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Monday, August 3, 2020

It's Monday! What Are You Reading #478, August 3rd

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 #477
Teaser Tuesday #485
WWW Wednesday #485
WOW #481
Will the Time Come #478
Third Sentence Thursday #468
Random Reads #454
First Lines Friday #481
Book Blogger Hop #147
Last Letter, First Letter Reading Challenge Update 76
The Reward Challenge Update #463
Wheel of TBR #10
How Well I Stuck to It #315
Wrote that Review Update #312

Week 31 Reviews:
A Season of Daring Greatly

The Archive of the Forgotten

I Come With Knives
Phoenix Unbound
The First Midnight Spell
Spellcaster
Steadfast
Sorceress

TRUEL1F3
The Guinevere Deception
Blood Red Road
The Cruel Prince
Red Sister
Warcross

Make Your Myth-Taker Readathon:

Update 38
Update 39
Update 40

Page-a-Thon:

Update 40

Update 41
Update 42
Update 43
Update 44
Update 45
Update 46
Update 47
Update 48
Update 49
Update 50
Update 51 and Wrap Up

To Be Continued Readathon:

2020 ARC August:

Magical Readathon N.E.W.T.s:
Update 1

Random:

We Have the Cover of Alpha & Omega #6!!!!
We Have the Cover of Highland Brides #9!!!!
We Have the Title of Rise of the Warlords #1!!!!
Book Battle August 2020 TBR
Wheel of TBR Books to Pull From 2020

OK, so I got 50 posts in 7 days, I read a good number of books, so I'm pleased with that! Can't wait for next week! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read whatever books I want from my N.E.W.T.'s TBR. Can't wait to read more books!

Saturday, August 1, 2020

Week 31 Review: A Season of Daring Greatly

From Goodreads:
Eighteen-year-old Jill Cafferty just made history. Her high school's star pitcher, she is now the first woman drafted by a major league baseball team. Only days after her high school graduation, she'll join the Pittsburgh Pirates' Class A Short Season team . . . but not everyone is happy to have her there.

On top of the pressure heaped on every pitcher, Jill must deal with defying conventions and living up to impossible expectations, all while living away from home for the first time. She'll go head-to-head against those who are determined to keep baseball an all-male sport. Despite the reassurance of coaches and managers alike, a few of her teammates are giving her trouble. The media presence following her at each game is inescapable. And to top it all off, Jill is struggling with the responsibilities of being a national hero and a role model for young women everywhere. How can she be a role model when she's not even sure she made the right choice for herself? Didn't baseball used to be fun?

This literary and engrossing story of a young woman trying to mark out a place for herself in a male-dominated world will captivate fans of Friday Night Lights, The Art of Fielding, John Corey Whaley, and Laurie Halse Anderson.

My Review:
This book was pretty awesome, I loved the idea of a girl getting into the minor league baseball, because I think it just happened in real life, too. I don't know if there's also a separate league of teams for women or not, I'm not a sports person, but yeah, this is kinda a big deal, and I really enjoyed that!

Jill was an interesting character. She was smart, she was very athletically inclined, and she was very driven. I really enjoyed reading her journey, she's a trailblazer, and it's a difficult journey. There's been variations on this before, but this is a baseball one, and I enjoyed it!

Her talent at baseball is enough that she has a chance to go pro-to be the first woman to be drafted in a major league. And that makes waves, both with her new team, and in her life, in what she's leaving behind, and how people react to her.

I'm a bit on the edge about the ending. On the one hand, it went out on a good note, of a game, that of the part that she pitched, was perfect. But on the other, it felt like not everything was resolved, you know? More like it was a slice of life, and things will continue, and hopefully they'll go in a good direction, they seemed to be pointed that way. But we don't know, and I'm wavering on whether or not I like that.

This book was a great read, and I really enjoyed it!

Author: Ellen Emerson White
Read: July 25th, 2020
Source: Edelweiss
Reason Why: Sounded really good, and it's a SAC 2020 Book!
Publisher: Greenwillow Books
Published: February 14th 2017

5/5 Hearts

4/5 Books

4/5 Stars

Saturday, July 25, 2020

Page-a-Thon Update 38

So I read my next book for Page-a-Thon, and it was A Season of Daring Greatly, and I'll be reading The Archive of the Forgotten next!

