Tell Me Tuesday is a weekly blog feature hosted by LA LA in the LIBRARY. It is where we discuss what we have been, will be, and are currently reading. What are you reading? Tell me.
WHAT I READ LAST
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Vermont, 1950. There’s a place for the girls whom no one wants–the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It’s called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it’s located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming–until one of them mysteriously disappears. . . .
CURRENTLY READING
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A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. A hard drinker, largely absent, he doesn’t show concern for much else. Esch and her three brothers are stocking food, but there isn’t much to save. Lately, Esch can’t keep down what food she gets; she’s fourteen and pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pitbull’s new litter, dying one by one in the dirt. While brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child’s play and short on parenting. As the twelve days that comprise the novel’s framework yield to the final day and Hurricane Katrina, the unforgettable family at the novel’s heart–motherless children sacrificing for each other as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce–pulls itself up to struggle for another day. A wrenching look at the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty, “Salvage the Bone” is muscled with poetry, revelatory, and real.
WHAT I AM READING NEXT
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Jazz Bashara is a criminal.
Well, sort of. Life on Artemis, the first and only city on the moon, is tough if you’re not a rich tourist or an eccentric billionaire. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Not when you’ve got debts to pay and your job as a porter barely covers the rent.
Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. But pulling off the impossible is just the start of her problems, as she learns that she’s stepped square into a conspiracy for control of Artemis itself—and that now, her only chance at survival lies in a gambit even riskier than the first.
Awesome list! I want to read Eleanor and Park and just all the Rainbow Rowell books!
Here’s my TTT
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Rainbow Rowell is amazing!!!!
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The Book Thief and Harry Potter were on my list this week too!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/14/top-ten-tuesday-133/
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I love love love Rainbow Rowell. I really enjoyed The Martian by Andy Weir. How have I not yet heard of Artemis? It sounds so good. I am currently working on creating a tag based around Thanksgiving since it is coming up very soon. Would you be interested in participating if I were to tag you?
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Ooh I can get behind Nancy Drew and the Little House books- I enjoyed some of those as a kid. And Artemis looks pretty good!
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How are you liking Artemis? Wonderful picks for your Top Ten. I wholeheartedly agree with all the ones that I have read! Thanks so much for TMTing so faithfully. I really appreciate it. 😀
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I am about half way through Artemis. I like it. The premise of the story is good and I like all the sciency stuff.
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