Posted Thursday, 8 May, 2014 by jorielov M.J. Rose, Reincarnationist series, Seduction, The Book of Lost Fragrances, The Collector of Dying Breaths, The Hypnotist, The Memorist, The Reincarnationist 0 Comments
I am super stoked for this month’s Bout of Books!!
Seriously it is most delightful timing as I want to read the ENTIRE Reincarnationist series ahead of reading “The Collector of Dying Breaths” which hits Jorie Loves A Story on 20th of May (book review) & 19th of May (Author Interview)!! A series which has entranced my curious bookish heart for several years now, but a series I have never truly had the pleasure of sinking into until now! I cannot wait to spend a Bouter week in full absorption of M.J. Rose’s masterpiece series! The two days after Bout of Books my tour stops will be live and I could not be happier nor think of a better way of spending my 3rd Bout than wrapped inside of a series by an author I have always wanted to read! The badge above created by Parajunkee Designs is the epitome of how I will be spending my week: absolutely NO TV (save Dancing with the Stars, as quite frankly I am a bit addicted to the dancing!) for me!
I’ll take a wee bit of a break on Saturday, 17th of May as I am now a Hostess of a weekly Saturday morn tweetchat (#ChocLitSaturdays) but then, its right back into the books Bout’ers! I’ll pop on Twitter as I’m able too, but for me, I want to read, read, READ and read some more! Laughs. The wicked sweet part!? Bout of Books is a full two weeks AHEAD of #ArmChairBEA! My first ArmChairBEA to join as a book blogger, being that I have only been blogging for a year (1st Blogoversary was 31 March) and my blog celebrates its birthday (the day I went live) 6 August! Eek. Loads of happy book blogger moments happening for me this month!
{Official Blurb}:
The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week-long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 12th and runs through Sunday, May 18th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 10.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog – From the Bout of Books team
I, Jorie of Jorie Loves A Story is not only a seriously addicted reader of books which wrap me inside books which enchant my mind and murmur reflections in my heart after I put the books down, but I am a girl who is positively happy whilst caught up in the book blogosphere events which unite readers with books, and books with readers who love to chatter about why they love to read what they read! I am going to sit back and enjoy this Bout, whilst captured inside one author’s legacy of words! Giving my full devouted attention to one singular series and blocking out the hours inside a suspenseful adventure of epic proportions! I cannot think of a better way to spend the Bout, can you!?
Whose going to join me!?
Converse with Bout’ers: #boutofbooks | @BoutofBooks
Hostesses: @ + @
Added Bonus: I’m able to jump into the Twitter parties & conversations!!
Books within the Reincarnationist series:
{all books direct to their synopsis on Fantastic Fiction}
The Reincarnationist,
The Memorist,
The Hypnotist,
The Book of Lost Fragrances,
Seduction,
& The Collector of Dying Breaths
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Posted Thursday, 8 May, 2014 by jorielov in Blog Tour Host, Blogosphere Events & Happenings, Book Trailer, Bookish Discussions, Bout of Books, Death, Sorrow, and Loss, Historical Fiction, Historical Fiction Virtual Book Tours, Library Love, Parfum Industry, RALs | Thons via Blogs, Reader Submitted Author Interview, Reincarnation, Suspense
Posted Monday, 17 February, 2014 by jorielov A Beauty So Rare, Charlotte Bronte, Citadel, Colleen McCullough, Crown of Vengeance, Eleanor Catton, Firefly Lane, Fires of Eden series, Gone with the Wind, Helene Wecker, Henry James, James S.A. Corey, Jane Eyre, Jaran, Kate Elliott, Kate Morton, Kate Mosse, Kristin Hannah, Labyrinth, Leila Meacham, Leo Tolstoy, Leviathan Wakes, M.J. Rose, Marcus Zusak, Margaret Mitchell, Michael Faber, Reincarnationist series, Roses, Ruth Hull Chatlien, Sepulchre, Somerset, Stephen Zimmer, Sword of Heaven series, Tamera Alexander, The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte, The Book Thief, The Crimson Petal and the White, The Distant Hours, The Forgotten Garden, The Golem and the Jinni, The House at Riverton, The Luminaries, The Portrait of a Lady, The Reincarnationist, The Thorn Birds, Tumbleweeds, Vanity Fair, War and Peace, William Makepeace Thackeray 5 Comments
I, must admit, I am always quite curious about the books I gravitate towards reading time after time. Do I pick a specific genre to explore!? Is there a particular heart of depth to the stories I am selecting?! Is there any specifics that would stand out!? Setting?! Time preference!? Locale!? Or, could it be that I, Jorie of Jorie Loves A Story have a natural curiosity and eye bent towards falling in love with novels of hearty depth! What the rest of the world considers a ‘chunkser’ I consider “Now! That’s what I call a wicked sweet tome of a novel!”
