The One-of-a-Kind Cat Book by Ciye Cho

The One-of-a-Kind Cat Book
by Ciye Cho

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Published: 2015
Publisher: self
Genre: Animals, Cats, Illustrations
ebook
Rating: 4

First sentence(s):
Catalina Deneuve is the only cat with a speaking voice. Yet, this feline has done much, much more than talk.

The One-of-a-Kind Cat Book is a whimsical treat for cat lovers everywhere. Dive into its pages to meet Catalina the narcissistic movie star, Kit the steampunk genius, and Guillaume the macaron chef. Browse through letters, notes, and photos to learn about mystery cats from Svalbard and the Amazon. Follow a detective as he unravels the crimes of “Murder Kitties.”

The OOAK Cat Book is a grown-up picture book full of modern themes: a shameless search for fame (or infamy), an obsession with true crime, and our constant need for adventure and kawaii cats. The felines here will guide you to places like Paris, Varanasi, Woodstock, and the Great Barrier Reef.

Find your adventure amid 127 pages, 16 chapters, and 46 illustrations.

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My two-bits:

This is a gem of a book in a unique and whimsical format. The stories are in various layouts - magazine, letters, electronic tablet, etc. Also full page illustrations are included that provide very colorful eye candy.

It is fun to flip through this ebook and read whatever catches your eye.

The stories are short and varied. The steampunk one was a treat ;-)


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* review copy courtesy of author

One of Ciye's cat's in galactic glamour joins in the Star Wars mania (here).

Stacking the Shelves - 12.12.15

Stacking the Shelves
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Bought:

Fates and Furies
by Lauren Groff
-Literary
Amazon | Goodreads
For Review:

The One-of-a-Kind Cat Book
by Ciye Cho
-Cats, Illustrated
courtesy of author -Thanks!
Goodreads

The Word Game
by Steena Holmes
-Women's Fiction
courtesy of BookSparks Fall Reading Challenge 2015 @booksparks #FRC2015 -Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads
Freebies:

Never Never (part 1 of 3)
by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher
-Romance, YA
free for kindle
Amazon | Goodreads

Princesses Behaving Badly
Real Stories From History - Without the Fairy-Tale Endings
by Linda Rodriguez McRobbie
-Historical, Feminism
courtesy of publisher Quirk's Quirksgiving Challenge -Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads
Library:

Throne of Glass
by Sarah J. Maas
-Fantasy, Romance, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.

Her opponents are men-thieves and assassins and warriors from across the empire, each sponsored by a member of the king's council. If she beats her opponents in a series of eliminations, she'll serve the kingdom for four years and then be granted her freedom. Celaena finds her training sessions with the captain of the guard, Westfall, challenging and exhilirating. But she's bored stiff by court life. Things get a little more interesting when the prince starts to show interest in her... but it's the gruff Captain Westfall who seems to understand her best.

Then one of the other contestants turns up dead... quickly followed by another. Can Celaena figure out who the killer is before she becomes a victim? As the young assassin investigates, her search leads her to discover a greater destiny than she could possibly have imagined.

=====> FINALLY going to start this series that continues to get rave reviews left and right!

OTHER things on my shelf: kinda book-related

Going to participate in this...

First Book Of The Year 2016
hosted by Book Journey (details)
AND watched: on DVD

Got into a robot sci-fi mood...

Ex Machina (2015)
Director: Alex Garland
Written by: Alex Garland
Starring: Alicia Vikander, Domhnall Gleeson, Oscar Isaac
-Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | imdb | my rating: 5
A young programmer is selected to participate in a groundbreaking experiment in artificial intelligence by evaluating the human qualities of a breathtaking female A.I.

=====> Scary. Just how far do we want robots to affect and "be" in our world?

Robocop (2014)
Director: José Padilha
Written by: Joshua Zetumer, Edward Neumeier, Michael Miner
Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Gary Oldman, Michael Keaton
-Action, SciFi, Thriller | imdb | my rating: 4
In 2028 Detroit, when Alex Murphy - a loving husband, father and good cop - is critically injured in the line of duty, the multinational conglomerate OmniCorp sees their chance for a part-man, part-robot police officer.

=====> Very small part-man and lots of robot parts. A little more control of this robot made him more palatable.

AND binge watching:

Broadchurch (2015)
tv series, season two
Creator: Chris Chibnall
Starring: David Tennant, Olivia Colman
-Murder Mystery, UK | imdb
=====> The story continues from season one. MUST watch season one before this otherwise you will be spoiled.

This season continues the sort of surreal vibe and lush coloring that is in season one in regards to presentation. Love it.

There are two story lines which are equally interesting to follow. And the ensemble cast includes characters that are also equally engaging.

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Darkness by Ciye Cho

Darkness
(Florence Waverley, #3)
by Ciye Cho

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Just released: February 9 2015
Publisher: self
Genre: Fantasy, Romance, YA
eBook
Rating: 4

The Florence Waverley series:
Florence
Luminaire
Darkness
bk 4 - tba

Zombie sighting:
I saw them hover gracefully. And right then, I knew they were not mindless zombies.
-chapter 16, location 1976

A dire prophecy has emerged, and the mer believe that humans and merfolk are in grave danger. Terror is closing in, but only one person holds the key to stopping it: Florence Waverley. However, her mission to save two worlds will lead her far, far out into the Darkness--a shadow-realm full of monsters, magic, and wicked tides that could tear apart bodies.

