Rainy Day Reads

I usually really enjoy Stiefvater's writing, although it often takes me a little while to get into. This book was no different and while it was a little slow at first I really enjoyed it in the end. The book takes place on the island of Thisby around the beginning of the 20th century (I assume. Its never really stated out loud when exactly it is). This island is visited by waterhorses every fall, and the locals catch them, train them and race them once a year in the Scorpio races. This year our main protagonist Kate, Puck to friends, decides to race in order to keep her older brother from leaving the island for the mainland. However, the waterhorses are too wild for her and she decides to race her own horse, born and raised on land. Throughout the book we follow her struggles with family and race officials that think a girl and her land horse does not belong in the races. The book also has a second narrator, Sean Kendrick, who is a master horseman and who has won the races

I saw this on Youtube on the channel Bookables and thought it sounded like a fun idea. Spring is still making up its mind where I live (it snowed a few days ago!), so I hope I can entice it to come out and play with this tag! 1. The struggle of getting started: a book/book series that you have struggled to begin because of its size. I am not often daunted by the size of books as I don’t mind starting long books, because I have the hope that they will be so good I won’t notice the length. I often struggle to finish long books though, because eventually I will feel like I have been reading the same book/story forever. This is also the reason I very rarely marathon series. I just get bored of the universe/story after hundreds of pages, even if I am enjoying it. This is the struggle I am currently having with “Mistborn” by Brandon Sanderson. I am really enjoying it, but it is just soooooo long and I am reaching the point where I just want it to finish! 2. Cleaning out

I figured it was about time I did something other than a review. Both to break up my feed and to get back into blogging again. As I’ve explained I have been quite busy lately and haven’t really devoted much time to my blog, but I am determined to get back into it and this tag sounded fun, so here goes! I first saw this video on Youtube at Lauren and the Books , so you can click here to see her video.  Recently Watched:The last book you finished reading. I finished “Delirium” just yesterday, as I am writing this (and wrote a review, like the good blogger I am (trying to be)). I didn’t really enjoy it that much, so I’ve decided to not continue the series, but you can read my review for more thoughts :)  2. Top Picks: A book/books that have been recommended to you based on a book you have previously read. This sounds a little bigheaded but I think I am the one in my circle of friends who reads the most, so I generally find my new books myself. I really can’t think

This was my latest pick from my TBR Jar and I looked forward to reading it as I really enjoyed reading "Before I Fall" by the same author. This book is about Lena who lives in the United States a number of years in the future. In this future people undergo a "cure" when they turn 18, ensuring that they won't contract the "disease" that is love. This cure is essentially a lobotomy that leaves people docile and dispassionate, "protected" from the throes of not just love but any strong feeling. It's not really clear to me why the government thought that this "cure" was necessary in the first place, but apparently they deemed it important. Lena is looking forward to being cured as her mother was smitten and killed herself when Lena was younger, and now Lena is afraid of ending up like her. Of course, in the last summer before her cure, she meets a boy. But not just any boy. Thi particular boy turns out to be exactly what she

I recently had a look through my Pinterest board for books and ordered a bunch of books home from the library. I feel like this was on one of those Pins but I can't remember the theme or anything. In all events, I didn't really enjoy it. The main characters is a boy named Leopold. He lives with his family on a large estate in early 20th century England. He has a special interest in horses and not so much in humans, and he dreams of working for the master of the house on the stud farm when he is older. And that is pretty much all I got from the book. And I read about half of it, so I would say I gave it a good try. The book starts in January 1911 and tells of the life on the farm, the sowing, the harvesting, the work with the animals and so on. If you like reading about pastoral scenes and early 20th century farming then I think you would enjoy this book. However, I like more plot driven books, so this really wasn't for me. I didn't particularly like the writing st

I have a general interest in history so I thought this one sounded like fun. And it is! As the title says this book explores the lies taught in American high schools. It takes a number of high profile different topics like Columbus, racism, the government etc. and delves deeper into them, shoeing what is taught in schools and why that's not the truth. for instance Columbus is mostly revered as the discoverer of America and has his own day of celebration, but there are a lot of things he did during this "discovery" that are never taught in the schools. Like enslaving the local peoples he met, bringing plagues to the Americas and all round not being the great guy history sets him up to be. The book also looks at WHY these topics are taught like this, when for some of them at least we very well know that that is not the truth of what happened. I found this aspect really interesting too, because who controls history and why do they spin it the way they do? It's hard