Booking Through Thursday

This week's question asks:

What was the most emotional read you ever had?

Wow, that's a tough question.. I tend to pick books that are oozing with feelings of every kind ~ I like raw emotion...it's real ~ so there are a lot of books on my shelf that I could pick. But the one that sticks out in my mind most recently is Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry ~ incredibly emotional book in every sense of the word. You can check out my review here :).




Happy Reading Everyone :)


~ Keely ~

Musing Monday/Monday Musings

This week’s musing asks…

What are you currently reading? Is it any good? Would you recommend it?

I'm reading a few books right now, but the one that has my mind turning the most is Alma Katsu's The Taker. I'm not that far into it, only about 70 pages or so, but the writing style and the mystery has me hooked from page one. Even at this early point, I would recommend it.

True love can last an eternity . . . but immortality comes at a price. On the midnight shift at a hospital in rural St. Andrew, Maine, Dr. Luke Findley is expecting a quiet evening. Until a mysterious woman arrives in his ER, escorted by police—Lanore McIlvrae is a murder suspect—and Luke is inexplicably drawn to her. As Lanny tells him her story, an impassioned account of love and betrayal that transcends time and mortality, she changes his life forever. . . . At the turn of the nineteenth century, when St. Andrew was a Puritan settlement, Lanny was consumed as a child by her love for the son of the town’s founder, and she will do anything to be with him forever. But the price she pays is steep—an immortal bond that chains her to a terrible fate for eternity.

QUOTES:



“We were arrogant and naive, thinking we knew what we felt then was love. Love can be a cheap emotion, lightly given, thought it didn´t seem so to me at the time. Looking back, I know we were only filling in the holes in our soles, the way the tide rushes sand to fill in the crevices of a rocky shore. We-or maybe it was just I-bandaged our needswith what we declared was love. But, eventually, the tide draws out what it has swept in.”

“The true measure of a man is how he behaves when death is close.”

“There is not only one measure of beauty, Lanore. Everyone adores the red rose, and yet it is a common sort of beauty. You are like a golden rose, a rare bloom but no less lovely.”


Happy Reading Everyone :)




~ Keely ~

Musing Monday

Going on four hours of sleep, but I'm still here! That's the thing about blogging... I would rather get myself out of bed (even after a horrible night's sleep) to visit the book blog world for an hour rather than sleep for that extra time.. same could be said for reading into the night... Anyway,

This week's musing asks:

Do you tend to read to the end of a chapter, or can you stop anywhere?

Guess it depends. If I feel I need to stop reading to get a few things done, I'll check to see how far I am to the end of the chapter. If it's a few pages, I'll finish the chapter; if it's something like ten pages, I'll stop there. In the first scenario, I think I read til the end as an excuse to read for a minute longer. 'I'm almost done, so why not finish it?,' kinda thing.. 

Sometimes if I get really frustrated with a character or angry with how the characters in a relationship are reacting toward one another, I'll literally slam the cover shut, force myself to stop, and pace around my house 'doing chores.' Hehe :) 

Happy Reading Everyone :)

~ Keely ~ 

Booking Through Thursday

This weeks question asks:

What book took you the longest to read, and do you feel it was the content or the length that made it so?

Without hesitation I will say the book that took me the longest time to read was Stephen King's The Stand. This book took me at least three months to finish. At 1,152 pages, the length was no doubt a contributing factor, but the content and writing style of Stephen King forced me to take a few days leave here and there. I love dark novels and the cryptic wording for which Stephen King is so famous, but the book is just so damn long that I had to take breaks from it as I found myself in a near constant state of melancholy. There are great and happy moments in the book; it is, after all, about good vs evil, but if you've ever read Stephen King, you know that even the brightest moments are laced with shadow. I loved it, but it was definitely a challenge to get to the end.


Happy Reading Everyone :)


~ Keely ~