10 Books On My Priority List

Posted on 09/04/2020 by Lenn

Hey, everyone! I’m back with another book list and today I’ll be talking about the top ten books in my physical TBR that are on my priority list. I may have mentioned in one of my previous posts that I am a mood reader which is why I don’t post monthly TBRs here or on Instagram (except for my readathon books). My being a mood reader is also the reason why I do not have a specific date set for reading each of the books that I will mention in this post, but hopefully, I can get to them before the year ends. Continue reading →

Stuff I’ve Been Reading Lately #11

Posted on 09/01/2020 by Lenn

BOOKS READ:

Flyte (Septimus Heap, #2) by Angie Sage
Dekada ’70 by Lualhati Bautista
Ever After by Olivia Vieweg
One-Punch Man Vol. 7 by ONE
One-Punch Man Vol. 8 by ONE
Cardcaptor Sakura Vol. 6 by CLAMP
Kaguya-sama: Love is War Vol. 3 by Aka Akasaka

BOOKS BOUGHT:

Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1) by Kendare Blake
Girl of Nightmares (Anna, #2) by Kendare Blake
Demon Slayer Vol. 1 by Koyoharu Gotouge
Your Lie in April Vol. 1 by Naoshi Arakawa
Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell
The Shadow of What Was Lost (The Licanius Trilogy, #1) by James Islington
An Echo of Things to Come (The Licanius Trilogy, #2) by James Islington
The Modern Faerie Tales Trilogy (Omnibus Edition) by Holly Black

BOOKS RECEIVED:

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella
Storms by Chris Vick
The Museum of Heartbreaks by Meg Leder
Geekerella by Ashley Poston

ARCs:

Ever After by Olivia Vieweg
One of Those Days by Adres G. Leiva

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Favorite Debut Books

Posted on 08/17/2020 by Lenn

Hey, guys! Today I’m going to talk about my all-time favorite debuts! I’ve been wanting to write posts of my favorite so and so and I have already started in February and sort of stopped because I ran out of ideas of books to list. Recently, I came up with a lot of ideas for my blog content and have been scheduling posts since last week. With that, I also came up with new topics for my book lists!

If you do not know, a debut book means it is an author’s first novel that has been published. I honestly love reading debut novels and discovering amazing authors, I mean, if the first novel they ever wrote is amazing, what more the next books that they will write, right?

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The Tome Project

Posted on 08/14/2020 by Lenn

Tome, /tōm/ n.
A book, especially a large, heavy, scholarly one.

I started reading more since the quarantine started in March and managed to put a quarter of a dent on my physical TBR. Some time around the middle of this chaos, when it was announced that couriers are back in operations and that deliveries can pass through from wherever city to another, I started buying books again. I started hauling books that have been on my Goodreads TBR for years! So the quarter of a dent that I made on my physical TBR isn’t quite considered a dent anymore since I’ve added quite a number of books on it. Haha

As you know, I’ve announced in a previous post that I am participating in Sam’s (of thoughtsontomes) Tome Topple readathon and it quite gave me an idea to launch this little project. With that being said, I came up with a plan to read at least one tome (or a 500+ page book) from my physical TBR per month.

I have a lot of books that are over 500 pages and I think I’ve added some more during the quarantine, and most of these books are part of a series so I hope that this personal project will help me read most of the books that I have hauled over the years (and recently) and finally finish all of them.

For August, I included Flyte (Septimus Heap, #2) by Angie Sage which has a total of 531 pages and Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1) by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl which has a total of 563 pages. This is a good start for me because the Caster Chronicles series has been on my Goodreads TBR for a very long time and it has been suggested and recommended to me by a lot of people and I bought the whole series three years ago, so I really really need to get to it.

Reading update:

I have managed to finish reading Flyte (Septimus Heap, #2) by Angie Sage on Saturday and I gave it a 3.75 rating. It was absolutely an awesome journey with Septimus and Jenna. so I am looking forward to continuing the series next month. After reading Flyte, I started reading Beautiful Creatures (Caster Chronicles, #1) by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl yesterday and I’m just a couple of pages in so I can’t really say anything about it yet.

