Tome Thursday: The Rose and the Dagger

Hello everyone!

After having to fan myself because the internet pretty much just broke over the news that Tyler Hoechlin has been cast as Superman for CW's Supergirl, I'm back with a book blog this week!

And okay, yeah, I'm human, alright? I can take a minute (or ten) to appreciate the eye candy that Mr. Hoechlin is. I've been wondering where Derek was in Teen Wolf.

Guess he's been getting measured for a new cape!

But I digress.

Two weeks ago I wrote a review about a book called The Wrath and the Dawn (I'll post a link down at the bottom of the page), and because it was such an amazing retelling of Arabian Nights, I just had to get my hands on a copy of its sequel, The Rose and the Dagger, pretty much as soon as humanly possible.

As I also knew that I probably wouldn't be able to put the book down once I started reading, I held back until earlier this week when I had time to spare, and then just curled up, reading it in one go!

Tome Thursday: The Wrath and the Dawn

Hello everyone!

So a long time ago, in blog terms that is, I wrote a post regarding a retelling of Arabian Nights, this one being titled A Thousand Nights. And then, what I promised myself and anyone who really reads this blog, was that I was going to read The Wrath and the Dawn and compare the two books side by side, or at the very least point out differences and similarities.

That being obviously other stuff besides the retellings of Arabian Nights, of course.

And then what I did was conveniently forget about the lot of it, meaning I didn't get around to actually even reading this book until very recently, and go figure but when I went to check on when exactly I wrote the first blog, it was six months ago.

I really do ace these things, I know I do.

Now, that being said, I have to mention I'm a big fan of Arabian Nights - in fact, I actually have a gilded book in Slovene of one translated version of the thing, which is so huge I need to sit down when I'm reading it.

Yeah, you could probably whack someone over the head with the hardcover and they'd drop. Nifty weapon of choice!

Tome Thursday: A Thousand Nights

Hello everyone!

Apparently, I have so many books reviewed in my little notebook that I'm covered until way after New Year's. That's pretty awesome, isn't it?

But then, I've always been a pretty voracious reader, it didn't matter what was happening around me at the time. Reading was my escape, even if it was just ten pages per day on a really busy one, or just enough to tire me out and have my head drop after a long day of exams when I couldn't unwind and was too keyed up to sleep.

And the best part of this is that I've started a couple of series and have definitely not finished all of them yet! So there's still a whole lot more on the book front to go, which I am very excited about.

Of course, every time I think I'm done, a friend of mine suggests another book or another book series, and I'm like MUST. READ. NOW. 

Yeah, I'm a bit of a monster.

But I found A Thousand Nights by EK Johnston on Youtube through Sasha's channel.