Tome Thursday: Magicom

 

Hello everyone!
 

Welcome to this week's bookish blog post.

 

And apologies for missing last week's. Unfortunately, RL conspired against me so I had to be responsible for a bit and skip some of the things I otherwise love dearly.

 

Don't you just hate when that happens?

 

Either way, I'm back tonight, and unless there's more unforeseen problems on the horizon, I'm hopeful I won't have to be skipping anything else any time soon!

 

Onwards.

 

Tonight's choice of book is another ARC I was very kindly sent by a lovely Goodreads author, which I totally wasn't expecting, by the way. I generally don't jump around waving ARCS AHOY THIS WAY! haha.

 

But I picked it up, and was very easily and quickly hooked. It's just that kind of a great book, you see. So why don't we take a brief look what I'm talking about with Magicom?

 

Troublemaker (Booktober)

 

"And to my fellow troublemakers, I say: carry on."

 

 

This is maybe not the most autumnal book I've ever read BUT it's my most recent non-fiction read and I really did want to share it with you guys. I've never known much about Scientology as a whole until I heard about Tom Cruise and this religion of his. I have, however, liked Leah Remini for quite some time, so when I stumbled over her television documentary series, I had to pick up this book, too. If you want to know a bit more about Scientology - at least from someone who's as blunt and as upfront as Ms Remini - then I think this is definitely the book for you. Be aware, however, that it isn't going to be all honey and roses, and you should be just fine!

 

 

 

Indoctrinated into the church as a child while living with her mother and sister in New York, Remini eventually moved to Los Angeles, where her dreams of becoming an actress and advancing Scientology's causes grew increasingly intertwined. But when she began to raise questions about some of the church's actions, she found herself a target. In the end, she was declared by the church to be a threat to their organization and therefore a "Suppressive Person," and as a result, all of her fellow parishioners—including members of her own family—were told to disconnect from her. Forever. 

(from Goodreads)

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*image not mine

The Lord of the Rings (Booktober)

Tome Thursday: Dakota and the American Dream

Hello everyone!

I'm back with a slightly different book review this week, in terms of I don't think I would have picked this one out on my own, or it's unlikely I would have.

But I was very kindly approached by the author, Sameer Garach, and he asked me to read it and write an honest review about it, so how could I refuse?

Answer: I couldn't.

Also the title sounded like something that could potentially be quite intriguing, but I will say I almost never read the back of the book, or the Goodreads blurb, before reading the book proper. I do read them, occasionally, especially if it's a contemporary kind of book, but mostly I sort of just skim through and then dig into the book proper.

So while I knew SOME of what this one was all about, I certainly had no clue as to the actual content, which I think is the proper way to read something. 

After all, if you consider the ones you read at school, one of the favourite questions a teacher will ask when presenting a book is 'What do you think this book will be about? What's on the cover?' etc.

Now without further ado, let's jump right into Dakota and the American Dream.

Tome Thursday: Bellamy and the Brute

Hello everyone!

My first book blog after coming back from vacation, isn't it exciting?

Haha not really, but you know what I mean!

I read quite a few books while I was away and I also started one of Julia Quinn's series a week or so back which I might actually feature here on the blog in its entirety, because I'm getting such a good laugh out of it.

How many Regency novels do you know where you can honestly say the mother is the funniest character you've ever met?

I thought so.

But for today's blog post I'm going for something a little bit easier and one of the books I read prior to my vacation.

As you'll be able to tell, it's a retelling. And it's title is Bellamy and the Brute.