Jessica Jones #1

Just a short little comic in the lead up to the new Marvel series of the same name.  Definitely picking up more of this series as it gets released.

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Sabriel - Garth Nix

Review:

Firstly, I feel ashamed that I hadn't heard about this series, nor that Garth Nix is an Aussie, before it was recommended to me by an American friend... Way to support local authors me XD

 

I quite enjoyed the premise behind this, and I'm always happy to find things that negate the ability to use fire arms.  Magical marks called charter marks create a 

Sabriel, an 18 yo woman in her last few weeks of boarding school in the new kingdom, receives a cryptic message from her father located in the old kingdom. He is the Abhorsen, a necromancer with the ability to travel between life and death, whose job it is to send the dead off peacefully and to prevent the spirits of the dead from coming back to the living world.  

 

Unprepared for what she may find, Sabriel sets out to find her father with the assistance the Abhorsen's aide Mogget, who due to magical binds cannot share much of the information he has.  On her journey, Sabriel is chased by a most terrifying creature, a Mordicant, the worst type of dead spirit and his lesser spirit minions.  She also befriends a member of the royal guard, Touchstone, a man who had been trapped as the figurehead of a ship for 200 years until she set him free.  

 

Soon Sabriel discovers that her father's disappearance is just a small part of a much larger plot to allow the dead spirits free reign over the living world.  Together the trio set out to rescue both kingdoms from the dangers that are fast approaching. 

 

I gave Sabriel 4.5/5 stars, and placing the rest of the series on my to-read list.

 

 

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Two new arrivals yesterday!  Neither of which break my self imposed book ban, since both were ordered before I put the ban in place!

 

Little Women I picked up when my daughter ordered herself a few books with her birthday money last month, they just took some time getting here because one of her books was a pre-order, so they bundled the whole lot together.

 

The Shadow over Innsmouth is the third installment of the Littlest Lovecraft children's series.  If the previous 2 books are anything to go on, I'm in for a real treat when I read this one.  I hope they plan more Kickstarters in the future.

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I am the Caffeinated Bibliophile and I'm an addict...

I just can't help myself, but at least it's books and nothing more worrisome.

 

As I was wondering through the ever shrinking book department in my local Kmart, I came across a book that I feel every woman should read, I am Malala.  My inner feminist over threw my self control and I now have yet another book to find a home for.  

 

I'm itching to get started, but I must finish those I'm currently reading first. Not to mention those pesky uni assignments that keep cropping up :)

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That's what I'm telling myself.

While I didn't technically buy books today, I did pick up a few digital comics for my girls and I to peruse.  But since they're a) comics and b) digital, they don't really count towards my self imposed book buying ban, right? Right?  Ah well, at least I don't have to rearrange my physical book cases to fit these in.

 

Since I'd been reading the Graphic Novel version of the Hobbit the last few days, I'd been inspired to find some other adaptations to read... and by inspired, I mean I was procrastinating typing up a lab report that's due next week.  

So I did my usual, check out what free comics Comixology has, and after downloading those noticed a couple of sales they were having. I picked up Wool: The Graphic Novel, an adaptation of Hugh Howey's books of the same name.  Not that I've read the Wool yet, it's been recommended to me numerous times and I really enjoyed Sand last year, so I thought the graphic version might be a good choice for study breaks.

Since I'm always on the look out for ways to encourage my middle daughter to read, and comics are one of the few ways that seems to draw her in, I picked up some of the Marvel discounted comics too, especially since they all featured female leads.

 

I'm quite looking forward to reading the first issue of Thor 2014, which caused a stir by making the god of thunder a woman. I also picked up a couple of Spider variants: Gwen #1 (2015) and Woman #1 (2014), She Hulk #1 (2014) and the one I think will be the biggest hit, Princess Leia #1 (2015).

 

They also had the Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #1 (2015), Ms Marvel #1 (2014), Black Widow #1 (2014) and Captain Marvel #1 (2014), all of which we had already. I've only read the first 2 so far, and I highly recommend them if you're looking for a good "girl power" read.

 

Now to stop myself from reading them before I get this report done.  It's going to be hard.

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Help me prove my Math lecturer wrong!

URL: www.surveymonkey.com/r/T7T3P6W

Hello my fellow bibliophiles!

As I've mentioned in the past (but maybe not here?) I recently headed back to Uni. As such am doing a statistics component for which I have to complete a study on social media use.

I wanted to look at device(s) used and hours spent on Goodreads, so I'm hoping you can help me by filling out the survey linked in this post!  

I need a minimum of 30 responses, which include age and gender.
All responses are anonymous.

 

As an added incentive, I wanted to prove my mathematics lecturer wrong, He seems to think I'll get a lot of 0 hour responses, I think there are a lot more of us who enjoy reading, and sharing our experiences than there are people who would want to share math stuff ;-)

Thanks in advance <3

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Had some wins the last few days... 46 books for $54 from the local book fair, 3 happy children and one rather happy mummy.  Including, but not limited to those listed. Even found a copy of The Hobbit in far better condition than my own copy for 50c!

 

After spending many hours following trying to make room in my various bookshelves, I promised myself I wouldn't buy any more books until I'd read everything I already have...  

 

Then found a couple more Pratchett's and The Night Circus today at our newly opened local book shop at $6.  Couldn't even last 3 days without buying more books.  At least it's a healthier addiction than most.

 

And for real this time (I hope) no more books until I've read everything in my book case...

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