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The Adventures of a Constant Reader

My journey through the 1001 books you must read before you die with other stops along the way.

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In August book club will be reading Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. I LOVE Neil Gaiman. He's one of my favorites. I'm really looking forward to this one, it was my pick.

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Maze Bummer?

I recently finished up The Maze Runner by James Dashner. Dashner is an American young adult novelist who typically writes in the survival and science fiction genres. I may be well past the young adult age group, but I still love to read young adult fiction. They tend to be short, easy reads and they’re perfect for vacation or when you don’t have a lot of time to devote to reading but still want to read something. Dashner tends to write series. He’s written several including The Morality Doctrine, The Infinity Ring Series, and The Jimmy Fincher Saga. My sister let me borrow her copies of the Maze Runner Series a few months ago and I finally started reading a couple of weeks ago. Typically it doesn’t take me long to read a book of this size but I’ve found this one hard to get into. I don’t know yet if it’s because of the writing itself, or because I’ve already seen the movie and the movie stuck fairly close to the...

Bookish Candles

Today has been a fairly lazy Sunday. My husband and I did manage to get most of the downstairs of our house clean so that made me feel a bit productive. It's feeling no a little cooler today so we've got the windows open to catch the breeze and I've been catching up on some reading for book club. This week we started reading The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and The Rise of the Tudors by Dan Jones. It's an interesting read so far. Stay tuned for my review in a couple of weeks. On a sunny day when I'm reading with the windows open I like nothing better than to have a nice candle burning. I told you I'd do some reviews of companies who make bookish products and, since I have no finished books to review right now, I think it's a good time to do so. Today I'm burning a candle from Frostbeard Studios I have a few candles from Frostbeard Studios and I've also boug...

Welcome to my Blog

Hello, and welcome to my book review blog. With this blog I plan to track my progress on the 1001 books you should read before you die by reviewing each book, giving a little background on the author and/or the time period in which the book was written, and assessing whether I personally think that it is a book that must be read before you die. When possible I will also recommend similar books that you might like if you enjoyed this book or similar books that I feel might be more worthy of being on a list of books to read before you die. I also plan to review other books that aren’t on the list as I read them because, honestly, I am usually reading more than one book at a time. It’s a sickness. For this blog I will be using the 2012 edition of 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die by Cassell Illustrated which is currently being shipped to me. My hope is to post a new review every two weeks, be it a review of the book on the list or a review of another book I have read. If...