Next read | TBR Wheel Update

 Heya, 

It's been a bit here but I ended up taking a small break in the middle of reading Aurora Rising. I am finished with it now and am here to say I'm already pausing the TBR Wheel for a little bit. I know, I know, only 2 posts and I'm already pausing it but I promise it's for good reason. 

I *loved* Aurora Rising and couldn't bring myself to not read more in the series. Now, I had to wait a little bit to be able to go to the library and get the last two books so in the mean time I ended up reading; 

The Prince & The Apocalypse!


What would you do if the world was ending?

Wren Wheeler has flown eight thousand kilometres across the ocean to discover she's the worst kind of tourist: the kind who just wants to go home. Her senior-year trip to London was supposed to be life-changing, but Wren's perfectly planned itinerary is in tatters.

Then she meets a very cute boy with a posh accent who looks remarkably like Prince Theo, the British Crown Prince.

With news of a catastrophic comet hurtling towards Earth, Wren and the Prince are forced into the highest-stakes journey of them all as Wren tries to race home - before the end of the world.

A heart-stopping story of royalty, romance and the most frenetic race across the world.

I ended up really liking this one as well and am planning on picking up the second book sometime either from the bookstore or ordering it online as my library doesn't have it. 

Another good spin! | TBR Wheel #2

Hey y'all!

It's time again to spin the wheel of TBR! I did actually spin the wheel a couple of days ago, but didn't post right away because I had just uploaded TBR Wheel #1. 

I actually did finish Maggot Moon the day I posted about spinning it, and decided instead of doing individual review posts I'd rather do a summer reading wrap-up, so look for that near the end of August/early September.

I'll go ahead now and just get to the pick, which I actually have a screen grab of this time. 

 Aurora Rising - Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

I actually started this one a long time ago and got a little under 200 pages in before stopping. Not sure why I stopped though because I do remember enjoying the story. And I have read Illuminae by them as well and really liked that one, (speaking of...that's another series I'd like to continue reading). 

The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own boneheaded heroism sees him stuck with the dregs nobody else in the Academy would touch…

A cocky diplomat with a black belt in sarcasm
A sociopath scientist with a fondness for shooting her bunkmates
A smart-ass techwiz with the galaxy’s biggest chip on his shoulder
An alien warrior with anger management issues
A tomboy pilot who’s totally not into him, in case you were wondering

And Ty’s squad isn’t even his biggest problem—that’d be Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley, the girl he’s just rescued from interdimensional space. Trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries, Auri is a girl out of time and out of her depth. But she could be the catalyst that starts a war millions of years in the making, and Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline-cases and misfits might just be the last hope for the entire galaxy.

They're not the heroes we deserve. They're just the ones we could find. Nobody panic.

I'm currently around 150 pages in and really liking it so I'm sure I'll be through it within the next few days or so. With that, I'll go ahead and leave you and see you when it's time for another spin!

Happy Reading!

Reading my Physical TBR | TBR Wheel #1

 Hey y'all!

I have so many books on my physical TBR, 264 to be exact, and I'm hoping to get that number a bit lower this year. Now, there are so many fun ways to go about doing this; TBR jar, TBR wheel, Bookopoly, blind date with a book, etc. In the past I've tried a TBR jar and Bookopoly, neither of which worked for me at that time. 

So today...well actually a couple of days ago, I sat and added 208 of those books into a wheel. The other 56 books included some non-fiction that I don't want on the wheel as well as books that are further along in a series.

This wheel looks crazy with so many options on it, but I'm hoping doing it this way will work better for me than what I've done in the past. 

Unfortunately I didn't get a screen grab of the first pick when I spun the other day, BUT I will be sure to for the upcoming spins. 

Without further ado, the first book from the TBR Wheel was.....

Maggot Moon - Sally Gardner

Maggot Moon - Sally Gardner

What if the football hadn't gone over the wall. On the other side of the wall there is a dark secret. And the devil. And the Moon Man. And the Motherland doesn't want anyone to know. But Standish Treadwell -- who has different-colored eyes, who can't read, can't write, Standish Treadwell isn't bright -- sees things differently than the rest of the "train-track thinkers." So when Standish and his only friend and neighbor, Hector, make their way to the other side of the wall, they see what the Motherland has been hiding. And it's big...One hundred very short chapters, told in an utterly original first-person voice, propel readers through a narrative that is by turns gripping and darkly humorous, bleak and chilling, tender and transporting.

I got this in April at out local library's annual book sale. I didn't know much about it when I first picked it up but was hooked when I started reading it. I'm now only around 87 pages from finishing it and I'm sure these last pages will go by quickly. I may post a review of it here when I'm finished but if I don't I'll be back soon with a new TBR Wheel update!

Happy Reading!