My Reading Journey:

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige

Started On: July 1st
Finished On: July 1st, 1:31 PM
Pages Read: 452

Dangerous Remedy by Kat Dunn
Started On: July 1st
Finished On: July 1st, 11:39 PM
Pages Read: 432

Tiny Pretty Things by Sona Charaipotra and Dhonielle Clayton
Started On: July 2nd
Finished On: July 2nd, 11:42 PM
Pages Read: 464

The Beast is an Animal by Peternelle van Arsdale
Started On: July 3rd
Finished On: July 3rd, 11:29 AM
Pages Read: 343

Havoc by Ann Aguirre
Started On: July 4th
Finished On: July 4th, 9:39 PM
Pages Read: 320

Breakout by Ann Aguirre
Started On: July 5th
Finished On: July 5th, 2:03 AM
Pages Read: 336

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare
Started On: July 5th
Finished On: July 5th, 9:51 PM
Pages Read: 485

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Started On: July 6th
Finished On: July 6th, 8:44 PM
Pages Read: 400

The Antidote by Shelley Sackier
Started On: July 7th
Finished On: July 7th, 1:24 PM
Pages Read: 357

Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi
Started On: July 8th
Finished On: July 8th, 10:31 AM
Pages Read: 525

My Calamity Jane by Jodi Meadows, Cynthia Hand and Brodie Ashton
Started On: July 8th
Finished On: July 8th, 11:01 PM
Pages Read: 544

Origin by Jessica Khoury
Started On: July 9th
Finished On: July 9th, 9:00 PM
Pages Read: 394

Hunt the Dark by S.A. Hunt
Started On: July 10th
Finished On: July 10th, 9:23 PM
Pages Read: 384

First of Tomes by Honor Raconteur
Started On: July 10th
Finished On: July 10th, 11:45 PM
Pages Read: 260

On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Prompt Fulfilled: Bargain
Started On: July 11th
Finished On: July 11th, 4:23 PM

Pages Read: 447

The Persuasion by Iris Johansen
Started On: July 11th
Finished On: July 11th, 11:54 PM
Pages Read: 464

Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe by Melissa de la Cruz
Started On: July 12th
Finished On: July 12th, 1:15 PM
Pages Read: 225

Deathless Divide by Justina Ireland
Started On: July 12th
Finished On: July 12th, 8:49 PM
Pages Read: 560

Shadow of the Fox by Julie Kagawa
Started On: July 12th
Finished On: July 12th, 11:21 PM
Pages Read: 443

The Pale Dreamer by Samantha Shannon
Started On: July 12th
Finished On: July 12th, 11:57 PM
Pages Read: 78

The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part One by Michael Dante DiMartino and Irene Koh
Started On: July 13th
Finished On: July 13th, 8:49 PM
Pages Read: 76

The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part Two by Michael Dante DiMartino and Irene Koh
Started On: July 13th
Finished On: July 13th, 9:26 PM
Pages Read: 76

The Legend of Korra: Turf Wars, Part Three by Michael Dante DiMartino and Irene Koh
Started On: July 13th
Finished On: July 13th, 10:11 PM
Pages Read: 76

The Unseen by Thea Harrison
Started On: July 14th
Finished On: July 14th, 11:30 AM
Pages Read: 150

The Queen by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Started On: July 14th
Finished On: July 14th, 1:42 PM
Pages Read: 146

The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
Started On: July 15th
Finished On: July 15th, 11:57 PM
Pages Read: 466

Blood & Honey by Shelby Mahurin
Started On: July 16th
Finished On: July 16th, 10:41 PM

Pages Read: 528

The Black Coats by Colleen Oakes

Started On: July 19th
Finished On: July 19th, 2:05 PM

Pages Read: 416

Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
Started On: July 19th
Finished On: July 19th, 10:09 PM

Pages Read: 465

Inside Out by Maria V. Sndyer
Started On: July 20th
Finished On: July 20th, 7:11 PM

Page Read: 315

Outside In by Maria V. Sndyer
Started On: July 20th
Finished On: July 20th, 11:16 PM

Pages Read: 326

Nyxia by Scott Reintgen
Started On: July 21st
Finished On: July 21st, 11:44 PM

Pages Read: 371

The Left-Handed Booksellers of London by Garth Nix
Started On: July 22nd
Finished On: July 22nd, 4:15 PM

Pages Read: 461

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson
Started On: July 22nd
Finished On: July 22nd, 8:46 PM

Pages Read: 387

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

Started On: July 23rd
Finished On: July 23rd, 11:53 PM

Pages Read: 480

Blood Countess by Lana Popović
Started On: July 24th
Finished On: July 24th, 6:34 PM

Pages Read: 320

No Good Deed by Kara Connolly

Started On: July 24th
Finished On: July 24th, 10:57 PM

Pages Read: 341

A Season of Daring Greatly by Ellen Emerson White
Started On: July 25th
Finished On: July 25th, 7:44 PM
Pages Read: 432

The Archive of the Forgotten by A. J. Hackwith
Started On: July 25th
Currently On: Page 0 of 336

Read: 38
Pages Read: 13745

Friday, July 24, 2020

Page-a-Thon Update 37

So I read my next book for Page-a-Thon, and it was No Good Deed, and I'll be reading A Season of Daring Greatly next!

My Reading Journey:

Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige