NOOK Ereader TBR

I've had an ereader for about 10 years now. I've always stayed faithful to the NOOK by Barnes & Noble. So over the years I've accumulated hundreds of ebooks. Lately I haven't been reading ebooks as much as I used to so I have a little bit of a back log going on...but I just keep pre-ordering! LOL

So this is a list of the current books that I have on my reader & plan to read...hopefully soon!

Some of these books I have already read but I never finished the series. Others I ended up with because I subscribe to Book Bub, a discount e book list, & some I pre-order because they are on my auto author order list. I sometimes buy some because I wanted to try them or I read some great reviews & don't want to get them from the library. I'm gonna try to distinguish which book falls into which category. Let's go with this code:
RR=Reread
BB=Book Bub Purchase
FS= Finish Series
AA= Auto Author

The Vampire Diaries #1: The Awakening by L.J. Smith
I really really LOVE LOVE LOVE this show! I'm hoping the books live up to the hype of the show. 

Between the Lines & Off the Page by Jodi Picoult
RR & FS
I read the first one about a year ago & really liked it.

 Caraval by Stephanie Garber
BB

The Carrie Diaries by Candace Bushnell
This is another book that I bought because I loved the show. I've also watched Sex in the City about 500 times & have that book in paperback. I've never read either.

Beautiful Creatures, Beautiful Darkness, Beautiful Chaos, Beautiful Redemption by Kami Garcia
RR
I read this series when I was a school librarian & I really enjoyed the movie. I have to reread it before finishing the sequel series.

Dangerous Creatures & Dangerous Deception by Kami Garcia
RR & FS
Once I finish the original series & reread this first one I can finish it.

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige
BB

Frost Blood by Elly Blake
BB

The Iron King by Julie Kagawa
RR
I read this book about a year ago & liked it. I want to reread it & finish the series.

Jack by Liesl Shurtliff
AA
Since I read Rump when I was a school librarian I've always ordered this author's books.

The Jaguar Stones: Middleworld by J & P Voelkel
This book has been on my TBR for about 6 years! Eventually I'll read it.

The Legend of James Grey by Jennifer Moorman
BB

Nil by Lynne Matson
We have this book in my library but it gets checked out a lot so I decided to buy it.

Once & For All by Sarah Dessen
AA

Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen
AA

Harry Potter 1-7 by J.K. Rowling
RR
 I am slowing getting these books in e book form & audio through Audible. I haven't read them since book 7 came out. So a reread is necessary.

The Maze Runner, The Scorch Trials, The Death Cure, The Kill Order, The Fever Code by James Dashner
RR, RR, RR, FS, & FS
I read The Maze Runner when I had a middle school book club. It is like Lord of the Flies for the new generation. From there I read the next 2 books. That was all that was out @ the time.Now that the next 2 books are out I want to reread the beginning & finish the series.

Origin by Dan Brown
AA
I've read all the other books in the Robert Langdon series so this was a pre-order.

Pottermore Presents by J.K. Rowling
AA
More HP books! YES PLEASE!

The Lightning Thief, The Sea of Monsters, The Titan's Curse, The Battle of the Labyrinth, & The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
RR, RR, RR, RR, & FS
This series is much like The Maze Runner, not all of them were out so I had to wait & I never finished.

The Reader by Traci Chee
This books is like Nil, always checked out @ my library so I bought it.

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
RR
I read this book years ago when it first came out & it was AMAZING! I've been waiting for it to be finished to reread/finish it.

Renegades by Marissa Meyer
AA
I really enjoyed her Lunar Chronicles series & Heartless so she has become one of my authors.

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman
AA
I have loved this author since I first read Practical Magic in high school. This is the prequel so of course I pre-ordered it.

The Selection by Kiera Cass
I bought this book when it first came out years ago& have just never read it. Now that the series is over I can get started. 

The Shadow Queen by C.J. Redwine
BB

Spelled by Betsy Schow
BB

 

Splintered by A.G.Howard
BB

Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco
BB

The Land of Stories: The Wishing Spell by Chris Colfer
BB
I've wanted to read this series for a while but it's always checked out! So when it came up on the discount list I jumped on it.

