Quote of the Day 5/4

“‘How do you invent a religion?’ Evie asked.
Will looked over the top of his spectacles. ‘You say, “God told me the following,” and then wait for people to sign up.’”

― The Diviners by Libba Bray

Quote of the Day 4/18

“She was tired of being told how it was by this generation, who’d botched things so badly. They’d sold their children a pack of lies: God and country. Love your parents. All is fair. And then they’d sent those boys, her brother, off to fight a great monster of a war that maimed and killed and destroyed whatever was inside them. Still they lied, expecting her to mouth the words and play along. Well, she wouldn’t. She knew now that the world was a long way from fair. She knew the monsters were real.”

–The Diviners by Libba Bray

Quote of the Day 2/8

“She wears her grief like a coat of feathers too heavy for flight. He crossed out heavy, wrote weighted instead, then decided that was downright pretentious and put heavy back in.”

–The Diviners by Libba Bray

Quote of the Day 12/9

“Evie replied with an eye-roll. “Do you think you can manage to not steal anything while I’m gone?”

“The only thing I’m trying to steal is your heart, doll.” Sam smirked.

“You’re not that talented a thief, Sam Lloyd.”

― The Diviners by Libba Bray

Making Up For Monday 10/27

I’ve been telling myself I’m going to start this soon for a while now, and now seemed like a good time to start. ( I’m writing this at four thirty in the morning because I can’t go back to sleep.) I originally saw Making up for Monday on Down The Book Hole. It’s a weekly meme hosted by An Avid Reader, A Wannabe Writer (basically describes me.)

This week’s question is no doubt for Halloween, What is the scariest book you have ever read?

The first book that comes to mind is the Diviners by Libba Bray. I don’t know if scary is the right word for it, but it did creep me out. Divining was kind of cool, but Naughty John was the creepiest villain in any book that I remember reading. Weirdly enough, I actually really love the book, despite my usual aversion to the creepy, gross and/or scary. Now if the second book would come out . . .  That would be great. Just saying.

P.S. Sorry everybody, that I didn’t put links in this to the original sites, but for some reason, linking isn’t working on my device, so I’m going to try to do it on the computer. (I can’t shrink pictures on this either, so that’s why the cover is so big.)

Quote of the Day 5/28

Uncle Will: “Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?”
Evie: “No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis.”
Uncle Will: “I weep for the future.”
Evie: “There’s where the martinis come in.”
― Libba Bray, The Diviners

Quote of the Day 4/28

Cabbie: “How about a tip.”
Evie: “Don’t kiss strange men in Penn Station!”
–The Diviners by Libba Bray

Book Haul. . . Sort of

Well, tomorrow is my birthday so yesterday I got to go shopping. I only got three books, but I figured I shpould get a head start on posting about them so I will have plenty of time to post about the books I’m getting for my birthday (because I am definitely getting books for my birthday.) 

 

The first book I got is The Diviners by Libba Bray. I’ve read it before, but I loved it, even though I thought it was really creepy. It’s a historical fantasy about seventeen-year-old Evie O’Neill, who moves from Ohio to Manhattan, much to her delight. The description on the back of the book is “Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. Evie worries he’ll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene, Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened.” I would recommend it to those who like historical mysteries, as long as you’re not easily creeped out.

I also got The Rules by Stacey Kade, which I can’t really say much about, seeing as I haven’t read it and I haven’t heard anything about it. It’s the first book in the Project Paper Dolls series, so if I like it, I’ll have to get the rest of the series. Just another thing to add to my book list! The description on the back is linked here.

 

 

The last book I got was The Year I Turned Sixteen by Diane Schwemm. It seems to be a collection of stories form four sisters about their experiences turning sixteen. Again, I haven’t read this book yet or heard anything about it, but it’s a standalone book that can keep me busy between series, which is something I always enjoy. I prefer series, but sometimes it’s nice to have a solid ending to the story. The description is linked here.