Yesterday I found a great used bookstore close to my house, and I was only able to spend a few minutes inside, but I am very impressed! If you live in the Northwest Arkansas area, I definitely recommend that you go over and check it out. It is called Once Upon A Time Books, and you can visit their website by clicking here. Their pricing is terrific- paperbacks are 25 cents, soft covers 50 cents, and hardcovers 75 cents to $1. Some of their vintage books are a bit more expensive, but from the general collection you won't find anything more than $3.
The very limited time I spent inside was amazing, and I was able to pick up some books that I've always wanted to read but never had immediate (or cheap) access to. I am planning on making another trip soon for some more additions.
Tender is the Night- Fitzgerald
Angela's Ashes- McCourt
Memoirs of a Geisha- Golden
The Hours- Cunningham
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil- Berendt
The Illustrated Sherlock Holmes Treasury- Doyle
Message in a Bottle- Sparks
A Walk to Remember- Sparks
Song of Solomon- Morrison
White Oleander- Finch
The Weight of Water- Shreve
7.28.2013
7.26.2013
July Book Challenge Update/ Sookie Stackhouse review
Hey guys! So, I haven't been doing too great of a job on reviewing, rating, and listing the books I've been reading lately... Honestly, I haven't been doing very much reading at all, anyway, thanks to life and the wonderfulness that surrounds it (in both a sarcastic, actually pretty horrible way and a cheesy, nonsarcastically I-am-very-blessed way). This month I read 13 books, and that brings my total for the 2013 reading challenge up to 74. (Whew! That's a big number, I'm actually really proud of myself! :D)
Recap: This month I mostly just got caught up re-reading the Southern Vampire Mysteries, popularly referred to as the Sookie Stackhouse books (If you're drawing a blank here, these are the books that the steamy, dreamy, kind of crazy HBO series TrueBlood was created from.) The series is great- hardly anything substantial or literary about the books, but as far as brain candy goes, you can hardly make a better pick if you are into supernatural, romantic, funny mysteries with plenty of sexy scenes, gory scenes, and some eye-rolling, completely cheesy scenes as well. I was born in Shreveport, LA and I love reading about the northern LA geography that I'm familiar with; every time a place is mentioned that I know well, it makes me feel like I'm right there immersed with Sookie and her supernatural entourage. Anyway, on with a recap: The plotlines don't always get resolved in a satisfying way, which is obviously pretty disappointing. Sookie is annoying, almost all of the time. There is no deniability in the success of the steamy bedroom scenes, however, and the sexual chemistry between most of the characters is tangible through the pages of an otherwise mostly boring series. There are several laugh out loud moments in each novel, though, and of course I was caught up with my own opinions of the gorgeous slew of men falling over their feet to jump Sookie and claim her as their property. The series ended disappointingly for me, but as I read all 13 books in less than 2 weeks, they are obviously very addicting and absorbing. I may need to bring myself to writing fanfiction in order to cope with (read: change) the outcome of Sookie's romantic encounters... but I cannot deny that I enjoyed reading all of these books! I gave most of them a 3-star rating for the sheer entertainment value -which sometimes feels cheap to me- but there were a few novels in the series that I enjoyed more than others, and they grabbed a 4 star each.
July 2013:
1. Dead Until Dark- Charlaine Harris (3 stars)
2. Living Dead in Dallas (3 stars)
3. Club Dead (3 stars)
4. Dead to the World (4 stars)
5. Dead as a Doornail (3 stars)
6. Definitely Dead (3 stars)
7. All Together Dead (4 stars)
8. From Dead to Worse (4 stars)
9. Dead and Gone (4 stars)
10. Dead in the Family (4 stars)
11. Dead Reckoning (3 stars)
12. Deadlocked (3 stars)
13. Dead Ever After (3 stars)
Send me a friend request on Goodreads at http://goodreads.com/beetle1211 or comment below and let me know what you think of the books I'm reading, or give me some suggestions on what to read and review next! I'm always looking out for good books and new characters to welcome into my life :)
Recap: This month I mostly just got caught up re-reading the Southern Vampire Mysteries, popularly referred to as the Sookie Stackhouse books (If you're drawing a blank here, these are the books that the steamy, dreamy, kind of crazy HBO series TrueBlood was created from.) The series is great- hardly anything substantial or literary about the books, but as far as brain candy goes, you can hardly make a better pick if you are into supernatural, romantic, funny mysteries with plenty of sexy scenes, gory scenes, and some eye-rolling, completely cheesy scenes as well. I was born in Shreveport, LA and I love reading about the northern LA geography that I'm familiar with; every time a place is mentioned that I know well, it makes me feel like I'm right there immersed with Sookie and her supernatural entourage. Anyway, on with a recap: The plotlines don't always get resolved in a satisfying way, which is obviously pretty disappointing. Sookie is annoying, almost all of the time. There is no deniability in the success of the steamy bedroom scenes, however, and the sexual chemistry between most of the characters is tangible through the pages of an otherwise mostly boring series. There are several laugh out loud moments in each novel, though, and of course I was caught up with my own opinions of the gorgeous slew of men falling over their feet to jump Sookie and claim her as their property. The series ended disappointingly for me, but as I read all 13 books in less than 2 weeks, they are obviously very addicting and absorbing. I may need to bring myself to writing fanfiction in order to cope with (read: change) the outcome of Sookie's romantic encounters... but I cannot deny that I enjoyed reading all of these books! I gave most of them a 3-star rating for the sheer entertainment value -which sometimes feels cheap to me- but there were a few novels in the series that I enjoyed more than others, and they grabbed a 4 star each.
July 2013:
1. Dead Until Dark- Charlaine Harris (3 stars)
2. Living Dead in Dallas (3 stars)
3. Club Dead (3 stars)
4. Dead to the World (4 stars)
5. Dead as a Doornail (3 stars)
6. Definitely Dead (3 stars)
7. All Together Dead (4 stars)
8. From Dead to Worse (4 stars)
9. Dead and Gone (4 stars)
10. Dead in the Family (4 stars)
11. Dead Reckoning (3 stars)
12. Deadlocked (3 stars)
13. Dead Ever After (3 stars)
Send me a friend request on Goodreads at http://goodreads.com/beetle1211 or comment below and let me know what you think of the books I'm reading, or give me some suggestions on what to read and review next! I'm always looking out for good books and new characters to welcome into my life :)
Challenge update-June
1. Mr. Penumbra's 24- Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan (4 stars)
2. The Night Circus- Erin Morgenstern (5 stars)
3. The Virgin Suicides- Jeffrey Euginedes (2 stars)
4. Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro (5 stars)
5. Ready Player One- Ernest Cline (4 stars)
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2. The Night Circus- Erin Morgenstern (5 stars)
3. The Virgin Suicides- Jeffrey Euginedes (2 stars)
4. Never Let Me Go- Kazuo Ishiguro (5 stars)
5. Ready Player One- Ernest Cline (4 stars)
Follow me on Goodreads, where I rate, review, and create lists of the books I'm reading! :) http://goodreads.com/beetle1211
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