Bout of Books 23

Bout of Books 23
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August 20 to 26, 2018
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TBR pile:

A Place for Us
by Fatima Farheen Mirza
-Literary, Family, India, Muslim
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4
8/20/18: Started - been working on this one slowly and want to finally finish it this week.
8/22/18: Finished

Murder on the Left Bank
by Cara Black
-Mystery, France, Paris
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 4
8/20/18: Started - part of my picks last month for Paris in July - finally cracking it open.
8/25/18: Still working on this. Should be done today. Finished in the evening.

News of the World
by Paulette Jiles
-Historical, Western
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
8/20/18: Started
8/26/18: Reading this in bits but will post review next month for a Western theme I am plotting.

Lady Jane
by Cynthia Hand, Jodi Meadows, Brodi Ashton
-Historical, Humor, Retelling, YA
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
8/23/18: Started - loving it so far
8/24/18: Loved it to the end.

Reservoir 13
by Jon McGregor
-Literary
Amazon | Goodreads | my review: DNF
8/20/18: Started
8/23/18: Stopped - lost my attention

Children of Blood and Bone
Legacy of Orïsha #1
by Tomi Adeyemi
-Fantasy, YA
Amazon | Goodreads | my review: DNF
8/20/18: Started
8/21/18: Stopped - just could not get into it


CHALLENGES:

Monday 8/20 (daily post)

Introduce yourself #insixwords

adventurous, anxious, curious, reader, observer, open

instagram-a-day: currently reading

Tuesday 8/21
Book Plot Emoji - for News of the World by Paulette Jiles.

👧 🐎 🔫

instagram-a-day: favorite color covers

Wednesday 8/22
Literary Villain - he who must not be named aka Lord Voldemort

instagram-a-day: book spine poetry

maestra, open me
sacré bleu
cruel beautiful world
Thursday 8/23
Book Trip - Venice in October for the infamous Masquerade

Masquerade in Venice
by Velda Johnston
-Mystery, Gothic
Amazon | Goodreads
instagram-a-day: 5 star read

Friday 8/24
Bookish Playlist - feeling French with my current read, Murder on the Left Bank, so pairing it with Claude Debussy's Suite Bergamasque - Claire de Lune



instagram-a-day: unfinished book series - Crazy Rich Asians

Saturday 8/25
Discover Books - I was excited to see this cover on a Bout of Books related post.

Lethal White
by Robert Galbraith - but we all know it's J.K. Rowling ;-)
-Mystery, Thriller
Amazon | Goodreads
instagram-a-day: published in 2018 - just picked this up from the library

Dance of Thieves
by Mary E. Pearson
-Fantasy, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
Sunday 8/26
Stretch Goal

I found that I had to revise the reading pile as a couple did not work out for me this round of Bout of Books.

Feeling pretty good that I got around to reading from the tbr pile.

instagram-a-day: series love - Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series

Twitter Chats
(chats last approximately one hour)
TZC = Time Zone Conversion

Monday: 8pm CST (TZC)
Saturday: 10am CST (TZC)

Blog All About It: Beginning

THIS month's beginning started off with the usual "White Rabbit, White Rabbit" saying for luck.


READ:

Children of Blood and Bone
(Legacy of Orisha #1)
by Tomi Adeyemi
-Fantasy, YA
Amazon | Goodreads | my review: DNF
FIRST selection for the first Tonight Show Summer Reads with Jimmy Fallon (details). Also, the first in a hot new YA series.

TRIED it, but could not get into it.

Crazy Rich Asians
by Kevin Kwan
-Women's Fiction, Asian American
Amazon | Goodreads | my review | my rating: 5
THIS is the first book in the trilogy.


WATCH:

Crazy Rich Asians (2018)
Director: Jon M. Chu
Screenplay: Peter Chiarelli, Adele Lim
Based on book by: Kevin Kwan
Stars: Constance Wu, Michelle Yeoh, Henry Golding
Release date: August 15, 2018
-Comedy | imdb | my review | my rating: 5
TO go after the book reading - maybe a start to a film trilogy???


VISIT:

Transbay Terminal
new and improved
(details)
Grand Opening party with rooftop park.


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* header image: White Rabbit from 2010 Alice in Wonderland film poster

* part of the Blog All About It Challenge (here)

Lovely Books and Things - 7.28.18

Lovely Books and Things
My Weekly Books and Films Update
Linking up with:
Stacking the Shelves (details)
Sunday Post (details)
Mailbox Monday (details)

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HAPPY THINGS:

1. Peach oolong tea while doing a dvd binge of CSI: Las Vegas season 7

2. Totally taken with All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth - elite boarding school, missing mother and secrets

3. Squeezing in time to work on a crochet project

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Bought:

Children of Blood and Bone
Legacy of Orïsha #1
by Tomi Adeyemi
-Fantasy, YA
Amazon | Goodreads
VOTED to be the Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show Summer Read (details).


Library:

Kudos
by Rachel Cusk
-Literary, Contemporary
Amazon | Goodreads
FOR the Rooster Summer Reading Challenge (here)


Author event:

Book Passage, Corte Madera, hosted an event with Ayobami Adebayo with the recent paperback release of Stay With Me. Found out that this novel started out as a short story. Also, some of her sources of inspiration are Toni Morrison and Margaret Atwood.

Stay With Me
by Ayobami Adebayo
-Historical, Literary, Africa, Nigeria
Amazon | Goodreads

AND watched: in theatre

The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
Director/Writer: Susanna Fogel
Writers: David Iserson
Stars: Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Justin Theroux, Sam Heughan
-Action, Comedy | imdb | my rating: 5
Audrey and Morgan are best friends who unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one of the women discovers the boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy.

HILARIOUS!

Sorry To Bother You (2018)
Director/Writer: Boots Riley
Stars: Lakeith Stanfield, Tessa Thompson
-Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | imdb | my rating: 5
In an alternate present-day version of Oakland, telemarketer Cassius Green discovers a magical key to professional success, propelling him into a universe of greed.

THOUGHT provoking. Loved how the storyline turned into something that was totally unexpected.

Dark Money (2018)
Director/Writer: Kimberly Reed
Witer: Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
-Documentary | imdb | my rating: 5
DARK MONEY, a political thriller, examines one of the greatest present threats to American democracy: the influence of untraceable corporate money on our elections and elected officials. The film takes viewers to Montana--a front line in the fight to preserve fair elections nationwide--to follow an intrepid local journalist working to expose the real-life impact of the US Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. Through this gripping story, DARK MONEY uncovers the shocking and vital truth of how American elections are bought and sold. This Sundance award-winning documentary is directed/produced by Kimberly Reed (PRODIGAL SONS) and produced by Katy Chevigny (E-TEAM).

SCARY.


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