Reading Challenges
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Review: The Rebel Wife by Taylor M Polites
Saturated in rich, golden prose Taylor Polites’s novel, The Rebel Wife, oozes engrossing detail and with such a commanding voice/tone from the first page….I found it difficult to put down. The novel contains whispers of literary delight from beloved American classics such as Gone with the Wind and is told with a dark edge which echos William Faulkner. This book was listed on Goodreads as a giveaway ARC, and this was one of the novels I was most hoping to win. The cover is striking and elegant with blazing sunset and a dark, decaying house….the cover alone beckoned me to read it. I was over the moon when I won…
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The Lit Bitch has entered the 2012 Why Buy the Cow Reading Challenge
Challenge #5 has been entered! K now I’m reasonably sure this will be the last challenge for the year….I know I know I said that before but really and truly for this one!! I just couldn’t resist a super cute challenge button with a cow on it…..sorry I just COULDN’T! So I entered the Why Buy the Cow Reading Challenge hosted by The Unread Reader who is quickly becoming one of my fav book bloggers. Again…..as noted before 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…
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The Lit Bitch has entered the 2012 Death by Gaslight Reading Challenge
Challenge #4 has been entered! This might (yes MIGHT) be the last challenge for the year….not sure yet though but as I am hosting two other reading challenges of my own (Outlander and Game of Thrones) it might be time to call it quits for the moment anyway but we aren’t quite into the new year yet so who knows I might have more challenge entries on the way 🙂 So here you have it, the Death by Gaslight Reading Challenge hosted by Simply Challenging who is quickly becoming one of my fav book bloggers, she is super ambitious when it comes to reading challenges hence the name LOL :).…
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The Lit Bitch has entered the 2012 Dystopian Literature Reading Challenge
Challenge #3 has been entered, the Dystopian Literature Reading Challenge hosted by one of my fav book bloggers, Bookish Ardour! Though I am not a HUGE dystopian lit fan, I am dying for an excuse to read The Hunger Games so I know they are more dystopian in nature so I thought this would be a good excuse to read them…..though I am not entirely sure what I will read as my last 2 books but we shall see :). As noted previously, I will be posting my entries over the next few weeks for various challenges here and I will also have a special page/section devoted to my entries…
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The Lit Bitch has entered the 2012 Regency & Victorian Reads Challenge
Reading challenge #2 for 2012 has been entered! As I mentioned before in my other post, 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 second challenge sign up of 2012: the Regency & Victorian Reads Challenge hosted by The Royal Reviews. For more details about my entry and goals please see my the Regency & Victorian Reads Challenge If you are…
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The Lit Bitch has entered the 2012 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 2012: 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 2012 page. If…
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Review: Clockwork Prince (The Infernal Devices #2) by Cassandra Clare
Lies. Betrayal. Danger. Deception. Anger. Adventure. Passion. Love. All of which await eager readers in Cassandra Clare’s latest installment of The Infernal Devices, Clockwork Prince. Clare flawlessly blends action, sci-fi/fantasy, YA, pararomance, and steampunk together magically. While romance is a huge part of this latest book, it does not over power the adventure. For me, other YA sagas such as Twilight, the love story overpowered the action and adventure, especially in the second book making it less enjoyable but in this series….there was a delicate balance which made it exceptionally hard to put down! In the midst of all the YA romance there is a richly satisfying mystery and adventure.…
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Review: The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde
What would you do if you had a face that could literally stop time? Or if you could really clone yourself? How about meet and greet your fav literary character? In the world of SpecOps and LiteraTec (Literary Detective division) extrodinaire, Thursday Next, all of these things are possible. My sister recommended the book, The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, to me a few weeks back…and now that she wants to commandeer the book from me, I figured I better get a move on since she will be wanting it by Christmas no doubt. This speculative fiction book is a hodge-podge mixture of sci-fi, fantasy, time travel, YA, mystery/detective novel,…
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Review: A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
Bah humbug! The snow is falling, Christmas carolers are in the streets London, dinner is in the oven, families are laughing around the fire, and Ebenezer Scrooge is busy ‘bah humbug-ing’ everyones Christmas cheer! In the timeless classic A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooge is visited by three ghosts: Christmas Past, Christmas Present, and Christmas Future. The ghosts are sent to help Scrooge realize the importance of giving, being thankful, and of course being merry during the holiday season. I decided to read this book for both the Victorian Literature and the Christmas Spirit reading challenges since I have never actually read the classic novel. As a child I remember watching…
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2012 Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire Series) Reading Challenge, Sign up now!
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 :). As many of you know I am hosting the Outlander series reading challenge again this year…..and I know I said I was a little over epic book series, but I am totally going to make an exception for this series! I have heard such great things about the Game of Thrones (a Song of Ice and Fire series) and I have had the first 2 books on my shelf at home begging me to read them. The time has come, I can no longer ignore the…