Tuesday, December 15, 2015

TELL ME TUESDAY #73

TELL ME TUESDAY is a feature that oozed from my post Twitter party fried brains. It is a floating feature (depending on your reading style), where you tell us what you are reading now, and why, and what you will be reading in the future from your tbr pile, and why. I am oh so curious why people read what they read. So tell me!


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Shannon at REX ROBOT REVIEWS
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I was getting kind of slumpy because of all the holiday card and letter writing, so I decided to take a semi-break and read a Middle Grade, that reads more like a Children's chapter book,  to rest my brain. It is an Edelweiss ARC that publishes in March. The story is cute, but it was really slow to start; it took almost 50% of the book to get going. This always worries me about MG and Children's chapter books because kids will usually drop a book like a hot potato if it doesn't grab them quickly. I am in the last 25% and it isn't a very long book so I should be finished today. It has charming illustrations and reminds me of the Redwall books. In fact it would be great for children too young for the Redwall books.
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I am definitely reading UNWIND next.
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And after that I was thinking that it would probably be a good idea to read ILLUMINAE before the year is out so I can include it in my 2015 wrap up posts.
What are you reading? Tell me!

8 comments:

  1. YES UNWIND MWAHAHAHAHAHAH!

    But yeah, as soon as I saw the cover for Brambleheart I was like...wow that reminds me of Redwall haha!

    And on a sidenote - hey look at me posting a comment on something that isn't a month old!

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    1. Ha ha, I know! I had to look twice because it didn't say moderation for being over a week old. You get a gold star. :)

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  2. YAY for reading Illuminae!! I do hope you'll love it as much as I did!

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    1. It gets extra points from me already because of the unique formatting. I don't think I have seen one bad review yet! :)

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    2. I'm interested to see what you think about Illuminae. I LOVED the unique formatting. I'm totally a suck for that. Buuuutttt....I really feel like I've read the story before. In fact a lot of it really reminded me of Serenity (the Firefly movie). So I was a little disappointed by that.

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    3. I read a book a while ago that reminded me of an anime I used ton watch. I, bizarrely, have never watched Firefly television or the movie, even though everyone who knows me said I would love it. I kind of know the movie plot and I have read the synopsis for Illuminae, and yeah, I can see what you are saying. Great point.

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  3. I love middle grade books, but I agree they should be engaging from the start. Some of them are so short that if they take a while to get going, nothing will ever happen!

    I haven't read Illuminae yet. I won a copy in a giveaway and am waiting for it to arrive

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    1. Yay, your comment finally posted! I love MGs, too. There have been a lot of goid ones this year. :)

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