22 Books to Read in 2022 Update 10

So I read my next books for the 22 Books to Read in 2022 Challenge! 

So I read Shadow Girl by Liana Liu from the Edelweiss list, and Fox Forever by Mary E. Pearson from the NetGalley list!

Yep. Happy reading!

Here's the link to this year's post with my journey.

But to recap, I wanted to do a version of These Books Will Self Destruct in 12 months without the self destruct. I wanted to read books that I've had for a while, that I really needed to get read, but maybe I forgot about them or that I had them. So I made 2 lists, one for each way I have them, as physical books, and as ARC's, half from NetGalley, and half from Edelweiss.   

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #604, January 2nd

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Date where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #603
Teaser Tuesday #611
WWW Wednesday #611
WOW #607
Will the Time Come #604
Third Sentence Thursday #594
Random Reads #580
First Lines Friday #607
Book Blogger Hop #273

Last Letter, First Letter Reading Challenge Update 84

21 Books to Read in 2021 Update 30
The Reward Challenge Update #589
Wheel of TBR #136
How Well I Stuck to It #441
Wrote that Review Update #438

Week 52 Reviews:
The Queen's Chair

The Uninvited

The Cradle of Ice

The Goal

The Legacy

Famine

Death

Famine's Homecoming

The Infinities of You & Me

Five Survive

The Child Prince

The Dreamer's Curse

Crossroads

The Scofflaw Magician

The Canard Case

The Fae Artifactor

Shadow Girl

Clear Your S**t Readathon: 

Update 31

Update 32 and Wrap Up

Random:

Bout of Books 36 Sign Up

Book Battle January 2023 TBR

What I Wanted to Read in 2022

Series Started and Completed in 2022 Stats

Series Started and Current in 2022 Stats

Series Started and Unfinished in 2022 Stats

Series Continued and Completed 2022 Stats

Series Continued and Current 2022 Stats

Series Continued and Unfinished 2022 Stats

Series Untouched in 2022 Stats

Books I Bought in 2022 Stats

Where I Got the Books From 2022

Stats of 2022 Wrap Up

2022 Reviews

Happy New Years!!! 2023 Version

Best Books Read in 2022

Wheel of TBR Books to Pull From 2023

Last Letter, First Letter Reading Challenge 2023

A-Z Reading Challenge 2023

23 Books to Read in 2023

Monthly ARC's Master List 2023

Monthly Series Master List 2023

Series Untouched Master List

OK, so I got 49 posts in 7 days, the end of the year came, and here's hoping that 2023 is better! It's nice that I have today off, and I'm going to sleep in darn it, I don't have the doggies, I don't have work, I don't need to be up before 8, let alone 4, 5, and 6 am! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read Tress of the Emerald Sea! Which I'll accomplish, because I actually read it yesterday! It was a great start to the year! Especially since the 1st was the 4 year anniversary of Winky's passing.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson expands his Cosmere universe shared by The Stormlight Archive and Mistborn with a new standalone novel for everyone who loved The Princess Bride.

The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stow away on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave her simple life behind and make her own place sailing a sea where a single drop of water can mean instant death? 

Week 52 Review: Shadow Girl

From Goodreads:
The Memory Key author Liana Liu delivers a thrilling story of one girl struggling to claim her own identity while becoming an unwitting participant in the strange fate of a wealthy dynasty.

The house on Arrow Island is full of mystery.

Yet, when Mei arrives, she can't help feeling relieved. She's happy to spend the summer in an actual mansion tutoring a rich man's daughter if it means a break from her normal life—her needy mother, her delinquent brother, their tiny apartment in the city. And Ella Morison seems like an easy charge, sweet and well behaved.

What she doesn't know is that something is very wrong in the Morison household.

Though Mei tries to focus on her duties, she becomes increasingly distracted by the family's problems and her own complicated feelings for Ella's brother, Henry. But most disturbing of all are the unexplained noises she hears at night—the howling and thumping and cries.

Mei is a sensible girl. She isn't superstitious; she doesn't believe in ghosts. Yet she can't shake her fear that there is danger lurking in the shadows of this beautiful house, a darkness that could destroy the family inside and out...and Mei along with them.

