Tome Thursday: The Thief

Hello everyone!

With my book reading situation now resolved, even though it really wasn't that bad, I can now return to catching up on all the new releases which came out in the meantime.

See, the good thing about e-readers is that the light from their screens isn't the same as from a computer or phone or television, it's less damaging to the eyes and therefore you can read more and quicker (unless you read for 24 hours straight, but that's beside the point haha).

So of course once I got my Kobo up and running again I had to load all my favourites and the new releases, which turned out to be a bit of a pile in the end.

And then it was just the task of chewing through what I'd set myself up to read.

Among those waiting on my TBR list was the newest book by J. R. Ward.

So of course, tonight's blog post will be all about The Thief.

Saturday Snippet: Kobo

Happy birthday to me :)

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Tome Thursday: Norse Mythology

Hello everyone!

So I made a snap decision to change the book for tonight's blog post. Why? Well, for no other reason than I felt like it.

Plus it took me FOREVER to get my notes in order for the original one, so I figured I might as well leave them to sit there for a bit, then go back and check them again before I decide to post it all up here.

In the meantime, however, I still need to write about something.

Which is why I decided to write about Neil Gaiman and his Norse Mythology book.

Norse mythology is, for all intents and purposes, as rich and varied as Greek or Roman, but unfortunately we just don't have enough written evidence about what happened back then, what people believed. We have fragments - but the whole is lost to us.

It's a sad story, but what we DO have, well, that's pretty brilliant.

Enter, stage right, Neil Gaiman with his all-in-one account of the gods, Norse Mythology.

Tome Thursday: Christmas at the Castle

Hello everyone!

Back again with another Christmas-themed book, and this time I'm picking one that made me feel a whole lot happier than a ton of different same theme-inspired movies have so far.

Christmas at the Castle was free on Kobo for a limited time and I managed to snag it, luckily, so that I could read through it and decide for myself whether it's something I'd want to rehash again in the near future.

Turns out, it is!

See, romance books fall in different categories for me - the ones I absolutely love despite the cheesiness, ones I can't stand after I read them, and the third one is books I can't even bring myself to finish. Gotta love it when I have options, right?

Anyway, this was a fun, easy kind of read that didn't break my brain while I was at it, and so here we go with Melissa McClone's third book in her Ever After series, Christmas at the Castle!

Tome Thursday: Persephone

Hello everyone!

At this point in time, my love for Greek Mythology is probably not such a well-known fact, despite me actually adoring it more than I adore a lot of things in the long run. The thing is, however, that I haven't had much interest in books about it for a while, that is until I randomly stumbled over one that caught my interest and wouldn't let go.

I can't even say just WHY it happened - though probably it was Bookbub telling me the book was being offered for a low price on Kobo.

I'm talking about Kailtin Bevis's Persephone.

Now, I have already shown in the past that I have this thing for mythology and retellings (can anyone say Percy Jackson with me?), so I was really excited for this. You have to be a total geek to understand my geekiness, but I also needed something to tide me over while I'm hunting for the latest Alison Weir book about Anne Boleyn.

In any event, however, yesterday was spent mostly by sticking my nose into the pages of this book and not looking up until I was done.