I'm on the search for new podcasts. I have a small grouping now, some one-offs, only two "entertainment" ones but I keep zoning out when I listen. That can't be good.
I just started BBC's Shreds podcast so hopefully I can pay attention here. (**update: it was very good!)
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This is a cute YA contemporary romance, set in California. This is my second Jenn Bennett book (the first being Alex, Approximately) and I enjoyed it. I received it in an Uppercase subscription box (April 2018). I gave this a four star rating.
The White City was a requested book from NetGalley and I believe it's part of a multi-author historical fiction series called True Colors.
With NetGalley, you can request books from publishers...and they may or may not let you read the book. I actually joined because there are these book blurbs that NetGalley creates (I think it's Net Galley) about upcoming books by genre. They're free and since I've joined I've always read them. I requested a bunch of books and got turned down a bunch (which I expected because I'm not a professional book seller, etc.) but I did get some of the books I requested, which I did appreciate. This is my first Anne Tyler book, I don’t know how that happened. Tyler is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Vinegar Girl is part of the Hogarth Shakespeare collection and is a retelling of The Taming of the Shrew by Shakespeare. This is one of my favorite works simply because I loved the movie 10 Things I Hate About You. Which is probably an odd way of picking favorites, but I see Julia Styles and Heath Ledger as the Shakespeare characters and I can’t help but love it. I’ve been revisiting Shakespeare and other classics through other medias (YouTube, graphic novels, etc.) and I think a retelling fit this as well.
I received this as a Christmas gift, so I'm not sure where it was bought. I received this book in a subscription box in June 2016. It was one of the better boxes for me because it was “Roaring 20's Mystery” theme. I ended up canceling this subscription because the extra goodies weren’t making up the value for me and many of the books were remainders.
This book is also a remainder, but the author was new to me and the setting was Australia. My mind went to Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries, which is coming out with a movie as an aside. I love Miss Fisher's. So Emma Mills book, Now and Then, was actually the first book I received in my Uppercase box subscription. This is the second Mills book I've gotten from them, but the first I've read. I received it in the December 2017 Uppercase box. I know this book also came in an Owlcrate box, with a slightly different colored cover. Mills has written three books, with the third being titled This Adventure Ends.
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