It’s Six For Sunday! Hosted by A Little But A Lot, this week’s prompt is favourite opening chapters. This required a bit of research as it’s not something that I can instantly recall!
My plans for next week are to read my current Blog Tour book, start on the next one and hopefully also make a start on some of the books I got for Christmas!
It’s Six For Sunday! Hosted by A Little But A Lot, this week’s prompt is bookish resolutions. My main one (that I am already failing at!) is to try and make a dent in my huge TBR pile. This may turn out to be a resolution every year for the rest of my life!!
Here are my resolutions:
📖 Make a dent in my TBR pile.
📖 Read more library books.
📖 Try not to buy more books (already failed, but it was a kindle book that I had been waiting ages for to complete the set).
📖 Read more to my son. We read every day but we could always read more!
📖 To read more books in other genres.
📖 Complete my Goodreads challenge of 97 books (not a priority but it would be an achievement!
Can you believe that it is already the second Sunday Post of the year?! Once again time is flying past! Hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer, here are some of the things that I have been up to. I would particularly like to point out that I will no longer be doing Friday Wrap ups as well as Sunday Post because I feel that it is a bit of an overkill! I will instead include all my weekly goings on in the Sunday Post and at the end of the Month will do a Monthly Wrap Up. As you can see on a Friday I have decided to do a Friday Musings Post (in addition to First Line Friday because they are quite fun!) in which I will scour the Blogosphere and find past meme questions and incorporate them into a current post (linking back to the blog who set the meme).
My plans for next week are to finish reading my Blog Tour Book The Postmistress of Paris and to finish Yes, No, Maybe So. This might be a bit ambitious, but I will do my best!
Welcome to my first Six For Sunday post of 2022! Hosted by A Little But A Lot, this week’s prompt is books I can’t wait for. I will be looking at this prompt from the point of view of some of the books I was bought for Christmas!
Here are my Top 6:
The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood
Book Description From Goodreads:
“As a third-year Ph.D. candidate, Olive Smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships–but her best friend does, and that’s what got her into this situation.
Convincing Anh that Olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever after was always going to take more than hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks: Scientists require proof. So, like any self-respecting biologist, Olive panics and kisses the first man she sees.That man is none other than Adam Carlsen, a young hotshot professor–and well-known ass. Which is why Olive is positively floored when Stanford’s reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. But when a big science conference goes haywire, putting Olive’s career on the Bunsen burner, Adam surprises her again with his unyielding support and even more unyielding… six-pack abs.Suddenly their little experiment feels dangerously close to combustion. And Olive discovers that the only thing more complicated than a hypothesis on love is putting her own heart under the microscope.”
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman
Book Description From Goodreads:
“It’s the following Thursday.Elizabeth has received a letter from an old colleague, a man with whom she has a long history. He’s made a big mistake, and he needs her help. His story involves stolen diamonds, a violent mobster, and a very real threat to his life.As bodies start piling up, Elizabeth enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for a ruthless murderer. And if they find the diamonds too? Well, wouldn’t that be a bonus?But this time they are up against an enemy who wouldn’t bat an eyelid at knocking off four septuagenarians. Can The Thursday Murder Club find the killer (and the diamonds) before the killer finds them?”
The Devil’s Advocate by Steve Cavanagh
Book Description From Goodreads:
“A deadly prosecutorThey call him the King of Death Row. Randal Korn has sent more men to their deaths than any district attorney in the history of the United States.A twisted ritualistic killingWhen a young woman, Skylar Edwards, is found murdered in Buckstown, Alabama, a corrupt sheriff arrests the last person to see her alive, Andy Dubois. It doesn’t seem to matter to anyone that Andy is innocent.A small town boiling with rage. Everyone in Buckstown believes Andy is guilty. He has no hope of a fair trial. And the local defense attorney assigned to represent him has disappeared.A former con-artist, Hot shot New York lawyer Eddie Flynn travels south to fight fire with fire. He plans to destroy the prosecutors case, find the real killer and save Andy from the electric chair.But the murders are just beginning.Is Eddie Flynn next?”
American Royals by Katharine McGee
Book Description From Goodreads:
“What if America had a royal family? When America won the Revolutionary War, its people offered General George Washington a crown. Two and a half centuries later, the House of Washington still sits on the throne.As Princess Beatrice gets closer to becoming America’s first queen regnant, the duty she has embraced her entire life suddenly feels stifling.Nobody cares about the spare except when she’s breaking the rules, so Princess Samantha doesn’t care much about anything, either . . . except the one boy who is distinctly off-limits to her.And then there’s Samantha’s twin, Prince Jefferson. If he’d been born a generation earlier, he would have stood first in line for the throne, but the new laws of succession make him third. Most of America adores their devastatingly handsome prince . . . but two very different girls are vying to capture his heart.”
Agent Running In The Field by John Le Carre
Book Description From Goodreads:
“Nat, a 47 year-old veteran of Britain’s Secret Intelligence Service, believes his years as an agent runner are over. He is back in London with his wife, the long-suffering Prue. But with the growing threat from Moscow Centre, the office has one more job for him. Nat is to take over The Haven, a defunct substation of London General with a rag-tag band of spies. The only bright light on the team is young Florence, who has her eye on Russia Department and a Ukrainian oligarch with a finger in the Russia pie.Nat is not only a spy, he is a passionate badminton player. His regular Monday evening opponent is half his age: the introspective and solitary Ed. Ed hates Brexit, hates Trump and hates his job at some soulless media agency. And it is Ed, of all unlikely people, who will take Prue, Florence and Nat himself down the path of political anger that will ensnare them all.”
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
Book Description From Goodreads:
“Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?
A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.
Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.”
