tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49214158118360276732015-07-10T21:06:42.867+02:00She shares her dreams, her stories and those of others. Marisabel Munozhttps://plus.google.com/104535280531628338218noreply@blogger.comBlogger287125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4921415811836027673.post-61282111393436078312015-06-29T21:05:00.001+02:002015-06-29T21:07:08.939+02:00

Just a quick hello to those of you who visit. :) Life has not been very busy but I haven't been feeling like reading. That's about it. Though I stare and glare at Magonia since it arrived. My fantasy thoughts are at my old NaNoWriMo 2012 novel which I am polishing still. It is shinning brightly now as I work hard on the plot mapping (to help it make sense) and deeper character developments

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This is a Breakup Letter to Jackaby, by William Ritter Is it goodbye or until next time?  There is a melancholy hidden in the act of buying books. Among the excitement, the fear of what if. Beautiful books with great premises and yet you wonder, will it be worth your money and time? Just because it looks like it might be good? Even though you know you don't really read such genres. You

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The Miniaturist Jessie Burton Goodreads • BookDeposity • Published on January 1st 2014 by Ecco My Love: ♥♥♥♥♥ As a fan of Magical Realism, when I saw The Miniaturist at the store I had to read it. Though it's score is low in Goodreads at the moment, this historical fiction was one of a kind. It deals with the power to create the life you desire, the sacrifices which need to be made and

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The Gracekeepers Kirsty Logan Published April 23rd 2015 by Crown  • 3.86 of 5 stars at Goodreads As a Gracekeeper, Callanish administers shoreside burials, sending the dead to their final resting place deep in the depths of the ocean. Alone on her island, she has exiled herself to a life of tending watery graves as penance for a long-ago mistake that still haunts her. Meanwhile,

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Station Eleven Emily St. John Mandel Published January 1st 2014 by Knopf  • 4.01 of 5 stars at Goodreads The poverty stricken Reds are commoners, living under the rule of the Silvers, elite warriors with god-like powers. To Mare Barrow, a 17-year-old Red girl from The Stilts, it looks like nothing will ever change. Mare finds herself working in the Silver Palace, at the center of

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Red Queen Victoria Aveyard Published February 10th 2015 by Orion 4.15 of 5 stars at Goodreads The poverty stricken Reds are commoners, living under the rule of the Silvers, elite warriors with god-like powers. To Mare Barrow, a 17-year-old Red girl from The Stilts, it looks like nothing will ever change. Mare finds herself working in the Silver Palace, at the center of those she hates

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APRIL 2015 Holidays in NYC at the citizenM Hotel :D If you follow me on twitter, you probably noticed I am a citizenM Ambassador. I love my hotel and take pride in our brand. This year, as part of my attempt to visit my family in the US once a year, I decided to stop by at our New York Timesquare hotel for 4 nights. It was a very very short trip for such a big city. Even though I am

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The Body Electric Beth Revis Published October 6th 2014 by Scripturient Books 3.79 of 5 stars at Goodreads Ella Shepherd has dedicated her life to using her unique gift—the ability to enter people’s dreams and memories using technology developed by her mother—to help others relive their happy memories. Ella starts seeing impossible things—images of her dead father, warnings of who she

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Top 10 books I've added recently to my TBR list. Most of these books are on my 2016 TBR list as this year my list is full :P 1. Shadow Scale (Seraphina #2) Rachel Hartman I read Seraphina #1 last year and though I was not impressed, it was very well written. This is one of those few books I give second chances to. It is a high fantasy novel borderline YA fantasy. So I had very mix

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MARCH 2015 Oh March. A reading slump month inspired by George Orwell's 1984.I tried to read it, it was OK, but not engaging. It was as some reviews said, a sort of essay novel. Mostly written as a narration of what our main character experience, which is not much in the first 100 pages. So after 2 weeks of reading one page at a time I decided to put it on hold and go on to read again books I

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Auracle Gina Rosati Published August 7th 2012 by Roaring Brook Press 3.91 of 5 stars at Goodreads Trapped outside her body, Anna sees and hears but cannot touch the one she longs to hold. Anna has a secret: she can astrally project out of her body. But when there's an accident and her classmate Taylor gets into Anna's body, what was an exhilarating gift threatens to become a