The Testing, Independent Study, & Graduation Day by Joelle Charbonneau
BB
I got all 3 of these books for $1.99!!!

Bared to You & Reflected in You by Sylvia Day
RR & FS
I discovered this series after getting into Fifty Shades. It's pretty good overall.

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

Hidden Figures

Author: Margot Lee Shetterly
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks (Movie Tie-In Edition)
Year: 2016
Audio Publisher: Harper Collins
Audio Year: 2016
Audio Reader: Robin Miles
Audio Length: 10 hours 47 minutes
Genre: Histoical Non Fiction
Age: Adult 18+
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This was our The Book Was Better book club pick for the month of August. The last time we had people attend the meetings was in June. I'm a little disappointed that no one showed up to the meeting because when we met in June this book & the September book were both ones that they had picked. Hopefully things will pick u with this book club otherwise it might get cut from our schedule! Because no one showed the only opinion on which version of the story was better I an give you is mine. But if you'd like to share please do so in the comments.
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The book begins well before the movie version of the story. NASA isn't even a thing yet, Brown vs. Board of Education won't happen for years, & for the first time ever women are able to work while their husbands are fighting the war against Hitler.

We are introduced to several women over the course of the almost 300 page book. But most importantly we get to hear the stories of three women name Dorothy Vaughn, Katherine Goble (Johnson), & Mary Jackson. These women like so many others were raised all over the US, brought up in a time when the color of your skin determined what kind of life you would have. They overcame challenges & eventually became some of the leading engineers, supervisors, & mathematicians for an organization devoted to getting humans into space for the first time ever.

The reader gets to follow these women & several others through their upbringing, school age years, married life, working time, & hard earned retirement. History develops on the page as the civil right movement takes shape, women's rights come into focus, & the world changes to keep up.

It's a compelling narrative full of science, math, & a lot of hope for the future
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Likes: The book wasn't that long, same goes for the audio, it was a good length overall.

The reader was clear & easy to understand. I liked that it was a woman.

There was a lot of history that I didn't know about & it was interesting to learn.

GIRL POWER!!!

The movie was an excellent adaptation I think despite the timelines being slightly different.

Dislikes: At some points there was too much information that did not add to the story overall.

I would have liked to see pictures!

Rating:

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Book to Movie Comparison:

Overall at the end of it I think the movie was better.

The reason I think that is because it depicts the most interesting & important part of the story where the women really start making a difference..We get a little bit of back story on Katherine which is interesting then we get right into it without a bunch of fluff. The fluff was interesting to read for the most part, although I think not all of it was necessary.

There is not that many differences between the book & the movie. The things that were changed added to the story in the film version. For example the opposition between Dorothy & Mrs. Mitchell in the movie adds a bit of drama. That coupled with things like the colored only coffee pot in Katherine's office really demonstrates the level of segregation in Virginia even after the separate but equal ruling. The movie was also funny & light hearted at sometimes, espically concerning Mary Jackson, she was hilarious. The love story between Katherine & her soon to be husband Jim adds a level of romance behind the trials of daily life. I will say one of the biggest differences between the book & movie were that although the book was about all the women it mainly focused on Dorothy. But in the movie the main character seemed to be Katherine. I was ok with the story either way.

26 Books to Read in 2018 Challenge List Update

Each year for the past several years I've been apart of a Facebook group that creates a list of books & then we all share with each other as we read & complete the list. I'm more than half way though my list & I'm gonna do my best to finish it this year. This is a little update on what I've read so far & what my plans are for the rest of the list. 

