Lovely Books and Things - 9.11.22

Lovely Books and Things
My Weekly Books and Films Update

Linking up with:
Mailbox Monday (details)
Stacking the Shelves (details)
Sunday Post (details)
Sunday Salon (details)

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HAPPY THINGS:

1. Bumping into friends at the Chuseok Festival (Korean Thanksgiving) in the Presidio (here)
2. Palace of Legion Honor (here) outing with friend to see Guo Pei Couture Fantasy exhibit (my second viewing)
3. Going to a special event...

High Tea

Peacock Court Room at the Mark Hopkins Hotel ~*~
Library: audiobook

Reckless Girls
by Rachel Hawkins
Thriller, Mystery | Published: 2022 | Goodreads

Freebies: from Free Little Library

Park Avenue Summer
by Renee Rosen
Historical, 1960s, New York | Goodreads

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Virtual Author event: hosted by bookreporter
See archive of this (here)

Lessons in Chemistry
by Bonnie Garmus
1960s, Feminism, Romance | Published: 2022 | Goodreads
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Thanks for stopping by :-)

Stacking the Shelves - 4.9.16

Stacking the Shelves
hosted by Tynga's Reviews (details)
Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

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Bought:

The Dark Days Club
(Lady Helen, #1)
by Alison Goodman
-Historical, Steampunk, YA
Amazon | Goodreads

Lady Renegades
(Rebel Belle #3)
by Rachel Hawkins
-Fantasy, YA
Amazon | Goodreads

Wink Poppy Midnight
by April Genevieve Tucholke
-Mystery, YA
Amazon | Goodreads

=====> Books Inc. of San Francisco (Opera Plaza) presented Penguin Teen YA authors along with their latest books!

Something about each…

Alison Goodman about The Dark Days Club:
Influenced by Georgette Heyer works as well as Pride & Prejudice tv series (with Colin Firth)
Adaptation preference of book: BBC tv series

Alwyn Hamilton about Rebel of the Sands:
Wild west meets Arabian nights
Adaptation preference of book: Musical (like Les Miserables)

April Genevieve Tucholke about Wink Poppy Midnight:
Influence from film Diabolique
Adaptation preference of book: Film

Rachel Hawkins about Lady Renegades:
Created a character totally opposite of the main character in Hex Hall.
Adaptation preference of book: Musical

Sabaa Tahir about An Ember in the Ashes:
Research will be underway at a sword forging class for the third book.
Adaptation preference of book: Film

WON from contest:

An Ember in the Ashes
by Sabaa Tahir
courtesy of Confessions of a Book Addict and Beaks & Geeks podcast -Thanks!
Amazon | Goodreads
For Review:

April Showers Book Tour Spring Box
from BookSparks (details)
Start With the Backbeat by Garine Isassi | Goodreads
A Girl Like You A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel by Michelle Cox | Goodreads
Parting Gifts by Katrina Willis | Goodreads
Meternity by Meghann Foye | Goodreads
The Goodbye Year by Kaira Rouda | Goodreads

ALSO included in this box:
Notebook by Sparrow + Wolf
Starbucks card
Umbrella cookie cutter
Spring themed pencil

OTHER things on my shelf: kinda book-related

Bookmark & Book Ribbons swag
for Walk The Edge by Katie McGarry
=====> I have a second set of this. Let me know in comments if you would like to have it and I will send it your way.

UNBOXING:

From Powell's Indiespensable club package (details & signup):
Powell's subscription club delivers the best new books, with special attention to independent publishers. Signed first editions. Inventive, original sets. Exclusive printings.... Every six weeks, another installment to read and admire. Plus, every package is stocked with exciting surprises!

Box #58 includes:
- A signed first-edition of A Doubter's Almanac by Ethan Canin in a custom slipcase
- A collectible booklet featuring the Powells.com interview and Indiespensable Q&A with Ethan Canin
- Mathematics Nalgene bottle

The Doubter's Almanac
by Ethan Canin
-Historical, Literary
Powell's | Amazon | Goodreads
Milo Andret is born with an unusual mind. A lonely child growing up in the woods of northern Michigan in the 1950s, Milo gives little thought to his talent, and not until his acceptance at U.C. Berkeley does he realize the extent, and the risks, of his singular gifts. California in the seventies is an initiation and a seduction, opening Milo’s eyes to the allure of both ambition and indulgence. The research he begins there will make him a legend; the woman, and the rival, he meets there will haunt him always. For Milo’s brilliance is inextricably linked to a dark side that ultimately threatens to unravel his work, his son and daughter, and his life.