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The Archived Victoria Schwab Published January 22nd 2013 by Hyperion 4.05 of 5 stars at Goodreads The dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell, a life in pictures only Librarians can read. The dead, called 'Histories', rest in the Archive. Da first brought Mackenzie Bishop here four years ago, when she was twelve years old, frightened but determined to prove

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When our social skills are refined through reading habits. A while ago... OK, a long while ago, I stumbled upon an article in Scientific American about a study conducted on empathy and literature. To summarize the study, findings showed that reading literary fiction can raise one's empathy and social skills by helping us understand the psych different kind of people. These books usually

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1984 George Orwell Published by Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York (1949) 4.10 of 5 stars at Goodreads Written in 1948, 1984 was George Orwell's chilling prophecy about the future. While 1984 has come and gone, Orwell's narrative is more timely than ever. 1984 presents a "negative utopia", that is at once a startling and haunting vision of the world — so powerful that it's

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The Art of Floating Kristin Bair O'Keeffe Published April 1st 2014 by Berkley 3.87 of 5 star sat Goodreads At a time when nothing seems real, it takes something truly unusual to put your life into focus. When her beloved husband Jackson disappeared without a trace, popular novelist Sia Dane stopped writing, closed down her house, stuffed her heart into a cage, and started floating. It

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On reading Goals Every new year we start a reading challenge in Goodreads, as well as multiple blog challenges. I rather stick to one. But considering how challenges create some pressure on reading, they can be frustrating. Though I am following a Goodreads challenge at the moment, I decided not to take it seriously, as I have a goal set which you can read on my new year's post here.

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Top 10 Favorites of all time in the last 3 years Hurrah for this list! A chance to provide a mini review of the books I loved but never got to comment on. ♥ Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Green “Monsters are bad things, but monsters that do not walk and talk like monsters are the worst.” ― Matthew

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Magonia Maria Dahvana Headley Expected publication: April 28th 2015 by HarperCollins 3.74 of 5 stars at Goodreads Aza Ray is drowning in thin air. Since she was a baby, Aza has suffered from a mysterious lung disease that makes it ever harder for her to breathe, to speak—to live. So when Aza catches a glimpse of a ship in the sky, her family chalks it up to a cruel side effect of

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The month of February flew away. Understandable considering is a short month. But still, for me January dragged longer than this month. This month I’ve been dedicating myself to raising readership as well as content in this blog. Directing it towards a book blog. In the past I’ve been mixing a bit of everything but now I wish to turn this blog into purely bookish. I played around with

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Fairest Marissa Meyer Published January 27th 2015 by Feiwel & Friends 4.11 of 5 stars at Goodreads In this stunning bridge book between Cress and Winter in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles, Queen Levana’s story is finally told. Mirror, mirror on the wall, Who is the fairest of them all? Fans of the Lunar Chronicles know Queen Levana as a ruler who uses her “glamour” to gain power.

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Lord of the Rings The Fellowship of the Ring  J.R.R. Tolkien Published September 19th 2001 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (1st. e. 1954) 4.30 of 5 star sat Goodreads Continuing the story begun in The Hobbit, this is the first part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece, The Lord of the Rings, featuring a striking black cover based on Tolkien's own design, the definitive text, and a detailed map

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Winter Marissa Meyer Expected publication: November 10th 2015 by Feiwel and Friends  4.43 of 5 stars at Goodreads Here is the stunning conclusion to the national bestselling Lunar Chronicles, inspired by Snow White. When Princess Winter was thirteen, the rumor around the Lunar court was that her glamour would soon be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana. In a

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How do you make time to read? I have to say I find myself in a luxury position at the moment. I have a job that runs in shifts. Allowing me an hour for myself after a morning shift to read or many hours before work if I have an evening shift. This said, I can read at least an hour a day without problems unless I am sucked into a game or a new episode of a series I am watching. However, I

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Outlander Diana Gabaldon Published June 2nd 1992 by Bantam Dell (1st. e. 1991)4.15 of 5 star sat Goodreads The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. top 10 bookish problems I love this list. Specially because I have been collecting these: 1. It is always hard to explain how when you read a great book, the story is impregnated in your memory as if it was a real deal. It’s a psychological thing, but yet, not many understand. For you, they were real, and when they

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