My Review:
Oh man, I had a really great time reading this book! I loved her first book, but this one went in wildly different direction, so I was a bit cautious about it. I loved Mei, and watching her navigate the complexities of being a tutor for this family on a small island.

The synopsis is a bit misleading. There's a bit of potential paranormal events that happened, but not a lot, and they were able to be mundanely explained away. And it wasn't really the focus, which was on the Morison family.

There is of course Ella, her charge, who was shy and so adorable. Then there's her brother, Henry, who caused some mixed feelings for Mei. Their mother, who seemed to think that Mei could take on other tasks besides tutoring, which was so annoying! The grandfather, who And all the other family members and their dramas.

I really enjoyed watching Mei's journey in this book. She's polite, but within, she's pretty judgemental, but the Morison family is hot mess. But her relationship with Ella was fantastic, she was supportive, and I really enjoyed reading about the pair of them! 

This was a really great book, and I'm a little sad, because it's now the end of 2022, and there doesn't seem to be more books by Liana Liu out there. At least the two that we got were really great! 

Author: Liana Liu
Read: December 30th, 2022
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Love her writing, and it's a SAC 2022 Book and a Sophomore Challenge Book!
Publisher: Harper Teen
Published: December 19th 2017

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars

Random Reads #522, November 18th

Random Reads is a monthly meme (that I'm going to do weekly) hosted by I'm Loving Books to read some books that have been on our TBR piles for a long time. Using Random.org, I got 2620 which turned out to be Shadow Girl by Liana Liu! It's been on my TBR pile since December 16th, 2017, and I added it because I enjoyed her other book and it sounded really great! What about you guys? Happy reading!

Will the Time Come #529, July 22nd

Every Thursday I am going to list a book which I really want to read/keep meaning to get to. These are mostly books which have been on my shelf for awhile now but don't have to be, maybe you got it two weeks ago and really want to read it! Thanks to Jodie from Books for Company for this meme!

Want to Join?

-Pick a book you have been meaning to read

-Do a post telling us about the book    

-Link the post up in the linky  

-Visit the other blogs

From Goodreads:

The Memory Key author Liana Liu delivers a thrilling story of one girl struggling to claim her own identity while becoming an unwitting participant in the strange fate of a wealthy dynasty.

The house on Arrow Island is full of mystery.

Yet, when Mei arrives, she can’t help feeling relieved. She’s happy to spend the summer in an actual mansion tutoring a rich man’s daughter if it means a break from her normal life—her needy mother, her delinquent brother, their tiny apartment in the city. And Ella Morison seems like an easy charge, sweet and well behaved.

What she doesn’t know is that something is very wrong in the Morison household.

Though Mei tries to focus on her duties, she becomes increasingly distracted by the family’s problems and her own complicated feelings for Ella’s brother, Henry. But most disturbing of all are the unexplained noises she hears at night—the howling and thumping and cries.

Mei is a sensible girl. She isn’t superstitious; she doesn’t believe in ghosts. Yet she can’t shake her fear that there is danger lurking in the shadows of this beautiful house, a darkness that could destroy the family inside and out...and Mei along with them. 

Why the time hasn't come yet...

I don't know, just the mass of books I have to read, and espcailly the mass of ARC's I have to read ('m ridiculously behind on reading ARC's, it's not even fun!) but I want to read this book, I loved her first book! I really need to read this book! What about you guys? Happy reading! 

Liana Liu Author Page

The Story: I saw The Memory Key on Edelweiss, and it sounded really great, and I got it, and I enjoyed it, and I can't wait to read Shadow Girl!

Stand Alone's: The Memory Key and my review, Shadow Girl and my review.

Week 21 Review: The Memory Key

From Goodreads:
In a five-minutes-into-the-future world, a bereaved daughter must choose between losing memories of her mother to the haze of time and the reality-distorting, visceral pain of complete, perfect recall.

Lora Mint is determined not to forget.

Though her mother's been dead for five years, Lora struggles to remember every detail about her—most importantly, the specific events that occurred the night she sped off in her car, never to return.

But in a world ravaged by Vergets disease, a viral form of Alzheimer's, that isn't easy. Usually Lora is aided by her memory key, a standard-issue chip embedded in her brain that preserves memories just the way a human brain would. Then a minor accident damages Lora's key, and her memories go haywire. Suddenly Lora remembers a moment from the night of her mother's disappearance that indicates her death was no accident. Can she trust these formerly forgotten memories? Or is her ability to remember every painful part of her past driving her slowly mad—burying the truth forever?

