Monday, October 7, 2013

Life in La Crete

One thing you may have noticed in my previous book list is that the last bunch of novels are all in a series where as previously this year I have been reading a larger variety of books. (Or have tried to at least).  The reason that is is because I have moved!

At the end of August I moved to Northern Alberta to do my internship for my Education Degree. One of the first things I did (after taking care of my, once again, broken computer) was to find a local library and start borrowing books. I did not bring many with me, since I was flying and space was precious, so I knew to complete my challenge I would need to find a library, or really on audio and ebooks, which is harder to do without a computer or e-reader.

The library I found is a community library. That means, small and local. Where as back home I could pretty much get any book I wanted, either from my nearest library or through an inter-library loan, here I am limited to the books they have in the library.  Also because it's a community library and not a public library I had to pay a membership fee (which was very reasonable). The library is located in the high school, a dual-purpose school/community library, so I am in limited in my book selection by what they have available. They have quite a large selection of Christian Fiction, and many novels that one would expect to be in a high school library (like those classic high school novels). However they are missing books that I was hoping to read this fall.  Game of Thrones, The Book Thief, anything Harry Potter.

I also had two books I had started by not completed before I moved, and I couldn't take them with me. Falling for God by Gary W. Moon and Dry Store Room No.1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum by Richard Fortey. I will try to find them online, either as audiobooks or ebooks, but I feel they will not be finished before the end of the year. :(

So my selection may not be as varied as before.  I will still gladly take any book suggestions and read them if I can find a copy of it. :)


I'll leave you with a scenic picture I took up here.





Sunday, October 6, 2013

Fall is here!

Wow! Time has flown!  Sorry for not posting anything since the end of June.  Summer was really busy (I worked in a zoo, literally!) and then when I moved on the 23rd of August my computer broke, and I went a month (plus some) without computer/internet. Now I have both back!

Because I missed so much time, and I have read so many books, I'm not going to write a review for each of them, rather I'll just list them here and say what I had rated them on Goodreads. If you want to know what I thought about a particular book, just ask!

There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor's Baby by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya (4/5)

Son by Lois Lowry (3/5)

Half Broke Horses by Jeannette Walls (4/5)

Life as We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer (4/5)

A Whole New Light by Kim O'Brien (4/5)

The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (4/5)

Killer Croc of Doom! by Laurie Sutton (4/5) - read this one with my nephew about three times one weekend.

We Bought a Zoo by Benjamin Mee (4/5)

Invasion of the Ormazoids (Doctor Who: Find Your Fate #5) by Philip Martin (3/5)

Julie and Julia: My Year of Cooking Dangerously by Julie Powell (3/5)

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (4/5)

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman (4/5)

The Lightning Theif by Rick Riordan (3/5)

For Better or Worse by Jennifer Johnson (3/5)

The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer (4/5)

Redemption by Karen Kingsbury (4/5)

Remember by Karen Kingsbury (4/5)

Shattered by Scott Wallens (3/5)

Varjak Paw by S.F. Said (4/5)

Return by Karen Kingsbury (4/5)

Exposed by Scott Wallens (3/5)

Pushed by Scott Wallens (3/5)

Rejoice by Karen Kingsbury (4/5)


Altogether I have now read 41 of the 53 books I am going to read this year. Yay! Which means I am one book ahead of schedule!! :)