On the side of Beautiful Creatures, I am also reading Dekada ’70 by Lualhati Baustista on the side so that I could also make progress with my Wikathon TBR. So far, I am enjoying the book. For me, it is really educational given the current state of our country recently.

#TomeTopple TBR

Posted on 08/07/2020 by Lenn

Hey, everyone! Today I’ll be sharing with you guys my Tome Topple TBR which I am really excited about because I’ll be starting a new book series that has been on my shelf for three years now. I’ve seen and watched a lot of participants’ videos and Instagram posts in the previous rounds. Seeing and watching them read their tomes made me feel giddy and challenged to read the tomes from my shelf too. It’s Tome Topple Readathon’s 12th round already and I think Sam’s planning on hosting another one around November, so if this works, I’ll probably participate again then.

For those who do not know yet, the Tome Topple Readathon is a readathon where the main goal is to read as much books over 500 pages in two weeks! This readathon will run from August 8th to 21st (in your timezone). This readathon is founded by Sam from @thoughtsontomes and co-hosted by other bookish people in the book community. Continue reading →

Tier-Ranking All the Contemporary Books I’ve Ever Read

Posted on 07/24/2020 by Lenn

Hi, everyone! I’m back with another book list (sort of). Since I’ve been seeing a lot of people in the book community tier-ranking the books that they’ve read, I decided to do one for all the contemporary book that I have ever read. Continue reading →

Book Review: Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

Posted on 07/22/2020 by Lenn

Title: Sharp Objects

Author: Gillian Flynn

Date Published: September 26, 2006

Number of Pages: 396

Publisher: Crown Publishing Book

Genre: Mystery, Thriller

Synopsis:

Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family’s Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying with the young victims—a bit too strongly. Dogged by her own demons, she must unravel the psychological puzzle of her own past if she wants to get the story—and survive this homecoming. Continue reading →

Stuff I’ve Been Reading Lately #9

Posted on 07/01/2020 by Lenn

BOOKS READ:

This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1) by Angie Sage
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War Vol. 1 by Aka Akasaka
One-Punch Man Vol. 5 by ONE
One-Punch Man Vol. 6 by ONE

BOOKS BOUGHT:

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Teardrop by Lauren Kate
Passion by Lauren Kate
Rapture by Lauren Kate
Deception Point by Dan Brown
Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalo
One Of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus
Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
The Five People You Meet In Heaven by Mitch Albom
For One More Day by Mitch Albom

BOOKS RECEIVED:

Magyk (Septimus Heap, #1) by Angie Sage
Flyte (Septimus Heap, #2) by Angie Sage
Physik (Septimus Heap, #3) by Angie Sage
Queste (Septimus Heap, #4) by Angie Sage
Syren (Septimus Heap, #5) by Angie Sage
Darke (Septimus Heap, #6) by Angie Sage
Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide by Rick Riordan
Gerald’s Game by Stephen King

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Book Mail: Septimus Heap by Angie Sage + Percy Jackson & the Olympians

Posted on 06/26/2020 by Lenn

Another book mail that I received during the quarantine is the Septimus Heap series (minus the seventh book) by Angie Sage. My boyfriend bought it for me and sent it to me via Lalamove along with the other book orders that I had shipped at his place. Continue reading →

Series Review: The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

Posted on 06/22/2020 by Lenn

Series Title: The Mortal Instruments
Author: Cassandra Clare
Number of Books: 6 (See the full list here)
Prequel: The Infernal Devices
Sequel: The Dark Artifices, The Last Hours
Spin-Off(s): The Shadowhunter’s Codex, The Bane Chronicles, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy
Publication Dates: March 2007 to May 2014
Genre: Fantasy, Paranormal, Magic, Action, Young Adult, Romance

Synopsis:

Synopsis for City of Bones:

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary’s first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It’s also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace’s world with a vengeance when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know…

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