2014 by Orbit

 

Why I'm Waiting:

 

I have the first books in two of this author's other series on my TBR list for this winter which I am determined to get to before this one comes out. I knew this one was one that I'd need to try as soon as I read the summary.

 

 

What are YOU waiting for this Wednesday?  

 

 

 

 

Teaser Tuesday #31

  

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

 

• 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.

 

Summary:

 

The first part of J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure THE LORD OF THE RINGS

In a sleepy village in the Shire, a young hobbit is entrusted with an immense task. He must make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ruling Ring of Power - the only thing that prevents the Dark Lord's evil dominion.

Thus begins J.R.R. Tolkien's classic tale, which continues in The Two Towers and The Return of the King.

Summary & Cover taken from Goodreads.com

Length: 531 pages (Mass Market Paperback)

Publication Date: 1999 by HarperCollins Publishers (first published 1954)

 

My Teaser:

Pg. 116

 

"I will go with you, Mr. Frodo," said Sam (in spite of private misgiving and a deep regret for the best beer in the Eastfarthing).

"Then if we are going to toil through bog and briar, let's go now!" said Pippin.

 

Top Ten Tuesday #52

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created here at The Broke and the Bookish. This feature was created because we are particularly fond of lists here at The Broke and the Bookish. We'd love to share our lists with other bookish folks and would LOVE to see your top ten lists!

 

Top Ten Things On My Reading Wishlist:

(if you could make authors write about these things you would. Could be a specific type of character, an issue tackled, a time period, a certain plot, etc.)

1.

 

Characters who are not willowy blondes or brunettes. I don't mean to offend anyone but I would love to see more diverse characters. Give us short girls, tall girls, skinny girls and plus size girls. I think some of my greatest heroes have been characters in books but they only ever fit one image. Also I would love to see more multiracial, Asian, African etc characters. This goes for more male characters breaking the traditional body builder blonde/brunette stereotype as well. Give us men with beards, a bit of a tummy, ANYTHING just make 'em different.

 

2.

 

I would love to read more books set in Africa. I love the continent and will read pretty much any genre as long as it's set there.

 

3.

 

More YA books set in Canada. I live in Canada and would love to see more YA set in this great country of mine. We have a few amazing writers who set their books here but I would love to see more. Most Canadian writers that I know of only write novels or mysteries.

 

4.

 

More historical fiction set in Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, Canada and South America. I love historical fiction and would love to see more taking place in these locations.

 

5.

 

Prehistoric Fiction.

I absolutely adore prehistoric fiction Ex. The Clan of The Cave Bear by Jean M. Auel. I think it's a fascinating topic and would love to see more of it. In fact I do see more of it now than a couple of years ago but I'm greedy and wish more authors wrote books in this genre.

 

6.

 

Books that deal with the Celts. Ever since I first discovered King Arthur I've been obsessed with the Celts and would like to see more fiction about them.

 

7.

 

Gargoyles.

Another thing that I'm seeing a few more authors write about but ever since I saw the tv show Gargoyles that was popular back in the late 90's I've loved them.

 

8.

 

More Interracial couples.

Come on authors! It's 2014 and I would love to see more interracial couples that reflect relationships in the real world.

 

9.

 

More fantasy romance with elves. Hello have y'all seen Legolas? We need romance with hero's like him. 'Nuff said.

 

10.

 

More historical fiction with female warriors.

 

What Made Your Top 10 This Week?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Quote-Tastic Monday #32

 

This one is simple and just about sharing your favorite quotes and the books they come from! Hosted by the FABULOUS Anna at Herding Cats & Burning Soup

 

Cover taken from Goodreads.com

 

“Aren‘t you going to get up?"

He put a hand on the curve of her hip, a possessive gesture that had already become
familiar.

"No. Let‘s have more sex.”  

 

I loved this book in Singh's Psy-Changling series! Judd was awesome :)