AND watched: in theatre

Allegiant (2016)
Director: Robert Schwentke
Screenplay: Noah Oppenheim, Adam Cooper, Bill Collage
Based on book by: Veronica Roth
Starring: Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels
-Action, Adventure, Mystery | imdb | my rating: 4
After the earth-shattering revelations of Insurgent, Tris must escape with Four beyond the wall that encircles Chicago, to finally discover the shocking truth of the world around them.

=====> Tris rocks! Wraps up the trilogy, but left me wondering.

10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
Director: Dan Trachtenberg
Screenplay/Story: Josh Campbell, Matthew Stuecken
Screenplay: Damien Chazelle
Starring: John Goodman, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, John Gallagher Jr.
-Drama, Horror, Mystery | imdb | my rating: 4
After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.

=====> I watched this before watching the first movie, Cloverfield. I liked how this story was twisty and unpredictable.

Hardcore Henry (2015)
Director: Ilya Naishuller
Screenplay: Ilya Naishuller, Will Stewart
Based on book by:
Starring: Sharlto Copley, Tim Roth, Haley Bennett
-Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | imdb | my rating: 4
A first-person action film from the eyes of Henry, who's resurrected from death with no memory. He must discover his identity and save his wife from a warlord with a plan to bio-engineer soldiers.

=====> Crazy wild ride with this one. The GoPro camera work can play havoc with people who easily get motion sickness. Watching this made me feel like I was part of a virtual reality shoot-em-up video game. Lots and lots and lots of bad guys with fight scenes galore litter the screen. In the end an interesting experience with a scifi storyline to the point of wanting to do a rewatch.

Viewers of this screening got a free comic book which is an origin story for the movie...

Hardcore Akan
Excerpt
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Stacking the Shelves - 9.27.14

Stacking the Shelves
hosted by Tynga's Reviews (details)
Stacking The Shelves is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks!

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Bought:

The Bone Clocks
by David Mitchell
-fantasy, scifi
Amazon | Goodreads
For Review:

Deadly Odds
by Allen Wyler
-mystery, thriller
courtesy of publisher
Thanks !
Amazon | Goodreads
Library:

Early Decision
Based on a True Frenzy
by Lacy Crawford
Amazon | Goodreads
A delightful and salacious debut novel about the frightful world of high school, SATs, the college essay, and the Common Application—and how getting in is getting in the way of growing up.

Tiger mothers, eat your hearts out. Anne the "application whisperer" is the golden ticket to success. Working one-on-one with burned-out, helicopter-parented kids, she can make Harvard a reality. Her phone number is a national secret. Her students end up at the best of the best.

But sometimes acceptance comes at an enormous cost. In a world of cheating scandals, huge alumni donations, and lots of inside pull, some parents know no bounds when it comes to ensuring that their children get in. It's Anne's job to guide students to their own destinies, beginning with their essays. Early Decision follows five students—four privileged, one without a penny to her name—as they make their applications and wrestle with fate.

To write the perfect personal statement, they must tell the truth. And the stories they tell are of greed, excess, jealousy, deceit, money, ego, and pressure, as well as of endurance, tenacity, victory, and the hope of surviving their parents' wildest dreams so they can begin to live their own lives.

Early Decision captures the most ferocious season in a modern family's life. Parents only want the best for their children, and students are fighting for college seats that will give them a head start into work and adulthood. Is it possible to face the fall semester of senior year without losing your mind?

Told in part through the students' essays, unsparingly revealing the secrets of college advisors at the highest levels, Early Decision is an explosive insider's guide to college admissions in our day. It's also a sharp commentary on modern parenting. The truth is, the kids are all right. Their essays are fabulous. But the system is broken. With humor and hard-earned wisdom, Early Decision illuminates the madness of the college race.

Dreaming about getting soon:

Illusions of Fate
by Kiersten White
-paranormal, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
Downton Abbey meets Cassandra Clare in this lush, romantic fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Kiersten White.

“I did my best to keep you from crossing paths with this world. And I shall do my best to protect you now that you have.”

Jessamin has been an outcast since she moved from her island home of Melei to the dreary country of Albion. Everything changes when she meets Finn, a gorgeous, enigmatic young lord who introduces her to the secret world of Albion’s nobility, a world that has everything Jessamin doesn’t—power, money, status…and magic. But Finn has secrets of his own, dangerous secrets that the vicious Lord Downpike will do anything to possess. Unless Jessamin, armed only with her wits and her determination, can stop him.

Kiersten White captured readers’ hearts with her New York Times bestselling Paranormalcy trilogy and its effortless mix of magic and real-world teenage humor. She returns to that winning combination of wit, charm, and enchantment in Illusions of Fate, a sparkling and romantic new novel perfect for fans of Cassandra Clare, The Madman’s Daughter, and Libba Bray.

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* some of these may be offered as giveaways within the next two months

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