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Review – Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

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Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
Shadow and Bone (The Grisha, #1)Description from Goodreads:

Surrounded by enemies, the once-great nation of Ravka has been torn in two by the Shadow Fold, a swath of near impenetrable darkness crawling with monsters who feast on human flesh. Now its fate may rest on the shoulders of one lonely refugee.

Alina Starkov has never been good at anything. But when her regiment is attacked on the Fold and her best friend is brutally injured, Alina reveals a dormant power that saves his life—a power that could be the key to setting her war-ravaged country free. Wrenched from everything she knows, Alina is whisked away to the royal court to be trained as a member of the Grisha, the magical elite led by the mysterious Darkling.

The Grisha Series, #1

Genre: YA Fantasy
Rating: **** (4 of 5 stars)

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Top Ten Tuesday – Finished Series That I Have Yet To Finish

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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Every Tuesday they post a new Top Ten list prompt. This week’s list is Top Ten Finished Series I Have YET to Finish. There are a some ongoing series that I’m not caught up with, but this list is those series that are written, I just haven’t finished reading them! Let me know if you see one I should really go back and finish, or leave a link to your own post in the comments.

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Audiobook Review – Palmetto Poison by C. Hope Clark

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Palmetto Poison by C. Hope Clark
Narrated by Pyper Down
Palmetto Poison
Carolina Slade #3

Genre: Mystery
Rating **** (4 of 5 stars)

After the Governor’s brother-in-law is charged with possessing and distrusting prescription medications illegally, Slade’s boss asks her to look into the matter. As soon as she starts investigating though, people start dying, and no one seems to want to cooperate with her investigation.

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Cozy Review – Candy Corn Murder by Leslie Meier

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Candy Corn Murder by Leslie Meier
Candy Corn Murder (Lucy Stone Mystery, #22)
Lucy Stone Mystery #23

Genre: Cozy Mystery
Rating: *** (3 of 5 stars)

Description from Goodreads: Halloween is coming to Tinker’s Cove, Maine, and local reporter Lucy Stone is covering the town’s annual Giant Pumpkin Fest for the Pennysaver. There’s the pumpkin-boat regatta, the children’s Halloween party, the pumpkin weigh-in…even a contest where home-built catapults hurl pumpkins at an old Dodge! But not everything goes quite as planned…

This is the 23rd Lucy Stone mystery, but it works fine as a standalone story. You don’t need to have read any of the previous books to enjoy this one.

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Friday Feature and Follow 9/4/15

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Book Blogger HopFeature and Follow Friday is hosted by fellow bloggers Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. Every Friday they feature one or two bloggers and pose a question for other participating bloggers to answer. It’s a chance to find some new blogs to visit, and gain some new followers in return.

This week’s featured blog is Newbie Librarians – be sure to visit them and check out the feature on the hosts’ pages.

Now for the Question of the Week: Name a movie you would have loved to read as a book ( That is not a book already obviously) – Suggested by Go Book Yourself.

I would like to have read Jupiter Ascending. I was disappointed in the movie. It wasn’t bad, but I felt like it was lacking in detail and so I tried to find the novel afterwards, thinking it would have more depth. I learned that the movie was not based on a book!

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Guest Post – Richard Baker, Author of Cao Bang

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I’m please to have a guest post from Richard Baker today. He is the author of Cao Bang, an historical fiction novel available from Amazon. I normally read and review authors’ books myself when they contact me, but I am not a fan of this particular era and subject matter. I didn’t want anyone who might be to miss hearing about this book however. As you’ll read below, Richard Baker has the experience and personal knowledge needed to make this a very realistic piece of fiction! Please join me in welcoming him to The Book’s the Thing. – Erika

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What Are You Reading Wednesday – The Mine by John A. Heldt

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What are you reading Wednesday – 9/2/15

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What Are You Reading Wednesdays is a weekly meme hosted by It’s A Reading Thing. To participate, open the book you are currently reading to page 34 (or 34% in your ebook) and answer these three questions.

The Questions are:
1. What’s the name of your current read?

2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share a complete sentence. (or two!)

3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

Now for my answers this week…

1. The Mine by John A. Heldt
The Mine (Northwest Passage #1)

2. Ten minutes after leaving the Canary, Joel discovered that stores on Main Street did not take credit cards. They did not exist in prewar America. Two Sacagawea dollars clinking in his pocket were similarly useless, as was a checking account opened in 1996.

3. This is a time-travel / romance novel. While I wouldn’t mind visiting the past, I would not want to leave everything (and everyone) behind to stay there!

So what are you reading today? Any new recommendations for me? 🙂

New Release – Burnt Secrets by Barbara A. Martin

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It’s Release Day for Burnt Secrets by Barbara A. Martin
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Title: Burnt Secrets
Author: Barbara A. Martin
Series: Bodies Everywhere #2
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Genres: Clean Cozy Mystery
Publisher: Barbara A. Martin

I’m happy to help promote this one – a cozy for anyone who likes their mystery on the clean side (no graphic language, violence, sex etc…). While I do read grittier mysteries, I also enjoy books I can share with my daughter after I have read them! I’ll try to get my review posted sometime later this month.

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No Rhyme (Nor Reason)

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Happy Tuesday / September / National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day!

No – I’m not making it up. In the US, September 1st has been designated as the “unofficial” day for celebrating words in the English language that do not rhyme with any other words – like orange.

In celebration (ok, just for fun…) I thought I would see how many I could think of with without using Google or any other outside assistance. Here’s what I came up with – it is a short list! Let me know if you can think of more, or if you know a word that rhymes with one of mine. I’m sure I’ve missed lots. 🙂

orange
purple
vodka
month
bulb
film

UPDATE: a few more, from various sources around the web…let me know if you can come up with a rhyme for any of these! 🙂

amongst
angst
borscht (adopted into English, does that count?)
cleansed
depth
fourths
glimpsed
husband
ninth
oblige
prompts
scalp
wolf
wolves

Feature & Follow Friday 8/28/15

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Book Blogger HopFeature and Follow Friday is hosted by fellow bloggers Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. Every Friday they feature one or two bloggers and pose a question for other participating bloggers to answer. It’s a chance to find some new blogs to visit, and gain some new followers in return.

The featured blog this week is One Book Two. Be sure to visit and follow them, along with the hosts, if you decide to participate!

This week’s question:

Share a random quote from the book you are currently reading.- Suggested by Journey Through Fiction. 

“It was one thing, she thought, to have a giant pumpkin–growing contest, but quite another to encourage people to transform their giant pumpkins into extremely unstable watercraft for a foolish and dangerous race across the cove. And worst of all, she thought, turning into her driveway and spying the enormous wooden structure that was taking shape in her backyard, was the pumpkin hurl, featuring homemade catapults.” – from Candy Corn Murder by Leslie Meier

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