Happy Sunday bookworms!
I hope to find everyone happy and healthy today. This weekend was my weekend off work, so I am enjoying 3 days off in a row. It doesn’t get much better than that!
Let’s see what I’ve been reading & blogging, shall we?
Happy Sunday bookworms!
I hope to find everyone happy and healthy today. This weekend was my weekend off work, so I am enjoying 3 days off in a row. It doesn’t get much better than that!
Let’s see what I’ve been reading & blogging, shall we?
Hello my lovelies! It’s Tuesday and that means it is time for another Top Ten Tuesday post!
What is TTT? TTT is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. Check out their blog for more info and to see upcoming themes.
This week’s theme was…
July 12: Ten Facts About Me (bookish or just general about you facts or ten facts about you as a blogger…whatever you want)
I decided that I am going to share some bookish facts about me of course! Not going to lie, this is going to be more like 20 bookish facts about me. Sorry, not sorry…
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- Series: A Mary Russell Mystery (Book 1)
- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Picador; 20 Anv edition (May 27, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1250055709
- ISBN-13: 978-1250055705
In 1915, Sherlock Holmes is retired and quietly engaged in the study of honeybees in Sussex when a young woman literally stumbles onto him on the Sussex Downs. Fifteen years old, gawky, egotistical, and recently orphaned, the young Mary Russell displays an intellect to impress even Sherlock Holmes. Under his reluctant tutelage, this very modern, twentieth-century woman proves a deft protégée and a fitting partner for the Victorian detective. They are soon called to Wales to help Scotland Yard find the kidnapped daughter of an American senator, a case of international significance with clues that dip deep into Holmes’s past. Full of brilliant deduction, disguises, and danger, The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, the first book of the Mary Russell–Sherlock Holmes mysteries, is “remarkably beguiling” (The Boston Globe).
“A hive of bees should be viewed, not as a single species, but as a triumvirate of related types, mutually exclusive in function but utterly and inextricably interdependent upon each other. A single bee separated from its sisters and brothers will die, even if given the ideal food and care. A single bee cannot survive apart from the hive.”-The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
Laurie R. King is the third generation in her family native to the San Francisco area. She spent her childhood reading her way through libraries up and down the West Coast; her middle years raising children, renovating houses, traveling the world, and doing a BA and MA in theology. (Her long autobiography goes into detail about how she uses these interests.) King now lives a genteel life of crime, on California’s central coast.
Her crime novels are both serial and stand-alone. First in the hearts of most readers comes Mary Russell, who met the retired Sherlock Holmes in 1915 and became his apprentice, then his partner. Beginning with The Beekeeper’s Apprentice, Russell and Holmes move through the Teens and Twenties in amiable discord, challenging each other to ever greater feats of detection.
In the Russell & Holmes stories, King explores ideas—the roots of conflict in the Middle East and Afghanistan; feminism and early Christianity; patriotism and individual responsibility—while also having a rousing good time. Various stories revisit The Hound of the Baskervilles and Kipling’s Kim, set a pair of Bedouin nomads down in a grand country house in England, and offer an insider’s view of the great quake and fire of 1906, all the while forging an unlikely relationship between two remarkably similar individuals who happen to be separated by age, sex, and background.
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Big thanks to Kirstie @ozbooksnail for tagging me in this fun little book tag! Click here to head over and check out her blog. I must admit, I’ve never done one of these before. Hopefully I wont botch it and bring shame to the Cover2CoverMom name 🙂
Here goes nothing…
1) Totally should have a sequel…
Click here to read a book synopsis and purchase The Time Traveler’s Wife
I would love for this book to have had a sequel. I can’t explain why without ruining the book, but I would love to see what happened with the characters after The Time Traveler’s Wife ended.
2) Totally should’ve had a spin off series…
Click here to read the book synopsis and purchase Pride and Prejudice
I would have loved for Jane Austen to have written a spin off of Pride and Prejudice. I would have liked for her to write about the different sisters and their lives, specifically Jane Bennet 🙂
3) Totally should’ve ended differently…
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Obviously I can’t say too much or I would spoil the bad ending for those who have not yet read this book… I will just say that I enjoyed the first 2 books in this series, but I struggled through this one. It’s not that I disagreed with the ending per se, however I just didn’t care for how the author executed it.
4) Totally should’ve had a film franchise…
Click here to read the book synopsis and purchase Into the Wilderness
Into the Wilderness is my favorite historical fiction series and I would LOVE for it to be made into a movie, along with the 5 other books in the series 🙂 If you like HF, I strongly urge you to check out this series. You won’t regret it!
5) Totally should’ve had a TV show…
Click here to read a book synopsis and purchase Little Women
Obviously I know there have been film adaptations of Little Women, but I think it would be a fantastic TV series… I remember watching the movie adaptation with my Grandmother when I was a little girl. Since I was sort of a tomboy growing up, of course my favorite character was Jo. Actually, I read the book for the first time this past month and wish I would not have put it off so long. It was better than the movie! I think the Little Women series would make for a good TV show, especially since shows like “Downtown Abbey” have done so well.
6) Totally should’ve had only one point of view…
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7) Totally should’ve changed the cover…
Click here to read a book synopsis and purchase The Great Gatsby
I’m not even sure what is going on here. This is definitely one of those times you should not judge a book by its cover… ((shakes head))
8) Totally should’ve stopped reading…
I have 2 books for this category…
I totally should’ve just given up on this book. I tried reading this book after the play adaptation was such a huge hit. Everyone loves the play, so the book had to be good right? Wrong! It was like a slow torture… I kept reading because I thought it had to get better…I kept thinking I was missing something? I don’t think so. I loved the concept of this book, but it was a big flop for me.
I wish I would never have wasted my time on this book. I was appalled by the popularity of this series, and can’t understand why women would want to read a novel where the lead male character is a sadistic woman hater… Ladies, would you want your children reading this book? Would you want your children to think this is how men should treat women? I will never understand sadism and the craze that was the 50 Shades of Grey series…
9) Totally should’ve kept the original cover…
Not going to lie, I couldn’t think of one for this category either…
And now back to your regularly scheduled tag post…
10) Totally should have not pre-judged…
Click here to read a book synopsis and purchase The Orchard
I don’t typically read biographies or memoirs, so I went into this book with hesitation. I am so glad that I picked this book up and went for it. I was pleasantly surprised by how wonderful this book was! I did not feel like I was reading a memoir, but rather a wonderfully written piece of fiction. You should definitely check it out!