To Read the Impossible Read...

Good Morning All,

I'm super excited to announce my next Read-a-Long! Drumroll please...
(Or pretend to hear a drumroll? Maybe?)

For the month of October, in all of its 31 day glory...

The #ImpossibleRead #Readathon

Will be...

A book that has an unreliable narrator...

Has its roots in some history and lore...

Leaves you with unanswered questions...

Is pretty long, topping out at 704 pages...

Happens to be one of my favorites...

Ready to find out?

We'll be reading...

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova!!

For the month of October, reading at mininmum 23 pages a day, the #ImpossibleReaders will follow our narrator as she explores her fathers library, unearths ancient texts, labryinths of secrets, her family's past and her own future; and maybe combine some fate with long old evils hidden in history.

I cannot wait for you all to join me! To do so, just sign up here:




Until Next Time,

XOXO
BrainyHeroine

It's Not Me, It's You...

Morning All,

(Apparently if you only hit the save function on your blogger app it doesn't post the blog. It saves it. Guess who forgot to hit the little paper airplane yesterday? #Oops)

#boutofbooks challenged us today to disclose characters we hate. Since I'm going to get a little heat, I've kept my list only to the tried and true.

1. Kricket, from the Kricket series.
2. The Boys from the Kricket series
3. MR. DARCY (Seriously )
4. Amy from Little Women
5. Everyone from Les Mis

Until next time,

XoXo
BrainyHeroine 

Let's Talk About Books Baby

Afternoon All,

Today's #boutofbooks challenge is all about #recomensday!! Picking recommendations for friends is hard, but just recommending different books in the same category can be easy...ish.

If you’re like me, you probably read a lot of YA and Mystery. Below are my recommendations.

YA:
If you like Fairytales or their retellings, try authors Rosamund Hodge or C.J. Redwine.

For a new spin on some old classics go with Alexander McCall Smith's retelling of Emma, Lindsay Faye's Jane Steel, and Curtis Sittenfeld ' s Elligible.

Mystery:

Should twisty plots be amongst your choice reads, then go with authors Ruth Ware and Mary Kubica.

Like your mystery a smidge darker and maybe more psychological thriller-esque? Try anyone Swedish; my favorites include Stieg Larrson, Camilla Läckberg, and Erik Axl Sund.

Until Next Time...

Xoxo
BrainyHeroine

#JulyIsStrange : A Month Long Project

Morning All,

You know when you wake up doing an intense mathematical equation in your head? Yeah, me neither; but this morning I awoke trying to figure out how many days it would take to get through one of the larger books on my shelves: Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.

My copy is 1006, yup my paperback edition is one thousand and six pages. The Kindle version is 865 pages, and even the audiobook is almost 33 hours. Needless to say this novel is an undertaking of almost epic porportions. It's no Infinite Jest mind you, but still, this book is a time investment.

So I did the math. If I take my 1006 page book, divide it by 31 (the number of days in July) I would need to read 32.45 pages a day. I rounded the number to 33 so that I am sure to finish in July.

The best part? I'm doing this as a read along! I invite anyone who wants to, to read this book with me! 33 pages a day for the month of July. I'll be posting on Instagram and Litsy, (follw #JulyIsStrange) and I'm hoping that people join me! I'm all about #LitGoals and this is definitely one of them. Care to join? Let me know if you do!!

Xoxo
BrainyHeroine

Tindrliterate

Evening All,

Today's prompt for the bout of books read it on it is kind of weird for me anyway. You see we have to create a literary dating profile for our favorite literary character. And after spending today thinking about who is my favorite literary character, I could only come up with Edmund Dantes; you know the hot smoldering Revenge fueled guy from The Count of Monte Cristo, yeah him.

So for better or worse, swipe me?

Edmund Dantes
Loyal, Ruggedly Handsome, loves to keep things simple. Fall in lvoe with me and I'll tie the knot, literally, around your finger. Likes to play the long game, our relationship can take a long time running, I'm good at waiting for, and getting, what I want.

I am so sorry for any one of you who actually reads this! I gotta do each challenge man!

Until Tomorrow!

XoXo
BrainyHeroine

#ShelfieOrHelpMe

Morning All!

This one is a quicky since work is busy. The Bout of Books challenge for today was a Shelfie!! Since I'm not at home and couldn't post my library, I posted this photo of my purse! That's right, my purse always has my Kindle Fire and one of my currently reading picks. Did you expect less from me? My on the road Shelfie never let's me down!!

Until Tomorrow

XoXo
BrainyHeroine

Listening to Trees

Morning All,

Ready for my second #BoutOfBooks Day 2 challenge? This prompt was fun and a smidge challenging. We were challenged to share a book cover wiere the illustrations are part of the typography of the title. (i.e. The Water Knife or Mamita). When looking at the book cover, you just instantly know that the letters cannot be recreated by downloading a font.

I chose....drumroll please.......

Something cool....

Something different...

A book my husband would love...

Listening to Trees by A.K. Hellium!

The title and author name are in a sense carved into the tree rings that make up the cover image. While you can get close to the font, there would be no way to recreate it without doing the whole thing.

If you want to know more about the book, Click Here!

Until Tomorrow!

XoXo
BrainyHeroine

Bout of Books: The Readers Readathon

Morning All,

The time has come for Bout of Books 19!! (You still have time to sign up! Just click HERE!!)

While all readathons are for readers this one is low key, designed for you to simply read as much as you can in a week with no torturous goals in mind. Unless you set them for yourself. Do you boo.
I love using readathons as an excuse to tidy up my TBR, to actually start a book or get off the shelf, and to maybe tackle a different genre. After working all day it's nice to just go home and lose my brain to whatever I'm reading, like every other reader. Yet the motivation of readathons is great. I've been derailed as a reader for the past couple months so trying to get back to that place I'd been in for the first bit of this year is going to be hard won.

Bout of Books also has daily challenges. Today's was to introduce ourselves in six words, nothing more, nothing less. My introduction is simple. "Reading and Grieving and Living and..." I tweeted this and immediately felt like a moron, but it's true. At the moment this is me. Who are you? What would you read this week?

Until next time! (Which happens to be later today!)

XoXo
BrainyHeroine