With the help of her friends, Florry must uncover a secret about humans and mer. A long-lost secret that could change her life. And above all else, she must fight hard to light the darkness. Everything depends on her mission: her friends, her world, and the one she loves.

The past, present, and future are about to collide--but can she stay afloat? One way or another, nothing will be the same when she enters the Darkness...

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My two-bits:

An under-the-sea story continues told with a light tone.

The main character, Florry, who is human continues to learn about the underwater world history and inhabitants which includes a dark side of things appropriately named the Darkness.

Florry also experiences a coming of age moment where she confronts her parents and her place in both worlds.

This story had more action in regards to battling a bad guy.

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* review copy courtesy of author

* added this to my Bookish Bingo challenge - square: Aussie Author

Bookish Bingo Challenge: Spring

Bookish Bingo Challenge
Winter: April to June 2015
hosted by Great Imaginations (details)
I'm hooked!

I am joining this bingo challenge again - fourth one.

The Rules:

Read read read!

-You may include one DNF.
-Remember, one square per book.
-Books do not have to be reviewed

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Books read:

Square - Horror
Outpost by Ann Aguirre -my review --coming soon

Square - We Need Diverse Books
A Boy Like Me by Jennie Wood -my review

Square - Anthology or Collection
Finder, Vol. 04: Talisman (Finder #4) by Carla Speed McNeil -my review

Square - Yellow Cover
I Take You by Eliza Kennedy -my review

Square - Green Cover
Paperweight by Meg Haston -my review

Square - Classic
Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse -my review

Square - Memoir
The Year My Mother Came Back by Alice Eve Cohen -my review

Square - Illustrated cover
The Sculptor by Scott McCloud -my review

Square - Parental Relationships
Bittersweet by Kimberley Loth -my review

Square - Historical
Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekback -my review

Square - Plants on cover
Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll -my review

Square - Dark Contemporary
Bear Witness by Melissa Clark -my review

Square - Murder Mystery
The Last Policeman by Ben H. Winters -my review

Square - Aussie Author
Darkness by Ciye Cho -my review

Square - April release
Blue Sun, Yellow Sky by Jamie Hoang -my review

Square - Parallel Universes
Years and an Ocean by Jo Noelle -my review

Square - WWII
Mademoiselle Chanel by C.W. Gortner -my review

Stacking the Shelves - 1.31.15

Stacking the Shelves
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Bought:

The Mime Order
(The Bone Season #2)
by Samantha Shannon
-Dystopia
Amazon | Goodreads
=====> so excited about getting this! just need to figure out when to squeeze it in the reading schedule

For Review:

Darkness
(Florence Waverley, #3)
by Ciye Cho
-Fantasy, Mermaid
courtesy of author
Thanks !
Amazon | Goodreads

Blue Sun, Yellow Sky
by by Jamie Hoang
-Women's Fiction
courtesy of author
Thanks !
Amazon | Goodreads

New Uses for Old Boyfriends
by Beth Kendrick
-Women's Fiction
courtesy of BookSparks
Thanks !
Amazon | Signup to win this on Goodreads -expires Feb 3
Library:

Kill My Mother
by Jules Feiffer
-Graphic Novel
Amazon | Goodreads
When three daunting dolls intersect with one hapless heroine and a hard-boiled private eye, deception, betrayal, and murder stalk every mean street in… Kill My Mother.

Adding to a legendary career that includes a Pulitzer Prize, an Academy Award, Obie Awards, and Lifetime Achievement Awards from the National Cartoonist Society and the Writers Guild of America, Jules Feiffer now presents his first noir graphic novel. Kill My Mother is a loving homage to the pulp-inspired films and comic strips of his youth. Channeling Eisner's The Spirit, along with the likes of Hammett, Chandler, Cain, John Huston, and Billy Wilder, and spiced with the deft humor for which Feiffer is renowned, Kill My Mother centers on five formidable women from two unrelated families, linked fatefully and fatally by a has-been, hard-drinking private detective.

As our story begins, we meet Annie Hannigan, an out-of-control teenager, jitterbugging in the 1930s. Annie dreams of offing her mother, Elsie, whom she blames for abandoning her for a job soon after her husband, a cop, is shot and killed. Now, employed by her husband’s best friend—an over-the-hill and perpetually soused private eye—Elsie finds herself covering up his missteps as she is drawn into a case of a mysterious client, who leads her into a decade-long drama of deception and dual identities sprawling from the Depression era to World War II Hollywood and the jungles of the South Pacific.

Along with three femme fatales, an obsessed daughter, and a loner heroine, Kill My Mother features a fighter turned tap dancer, a small-time thug who dreams of being a hit man, a name-dropping cab driver, a communist liquor store owner, and a hunky movie star with a mind-boggling secret. Culminating in a U.S.O. tour on a war-torn Pacific island, this disparate band of old enemies congregate to settle scores.

