Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I'd Love to Read With My Book Club/If I Had A Book Club

Top Ten Tuesday
meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish -details
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!

~*~
January 27: Ten Books I'd Love to Read With My Book Club/If I Had A Book Club (or you could pick a specific kind of book club -- like if you had a YA book club or an adult book club or a science fiction book club etc.)

For my fantasy vvb32 reads book club here are my picks for the year - most of which are in my TBR pile.

Come to think of it, I think I will go ahead and make this official. I will post review links here as posts go up.

JANUARY: for Celebrity Read a Book Week (last full week of January)

and Ewan McGregor is reading...

Beatrix Potter The Complete Tales (Peter Rabbit)
by Beatrix Potter
Amazon | Goodreads
=====> I will pick out at least two stories from the collection as January is already booked.

FEBRUARY:

The Secret of Pembrooke Park
by Julie Klassen
-Christian, Historical, Jane Austen theme
Just released: December 2014
Amazon | Goodreads | my review
=====> part of a book tour

MARCH:

Razorhurst
by Justine Larbalestier
-Paranormal, YA
Release date: March 3, 2015
Amazon | Goodreads | my review
APRIL: for National Poetry Month

Brown Girl Dreaming
by Jacqueline Woodson
-Poetry, Memoir
Amazon | Goodreads | dnf
MAY: for Zombies Awareness Month

Outpost
Razorland #2
by Ann Aguirre
Amazon | Goodreads
JUNE: for Dirty Book Day (June 11)

Fear of Flying
by Erica Jong
Amazon | Goodreads
=====> NPR picked this as a dirty book last year and I'm curious why

JULY: summer/road trip theme

Amy and Roger's Epic Detour
by Morgan Matson
-YA
Amazon | Goodreads | my review
AUGUST:

Ruin and Rising
The Grisha #3
by Leigh Bardugo
-Fantasy, YA
Release date: August 18, 2015
Amazon | Goodreads
SEPTEMBER:

Shades of Doon
Doon #3
by Carey Corp and Lorie Langdon
-Fantasy, YA
Release date: September 1, 2015
Amazon | Goodreads
OCTOBER:

Night Film
by Marisha Pessl
-Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Amazon | Goodreads
NOVEMBER:

A Fairy Tale
by Jonas T. Bengtsson
-Coming of Age, Scandinavian
Amazon | Goodreads
DECEMBER: for Jane Austen's Birthday

Persuasion
by Jane Austen
edited by Robert Morrison
-annotated
Amazon | Goodreads | my review
~*~
* source for themes found here

Enclave by Ann Aguirre

Enclave
by Ann Aguirre

Published: 2011
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Genre: Action, Dystopia, Romance, YA
Paperback: 272 pages
Rating: 5

Description from the amazon:
WELCOME TO THE APOCALYPSE In Deuce's world, people earn the right to a name only if they survive their first fifteen years. By that point, each unnamed 'brat' has trained into one of three groups-Breeders, Builders, or Hunters, identifiable by the number of scars they bear on their arms. Deuce has wanted to be a Huntress for as long as she can remember.

As a Huntress, her purpose is clear--to brave the dangerous tunnels outside the enclave and bring back meat to feed the group while evading ferocious monsters known as Freaks. She's worked toward this goal her whole life, and nothing's going to stop her, not even a beautiful, brooding Hunter named Fade. When the mysterious boy becomes her partner, Deuce's troubles are just beginning.

Down below, deviation from the rules is punished swiftly and harshly, and Fade doesn't like following orders. At first she thinks he's crazy, but as death stalks their sanctuary, and it becomes clear the elders don't always know best, Deuce wonders if Fade might be telling the truth. Her partner confuses her; she's never known a boy like him before, as prone to touching her gently as using his knives with feral grace.

As Deuce's perception shifts, so does the balance in the constant battle for survival. The mindless Freaks, once considered a threat only due to their sheer numbers, show signs of cunning and strategy... but the elders refuse to heed any warnings. Despite imminent disaster, the enclave puts their faith in strictures and sacrifice instead. No matter how she tries, Deuce cannot stem the dark tide that carries her far from the only world she's ever known.

Read an excerpt of chapter one.

Series:
Enclave
Outpost - coming Fall 2012

My two-bits:
In-a-word(s):
Great start to a dystopia series with tough female character.

--~ Book Giveaway ~--
signup to win this book

~*~
* review ARC copy courtesy of publisher

* read a guest post about character Deuce by author, Ann Aguirre

* part of Women Wielding Blades event

Blades: Knives

~-~-~-~-~ guest ~-~-~-~-~
by Ann Aguirre
~-~-~-~-~ guest ~-~-~-~-~
The weapons in ENCLAVE are primitive in the sense that they're made by hand and don't have any firing mechanisms. The Builders from the enclave make all the weapons that the Hunters use out in the tunnels when fighting the Freaks. Most Hunters favor knives because they're light and quick. It's pretty cool that they're specially made for each Hunter individually, taking into consideration his size, strength and quickness. There is no mass production of weapons. Everything is hand-tailored, which makes the blades very special.

In the book, Deuce's friend Thimble, who is a Builder, makes her a set of custom knives for her naming day. I don't describe them in detail, other than to say they're perfectly balanced, but Deuce's knives look like the above image. She's lightning fast with them. Knives, however, have the disadvantage of requiring close proximity for them to be effective. Hunters prefer them because the tunnels don't really provide the swinging room for pole arms, and it's generally too dark for missile weapons to make sense, too much risk of friendly fire.

But she also has a club, which was a gift from her friend Stone. He's a Breeder, but he got Thimble to help him with the complicated parts of its construction. I describe the club thus in the book:

He hadn’t bothered to wrap his gift; it was simply too big.
The club wasn’t Builder quality work, but Stone had a fair hand
with carving, and he’d taken a solid scrap of wood for the core. I
suspected Thimble must’ve helped him with the banded metal
along the top and bottom, but the fanciful - gures cut into the
wood came from him, no mistake. I didn’t recognize all of the
animals, but it was lovely and solid, and I would feel safer with it
on my back. He’d rubbed the carvings with some kind of dye, so
they stood out from the grain. The decorations would actually
make it harder for me to keep the weapon clean, but Stone was a
Breeder, and he couldn’t be expected to think of things like that.

There are different weapons in OUTPOST, but discussing them would be spoilery. *g* Thanks for having me!

~end

Blades post created for Women Wielding Blades event by Ann Aguirre author of Enclave
© 2011. All rights reserved.

~-~-~-~-~ guest ~-~-~-~-~
by Ann Aguirre
~-~-~-~-~ guest ~-~-~-~-~

--~ Book Giveaway courtesy of publisher ~--

signup to win this book

-/-/-|-\\- Women Wielding Blades schedule -//-|-\-\-

Giveaway: Enclave

Enclave
by Ann Aguirre

PeekAbook:



--~ Book Giveaway courtesy of publisher ~--
Win an ARC copy.

Open to all.

Offer ends: May 15, 2011

TO DO:
Visit Ann's site and tell me the title of another one of her books.

AND, leave your email (if I don't already have it)

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~

Contest has ended - winner is here

~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~-~

-/-/-|-\\- Women Wielding Blades schedule -//-|-\-\-