Posted Thursday, 29 June, 2017 by jorielov #20BooksOfSummer, Anna Lee Huber, Brenda S. Anderson, Catherine Ryan Hyde, Deborah Hining, Diane Chamberlain, Ellen Sherman, Jorie Loves A Story, Kathleen Shoop, Kristy Woodson Harvey, Lauraine Snelling, Lynn Cullen, Mary Kubica, Nicholas Sparks, Philip Gulley, Rachel Dylan, Sandra Danby, Susan Sleeman 10 Comments
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In JULY 2018, I decided to resume this challenge as #20BooksOfAutumn due to the insanity of electrical storms last Summer which took the JOY out of reading these lovelies. Due watch my Twitter @joriestory for updates and reading queues for which story is being read next!
I created a new badge for this redemptive attempt to read *20!* specific books for *20!* unique reasons of interest throughout one Season of the Year. The first review will be the wild card selection “Like There’s No Tomorrow” by Camille Eide (as it replaced the previously inclusive “Ignoring Gravity”) before the schedule I set forth on this challenge commences from how it was meant to begin – where the following stories will be featured back-to-back:
As Death Draws Near | Allie & Bea | Worthy
Join me on the Autumnal Equinox 2018 : 22nd of September until 21st December.
In the interest of the challenge, I should mention this is one reading challenge I have wanted to join in on the bookish fun since I first started blogging in [2013] similar to how I was most anxious to join #AustenInAugust when coincidentally, this blog went LIVE in August 2013. This year, I had projected to participate in a variety of reading challenges (see Challenge List 2017) however, I ought to have known it was going to be a ‘unique year’ once my Spring allergies took such a lockhold of me to where I was unable to read nor blog; much less tweet to my bookish heart’s desire.
I was wicked enthused finding out about the challenge (see this tweet) even if I wasn’t fully able to devout any attention to creating my own #20BooksOfSummer List until two days before the month of June concluded! Ironically or not, I might be late to the party, but I am wicked excited about my selections – which is why I am posting this List on my blog and Riffle.
DUE NOTE: all the books featured on my #20BooksOfSummer were books sent to me for review consideration at some point or another over the past few years. The exception being ‘Memory Box Secrets’ of which was a purchase of my own and ‘Allie and Bea’ which I received as a bookaway. Ergo for one reason or another all of these lovelies were TBR in the most humblest of ways: books ‘to be read’ and quite wickedly itching with curiosity by the reader whose about to broach into their folds!
I have been working earnestly towards erasing my backlogue (of reviews) for almost a full year and this challenge is helping me to become re-inspired to read after two seasons of personal angst. Let’s face it – JUNE was a wash-out. It barely blinked into view before it extinguished out of sight – and I barely posted anything during it’s duration. The one thing I did accomplish is finding a way to bring ART back into my life and to resume KNITTING giving myself a way to put some Zen into my downtime. Especially imperative as I was ill more than well this Spring. As the monsoon Summer rains start to begin now as we enter into JULY, I am most hopeful my seasonal allergies will start to relent and give me back the clarity of calm I’ve missed all SPRING.
The exact order of how I will be reading these stories is UNKNOWN except for the first three selections which will be the following: WORTHY | As Death Draws Near | Allie and Bea.
Interestingly enough, for those of you curious how we order things without thinking specifically about how we want to sort the books we’re reading, here is the organic nature of how the books were stacked as I sorted out which books would make into this challenge list:
- As Death Draws Near by Anna Lee Huber | Synopsis
- Inconceivable by Tegan Wren | Synopsis
- Pretty Baby by Mary Kubica | Synopsis
- Pretending to Dance by Diane Chamberlain | Synopsis ← re-reading
- Deadly Proof by Rachel Dylan | Synopsis
- Fatal Mistake by Susan Sleeman | Synopsis
- Memory Box Secrets by Brenda S. Anderson | Synopsis
- Ignoring Gravity by Sandra Danby | Synopsis ← (see also Review) guest feature forthcoming!