 

These are the books I've read so far this year:

***I've done a review for all of these books***

5. Thunderstruck by Erik Larson

6. The 100: Day 21 by Kass Morgan

7. Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder

10. A Court of Frost & Starlight by Sarah J. Maas

12. Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

14. MAD Librarian by Michael Guillebeau

15. The Lost City of Z by David Grann

16. What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman

17. The 100 by Kass Morgan

18. Me Before You by JoJo Moyers

19. The Sleeper & the Spindle by Neil Gaiman

20. Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

21. Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library by Chris Grabenstein

22.Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

23. The Lost World by Michael Crichton

24. The Great Treehouse War by Lisa Graff

26.  A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle

These are the books I plan on reading for the remaining books:

1. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffennegger

2. The Host by Stephanie Meyer

3. Kingdom of Ash by Sarah J. Maas

4. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*** by Mark Manson

8. The Great Library Series by Rachel Caine

9. Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham

11. The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows

25. The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas

The only number I haven't picked is #13 because I'm not sure what I'm gonna do...

Stay tuned for more reviews as I finish my list!

August 2018 TBR

This month with summer reading over I'm hoping to step up my game a little & read more books. But...I always say that so we'll see what actually happens. I'm still working on improving my book checkout addiction. 

The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt by William Nothdurft

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1022171.The_Lost_Dinosaurs_of_Egypt?from_search=true

I discovered this book on Goodreads when I added another dinosaur book to my shelf. I requested it on ILL so I definitely have to read this one this month. 

Trilobite by Richard Fortey

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/373562.Trilobite?from_search=true

This is another one that I saw on Goodreads but another library in my system had it luckily. 

Kill the Farm Boy by Delilah Dawson

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34431692-kill-the-farm-boy?ac=1&from_search=true

This book came in on our bestseller shef & the description had my laughing so I decided to try it. 

Ghosted by Rosie Walsh

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36464087-ghosted?from_search=true

I saw this book on the add for Book of the Month club & my library got it so i decided to try it. 

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25953369-hidden-figures?ac=1&from_search=true

This is our The Book Was Better club book for this month, the meeting is next week. 

July 2018 Wrap-Up

I only managed to read 3 books this month but I really enjoyed all of them. Next month I want to step my game up again now that summer reading is over & things will slow down a little...I think...I hope! 

Road to Redemption by Piper Davenport

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23982081-road-to-redemption?from_search=true

I'm signed up to receive daily emails through a site called Book Bub. The get a list of free or very cheap e books & send it to you daily based on preferences you have selected. I will sometimes download the free books or the 99 cent ones because I find them interesting. Most of them are "trashy romance novels" LOL so I don't do complete reviews on them. This was this months "trashy romance novel".

Welcome to Wonderland: Home Sweet Motel by Chris Grabenstein

My review is here.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28502766-home-sweet-motel?ac=1&from_search=true

This is the first book in a series by one of my newly found favorite authors. It was short, funny, & entertaining. Unfortunately I have to wait for my library to buy the other books. 

Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race by Chris Grabenstein

 My review is here.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31226744-mr-lemoncello-s-great-library-race?ac=1&from_search=true

This is the third book in the Lemoncello Library series, which is amazing!!! I had great numbers on my review of this book which I am very happy about. I also received a comment from the author himself that there will be another Lemoncello book next year so I'm very excited for that. 

Welcome to Wonderland: Home Sweet Motel by Chris Grabenstein

Welcome to Wonderland: Home Sweet Motel

Author: Chris Grabenstein
Publisher: Random House Children's
Year: 2016
Genre: JUV Fic
Age: JUV 10+
Audio Publisher: Listening Library
Audio Reader: Bryan Kennedy
Audio Length: 5 hours
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This is book #1 in the Welcome to Wonderland series. I picked it up because I'm working my way through Chris Grabenstein's books. I had the audio version & the book. The reader is different from the Lemoncello series but he was still pretty good. I listened to the book on the way back from my brother's wedding this last weekend. It was the perfect length for the drive. However I was disappointed to find out that my library only has this first book & none of the others! I'm gonna have to work on fixing that.
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Our story takes place in Florida at the Wonderland Motel through the eyes of 12 year old Phineas Taylor Wilkie (P.T. for short). His grandfather owns the motel that was originally called Walt Wilkie's Wonderland back in 1970. Unfortunately another famous Walt opened a wonderland of his own in Florida & stole the thunder from the Wilkie's. But because of that this isn't your average motel. This motel has amazing attractions like Dino the Dinosaur, The Wonderland Express, Freddy the Frog, Smiling Sam, & Pirate Pete's Putt Putt course. But all that family fun isn't enough to keep the place open. P.T. , his grandpa, & his mom have to come up with $100,000 by the end of the month to keep the motel from being bulldozed by collectors. How will they ever come up with that much in time?

