February Book Haul

Happy (end of) February friends!

My February Book Haul is up on my YouTube channel. Find all the books I mentioned in the video below. On a budget? Be sure to check out your local Half Price Books. Is there a book I should keep on my radar? Let me know in the comments! Be sure to subscribe to my channel!

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

• Get it from Amazon
• Get it from Barnes and Noble
• Get it from Books-A-Million

Also by Fredrik Backman:

• My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
• Britt-Marie Was Here
• And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
• Bear Town

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly 

• Get it from Amazon
• Get it from Barnes and Noble
• Get it from Books-A-Million

Want more information on Hidden Figures - check out Margot's website.

The Edge of Eternity by Ken Follett

• Get it from Amazon
• Get it from Barnes and Noble
• Get it from Books-A-Million

Also by Ken Follett:

• Fall of Giants
• Winter of the World
• The Pillars of the Earth
• World Without End

Be sure to check out Ken's website for a complete listing of his novels.

Complete Plays by William Shakespeare

• Get it from Barnes and Noble

Only interested in a specific play? Most book stores carry Shakespeare's works!

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September 2016 Book Haul

I have a problem. I cannot help myself from going into a bookstore and buying at least one book - which usually means at least two and sometimes five. Or I buy none - it's really an all or nothing kind of thing. One day I was scrolling through Instagram and one of the accounts I follow (I'd give credit if I could remember the account...) mentioned going to a thrift store to purchase books. WHAT A BRILLIANT IDEA!!!! For whatever reason, this never crossed my mind.  So last week, I went to a couple of my local thrift stores and, well, I may have purchased 8 books (that I haven't read before) - but only spent $11. If this doesn't scream #booksonabudget , I'm not sure what will.

September 2016 Book Haul

September 2016 book haul

Book #1: Dragonfly Amber by Diana Gabladon
Series: yes - #2 in the Outlander series
Length on TBR list: 10ish months (since I finished the first one)
Summary: Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser are back in the second installment of the series. Claire returns with her daughter to Scotland and plans to reveal the truth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones, love that transcends boundaries of time and about Jamie. Claire's daughter will be tested, and Claire continues on her journey of self-discovery in the Paris court of Charles Stuart.

Book #2: At First Sight by Nicholas Sparks
Series: yes - #2 about Jeremy Marsh and Lexie Darnell
Length on TBR list: newly added
Summary: Jeremy Marsh was certain that he'd never leave NYC, never fall in love after a failed marriage and never become a parent. Well - turns out he's done all of those things with Lexie Darnell. Jeremy's life seems to be going well, until a mysterious and disturbing email sets off a chain of events that will change the course of the couple's relationship.

Book #3: A Bend in the Road by Nicholas Sparks
Series: not to my knowledge
Length on TBR list: newly added
Summary: Miles Ryan's wife was killed in a hit-and-run accident two years ago. As deputy sheriff, he wants to bring the unknown driver to justice, while continuing to grieve for his wife and worries about their son Jonah. Miles meets Sarah Andrews, his son's second grade teacher. The two fall in love, but they are bound together by a shocking secret that will force them to reexamine everything.

Book #4: Crash & Burn by Lisa Gardner
Series: yes - #3 about Tessa Leoni
Length on TBR list: newly added
Summary: Nicole Frank shouldn't have been able to survive the car accident with the injuries that she sustained. The only thing keeping her going is the thought of Vero. Sergeant Wyatt Foster is frustrated when no one, not even the dogs, can't find the missing child anywhere. Nicole's husband (Thomas) shares that Nicole suffers from a rare brain injury. Basically, the police shouldn't trust a single word that she says.

Book #5: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Series: not to my knowledge
Length on TBR list: about 5 years
Summary: The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price - a Baptist who takes his family on a mission trip to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They bring with them everything that they believe they will need from home - but everything is transformed on African soil. What follows is a family's tragic undoing and reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.

Book #6: The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown
Series: yes - #3 about Robert Langdon
Length on TBR list: about 4.5 years
Summary: Robert Langdon answers an unexpected summons to appear the US Capital Buidling. His lecture is interrupted when a disturbing object is discovered in the building. Peter Solomon, Langdon's mentor, is kidnapped. Langdon realizes that the only way to save Solomon is to dive into the world of Masonic secrets, hidden history and one inconceivable truth under the watchful eye of the story's villain.

Book #7: The Constant Princess by Philippa Greggory
Series: yes - #6 of the Plantagenet and Tudor Novels
Length on TBR list: newly added
Summary: Katherine of Aragon - known for being pushed off her throne by Anne Boleyn. Katherine's passion turns her arranged marriage to Henry VIII's older brother (Arthur) into a love match. When Arthur dies, the English court and Katherine's parents have to find a new role for the widow. Katherine takes control of her life by telling a lie - a lie that leads to her the very pinnacle of power in England.

Book #8: Thriller edited by James Patterson
Series: no
Length on TBR list: newly added
Summary: A collection of pure thriller stories that offers heart pumping-tales of suspense by 32 critically acclaimed and award-winning names in the game.

What reads have you picked up recently? Let me know!

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4 Books I Bought Recently

Because one book haul wasn't enough, I had to go and do it again. Clearly, I'm still upset and dealing with some things because I went to Target (mistake #1) and went to the book section (mistake #2) and I left with 4 books (mistake #3). Please tell me I'm not the only person that does this. What books have you bought recently?

Here's what I bought:

1. You Should Have Known by Jean Hanff Korelitz

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Grace Reinhart Sachs is living the only life she ever wanted for herself, devoted to her husband, a pediatric oncologist at a major cancer hospital, their young son, Henry, and the patients she sees in her therapy practice. Grace is also the author of the forthcoming You Should Have Known, a book in which she castigates women for not valuing their intuition and calls upon them to pay attention to their impressions of men. But weeks before the book is published, a chasm opens in her own life: a violent death, a missing husband, and, in the place of a man Grace thought she knew, only a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, and horrified by the ways in which she has failed to heed her own advice, Grace must dismantle one life and create another for her child and herself.*

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2. Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Clay Jenson doesn't want anything to do with the tapes Hannah Baker made. Hannah is dead. Her secrets should be buried with her. Then Hannah's voice tells Clay that his name is on her tapes - and that he is, in some way, responsible for her death. All through the night, Clay keeps listening. He follow's Hannah's recorded words through small town...and what he discovers changes his life forever.*

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5 Books I Bought Recently

When not so great events happen in my life, I tend to rely on some retail therapy to get me through it. At least through the initial shock of it all. So naturally, I found myself at Barnes and Noble this evening after learning some not so great news. I bought four books. Which considering I have a bunch of other books to read in my apartment right now, I probably shouldn't have. But whatever.

Here they are: Retail Therapy - Book Edition

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1. Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

"Lydia is dead. But they don't know this yet." So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia's body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos.*



2. The Innocent by David Baldacci

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It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable: he refuses to kill. Now, Robie becomes a target himself and must escape from his own people. Fleeing the scene, Robie crosses paths with a wayward teenage girl, a fourteen-year-old runaway from a foster home But she isn't an ordinary runaway - her parents were murdered, and her own life is in danger. Going against all of his professional habits, Robie rescues her and finds he can't walk away. He needs to help her. Even worse, the more Robie learns about the girl, the more he's convinced she is at the center of a vast cover-up, one that may explain her parents' deaths and stretch to unimaginable levels of power. Now, Robie may have to step out of the shadows in order to save this girls' life...and perhaps his own.*

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