Although I have seen posts attributed to this particular reading challenge over the past few years, I was always curious about the length requirements of the reader’s choices!? Apparently, any novel over the mark of 450 pages is considered a ‘chunkster’ by the broader readership! I consider anything under 750 pages to be a full-fledged novel of wickedly delightful sagas! Then, again, I happen to have a penchant for reading multi-generational sagas, of which cannot be fully contained in one singular volume! I oft find the sagas are separated into multiples; either in a running serial of the same family &/or spilt into trilogy installments. The odd quartet is thrown in for good measure as well!
I am a reader who envelops her mind, her heart, and her soul around the characters she meets inside the stories her mind illuminates for her as she reads. The main characters as well as the supporting characters all have equal footing in her heart because each of the characters mentioned may hold a piece of the evolving story. Or at the very least, provide a backdrop flow of continuity for the time, setting, and place of the novel! I love seeing the smaller details, the finer points of everyday hours which elapse at different intervals whilst your engrossed into a hearty historical inasmuch as you might be jettisoning into a time slip or time travel narrative! I like seeing the finite details because they in of themselves give a winking nod towards our own histories. How life was for those who came before us in the not-so-far-off past can be ruminated in a historical story.
This wicked sweet challenge is hosted by Vasilly of Chunkster Challenge!
{Proposed Goal of Reading *25* Chunksters}
Given the rate of probability of increasing my page counts as the months progress forward, I have decided to aim even higher than I originally felt I could achieve over the next 10 months, as I am beginning to count this challenge in the second month rather than the first! And, at the latter half of February, I might add! I originally felt only five novels of considerable length might be possible! Who knew!? I suppose this would fall under the ‘hidden talent’ category for performance artists!?
{Reading List} | Combination of Blog Tour Reviews & Personal Selections
IF a book is in italics I have bumped it into 2015 rather than reading it in 2014.
- Crown of Vengeance {Book 1: Fires of Eden series} by Stephen Zimmer (612 pages)
- War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1,215 pages)
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë (643 pages)
- Somerset by Leila Meacham {Prequel to Roses} (610 pages)
- Roses by Leila Meacham (609 pages)
- Tumbleweeds by Leila Meacham (470 pages)
- The Ambitious Madame Bonaparte by Ruth Hill Chatlien (484 pages)
- Labyrinth by Kate Mosse (528 pages)* officially on hold for another year
- Sepulchre by Kate Mosse (592 pages)* officially on hold for another year
- Citadel by Kate Mosse (680 pages)
The Reincarnationist (Book 1: Reincarnationist series) by M.J. Rose* (464 pages)
The Memorist (Book 2: Reincarnationist series) by M.J. Rose* (464 pages)
- A Beauty So Rare by Tamera Alexander* (480 pages)
- [7,851 pages thus far!]
- Intangible by C.A. Gray (482 pages)
- Awesome Jones by AshleyRose Sullivan (456 pages)
{In consideration} | A considerable number are on my tCC List!
[projected pages to read: 8,498!]
- Leviathan Wakes by James S.A. Corey (582 pages)
- Jaran {Book 1: Sword of Heaven series} by Kate Elliott (494 pages)
- The Luminaries by Eleanor Catton (834 pages)
- The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (552 pages)
- Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah (479 pages)
- The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton (552 pages)
- The House at Riverton by Kate Morton (473 pages)
- The Distant Hours by Kate Morton (562 pages)
- The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (656 pages)
- The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough (704 pages)
- The Crimson Petal & the White by Michael Faber (on TBR Challenge List) (833)
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1,024 pages)
- Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray (753)
{Previously Read}
[Pages thus far consumed: 1,548 & counting!]
- The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (486 pages)
- King’s Dragon {Book 1: Crown of Stars saga} by Kate Elliott (532)
- The Shell Seekers by Rosamunde Pilcher (530)
- and continuing,.. as I sort out which books were of considerable length!
{*} reading in conjunction with scheduled book review of next in sequence
Already at the start of keeping track of the length of each novel I read, I am amazed at how the list begins with *13!* Curiously, I am fascinated to seeing which ‘length’ of book attracts me the most!? If spilt into 100 page increments, will it be the 400 mark? 500? I’ll have to continue this part of the discussion come New Year’s Eve, 2015!
*UPDATE (18FEB’14): As I read Christine’s note about how many actual pages I’d consume, I was curious, how many would that be!? I added the figures!
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Posted Monday, 17 February, 2014 by jorielov in Blogosphere Events & Happenings, Bookish Discussions, Chunkster Reading Challenge, Classical Literature, Debut Novel, Fantasy Fiction, Gothic Literature, Historical Fiction, Inspirational Fiction & Non-Fiction, Library Find, Literary Fiction, Reading Challenges, Romance Fiction, Science Fiction