Where Is Your Bookmark? (10/20/2015)

I decided to join in Dewey's Read-a-thon this past Saturday. I hadn't signed up, and so my participation was unofficial and informal. The plans I had for that day had fallen through, and I was feeling kind of bummed as a result. What better way to cheer myself up than to lose myself in reading? I managed to get in about 10 hours of reading, finishing off a book I had begun the night before along with reading another novel. I also read two graphic novels that had been sitting on my TBR shelf for about five or so years. I took frequent breaks, including lunch out and an ice cream run later in the evening. My husband and daughter were pretty good about allowing me to read, although it meant my husband didn't get his nap. I felt a sense of accomplishment when my head hit the pillow Saturday night.

Sunday we made our annual trip to the pumpkin patch. Mouse had fun picking out a couple of pumpkins. This week we hope to make time to carve or decorate them. We finally got the Halloween and fall decorations out of the garage. The candy corn pot holders are now hanging from our front door thanks to Mouse.

I currently am reading Lilith Saintcrow's Hunter, Healer, the sequel to The Society. It is a paranormal romance/thriller sort of book that has me racing through the pages. I hesitate to say too much about Hunter, Healer, given The Society ended with a cliff hanger. The two books really do go hand in hand.  The series features Rowan Price, a psychic much desired by good and evil forces. The books have more of a science fiction feel to them than a fantasy one, given the special ops units and fire power involved. Not my usual type of read, and yet I enjoyed The Society more than I expected and am anxious to see how it all turns out in Hunter, Healer.

First Paragraph of Hunter, Healer:

Kick. Another Kick. Knee. Solid contact. Move in. Move in, get going, do it faster, faster, precise, put your weight behind it, sweetheart! Do it. Punch. Ouch, don't flex your wrist, throw an elbow, keep going, stitch in the side. Move. Move. MOVE!

I stopped here because the next paragraph is more revealing. By revealing I mean it contains a possible spoiler for those who have not (but want to) read the first book.

Teasers from Hunter, Healer at 26% in which we catch Rowan in a reflective moment: 

The old pain rose, and the old rage with it. She stared out at the lights, then reached up and spread her had against the chill glass. Mist outlined her fingers, living warmth meeting cold hardness.



What do you think? Would you keep reading?  

What are you reading at the moment?  Is it anything you would recommend?

I think when I finish Hunter, Healer, I will be ready for something more based in reality. maybe A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding by Jackie Copleton or The Headmaster's Wager by Vincent Lam. Both are calling to me, and rather loudly at that.

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by the lovely ladies at Broke and Bookish.

This week's  Top Ten Tuesday theme is 10 Wishes I'd Ask The Book Genie To Grant Me. This was harder than I thougth it would be.

1. I wish I had a Time-Turner like Hermione Granger's. Then I could get everything done I want to, including make a good dent in my TBR pile plus get all those reviews and posts written in a timely fashion.

2. I wish I had started recording the books I read earlier in my life. I started keeping a reading journal in 2003. So many books read undocumented. It seems a crime.

3. I would love to have a Library Tardis.  Small on the outside, but big on the inside.

4. I would wish for a photographic memory. Or maybe just semi-perfect recall. Just better recall would do. I just think it would be cool.

5. On a more practical note, I would love a book-shelf themed quilt.

6. Who wouldn't want unlimited funds for books? I think this one is self-explanatory.

7. I wish I had read Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace already--and loved it. Okay, so at this point I just want to have the reading of the book behind me.

8. I would love to actually be able to step into the pages of a book and into the world I am reading about, to come and go as a I please.  

9. This is more of a hope than a wish, but I would like to see my daughter find pleasure in reading throughout her life.

10. Along a similar vain, I wish that the non-readers in my life could experience the joys of reading at least once or twice a year--at the very least.

If you had a Book Genie that could grant unlimited wishes, what would you wish for?

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