Monthly Wrap-up: September 2018

Total Books Read in September: 4
Total Books Read in 2018: 24

Maisie Dobbs (Maisie Dobbs #1) by Jacqueline Winspear
Narrated by: Rita Barrington
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery, Series
My Rating: 4/5

 

The Law of Dreams by Peter Behrens 
Genre: Historical Fiction
My Rating: 2/5
Quick Thoughts: Peter Behrens The Law of Dreams follows an orphaned boy during the Irish potato famine, as he forges a new life for himself. Many historical fiction novels I’ve read doesn’t delve far into why immigrants leave them homelands. However this book did and for that I found it interesting. Unfortunately I struggled with some of the disturbing content and found it quite long. I didn’t feel as if I got to know our main character as well as the people he came across on his journey.

 

Baby Proof by Emily Giffin
Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Romance
My Rating: 3.5/5

 

Deadly Voyage: R.M.S. Titanic, Jamie Laidlaw, April 14, 1912 by High Brewster
Genre: Middle-grade, Historical Fiction
My Rating: 4/5

The Stats

Total Number of Books Read: 4
Total Number of Fiction: 4
Total Number of Non-Fiction: 0
Total Books Sent for Review: 0
Total Books Read from My Shelves: 3
Total Library Books Read: 1

Formats Read

Physical Books: 2
eBooks: 1
Audio Books: 1

 

Currently Reading

 

October TBR

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Can’t Wait Wednesday: Every Breath by Nicholas Sparks

Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme featuring our most anticipated releases to come. It is hosted by Tessa at Wishful Endings.

Every Breath by: Nicholas Sparks
To be released: October 2018

 In the romantic tradition of The Notebook and Nights in Rodanthe, #1 New York Times bestselling author Nicholas Sparks returns with a story about a chance encounter that becomes a touchstone for two vastly different individuals — transcending decades, continents, and the bittersweet workings of fate.

Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she’s been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family’s cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future.

Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter from a man claiming to be his father. A safari guide, born and raised in Zimbabwe, Tru hopes to unravel some of the mysteries surrounding his mother’s early life and recapture memories lost with her death. When the two strangers cross paths, their connection is as electric as it is unfathomable . . . but in the immersive days that follow, their feelings for each other will give way to choices that pit family duty against personal happiness in devastating ways.

Illuminating life’s heartbreaking regrets and enduring hope, EVERY BREATH explores the many facets of love that lay claim to our deepest loyalties — and asks the question, How long can a dream survive?

Top 10 Tuesday: Books from My Favourite Authors I haven’t Read Yet

Top 10 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. 

Here are some books by my favourite authors, that I haven’t read yet.

Mitch Albom

Kate Morton 

Meg Cabot

Beth Labonte 

Suzanne Woods Fisher 

Top 10 Tuesday: Books on my Fall 2018 TBR

Top 10 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

Today’s topic for Top 10 Tuesday is are TBR’s for Fall. Here are some books I’d like to get to.

Birds of a Feather (Maisie Dobbs, #2) by Jacqueline Winspear

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler 

A Change of Fortune (Ladies of Distinction #1) by Jen Turano 

Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy

Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1) by Sara Shepard

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) by J.K. Rowling

Can’t Wait Wednesday: The Clockmaker’s Daughter

Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme featuring our most anticipated releases to come. It is hosted by Tessa at Wishful Endings.

The Clockmarker’s Daughter by Kate Morton
To be released: September 2018

From the bestselling author of The House at Riverton and The Secret Keeper, Kate Morton brings us her dazzling sixth novel, The Clockmaker’s Daughter.

My real name, no one remembers.
The truth about that summer, no one else knows.

In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor on the banks of the Upper Thames. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity. But by the time their stay is over, one woman has been shot dead while another has disappeared; a priceless heirloom is missing; and Edward Radcliffe’s life is in ruins.

Over one hundred and fifty years later, Elodie Winslow, a young archivist in London, uncovers a leather satchel containing two seemingly unrelated items: a sepia photograph of an arresting-looking woman in Victorian clothing, and an artist’s sketchbook containing a drawing of a twin-gabled house on the bend of a river.

Why does Birchwood Manor feel so familiar to Elodie? And who is the beautiful woman in the photograph? Will she ever give up her secrets?

Told by multiple voices across time, The Clockmaker’s Daughter is a story of murder, mystery and thievery, of art, love and loss. And flowing through its pages like a river, is the voice of a woman who stands outside time, whose name has been forgotten by history, but who has watched it all unfold: Birdie Bell, the clockmaker’s daughter.

Book Haul: May 2018

Here are the books I added to my collection during the month of May.

