Eleni's Reading for August 2018

I'm continuing to tackle my TBR pile - using the Author A-Z challenge to chose the next book, but also listening to audio books as they become available. 


Read: 13               (up 3)
Series: 8               (up 3)
TBR:   6                (up 1)
Audio: 4                (up 2)
AWW: 3                (down 1)
Graphic novels: 0  (same)

Fantasy Romance / Paranormal Romance / Urban Fantasy 

• The Golden Apple (The Dark Forest #1) by Michelle Diener | 4.25 stars
• Shifting Hearts (Wiccan Haus #1) by Dominique Eastwick | 4.5 stars
• One for the Money (Night Huntress #4.5) by Jeanine Frost  (in Magic Graves duology with Ilona Andrews) | 4.5 stars | short story
• With All My Soul (Soul Screamers #7) by Rachel Vincent | 5 stars | YA - fab way to end the series

Contemporary Romance (erotic)  / Rural Romance 

• New Year's Kisses by Rhian Cahill | 4.5 stars | novella

Historical Romance | Historical Fantasy | Historical with Romantic Elements

• Sacrifice (Y Ddraig: The Dragons of Brython #1) by Gwendolyn Beynon | 5 stars - just wow!!
• The Other Einstein by Marie Benedict (audio narrated by Mozhan Marno) | 4.5 stars
• The Duke and I (Bridgertons, #1) by Julia Quinn | 4.5 stars
• The Duke and I: The 2nd Epilogue (Bridgertons, #1.5) by Julia Quinn | 4 stars

Speculative Fiction (no romance)

• Out of Time: 2 Strange Tales by Milo James Fowler | 4.5 stars | short stories
• Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett (audio narrated by Martin Jarvis) | 5 stars - hilarious!

Children's 

• A Wrinkle in Time (Time Quintet #1) by Madeleine L'Engle (audio narrated by Hope Davis) | 4.5 stars | children's

Non-fiction

• My Life in France by Julia Child & Alex Prud'Homme (audio narrated by Kimberley Farr) | 4.5 stars | non-fiction |


~Happy Reading~

Neil Gaiman starts off the Eleni's Library Reading Quotes

Having my own library blog, you know I love to read. In honour of increasing my reading once again in the past month, I'll be starting a new feature - Reading Quotes

I had fun creating this with Canva and I see why the program is so popular. It is quick and easy to use.

Go forth and dream...

July's reading

A slow month with reading, but still managed a few books.

I loved Soulless by Gail Carriger, a comedy of errors in the Victorian era with paranormal elements. 

Again Melissa James knocked it out of the emotional depth park with One Small Miracle. Just wow!

In my previous blog post, I mentioned I'd finally read J.D Robb - & yes another enjoyable read.

Graphic novels this month was a wonderful final chapter of Batman (before they started from #1 again) by Neil Gaiman, and the next volume of Astonishing X-Men by  Warren Ellis. Though it doesn't follow from Joss Whedon's (from what I can tell, but I've probably messed up the order as there are more than one X-Men).

And a non-fiction book designed for teachers to discuss fantasy work in their classrooms with a book aptly named Fantasy.

Happy reading!!!