Reading Challenges
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Review: Cloaked in Danger by Jeannie Ruesch
Ballrooms and proper etiquette are not Aria Whitney’s area of expertise. She is not your typical British debutante but rather a free spirit who prefers breeches over corsets and adventure over balls. However, when her father goes missing she must force herself into the upper crust of English society to discover what happened. Her father disappeared while on an archaeological dig in Egypt. When his trusted friend and colleague is gravely injured, there isn’t much hope that her father will be found alive but she must try and unravel the mystery. The only thing that Aria has to go on in a list of rich benefactors in London society. Aria…
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Review: The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards by Kristopher Jansma
How do you trust someone who lies for a living? Don’t all writers lie to some degree or another? In Kristopher Jansma’s debut novel The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, we follow one man’s quest to become a writer, but his is a story told through a bunch of short stories with one very unreliable narrator. We never learn what the narrator’s real name is, but there are two things we know for sure: he has lost every novel he has ever written and he follows Emily Dickens famous advice to the letter, ‘tell all the truth but tell it slant’. In the first short story the narrator is a teenager whose…
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The Lit Bitch is hosting the 2013 Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire) Reading Challenge
Winter is coming. Well I guess technically winter is already here in Oregon’s as is it almost everywhere else in the Northern hemisphere….LOL . Back by popular demand, I decided to host a very informal reading challenge for the A Song of Ice and Fire series again this year on my blog. The rules are simple, read the Song of Ice and Fire series…post comments, blog about it, review the series….totally up to you! You must sign up for the series here via Mr Linky and please also spread the love by grabbing the button and posting to your blog I will be changing the format slightly from last years style. Last year I just read…
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The Lit Bitch is hosting the 2013 Outlander Series Reading Challenge
It’s that time of year again Sassenachs! Time to sign up for the Outlander Reading Challenge 2013! This is the time of year where all my fellow readers begin looking for new year reading challenges and book clubs and unlike last year, I am getting an early start and spreading the word about the Outlander Series Reading Challenge that I am hosting again this year. This is the second annual Outlander Series Reading Challenge, last year was my first year hosting the challenge and after great success I decided to host it again this year! I will be changing the format slightly from last years style. Last year I just read and…
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Top 12 in 2012: Rockin’ Book Bitches
It’s only fair that I post a list of my fav heroines of the year…or in this case I shall call them the Rockin’ Book Bitches of 2012! I saw a post on one of my blogger friend’s site (K Books) about Book Boyfriends and I of course added of own little list of Book Boyfriends and now I have added my list of favorite book heroines of 2012. So here you have it, The Lit Bitch’s top 12 in 2012: Rockin’ Book Bitches my list is compiled from all of my 71 books I’ve read in 2012 and they are more or less in order Anna Karenina (Anna Karenina) Mary Alsworthy (Seduction…
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Top 12 in 2012: Book Boyfriends
I saw this post on one of my blogger friend’s site and I couldn’t resist the temptation to post my own Book Boyfriends list for the year! So here you have it, The Lit Bitch’s top 12 in 2012: Book Boyfriends my list is compiled from all of the 71 books I’ve read in 2012 and they are more or less in order: Count Vronsky (Anna Karenina) Sebastian Vaughn (The Seduction of the Crimson Rose) Jon Snow (A Game of Thrones) Marco Alisdair (The Night Circus) Four (Divergent) Henry Weston (The Tutor’s Daughter) Po (Graceling) Graham (The Winter Sea) T.J. Callahan (On the Island) Travis Maddox (Beautiful Disaster) Richard Cypher (Stone of Tears) Peeta Mellark (The…
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The Lit Bitch has entered the 2013 Historic Fiction Reading Challenge
It’s that time of year again, reading challenge time! I can hardly believe it! Over the next couple of weeks I’ll be posting my entries for various challenges here as I sign up and I will also have a special page/section devoted to my entries which will have lists of books I plan on reading. As per usual I’ll post my reviews throughout the year and add the buttons on my sidebars. So here is the first challenge sign up of 2013: the Historic Fiction Reading Challenge hosted by Historical Tapestry. For more details about my entry and goals please see my the Historic Fiction Reading Challenge 2013 page. If you are interested in signing up…
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Discussion #6: Outlander Reading Challenge 2012
The sixth discussion post for the Outlander Reading Challenge is up! As noted, I will be posting monthly meme’s/discussions for both reading challenges I am hosting, Outlander and Game of Thrones.These are meant purely for fun and by no means required to participate in the challenges. I will post five questions for you all to mull over and I will answer one of the questions myself to start off the discussion. I also invite you to post your favorite quote or passage from the book as well. Remember to link your responses or reviews back to your blog using the Mr Linky on the corresponding Monthly Meme page or you can simply leave your response in the comments. The goal is…
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Discussion #4: Game of Thrones Reading Challenge 2012
Here is the fourth monthly meme/discussions for the Game of Thrones Reading Challenge. Yes I do realize this post is a bout 5 months late, but it’s been a busy reading year :). This month’s discussion is on A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4). As usual, I will post five questions for you all to mull over and I will answer one of the questions myself to start off the discussion. I also invite you to post your favorite quote or passage from the book. These are meant purely for fun and by no means required to participate in the challenges. Make sure you link your responses or reviews…
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Review: A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire #4) by George R.R. Martin
The war of the five kings is more or less coming to an end in Westeros. One king seats the Iron Throne, but only just. His rule is in a precarious situation–one wrong move, one wrong decision, one wrong advisor….and all could be lost. I will try to make this review as spoiler free as possible, but it is difficult not to include references from the previous three books but I will do my best but consider yourself warned. In A Storm of Swords, so much happened. It was action packed from beginning to end, so as expected, A Feast for Crows, chronicles what happens in the aftermath of the…