- Dear Carolina by Kristy Woodson Harvey | Synopsis
- The Promise of Dawn by Lauraine Snelling | Synopsis
- A Lesson in Hope by Philip Gulley | Synopsis
- True Believer by Nicholas Sparks | Synopsis
- A Saint in Graceland by Deborah Hining | Synopsis
- Just the Facts by Ellen Sherman | Synopsis
- Worthy by Catherine Ryan Hyde | Synopsis
- Allie and Bea by Catherine Ryan Hyde | Synopsis
- Satisfaction by Andee Reilly | Synopsis
- Rooville by Julie Long | Synopsis
- The Last Letter by Kathleen Shoop | Synopsis
- Twain’s End by Lynn Cullen | Synopsis
- Like There’s No Tomorrow by Camille Eide | Synopsis | to replace Ignoring Gravity
| by the numbers |
2 rescheduled blog tour books | 2 LibraryThing books | 1 bookaway | 7 BookSparks Reading Challenge Books
7 postponed reads = 17 books erased from my Book Blogger’s Backlogue
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Posted Thursday, 29 June, 2017 by jorielov in #20BooksOfSummer, #20BooksOfSummer, Bits & Bobbles of Jorie, Blog Tour Host, JLAS Update Post, Reading Challenges, Twitterland & Twitterverse Event
Posted Thursday, 1 October, 2015 by jorielov (Editor) David G. Hartwell, (Editor) Kathryn Cramer, Alane Adams, All in Her Head, Andee Reilly, Audrey Niffenegger, Bearskin, Beautiful Girl, Blonde Eskimo, Candace Cameron Bure, Catherine Ryan Hyde, Charton Minster series, Christina Cook, Christina Courtenay, Corvidae, Dancing Through Life, DAW Books, Diana Wynne Jones, Diane Chamberlain, E.B. Wheeler, Eight Hundred Grapes, Ellen Sherman, Erin Siedemann, Esther Friesner, Evie Undercover, Fire Season, Fleur Phillips, Fool's Gold, Gregory Benford, Heather Burch, Hollye Dexter, Jamie Robyn Wood, Jill G Hall, Julie E. Czerneda, Julie Long, Just the Facts, Kate Johnson, Kathleen Shoop, Kristen Hunt, Kristin Contino, Kumashiro series, Laura Dave, Leanna Lehman, Liz Harris, Madeleine L’ Engle, Margaret James, Marilyn Berman, Mary Kubica, Maybe in Another Life, Melanie Hudson, Postcards from the Sky, Pretending to Dance, Pretty Baby, Reef Libre, Reunification No.1, Rhonda Parrish, Robert Wintner, Rooville, Ruth W. Crocker, Satisfaction, Scarecrow, Sleeping with the Enemy, Stacy Robinson, Summer by Summer, Summer Kinard, Sunny Mera, Surface, Susan Ornbratt, Suzanne Palmieri, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Tea and Crumples, Tempting Fate, The Black Velvet Coat, The Clan Chronicles, The Haunting of Springett Hall, The Joy of Missing Out: Finding Balance in a Wired World, The Legacy of Us, The Particular Appeal of Gillian Pugsley, The Pinhole Egg, The Red Sun, The Road Home, The Scarlet Kimono, The Silver Locket, The Space Opera Renaissance, The Time Quartet, The Time Travellers Wife, The Untied Kingdom, The Wedding Cake Tree, The Witch of Bourbon Street, This Gulf of Time and Stars, Those Who Remain: Remembrance and Reunion after War, Tides of Light, Tracy Solheim, Travelling the Two Lane, Vote for Remi, World Weaver Press, Worthy, Zana Bell 4 Comments
Week of Thursday, 26st of September through 1st of October, 2015 | Hostess List
I’ve honestly wanted to start participating in this weekly meme in 2014, however, I would always seem to get distracted during the hours leading up to Thursdays OR completely forget to compose my thoughts for this meme until into the weekend; at which point, the time had come and gone. I like the fact we can exchange thoughts percolating in our minds that run the gambit of the bookish world, creative outlets, or thoughts we want to share that might show a bit more about who we are behind the bookish blog we maintain. I am going to attempt to thread the journal of my 10 Bookish / Not Bookish Thoughts by order of the entries arrival into my life rather than a preference of 1-10.