Who knew the Giant Tiger has such great books for sale? And for decent prices as well. The top 4 books were purchased there and I will definitely be going back to buy more.

• Songs of Willow Frost by Jamie Ford
• Ella Minnow Pea by Mark Dunn
• The Gilded Years by Karin Tanabe 
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes (Given to me as a mothers day gift from my son).
• Love Comes Softly (1-4) by Janette Oke (Bought at Chapters)

Have you read any of these books? If so did you enjoy them? Leave me a message in the comments. 

 

Linking up with: Stacking the Shelves

 

Can’t Wait Wednesday: The New Mrs. Clifton

Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme, where we share our most anticipated releases to come. It is hosted by Tressa at Wishful Endings.

The New Mrs. Clifton by Elizabeth Buchan
To be released: August, 2018

As the Second World War draws to a close, Intelligence Officer Gus Clifton surprises his sisters at their London home. But an even greater shock is the woman he brings with him, Krista – the German wife whom he has married secretly in Berlin.

Krista is clearly devastated by her experiences at the hands of the British and their allies – all but broken by horrors she cannot share. But Gus’s sisters can only see the enemy their brother has brought under their roof. And their friend Nella, Gus’s beautiful, loyal fiancée, cannot understand what made Gus change his mind about their marriage. What hold does Krista have over their honourable and upright Gus? And how can the three women get her out of their home, their future, their England?

Haunted by passion, betrayal, and misunderstanding these damaged souls are propelled towards a spectacular resolution. Krista has lost her country, her people, her identity, and the ties that bind her to Gus hold more tightly than the sisters can ever understand…

Can’t Wait Wednesday: The Masterpiece

Can’t Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme featuring our most anticipated releases to come. It is hosted by Tessa at Wishful Endings.

The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
To be released: August, 2018

In her latest captivating novel, nationally bestselling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women, fifty years apart, strive to make their mark on a world set against them.

For the nearly nine million people who live in New York City, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different.

For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to her future, which she is certain will shine as the brightly as the constellations on the main concourse ceiling. It is 1928, and twenty-five-year-old Clara is teaching at the lauded Grand Central School of Art. A talented illustrator, she has dreams of creating cover art for Vogue, but not even the prestige of the school can override the public’s disdain for a “woman artist.” Brash, fiery, confident, and single-minded–even while juggling the affections of two men, a wealthy would-be poet and a brilliant experimental painter–Clara is determined to achieve every creative success. But she and her bohemian friends have no idea that they’ll soon be blindsided by the looming Great Depression, an insatiable monster with the power to destroy the entire art scene. And even poverty and hunger will do little to prepare Clara for the greater tragedy yet to come.

Nearly fifty years later, in 1974, the terminal has declined almost as sharply as Virginia Clay’s life. Full of grime and danger, from the smoke-blackened ceiling to the pickpockets and drug dealers who roam the floor, Grand Central is at the center of a fierce lawsuit: Is the once-grand building a landmark to be preserved, or a cancer to be demolished? For Virginia, it is simply her last resort. Recently divorced, she has just accepted a job in the information booth in order to support herself and her college-age daughter, Ruby. But when Virginia stumbles upon an abandoned art school within the terminal and discovers a striking watercolor hidden under the dust, her eyes are opened to the elegance beneath the decay. She embarks on a quest to find the artist of the unsigned masterpiece–an impassioned chase that draws Virginia not only into the battle to save Grand Central but deep into the mystery of Clara Darden, the famed 1920s illustrator who disappeared from history in 1931.

Book Haul: April 2018

Here are the books I added to my collection during the month of April..

Net Galley

Save the Date by Morgan Matson

Walmart Finds

Come From Away by Genevieve Graham
Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli 

 

Have you read any of these books? If so what did you think of them? Leave me a message in the comments.

PS… I’m having trouble sharing my instagram pictures here on my blog.. Did this post work correctly? Could someone please let me know in the comments.

P.P.S: So I deleted the Instagram picture and re-added it from my Google album. I’m still unable to figure out how to share from Instagram for some reason.

Top 10 Tuesday: Top Books on my Spring TBR

Top 10 Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.

Here are some books I hope to read over the next couple of months..

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter, #5) by JK Rowling

 

Rumors (Luxe, #2) by Anna Godbersen

 

Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy 

 

More than 50%: Women’s Life in a Newfoundland Outport (1900-1950) by Hilda Chaulk Murray 

 

Confessions of a Shopaholic (Shopaholic, #1) by Sophie Kinsella

 

Pretty Little Liars (Pretty Little Liars, #1) by Sara Shepard 

 

What do you plan to read during the Spring season? Leave me a message in the comments.