Monday's Beginnings (49)

So, here we are again... another Monday.

How are you faring in reading at the beginning of this week?  Are you starting a new book or finishing one up?

I didn't get much reading done today.  Football has started, as of today.  Yes, I have an 11 year old, 140 pound, size 10 1/2 shoe (men's) wearing son who plays football.  This is his fifth year.  I love my football, but I really love watching my own kid play it.  It really does bring a new feel to football.  So, I read for a little bit then watch for a little  bit, this way he knows I am watching.

I am hoping to finish reading Land of the Burning Sands, The Griffin Mage: Book 2 by Rachel Neumeier tonight.  I am still working on Mind Games by Carolyn Crane for our Urban Fantasy Blog Chats.  Only read the first 125 pages for the discussion we are still doing.  If you would like to join CLICK HERE.  The second chat will start this Thursday on pages up to 251.  Come join us!  And I am also working on Antiphon by Ken Scholes in sections for the Early Reader discussion thread at Barnes and Nobles.

What did I get done last week?  Well... I didn't finish any books last week.  Sorry.  I am hoping to get one finished this week and a review up soon.  Then maybe I can squeeze another book in as well.  We shall see how the week goes.  I have to get my schedule rearranged in my mind a little bit with football starting.

As for my Wishlist... Well, it seems to keep growing.  I have added, my lucky number, 13 books to the list.  This is crazy!  I love it, I am trying to keep this list to a smaller number, but I just can't do it.  I love so many books that are out or coming out.  The authors should be proud of you all for introducing me to all their amazing books.

Books Received Last Week:

Bought:

GoodReads Synopsis:
Evangeline Stone, a rogue bounty hunter, never asked for a world divided between darkness and light…


…or the power to die and live again in someone else's borrowed body. After a murder plot meant to take her out leaves an entire race of shapeshifters nearly extinct, Evy is gnawed by guilt. So when one of the few survivors of the slaughter enlists her aid, she feels duty-bound to help—even though protecting a frail, pregnant shifter is the last thing Evy needs, especially with the world going to hell around her.

Amid weres, Halfies, gremlins, vamps—and increasingly outgunned humans—a war for supremacy is brewing. With shifters demanding justice, her superiors desperate to control her, and an assassin on her trail, Evy discovers a horrifying conspiracy. And she may be the only person in the world who can stop it—unless, of course, her own side gets her first.
 
Received for Review:
This is a series of YA books.  I am looking forward to digging into these.

Good Reads synopsis:

Who knew you'd be a true weaver?

Great things have been expected of Thea, the seventh child of two seventh children. Now, with Cheveyo, a mage, Thea has begun to weave herself a new magical identity, infused with elements of the original worlds. But back home, Thea keeps her abilities hidden and attends the Wandless Academy, the one school on Earth for those who have no apparent magical talent. It is there that Thea realizes that her enemies are hungrier and more dangerous than she knew. What's more, her greatest strength may be the powerlessness she has resisted for so long.

 

GoodReads Synopsis:
What do you get when ordinary e-mail spam becomes infused with magic?

Spellspam.


At first, they seemed like harmless practical jokes, but now, for the students at the Wandless Academy, the spellspams are getting worse. Thea thought she was the only one who could reach through the computer using magic, but someone else is out there, someone bent on more than just stirring up trouble. Someone with a dark agenda from a whole new world.

This sequel to Worldweavers: Gift of the Unmage ups the ante on a fantasy world that is rich and nuanced, like our own, but with a core of wildly original magic.

 

GoodReads Synopsis:

  This year at the Wandless Academy feels all wrong to Thea. Her best friend, Magpie, will barely give her the time of day. Ben's been moody and dismissive. Since when did Tess have a boyfriend? And why is Humphrey May, agent for the Federal Bureau of Magic, lurking around the Academy?

Thea is out of sorts—in all ways, magical and otherwise—and that's before she discovers she's an elemental mage, a category of magician so rare that only four others are known to exist.

Now the Federal Bureau of Magic needs Thea's help to unlock the mysterious white cube—the same cube found over the summer in the professor's house, the same cube the dangerous Alphiri are still after. To stay ahead of the Alphiri and the wiles of the FBM, Thea needs her friends—all of them.

From a world woven with magic and suspense comes Alma Alexander's Cybermage, the final installment of the richly invented Worldweavers trilogy.
 

 

Sent by a Great Friend for my Birthday:

I have to send a special THANK YOU out to Melissa from Books and Things.  She has become a very good friend I have found here in the blogging world.  Please go visit Melissa and leave a comment saying Hello, she would love to hear from you and will comment back to you, CLICK HERE.  Thank you so much for sending me these lovely gifts as a celebration of the anniversary of turning 21. ;)
 
GoodReads Synopsis:
  A thrilling, unique anthology of original super hero fiction, with contributions from luminaries in both the comic book and science fiction fields.



...more A thrilling, unique anthology of original super hero fiction, with contributions from luminaries in both the comic book and science fiction fields.

Introduction: The Golden Age by Lou Anders
"Cleansed and Set in Gold" by Matthew Sturges
"Where their Worm Dieth Not" by James Maxey
"Secret Identity" by Paul Cornell
"The Non-Event" by Mike Carey
"Avatar" by Mike Baron
"Message from the Bubblegum Factory" by Daryl Gregory
"Thug" by Gail Simone
"Vacuum Lad" by Stephen Baxter
"A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows" by Chris Roberson
"Head Cases" by Peter David & Kathleen David
"Downfall" by Joseph Mallozzi
"By My Works You Shall Know Me" by Mark Chadbourn
"Call Her Savage" by Marjorie M. Liu
"Tonight we fly" by Ian McDonald
"A to Z in the Ultimate Big Company Superhero Universe (Villains Too)" by Bill Willingham 

And look at the Lovely book marker she made! I LOVE IT!!!

Thank you Melissa!!!







Won:

I am sure many of you have heard of this amazing series by Stacia Kane.  I won this one on Twitter from Voyager, the UK cover.  I LOVE IT!

GoodReads Synopsis:
The third book in this gritty, sexy, urban fantasy trilogy. Rogue spirits and psychopomps are terrorising people, and now someone is planning to open the gates to the City of Ghosts and unleash the dead on humanity. Faced with her greatest challenge yet, Chess has to travel to the spirit city to finally lay all her ghosts to rest!






So, how are you faring this week?  Does it look like a good reading week?

Here's to you having a great week in words and pages.