It’s definitely what is on the inside that counts.
Let’s start out with a hello and how are you today? I know you can’t answer me without looking like a loon talking at their computer, but I can always appreciate a fellow eccentric. This is a space all things books. From reading them from a different perspective, fantastic characters, and of course who doesn’t love a good top ten. A good book is like a TARDIS, bigger on the inside. Bound between carboard and an enticing cover is an entire world begging to be discovered. From my own bookshelf, and hopefully to yours, let us embark on a literary escape from reality to lands where ghosts and killers chase us, dragons soar in the sky, alien invasions, and futures to avoid, let us jump in.
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We have talked about adaptations, but sometimes it’s the adaptation that helps us discover the book.
Fresh off the Shelf
When charting out on an adventure to a remote deserted island in search of adventure, Lux and her cohorts are going soon learn the dangers of being reckless
Rose Daniels has finally woken up to life with Norman Daniels after seeing one drop of blood on the bed from a nose bleed the night before, Rose finally understands that it is now or never, and life and death.
“Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska.
Inti is not the woman she once was, either, changed by the harm she’s witnessed—inflicted by humans on both the wild and each other. Yet as the wolves surprise everyone by thriving, Inti begins to let her guard down, even opening herself up to the possibility of love. But when a farmer is found dead, Inti knows where the town will lay blame. Unable to accept her wolves could be responsible, Inti makes a reckless decision to protect them. But if the wolves didn’t make the kill, then who did? And what will Inti do when the man she is falling for seems to be the prime suspect?”
*Audible Summary of Novel
No-no Boy follows the return of Ichiro, a Japanese-American who has returned from serving a prison sentence for refusing to serve in the military during WWII. Asking where he belongs, Ichiro tries to understand why he made the choices he made, as well as seeing his community attempting to heal.
Will is thirty-six but acts like a teenager. Single, child-free and still feeling cool, he reads the right magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also discovered a great way to score with women at single parents' groups, full of available (and grateful) mothers, all waiting for Mr Nice Guy. That's where he meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old in the world. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart, he looks after his Mum and he's never even owned a pair of trainers. Perhaps if Will can teach Marcus how to be a kid, Marcus can help Will grow up and they can both start to act their age.
*Taken from Goodreads
The son of a struggling single mother, Jamie Conklin just wants an ordinary childhood. But Jamie is no ordinary child. Born with an unnatural ability his mother urges him to keep secret, Jamie can see what no one else can see and learn what no one else can learn. But the cost of using this ability is higher than Jamie can imagine-as he discovers when an NYPD detective draws him into the pursuit of a killer who has threatened to strike from beyond the grave.
*Taken from back of the book
In 1977, Claire Lake Oregon, was shaken by the Lady Killer Murders: Two men, seemingly randomly, were murdered with the same gun, with strange notes left behind. Beth Greer was the perfect suspect-a rich, eccentric twenty-three-year-old woman, seen fleeing one of the crime scenes. But she was acquitted, and she retreated to the isolation of her mansion.
Oregon, 2017. Shea Collins is a receptionist, but by night, she runs a true-crime website, the Book of Cold Cases-a passion fueled by the attempted abduction she escaped as a child. When she meets Beth by chance, Shea asks her for an interview. To Shea’s surprise, Beth says yes.
They meet regularly at Beth’s mansion, though Shea is never comfortable there. Items move when she’s not looking, and she could swear she’s seen a girl outside the window. The allure of learning the truth about the case from the smart charming Beth is too much to resist, but even as they grow closer, Shea senses something isn’t right. Is she making friends with a manipulative murderer, or are there other dangers lurking in the darkness of the Greer house?
*Taken from book jacket
“Life is looking up for Holly Darling, granddaughter of Wendy-yes, that Wendy. She’s running a successful skincare company; her son, Jack, is happy and healthy; and the tragedy of her past is well behind her . . . until she gets a call that her daughter, Eden, who has been in a coma for nearly a decade has gone missing from the estate where she’s been long tucked away. And, worst of all, Holly knows who must be responsible: Peter Pan, who is not only very real, but very dangerous.
*Taken from book jacket
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish. Except that right now, he doesn't know that. He can't even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.
Meet the residents of 12 rue des Amants, a beautiful old apartment building in the City of Light…
The Socialite
The nice guy
The alcoholic
The girl on the verge
The concierge
Everyone’s a neighbor.
Everyone’s a suspect.
And everyone knows something they’re not telling.
*Taken from the back of the book.
Books are everywhere. Stories waiting for consumption. But why do we love to read them so much in the first place? And why is reading so important…