P.T. makes friends with a girl who is living in the motel with her dad who is a traveling sports news anchor. Together P.T. & Gloria Ortega come up with an idea to keep the motel open. They start offering "shows" with Freddy the Frog, snacks, & souvenirs. From there they offer a pirate treasure hunt on the putt putt course. Their growing fame lands them on TV with Gloria's dad. The next day 2 mysterious guys show up & claim to be brothers. But they are really jewel thieves who just got out of prion & they are looking for their long lost loot that could be at the Wonderland! The jewels could be the key to saving the motel but only if Gloria & P.T. can find them first. 
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Likes: This book was so fun! The characters, the setting, & the story all come together to create a hilarious page turning adventure.

It was short, much like the Lemoncello books, around 300 pages & 5ish hours on audio.

The book version had pictures which were pretty entertaining.

I'm interested to see where the story goes from here in the next few books. There is 2 books out right now, maybe more coming???

Dislikes:-

Rating: 

Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race by Chris Grabenstein

Mr. Lemoncello's Great Library Race

Author: Chris Grabenstein
Publisher: Random House Children's
Year: 2017
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
Age: JUV 10+
Audio Publisher: Listening Library
Audio Reader: Jesse Bernstein
Audio Length: 6 hrs. 46 mins
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UPDATE!!!

Author Chris Grabenstein contacted me & said that there will be one more book in the Mr. Lemoncello's library series!!!!

Mr. Lemoncello's All Star Breakout Game

Coming May 2019!

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This is the 3rd & final book in this series. I'm kinda sad it's over! I really enjoyed this series overall & I would highly recommend both the audio & the regular versions.

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In this final installment of the trilogy featuring the wacky Mr. Lemoncello & his amazing library the newly formed board of advisors get their chance to win big in the new game thought up by entertainment tycoon Luigi Lemoncello. This game is a little different from most of his others, it doesn't need a board but a plane or a train might do the trick.

The kids on the library board have to pair up & solve questions within the Alexandriaville, OH public library. Only 5 teams, 10 kids total, will get their shot to be in the race for the grand prize after the initial elimination round. The winning team will travel around the country & help Mr. Lemoncello promote his new Nonfictionator & his Fantabulous Floating Emoji game.

Of course our main character Kyle Keeley is included in the final pairs. The kids battle each other traveling to different location all over the country. They must answer questions about Michael Jordan, Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, & Emily Dickinson throughout the two rounds. But along the way they run into trouble.

Mr. Lemoncello is being accused of stealing the idea for his first game that made him a bazillionaire. He's also dealing with someone stealing the plans to his new hit game right out from under his nose. Could it be the rival game makers the Krinkle brothers from Kansas City? Or could it be someone from his very own library board?

Kyle along with the help of some fellow board members ditch the Fabulous Fact-Finding Frenzy race in order to solve the mystery & make things right for Mr. Lemoncello before it's too late! They'll have to ride in the banana jet, visit Mr. Lemoncello's Imagination Factory, & climb through tunnels inside the library to find the answer. But if there's no race does that also mean there's no winner?
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Likes:  As always I really enjoyed this book because of all the books & library stuff, it's the best part !!!

This book had all the wacky & crazy fun that all the others do but also had a little bit more serious side to the story.

The audio reader was the same! I hate when they change between books, this series has the same reader for all 3 books.

The Nonfictionator was really cool! It allows people to come to life in holographic form so we get to see Michael Jordan, Abe Lincoln, & a few others. We also learn some cool & obscure facts along the way. I wish it was a real thing!!!

As always this book shows a classic JUV story line, good conquering evil, everyone being friends, etc.

Dislikes: The only dislike I have is that I want there to be more books in this series!

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