It's time for your curiosity to explore brand new worlds in the palm of your hands.
I’ve been really curious about Gathering Water for a long time now. It’s been in my library for a long time and I finally got the chance to read it! I was not disappointed. There is a lot that is amazing about the first book in the Gathering Water Trilogy by Regan Claire.
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Okay Curious One. This next novel will get you! I promise, if you are into psychological thrillers even in the slightest of ways, you will fall in love with this debut novel, Before I Go to Sleep, written by S.J. Watson.
Hopefully, we can stay on the same page with this discussion as I do my best to navigate both my feelings towards the events happening in Before I Go to Sleep and depicting the events happening in a way that doesn’t lose you! At the ending there are a few group discussion questions that the author posed and a couple of them I would love to explore with you.
I realize how often my brain gets tangled up in the web of the storyline that is being weaved by the author, but Before I Go to Sleep was astounding! I undeniably loved it! Even as the reader, looking into the life of Christine, you think you have found the answer and then get convinced you are totally wrong! Surprisingly, one of the first thoughts that popped into my head was “what if Ben isn’t really Ben?” And then Bam! You are convinced so deeply that he is and you forget you ever thought that until almost the very ending and you are left with a “What??!” expression on your face as you keep staring at the sentence you just read in complete bewilderment! I mean…WHOA! You see it coming, but even still, it slams into you like an avalanche.
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Okay, Curious One. I took the initiative to branch out into my other category here and picked up a novel called Timeline. It is written by none other than the American author everyone has heard of, but may not know it, Michael Crichton. Now, Crichton is most famous for his fiction and science fiction works like Jurassic Park, The 13th Warrior, and the Andromeda Strain, but I wanted to go a bit farther out from them even, and hit up Timeline.
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Alright, Curious One. If you read my last Curiosity, you will be aware that this is officially my second audio book! I cannot say how thankful I am that the The God Project audio book was amazing. It was good enough that I am contemplating visiting another thrift shop to find some more for my next few trips!
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Hey there Curious One! I have been spending long hours on the road recently and therefore, haven’t been able to read as often as usual. My spare time is filled with driving and gas stops instead of reading, so when I was browsing a thrift shop, I saw some audio books and, on a whim, I grabbed one! I have never been interested in audio books before. I prefer the feel of the paper between my fingers and the ability to voice the characters in my own head. However, spending 6+ hours on the road a couple times a month, I began to miss reading. So, I decided to give audio books a try!
First off, let me say that my car is an older model (1999) so it doesn’t come equipped with an aux cable (just a single disc CD player) which is why I want to specify that when I say audio book, I mean books on CD’s, not an audio file downloaded to my phone or a media player. Gotta go “old-school”! Hahah!
Written by Stephen White, The Siege is described as a pulse-pounding thriller. I may or may not fully agree with that. We will get into that in a moment…
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Wow, Curious One. The final book in the Lochlann Treaty Series, Autumn’s Reign, was remarkable. I’m loathed to admit that I ended up relatively proud of Oliver, although I still don’t like him. I am proud that he stood up to the manipulative adults and realized they were manipulating him, but he is still a very annoying boy. After he returned from the war though, I will grudgingly admit that he became a man. Hahah!
Jocelyn changed as well, quickly becoming a voice behind Charlie, which was both surprising and welcoming. I really wasn’t looking forward to having to deal with childish and malicious antics by women trying to take each other down in shame. You know, one of the popular tropes among young adult books.
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Man, Curious One. I am both elated and angry after reading Summer’s Rebellion! I didn’t want to be right. And I guess technically we don’t know for certain if I was right or not, but really, the alchemist who can create the poison that killed the king is from Socair and Oliver’s aunt and uncle are the only people who have both the money and the connection to Socair, so they obviously poisoned and killed the king. Also, Oliver is still an easily manipulated little boy. Geez, all he does is piss me off…
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