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ivysbooks posted: " It's the month of Becca's Bookoplathon I don't fully understand where our summer has gone but it's officially autumn now and I'm getting the NaNoWriMo itch. Anyone else? Doing NaNo prep in Septemer is a bad idea! I've done it before and was creativ"
I don't fully understand where our summer has gone but it's officially autumn now and I'm getting the NaNoWriMo itch. Anyone else?
Doing NaNo prep in Septemer is a bad idea! I've done it before and was creatively exhausted by the start of NaNo. It was still a success but those first two weeks where a drag and a struggle. So not again thank you.
I have no plans for September. I know work will be busy, there is tons to plan and prep for the allotment, and then there is Bacca's Bookoplathon. Those are my plans really.
I have decided to not do a TBR for Becca's Bookoplathon which makes me nervous. Instead I played a game of ring of TBR (my own TBR game) and set some rules for September:
No books off my Ring of TBR gets read unless Becca'sBookoplathon tells me to
All doubles that a rolled during Becca's will be added to the stack after I have completed my own Ring of TBR.
There could be punishments on the way.
Just to explain. I have played my TBR game and those are my TBR for the month by I have to play for them. I roll on Becca's board and whichever place I land on I need to find a book with that prompt. If the prompt fits a Ring of TBR book, great let's read that. If not, then a new book is added to September's reads. This means I could go a long time before I get to any of my Ring of TBR books. I have no set amount of rolls but rather I play until I finish my own Ring of TBR stack. You with me? I'm not sure I am but hey.
I've ended up with 8 books on my TBR with the potential to make it a lot bigger. Finger crossed I survive this month... lol
Let's dive in!
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Amonth Thives by M J Kuhn - One of my most anntisipated releases of the year and last year. I have been expecting this for two years and I'm so excited!! It has that magical wording of "a band of misfits" in the synopsis and I'm sold Oh and it's queer/sapphic. Publication date UK 9th September 2021.
The Last Graduate (Scholomance #2) by Naomi Novik - Ring of TBR - I wasn't completely sold by book 2 and I think I will have mixed feeling about this one too but I want to know what will happened. Publication data UK 28th September 2021.
Namesake (Fable #2) by Ariadne Young - I loved the first book so I requested the second when I saw it. Publication date UK 22nd June 2021. Still havent gotten to this...
Carry On (Simon Snow #1) by Rainbow Rowell - Ring of TBR - I read Fangirl earlier this year so I know now what this book is about, but I did pull it out of my TBR jar and wasn't entierly pleased about it.
No books yet but I do need to fit one in. I have made all my Chance cards on Becca's board into TBR vets from my physical shelf so I hope to get to at least one this month.
Isola volume 1 by Brendedn Fletcher and Karl Kerschl - Ring of TBR - I've heard a lot of great things about this graphic novel but I don't know what it's about. I know there is a curse on the queen and her personal guard has taken up the mantel to break the curse himself. That's all I know. And I'm intrigued.
A Strange Hymn (Barganer Series #2) by Laura Thalassa - Ring of TBR - This is me being proactive ok. I picked an 8 which is recommended and I remembered from previous rounds of Becca's Bookoplathon that there was a Becca's Recommended square. So I decided to pick a book I was recommended by Becca into my TBR just in case I landed on that square later on I would be safe lol.
Amanda's Book Review! posted: " "What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down."The Overstory It makes me wonder why we don't priorities trees. They are not only extremely important to our survival on this planet as well as many other creatures "
"What you make from a tree should be at least as miraculous as what you cut down."
The Overstory
It makes me wonder why we don't priorities trees. They are not only extremely important to our survival on this planet as well as many other creatures but they are also embedded in our societies all over the world. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, The Tree of Life, Yggdrasil, The Baobab Tree, The Jubokko, The Kodama, The Fusang Tree, The Ceiba Tree, and MANY MORE. They are incorporated into our culture and religions. So why do we insist on cutting them down and destroying entire ecosystems that support us?
The Overstory by Richard Powers captured my attention with the promise of trees and how humans interact with them and the horrors of deforestation. There are 5 trees and 9 people that this book features. They are supposed to intersect. Nicholas Hoel is an artist. His family members are farmers and his great-great-great-grandfather planted a Chestnut Tree. There was a plague among those trees and this one survived. Douglas Pavlicek is in the Air Force and when he falls from the plane, he lands in a Banyan Tree. He becomes obsessed, discovers the numbers and effects of deforestation so he plants as many trees as possible. And Patricia Westerford loves trees and discovers that trees have a way of communicating with each other and is shunned by her fellow scientists after her discovery. There are six other characters but none of them really impacted me the way these three did.
So I am conflicted about this book. I see it's genius and I love the passion about the trees, but I felt so disconnected. I am not sure if it is the audiobook because I did feel that the narrator did a splendid job. Maybe it was the way the book is laid out? I enjoyed more about the trees than I did the characters. I hated how it jumped around. It felt unorganized and too-long winded. There were some moments that I felt really didn't add the story and made it drag. But I do wonder if I had read the physical copy that maybe it would have clicked differently. But now I do want to go and read a ton of world mythology. So while I appreciated many aspects of this book, it also left me wanting more. So I am giving it 3 out of 5 stars.
Oh and it's queer/sapphic. Publication date UK 9th September 2021.
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