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The Well's End by Seth Fishman was a rollicking ride from start to finish.  The summary of this book was vague enough that I had no idea what I was getting myself into. And by the end, I really had no idea what was happening. But I also sort of liked the intrigue. It was frustrating at times because Fishman doesn't leave enough clues for you to figure out what's happening on your own. You have to read until the end, and the ending is less than fulfilling. However it's the first book in at least a duology which I didn't know when I read it. I would suggest this book to people who love adventures and are willing to let a book carry them away. Favorite Quotes: Only humans could come up with such an awful way to turn a gift to a curse.

Hello Lovelies! Welcome back to another Top Ten Tuesday hosted by the wonderful women over at The Broke and the Bookish  . This week's topic is... Top Ten Books That Were Hard For Me to Read 1. Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith  : If you read my review  then you'll know that I have mixed feelings about this book. It was hard to read because of the writing style. There's quite a bit of jumping around and he talks about things that happen far outside his scope of knowledge. So all around, just a tricky book to tackle. 2. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho :   I know that most people love this book, but I was not one of them. It isn't very hard to read writing-wise, but I was so over it from about four pages in that I had the hardest time picking it back up again and again so I could finish it. If I hadn't told my dad I'd read it, I would have marked it DNF. 3. The Magicians by Lev Grossman : If you read my review , you'll know that I hated

Hello Lovelies! So, a while back, Jamie at Perpetual Page-Turner  wrote one of these posts, and I felt the need to write one tonight. So grab your own drink of choice (I'm not going to lie, I don't have coffee. I have Cranberry Sprite), and let's have a little chat. If we were having drinks... I'd tell you how crummy I feel. I think I'm getting sick, and my entire body hurts. So it's probably safer that we're having drinks separately.  If we were having drinks...  I'd tell you how stressed I am about school. I may have underestimated how hard it was going to be to go back to school after two years. I'm the only person I know who is taking four classes too. Most other people are taking two or one. So I might be a little crazy. And I keep getting irritated with my classes because they expect high quality work but the prompts that are given make it difficult to provide that. I can read and participate in class, but when I go to write pa

Hello Lovelies!!!! Oh my goodness, it's been ages since I've posted. I'm so sorry. Let me catch you up on my excuses as to why it's been so long. First of all, I did manage to move all the way across the country. Almost as far as I could get from good old Missoula, MT -- Boston, MA. So that was an adventure. And then school started right away, and I'm not going to lie, it's been a little rough. I've been out of school for two years, so it's been an adjustment getting back into the swing of classes and no work and bizarre free time which isn't really free because I should be doing homework or writing papers. Sigh. But! I have a little bit of time right now where all the homework that's due today and tomorrow is done, and I don't have what I need to finish for Monday, so I can catch up on my blog. Woohoo!! The good news is I've been reading a lot. Like A LOT. I have an hour commute (that's one way), so I basically have two hour

Galax-Arena by Gillian Rubinstein is a novel that I love when I was younger.  For one of my classes, I was required to reread a novel I remembered from my youth, and during discussion this book came up. I loved this book when I was in elementary school. I was a little surprised to see that it's recommended for kids 12+ because I definitely read it when I was 8 or 9. That's pretty typical for me though. Galax-Arena is about three siblings: Peter, Joella and Liane. They're kidnapped by a man named Hythe and taken to an alien planet called Vexak. There they are forced to perform for aliens called Vexa in an acrobatic troup that performs in the Galax-Arena. They are not the only children in the Galax-Arena. There are many children from all across Earth. They've cobbled together a language and a means of living, but their entire life centers around performing in the Galax-Arena--and in surviving each performance. As I was rereading this book, I was surprised at how m