BE SURE to visit my FIRST ENTRY: Bookish Not Bookish No.1
No, your eyes did not lie to you, this is No. 6, No. 2-5 will be released this Autumn.
No. 1 | Corvidae + Scarecrow | Anthologies by World Weaver Press
As you might have recalled I happily devoured the stories in Rhonda Parrish’s first anthological series debut FAE, wherein I found myself quite delighted to find stories of the fae represented in such a uniquely clever collection of inspiration and craft of story-telling. After concluding my review on behalf of FAE, I wasn’t quite sure what I should request next via World Weaver Press, when happily their publicist Ms Wagner suggested I follow FAE with the next two anthologies in sequence:
What is so wicked awesome about these two anthologies is there is a serial short between them, which outside of pulp fiction and the classical serials found in zines decades inside the early 20th Century, I haven’t come across serial shorts inside anthologies! I’m quite a newbie to anthologies of the 21st Century, and thereby, each time I make a discovery I am wicked excited by the possibilities of what I am about to read!
I am now piqued with keen interest to read Sanctuary and Judge & Jury! I had agreed knowingly with the reviewer – sometimes you come across a short so profoundly moving, if you never found another you loved dearly as much, the collection was worth it’s weight in gold! This happened to me once in another anthology where I found a writer so tapped into the human condition and the emphatic heart we all have within us, I was forever moved! Shorts despite their length are powerful in what they convey! The four I focused on myself from FAE are still with me, even now.
I must confess, this fellow book blogger out here in the book blogosphere is as keenly passionate about these anthologies as I am, as it’s his reviews on behalf of these two anthologies that encouraged me to take the plunge into reading them myself!
I must admit – reading the reviews on Tangent in combination with reading the Press Kits helped make my decision because Tangent has bloggers who knit out the heart of each story and give me ‘just enough’ to whet a thirst of interest.
Do visit his reviews, ahead of my own which will be arriving in October!
Tangent’s review of Corvidae by Eric Kimminau
Tangent’s review of Scarecrow by Eric Kimminau
And, dear hearts guess what!? Parrish isn’t yet done with her Magical Menagerie! She’s putting together a new collection entitled: SIRENS! Eek. Can you just imagine!? Watery stories of EPIC MYTHOLOGICAL loveliness?! I’m not sure about you, but World Weaver Press has bewitched me!
No. 2 | Being a part of DAW’s blog tour for This Gulf of Time and Stars by Julie E. Czerneda
I initially thought my path had crossed with Ms Czerneda during Sci Fi November 2014, until I ran a search for our tweet convos and realised it was a bit earlier in 2014 during the Sci Fi Writer’s chat! Who knew!? I used to duck inside the #sffwrtcht on a regular basis, as I have a healthy appetite for SFF whilst getting the opportunity to talk to writers who are enveloping us in worlds that are a jolt outside our own realities to the brink of epic intraspace proportions! As we do not just jettison ourselves off of Earth or into the orbit surrounding Earth, we sometimes traverse the divides of time itself whilst visiting territorial systems beyond our line of sight. Then, there is the hidden joy of writers who write an arbitrage of stories contained on Earth herself but within the light years of time ahead of our own living futures, taking us both on land and sea to explore new frontiers and the plausiblilties of life therein. Read More
Posted Thursday, 1 October, 2015 by jorielov in 10 Bookish (& Not-So-Bookish Thoughts), Blogosphere Events & Happenings
