A Day in Bookland

February has gone in no time and I can’t believe is almost March. In February I read 8 books. Woo Hoo! Still trying to figure out how I did it though with all the exams at the beginning of the month. 1. The Fiery Heart by Richelle Mead 2. The Rose Master by Valentina Cano 3. The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness 4. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han 5. Silver Shadows by Richelle Mead 6. Slammed by Colleen Hoover 7. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel 8. The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson

Station Eleven  by Emily St. John Mandel { Goodreads } Published by Knoph in 2014.  Hardback edition; 333 pages { The Book Depository } "One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of  King Lear . Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur's chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside an apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life disintegrates around them.  Fifteen years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survi

TOP TEN TUESDAY   is a weekly book meme hosted by   The Broke and The Bookish . After a long time without doing a Top Ten Tuesday I was actually thinking of not doing them anymore but this week’s topic is awesome. I mean heroines? Yes, please! I’ve listed only ten even though I could have listed a whole lot more. They aren’t in any particular order and we have a mix between book and tv shows heroines. Let’s do this!

Title: Obstacles { Goodreads } Author: Christopher Reardon Pages (format): 256 (e-book) Publication Date: August 29 th 2013 Publisher: Solstice Publishing Buy it: Amazon Summary:  " A child will die. You’re afraid to live. Would you go to all lengths to save him? Darkness knows no bounds, as Alcott, an African American doctor sees all too well. The man is petrified by death. His fragile existence rests at the mercy of the universe. This fact is far too much for him to handle. From unyielding nightmares to elevator terrors, he’s lost in paranoia. Assigned to look after an ill child, Alcott’s horrors only heighten. Gari is a nine-year-old boy with a fatal disease. He will surely pass on within the year. Alcott bonds with him more and more each day. Part of him knows this grim fate just isn’t right. Alcott befriends a hospital patient. This lunatic forces him to lug home an ancient text on bringing back the dead. Despite the man’s obvious dementia, Alcott attempts the s

I’M BACK! First of all, thank you so much for the lovely comments on my previous post; you’re all so sweet and lovely ^^ So after three weeks, I’m finally uploading a post and it’s a tag. I know Valentine’s Day was yesterday but the lovely Jillian over at Jillian’s Books tagged me and I thought it was the perfect opportunity to get back in the blogging train. Without further ado, here are my answers: