Eleni's reading for October 2018

A mixed bag this month. Lots of books seem to come through at the library at once for my series reads. Happy to have read 3 print TBR books this month.


Read: 20               (up 4)
Series: 12              (down 1)
TBR:   5                (down 4)
Audio: 3                (up 1)
AWW: 5               (down 1)
Graphic novels: 1  (no change)

Historical Romance

• The Viscount Who Loved Me (Bridgertons #2) by Julia Quinn | 5 stars | 2009

Anthologies

• Little Gems Short Story Anthology 2009: Turquoise by Romance Writers of Australia Inc. | 4.5 stars | 2009

Romantic Suspense / Crime

• Pros and Cons (Fox and O'Hare #0.5) by Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg (audio narrated by Scott Brick) | short story | 4 stars | 2013
• The Shell Game (Fox and O'Hare #0.25) by Janet Evanovich & Lee Goldberg (audio narrated by Scott Brick) | short story | 4 stars | 2014
• Full Scoop (Full #6) by Janet Evanovich & Charlotte Hughes (audio narrated by Lorelei King) | 4.25 stars | 2006

YA

• Drama by Raina Telgemeier | 4 stars | graphic novel | middle grade | 2012
• The Girl with the Red Balloon (The Balloonmakers #1) by Katherine Locke | 4.5 stars | YA | 2017
• The Transfer (Divergent #0.1) by Veronica Roth | 5 stars | short story | YA | 2013

Urban Fantasy / Paranormal Romance / Sci-Fi with Romantic Elements

• Birthright (Beacon #1) by Valerie Parv | 4.25 stars | 2012
• Soul Stealer (The Anomaly #3) by Anna Hackett | 5 stars | 2013
• The Given (Celestial Blues #3) by Vicki Pettersson | 4.5 stars | 2014

Fantasy

• The Uncrowned King (King Rolen's Kin) by Rowena Cory Daniells | 4.5 stars | 2010

Children's

• Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! by Dr. Seuss | 5 stars | children's - picture book | 1971
• Matilda by Roald Dahl (audio narrated by Kate Winslett) | children's | 5 stars | 1988
• The Cat in the Hat Comes Back by Dr. Seuss | 5 stars | | children's - picture book | 1958
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill | 4.25 stars | children's | 2016
• Gregor and the Marks of Secret (Underland Chronicles #4) by Suzanne Collins (audio narrated by Paul Boehmer) | 4.75 stars | children's | 2008

Non-fiction

• No Plot? No Problem! Revised and Expanded Edition: A Low-stress, High-velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days by Chris Baty | 4.5 stars | non-fiction | 2014

Other

• What Matters Most by Dianne Maguire | 4.5 stars | 2015
• Very Good, Jeeves (Jeeves #4) by P.G. Wodehouse (audio narrated by Jonathan Cecil) | 4.25 stars | 2008 <1930>

~Happy Reading~

Reading for April 2018

Here are my April reads - a varied read this month.

Read: 11
Series: 6
TBR: 0 (was that type of month were my TBR reading is continuing but no books were finished).
Audio: 6
AWW: 0
Graphic novels: 4



Paranormal Romance/ Urban Fantasy

• The Beginning (Hunter Legends Series 0.5) by Sherrilyn Kenyon | short story | 4 stars
• The Mystery of Grace by Charles de Lint (audio narrated by Tai Sammons & Paul Michael Garcia) | 5 stars - Favourite book of the month. Loved the style and the audio version was really good.

Mystery

• A Test of Wills (Inspector Ian Rutledge #1) by Charles Todd (audio narrated by Samuel Giles) | 3.5 stars
• The Lost Days of Agatha Christie by Carole Owens (audio narrated by Wanda McCaddon) | 4 stars

Graphic Novels

• Snow White: a graphic novel by Matt Phelan | 4 stars
• Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Circus of the Damned, Volume 2: The Ingenue (Anita Blake Graphic Novels) by Laurell K. Hamilton,  Jessica Ruffner, and Ron Lim (Illustrator) | graphic novel | 4 stars
• Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter: Circus of the Damned, Volume 3: The Scoundrel (Anita Blake Graphic Novels) by Laurell K. Hamilton,  Jessica Ruffner, and Ron Lim (Illustrator) | graphic novel | 4.5 stars
• Ghosts by Raina Telgemeier | graphic novel | 4 stars

Non-fiction

• I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition) by Malala Yousafzai  and Patricia McCormick (audio narrated by Malala Yousafzai and Neela Vaswani) | non-fiction | YA | 4.5 stars - fascinating and has an outlook of hope. 

Children's

• The Marvelous Land of Oz (Oz #2) by L. Frank Baum (audio narrated by Tara Sands) | children's | 3 stars

Classics

• Carry On, Jeeves (Jeeves #3) by P.G. Wodehouse (audio narrated by Jonathan Cecil) | 4 stars - Chuckling read.  A few stories was in the the previous Jeeves compilations.

Happy Reading!

~E~