In a drawing style derived from Steve Canyon and The Spirit, Feiffer combines his long-honed skills as cartoonist, playwright, and screenwriter to draw us into this seductively menacing world where streets are black with soot and rain, and base motives and betrayal are served on the rocks in bars unsafe to enter. Bluesy, fast-moving, and funny, Kill My Mother is a trip to Hammett-Chandler-Cain Land: a noir-graphic novel like the movies they don’t make anymore.

OTHER things on my shelf: kinda book-related

1000 Awesome Things
=====> I've been visiting 1000 Awesome Things on my work day mornings to start the day with a smile. It is based on the book below which I read last year and found to be...awesome ;-)

The Book of Awesome
by Neil Pasricha
Amazon | Goodreads
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Rory: The Ghosts of Palladino by Ciye Cho

Rory:
The Ghosts of Palladino
by Ciye Cho

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Just released: August 2013
Publisher: Studio Amazepop
Genre: Fantasy, Ghosts, Romance, YA
ebook
Rating: 4

Amazon

Far beyond heaven, earth and hell is a city known as Palladino, a place ruled by ghosts and filled with demons, magic, and all sorts of darkly beautiful things. A city where no one can ever escape.

Eighteen-year-old Rory is a cake decorator who makes stunning confections. But no amount of frosting or miracles can save her when a demon kidnaps her—and carries her to Palladino. Here, Rory ends up in a deadly charm school where young women are forced to become companions for the Ghost Lords. And for her to survive, Rory must become everything that she isn’t: graceful, elegant... and perfect.

But nothing is what it seems in Palladino. Not the magic. Not the ghosts. And definitely not Martin Marius, the bizarre Ghost Lord-slash-inventor who is drawn to Rory. For amid a thousand machines and a hundred cats, Martin holds a secret that could change everything. A secret that could either free Rory... or destroy her.

Ghosts of Palladino series:
Rory - book 1
book 2 - tba

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My two-bits:
In-a-word(s): works of whimsy
Nice start to series and introduction to a magical place with inhabitants that include ghosts, demons and other creatures I shall not name. (don't want to be spoilerish)

There were some girly and fashionista moments similar to when preparing for beauty pageants. However, there are also adventure and action scenes to balance out the sweet stuff.

I liked how cake decorating figured into the story and the cats were cute ;-)

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* review copy courtesy of author

* part of event: Ghostly Ghosts

Ghostly World

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Find out about ghosts from another world...

--~ eBook Giveaway courtesy of author ~--

Rory
The Ghosts of Palladino, Book 1
by Ciye Cho
Far beyond heaven, earth and hell is a city known as Palladino, a place ruled by ghosts and filled with demons, magic, and all sorts of darkly beautiful things. A city where no one can ever escape.

Eighteen-year-old Rory is a cake decorator who makes stunning confections. But no amount of frosting or miracles can save her when a demon kidnaps her—and carries her to Palladino. Here, Rory ends up in a deadly charm school where young women are forced to become companions for the Ghost Lords. And for her to survive, Rory must become everything that she isn’t: graceful, elegant... and perfect.

But nothing is what it seems in Palladino. Not the magic. Not the ghosts. And definitely not Martin Marius, the bizarre Ghost Lord-slash-inventor who is drawn to Rory. For amid a thousand machines and a hundred cats, Martin holds a secret that could change everything. A secret that could either free Rory... or destroy her.


WIN a copy of this kindle version!

Open to all.

Offer ends: September 20, 2013 --> extended to Oct 6

Based on this book description, SEND me a link to a picture of a cat that might belong to the bizarre Ghost Lord-slash-inventor.

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* image source: Skyler White Ghost excerpt from article, Drawings of 'Breaking Bad' characters as ghosts by Doogie Horner, vvb cat, sources for participant cat images are in comments

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Stacking the Shelves - 9.7.13

Stacking the Shelves
hosted by Tynga's Reviews (details)
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Bought:

The Bone Season
by Samantha Shannon
-fantasy
For Review:

A Matter of Temperance
by Ichabod Temperance
-steampunk
courtesy of author
Thanks Ichabod!

A World of InTemperance
by Ichabod Temperance
-steampunk
courtesy of author
Thanks Ichabod!

Burial Rites
by Hannah Kent
-historical, mystery
ARC courtesy of publisher and Shelf Awareness
Thanks!

The Mona Lisa Speaks
by Christopher Angel
-France, thriller
courtesy of author
Thanks Christopher!

The Ravens of Solemano
The Order of the Mysterious Men in Black
(The Young Inventors Guild)
by Eden Unger Bowditch
-steampunk
courtesy of JDPR
Thanks Lauren!

Rory
The Ghosts of Palladino, Book 1
by Ciye Cho
-ghosts, YA
courtesy of author
Thanks Ciye!

The Sleeping Dictionary
by Sujata Massey
-India, historical
courtesy of publisher
Thanks Mary!

Steel Lily
The Periodic series
by Megan Curd
-steampunk
courtesy of author
Thanks Megan!
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Library:

Self-Inflicted Wounds:
Heartwarming Tales of Epic Humiliation
by Aisha Tyler
-humor
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