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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...

The Haunted Horror of Haverfordwest

It’s the day after Thanksgiving and I spent my day in a turkey induced food hangover reading Haunted Horror of Haverfordwest by G.L. Davies. The book claims to be an interview describing the experience of two people who used to reside in a haunted house. The author also claims to have lived in said house and it was his experience (having been previously published) that drew the couple to him in hopes of getting their story told. Both accounts are included in this book. If you decide to read it I recommend reading the author’s first because it gets referenced a lot in the interview with the couple. I thought the framing of this book as a true story and the interview format was interesting. While I can’t say that I believe it, it certainly made the tone of the interview sections of the book more urgent and menacing. They kept my attention and I felt the building of suspense was good. There were a couple...

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...