February TBR
I did consider that I should maybe not make TBRs for a bit.
While I decide that, there are still a few readathons I wish to participate on:
Buzzwordathon Created by Keyla from Books and Lala you can find the whole information here:
For this month the prompt is: A color
Duration 1-7
The book picked for this, the first one that came to mind is the next one in the Raven Boys Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater but that is a reread.
This follows Blue, Ronan, Adam, and Gansey as they as in the quest to find an ancient Welsh King so he can grant them one wish. We have secrets, hired killers, dreamers, and secret fates in the wait for them. You can find the official description here from GoodReads.
So we are going to pick a different one. The other book that I want to get to as part of a Series I am in the middle of (we still need to complete more series, after all, I am in the middle of an embarrassing amount of them).
This is the final book in a trilogy so I can't really say much without risking spoiling people. So please skip over this if you have not read this book. We follow a young girl Gwen, who discovered she has the ability to time travel instead of her cousin Charlotte. After finding out she is the Ruby, the 12th person to be born with this ability she joins the Guardians and they must work together to complete the circle of the chronograph so a bi secret is granted to them. she does not know anything about the prophecies, nor about the different cultures of the past as the training was received by Charlotte not her. She has great friends that are trying to help her solve the big mystery. I had a good time reading the first one but as time went on, my interest waned, last month I read the second book and I didn´t like it as much. But I still want to know how this is resolved. But if I don't get to the next one, I'll lose the small interest I have in it so far. I hope this finale redeems the series.
The other year-long challenge I am participating in is "Read your bookshelf challenge" you can find the whole announcement and the prompts for each month here.
Prompt: Red on the cover or spine
Duration month long
Book: Inuyasha vol 15 by Rumiko Takahashi
This follows the adventures of Kagome and her friends as they search for Naraku and the Shikon No Tama pieces that grants great abilities upon the human, demons or halfbreeds that possess them. The group is set to recover the pieces before more evil beings use them to destroy humans with them. It is already the number 15 so again can't say many specifics as anything would be spoilers.
#AYearAThon, the full details for this one can be found here.
Duration: 8-14
Prompt: New to you author.
Book The Fifth Season by N.k. Jemisin
So a book I did not get to in January that we can use for this prompt as well. This is a fantasy epic story where the land is constantly suffering earthquakes. There are people with the ability to manipulate the ground or the Earth, like elementals of some kind and they are shunned as the world is crumbling and they are blamed for it. It is an intimidating read, I really want to get to it his month for sure.
Literally dead book club, this is another one created by Keyla from Books and Lala. This is a reading club and each month we read a book. The live show and such discussions are not something I actively participate in but is always an option. This months pick is:
Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her beloved neighborhood seems to change every time she blinks. Condos are sprouting like weeds, FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she’s known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community’s past and present, Sydney channels her frustration into a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant in one of the new arrivals to the block—her neighbor Theo.
But Sydney and Theo’s deep dive into history quickly becomes a dizzying descent into paranoia and fear. Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised.
It sounds very intriguing. Mystery thrillers are hit or miss so I hope to get a good surprise from this one.
From my own Challenges, we have:
-Agatha Christie
1936 Cards on the table this is the 15th book in the series following the detective Hercule Poirot. The retired detective seems to have a bit of wonderful luck as he is involved with crimes all over Europe and other places now that he has retired from his profession. This story follows him as he tries to solve a murder that took place while there was a nice match of Bridge in the same room as the murdered man.
1937 Dumb witness the 16th book in the series. This is about Emily's death. Everyone blamed Emily’s accident on a rubber ball left on the stairs by her frisky terrier. But the more she thought about her fall, the more convinced she became that one of her relatives was trying to kill her. On April 17th she wrote her suspicions in a letter to Hercule Poirot. Mysteriously he didn’t receive the letter until June 28th… by which time Emily was already dead.
This book could also be used for the "Read your bookshelf challenge", as it is red or maybe is a few shades too dark for it to be considered red.
-John Grisham
As I didn't get to the first book last month we carry that over. I have read this book a few years ago but I can hardly remember it. It is due for a reread. I still do not have a physical copy so it will have to be an ebook.
The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. That is until her black father acquires an assault rifle and takes matters into his hands.
For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life, and then his own.
And add the second one:
In suburban Georgetown, a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house, a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder -- a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust -- an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate -- to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime.
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