Next week I plan on finishing my Blog Tour Book Kill Me Goodbye (this might be a bit ambitious) and reading the last of my library books (again this might be a bit much!)
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It’s Six for Sunday time hosted by A Little but a Lot. This week the challenge is books you wish for under your Christmas tree. As I have already done a similar post to this, I have decided to do 5 star christmas books that you would wish for under your christmas tree.
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Next week I plan to finish my Blog Tour book Scattered Legacy and get through some more christmassy ones! I have borrowed a couple from the library so hope to get those read and reviewed but that might be a bit ambitious!
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It’s Six for Sunday time hosted by A Little but a Lot. This week the challenge is dream collaborations.
This has been quite a challenge indeed for me, but here are 6 authors that I think would come up with amazing books if paired together!
Dan Brown and Glenn Cooper
Angels and Demons by Dan Brown
Book Description From Goodreads:
“When a world renowned scientist is found brutally murdered in a Swiss research facility, a Harvard professor, Robert Langdon, is summoned to identify the mysterious symbol seared onto the dead man’s chest. His baffling conclusion: it is the work of the Illuminati, a secret brotherhood presumed extinct for nearly four hundred years – reborn to continue their bitter vendetta against their sworn enemy, the Catholic church.
In Rome, the college of cardinals assembles to elect a new pope. Yet somewhere within the walls of the Vatican, an unstoppable bomb of terrifying power relentlessly counts down to oblivion. While the minutes tick away, Langdon joins forces with Vittoria Vetra, a beautiful and mysterious Italian scientist, to decipher the labyrinthine trail of ancient symbols that snakes across Rome to the long-forgotten Illuminati lair – a secret refuge wherein lies the only hope for the Vatican.
But with each revelation comes another twist, another turn in the plot, which leaves Langdon and Vetra reeling and at the mercy of a seemingly invisible enemy…”
Library of the Dead by Glenn Cooper
Book Description From Goodreads:
“The most shocking secret in the history of mankind is about to be revealed…A murderer is on the loose on the streets of New York City: nicknamed the Doomsday Killer, he’s claimed six victims in just two weeks, and the city is terrified. Even worse, the police are mystified: the victims have nothing in common, defying all profiling, and all that connects them is that each received a sick postcard in the mail before they died – a postcard that announced their date of death. In desperation, the FBI assigns the case to maverick agent Will Piper, once the most accomplished serial killing expert in the bureau’s history, now on a dissolute spiral to retirement. Battling his own demons, Will is soon drawn back into a world he both loves and hates, determined to catch the killer whatever it takes. But his search takes him in a direction he could never have predicted, uncovering a shocking secret that has been closely guarded for centuries. A secret that once lay buried in an underground library beneath an 8th Century monastery, but which has now been unearthed – with deadly consequences. A select few defend the secret of the library with their lives – and as Will closes in on the truth, they are determined to stop him, at any cost…
Some crimes should never be solved; some secrets are best left buried.
Secret of the Seventh Son is a debut thriller by Glenn Cooper about predestination and fate.”
Sarah J Maas and Cassandra Clare
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas
Book Description From Goodreads:
“Feyre’s survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price …
Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre’s presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.”
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
Book Description From Goodreads:
“In a time when Shadowhunters are barely winning the fight against the forces of darkness, one battle will change the course of history forever. Welcome to the Infernal Devices trilogy, a stunning and dangerous prequel to the New York Times bestselling Mortal Instruments series.
The year is 1878. Tessa Gray descends into London’s dark supernatural underworld in search of her missing brother. She soon discovers that her only allies are the demon-slaying Shadowhunters—including Will and Jem, the mysterious boys she is attracted to. Soon they find themselves up against the Pandemonium Club, a secret organization of vampires, demons, warlocks, and humans. Equipped with a magical army of unstoppable clockwork creatures, the Club is out to rule the British Empire, and only Tessa and her allies can stop them…”
Sophie Kinsella and Jesse Sutanto
Can you keep a secret by Sophie Kinsella
Book Description From Goodreads:
“Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: Secrets from her boyfriend: I’ve always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken. Secrets from her mother: I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching Ben-Hur. Secrets she wouldn’t share with anyone in the world: I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is. Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger.…Until Emma comes face-to-face with Jack Harper, the company’s elusive CEO, a man who knows every single humiliating detail about her…”
Dial A For Aunties by Jesse Sutanto
Book Description From Goodreads:
“What happens when you mix 1 (accidental) murder with 2 thousand wedding guests, and then toss in a possible curse on 3 generations of an immigrant Chinese-Indonesian family?
You get 4 meddling Asian aunties coming to the rescue!
When Meddelin Chan ends up accidentally killing her blind date, her meddlesome mother calls for her even more meddlesome aunties to help get rid of the body. Unfortunately, a dead body proves to be a lot more challenging to dispose of than one might anticipate, especially when it is inadvertently shipped in a cake cooler to the over-the-top billionaire wedding Meddy, her Ma, and aunties are working at an island resort on the California coastline. It’s the biggest job yet for the family wedding business—”Don’t leave your big day to chance, leave it to the Chans!“—and nothing, not even an unsavory corpse, will get in the way of her auntie’s perfect buttercream flowers.
But things go from inconvenient to downright torturous when Meddy’s great college love—and biggest heartbreak—makes a surprise appearance amid the wedding chaos. Is it possible to escape murder charges, charm her ex back into her life, and pull off a stunning wedding all in one weekend?”
Which authors would like to see do a collaboration?
It has been another busy week and I have accepted another book to read which has added to the pile! Next week I aim to try and finish the Blog Tour books, but we shall see. I then have library books that I need to get to otherwise I will have to re-borrow them (which isn’t really an issue, I just don’t like to hang on to books too long in case other people are waiting!).
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