Signing up for the Tackle Your TBR Read-a-thon

Guys, I found a new (well, new to me) read-a-thon, the Tackle Your TBR (to be read) Read-a-thon which is hosted by Wishful Endings. Even the read-a-thon is schedule to start today until Sept. 20th, you can sign up all the way until Sept 17th.

Which is great for me since I'm just signing up right now.

My goal is to read five books from my reading list starting with: So Into You by Cecilia Gray.

Book of Interest: 31 Days: A Memoir of Seduction

This is a upcoming books that I plan to read soon.

I was recently invited by the publisher to give this a read. Nonfiction isn't the usual genre of books that I usually read but I think that's why lately I have enjoyed reading them so much. Because sometimes you may not think you will enjoy something but some how you end up really liking it or vice versa.

I'm probably going to start reading this in a couple of weeks.

Book: 31 Days: A Memoir of Seduction by Marcia Gloster

Publication: September 16, 2014

Description:

Marcia Gloster was a college student traveling through Europe in the summer of 1963.

When she arrived in Salzburg, Austria to study at Oskar Kokoschka’s School of Vision, she envisioned a month of intensive painting, never expecting to find herself swept into a passionate affair. Nor did she imagine her lover to be a married instructor with a long history of indiscretions.

Even at a young age, Marcia knew how to protect her heart. But it had never been taken by a man as overwhelming and sensual as Bill Thomson.
31 Days is the story that would redefine love, sex and passion for a woman of twenty; and a month that would resonate in her life forever.

Deeply sensual, intensely vivid, and achingly beautiful, 31 Days is a memoir that lives in all of us.

What I Plan on Reading Next: Wedding Night

I just checked out the e-book version of "Wedding Night" by Sophie Kinsella from my library. Once I finish "The Cinderella Pact" (hopefully today) then I'll start on it.

I think I'm going to scale back on checking out books from the library, well at least for a little while, it's only because I have so many books at home that I haven't read yet and I truly need to catch up on.

On My Reading List: Baby Proof

I like to mix up my reading. Some times I will read a mystery and another a chic lit. There are some really good chic lit out there, with smart and funny stories. I hope this is one of those good ones.

Book: Baby Proof by Emily Giffin

Book Description:

First comes love. Then comes marriage. Then comes . . . a baby carriage? Isn't that what all women want?

Not so for Claudia Parr. And just as she gives up on finding a man who feels the same way, she meets warm, wonderful Ben. Things seem too good to be true when they fall in love and agree to buck tradition with a satisfying, child-free marriage. Then the unexpected occurs: one of them has a change of heart. One of them wants children after all.

This is the witty, heartfelt story about what happens to the perfect couple when they suddenly want different things. It's about feeling that your life is set and then realizing that nothing is as you thought it was--and that there is no possible compromise. It's about deciding what is most important in life, and taking chances to get it. But most of all, it's about the things we will do--and won't do--for love.

On My Reading List: The Thirteenth Tale

My reading list is starting to get really long, there are just too many good books to read.

Book: The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield

Book Description:

SOMETIMES, WHEN YOU OPEN THE DOOR TO THE PAST, WHAT YOU CONFRONT IS YOUR DESTINY.

Biographer Margaret Lea returns one night to her apartment above her father’s antiquarian bookshop. On her steps she finds a letter. It is a hand-written request from one of Britain’s most prolific and well-loved novelists. Vida Winter, gravely ill, wants to recount her life story before it is too late, and she wants Margaret to be the one to capture her history. The request takes Margaret by surprise—she doesn’t know the author, nor has she read any of Miss Winter’s dozens of novels.

Late one night while pondering whether to accept the task of recording Miss Winter’s personal story, Margaret begins to read her father’s rare copy of Miss Winter’s Thirteen Tales of Change and Desperation. She is spellbound by the stories and confused when she realizes the book only contains twelve stories. Where is the thirteenth tale? Intrigued, Margaret agrees to meet Miss Winter and act as her biographer.

As Vida Winter unfolds her story, she shares with Margaret the dark family secrets that she has long kept hidden as she remembers her days at Angelfield, the now burnt-out estate that was her childhood home. Margaret carefully records Miss Winter’s account and finds herself more and more deeply immersed in the strange and troubling story.

Both women will have to confront their pasts and the weight of family secrets... and the ghosts that haunt them still.

On My Reading List: The Witch's Daughter

Another book that I want to read this year is The Witch's Daughter.

Book: The Witch's Daughter by Paula Brackston

Book Description:

My name is Elizabeth Anne Hawksmith, and my age is three hundred and eighty-four years. Each new settlement asks for a new journal, and so this Book of Shadows begins…

In the spring of 1628, the Witchfinder of Wessex finds himself a true Witch. As Bess Hawksmith watches her mother swing from the Hanging Tree she knows that only one man can save her from the same fate at the hands of the panicked mob: the Warlock Gideon Masters, and his Book of Shadows. Secluded at his cottage in the woods, Gideon instructs Bess in the Craft, awakening formidable powers she didn’t know she had and making her immortal. She couldn't have foreseen that even now, centuries later, he would be hunting her across time, determined to claim payment for saving her life.

In present-day England, Elizabeth has built a quiet life for herself, tending her garden and selling herbs and oils at the local farmers' market. But her solitude abruptly ends when a teenage girl called Tegan starts hanging around. Against her better judgment, Elizabeth begins teaching Tegan the ways of the Hedge Witch, in the process awakening memories--and demons—long thought forgotten.

Part historical romance, part modern fantasy, The Witch’s Daughter is a fresh, compelling take on the magical, yet dangerous world of Witches.Readers will long remember the fiercely independent heroine who survives plagues, wars, and the heartbreak that comes with immortality to remain true to herself, and protect the protégé she comes to love.

On My Reading List: 100 Cupboards

There are so many books sitting on my shelf, that I probably don't have enough time to read them all. Another book, I'm going to try to read this year is 100 Cupboards. The story seems to be filled with adventure and mystery and I can't wait to read it.  

Book: 100 Cupboards (book #1) by N.D. Wilson

Book Description:

Twelve-year-old Henry York wakes up one night to find bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall above his bed and one of them is slowly turning . . .Henry scrapes the plaster off the wall and discovers cupboards of all different sizes and shapes. Through one he can hear the sound of falling rain. Through another he sees a glowing room–with a man pacing back and forth! Henry soon understands that these are not just cupboards, but portals to other worlds.

100 Cupboards is the first book of a new fantasy adventure, written in the best world-hopping tradition and reinvented in N. D. Wilson’s inimitable style.

On My Reading List: 1st To Die

My mother gave me 1st To Die (as a little gift) because she knows I love to read mysteries. I haven't quite gotten around to reading it yet but it's definitely on my reading list for this year.

Book: 1st To Die by James Patterson

Book Description:

In San Francisco newlyweds are being stalked - and slaughtered. Enter four unforgettable women, all friends...Lindsay, a homicide inspector in the city's police department...Claire, a medical examiner...Jill, an assistant D.A....and Cindy, a reporter who has just started working the crime desk of the San Francisco Chronicle. Joining forces, pooling their talents, courage, and brains, they have one goal: to find, trap and outwit the most diabolical and terrifying killer ever imagined.