Lora's longing for her lost mother and journey to patch up her broken memories is filled with authentic and poignant emotion. Her race to uncover the truth is a twisty ride. In the end, Liana Liu's story will spark topical conversations about memory and privacy in a world that is reliant on increasingly invasive forms of technology.

My Review:
Reading this book, I'm so glad that I did! I mean, I just read Killer Instinct and Killer Within, but once I was done, I opened a lot of books up, and didn't get very far into them before I had to move to another one. Then I got to this book, and the pages flew!

The idea of the memory key, pretty awesome. Sucks that to have a perfect memory, that would would be in pain. But that a company would in control of that, well, that was not a good idea at all! Of course they would misuse that power!

There was the whole economical bill, and people were arguing about it, how the liberals wanted it, and the conservatives didn't, but we weren't told what exactly it did. Just that the economy was crappy, and there weren't a lot of jobs. And that was a running plot through the book. Why some characters did what they did.

It really sucks for Lora, because with the perfect memory for a while, all the little annoyances came up, and together, and caused conflict. And her mom, and the mystery there, and how that ended, was just not fun at all! It wasn't resoled, but it was on the way there. Just had to expose it, and until then, live with it. And that sucks, but there were things to look forward to!

I enjoyed this a lot, it was a really great book! And I'd love a companion book, just to see the fallout! Like her best friend! That would be so awesome!

Author: Liana Liu
Read: May 20th, 2015
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a 2015 Dystopia Book, DAC Book and a SAC 2015 Book!
Publisher: Harper Teen
Published: March 3rd 2015

5/5 Hearts

4/5 Books

4.5/5 Stars

Clean Sweep ARC Challenge Update 6

Ok, so I read The Memory Key, and yeah, now to read We Were Liars!!!!

My Reading Journey:

Get Dirty by Gretchen McNeil

Started On: May 6th

Finished On: May 6th, 7:54 PM

Pages Read: 268

Feral by Holly Schindler

Started On: May 7th

Finished On: May 7th, 11:19 PM

Pages Read: 280

The Immortal Heights by Sherry Thomas

Started On: May 10th

Finished On: May  10th, 5:50 PM

Pages Read: 282

Kissing in America by Margo

Started On: May 19th

Finished On: May 19th, 12:02 PM

Pages Read: 276

Killer Within by S.E. Green

Started On: May 19th

Finished On: May 19th, 11:49 PM

Pages Read: 306

The Memory Key by Liana Liu

Started On: May 20th

Finished On: May 20th, 11:26 PM

Pages Read: 239

Making Pretty by Corey Ann Haydu

Started On: May 21st

Pages Read: 274

We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

Started On: May 23rd

Pages Read: 1 of 128

Books Read: 6

Goal: 25 Books

Pages Read: 1935

Reading Next: Dust to Dust, This Heart of Mine, The Improbably Theory of Ana & Zak, The Perfectionists, Vanished, Extraordinary Means, Twisted Fate, Endangered, City Love, Even in Paradise, The Secrets of Attraction, The Cost of All Things, No Place to Fall, Relic, Crashland, Playlist for the Dead, Maid of Wonder, Solitaire, The Distance Between Lost and Found, Emmy & Oliver, Dead Over Heels, Messenger of Fear, Heat of the Moment, Falling Into Place, Captive, Everything That Makes You, Little Peach, Emancipated, Night of a Thousand Stars, Moonset, The Boyfriend App, The Pretty App, Anything to Have You, Finding Paris, How to Win at High School, Second Star, Invincible, Divided, Crystal Fire, Take Me On.

WWW Wednesday #214, May 20th

To play along, just answer the following three (3) questions…

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you'll read next?

Thanks to MizB of Should Be Writing now A Daily Rhythm for starting this meme!

I'm reading The Memory Key, and it's really awesome! So enjoyable!

I read Killer Within, and it was such a fantastic book! I enjoyed it so much!

I'm going to be reading Beautiful Redemption, and I can't wait to reread it! It's so great!

What about you guys? Happy reading!