Thursday Bookish Things & Reading Challenge Confession

  

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I just finished reading Perception earlier this evening.  Here's a picture of the book cover (linked to GoodReads), the synopsis and my HH quote.

SYNOPSIS

The PERCEPTION series is a YA dystopian romance that takes place in the not too distant future. A world scarred by climate change, natural disasters and impending wars, a society where scientific breakthroughs cause class divisions. Zoe and Noah explore the differences that bring us together or tear us apart.

The first book of the PERCEPTION trilogy, 17year-old Zoe Vanderveen is a GAP—a genetically altered person. She lives with other equally beautiful people who have prolonged life-spans in the security of a walled city on the water. Tragedy tears Zoe from her perfect world when her brother Liam goes missing. It turns out that the only man who can help her, is the one who she should trust the least.

Noah Brody is a natural who lives on the Outside. He leads protests against the GAPs and detests their contributions to the increasing class gap. He doesn’t like girls like Zoe, and he has good reason not to trust her, but drawn by motives he doesn’t yet understand, he helps her take on the Outside.

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HUNGRY HEARTS

The fish cooked on the fire, and it smelled terrific.

I was starving, and I was pretty sure Zoe must be, too.  I flipped the fillets over on the grill and thought about that last kiss.  It was different than the one Zoe had surprised me with that morning in the car.

I felt fairly certain it wasn't just a test for her anymore.  We were making progress.

I placed the food on plastic plates and offered her one before sitting down on the log near her.  The fire crackled, bright against the darkening sky.  The flames cast warm light against Zoe's skin.  I refrained from a sudden impulse to reach over and stroke her face.

"This is really good," she said after taking her first bite.  "Is there anything you can't do?"

"Besides stay away from you?"  I shook my head while taking another bite.  I was flirting with her and by the smile that formed on her face, I could tell she knew it.

"I have a surprise," I said.  "Marshmallows.  Not exactly creme brule, but it works for dessert."

I took the knife out of the backpack and chiseled off the end of a thin tree branch.  I pushed a marshmallow onto the tip and handed it to her.  Zoe placed it over the fire.

"Tell me stories," she said as she rotated the marshmallow.  Its white skin bubbled to a sugary brown.

"You mean scary campfire stories?"

"No, the stores."  She stared hard at me.  "Our stories.  Did we always like each other?"

I stoked the fire with my marshmallow stick.  "Not really.  We kind of grew on each other."

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And the confession?

Hello, my name is LuAnn and I am a:

Here's my (current so far) list as of yesterday:

1.  Dystopia Reading Challenge

2.  Monthly Keyword Reading Challenge

3.  Shelf Love Reading Challenge

4.  New Release Reading Challenge

5.  COYER Blackout Reading Challenge

6.  52 Books in 52 Weeks Reading Challenge

7.  YA Reading Challenge
8.  Paranormal Reading Challenge
9.  Follow the Clues Mystery Reading Challenge
10.  Vintage Mystery Scavenger Hunt Reading Challenge
11.  Color Coded Reading Challenge
12.  Read One Million Pages (Perpetual) Reading Challenge
13.  European Reading Challenge
14.  BetterWorldBooks Reading Challenge
15.  Book Challenge by Erin
16.  Cloak and Dagger Reading Challenge
17.  Women Reading Challenge
18.  Purrfect Reading Challenge
19.  Cruisin' thru the Cozies Reading Challenge
20.  Let's Read Indie Reading Challenge

Book Challenge by Erin - January-April 2017

Click the button to go to the group and sign-up!

• 5 points: Freebie – Read a book that is at least 200 pages.

• 10 points: Read a book that starts with the letter “W”. The Wave at Hanging Rock - 12/17 - 316 pp
• 10 points: Read a book with six words in the title. - The New Rold: A Step Back - 12/6/ - 244 pp

• 15 points: Read a book that has a (mostly) green cover. - The  Teacher's Mail-Order Bride - 12/4 - 299 pp

• 20 points: Read a book with a homonym in the title (inspired by the book Rain Reign by Ann M. Martin that I read last challenge with a character who is obsessed with homonyms.) Only ONE word in the title needs to be a homonym. Helpful link: https://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

• 20 points: Read a book by your favorite author.  Broken Hearted Ghoul: Taxi for the Dead Paranormal Mysteries #1)  Joyce & Jim Lavene

• 25 points: Read a book set in the city/town/state/territory/county/province where you live. To help with books set in certain U.S. states, this link should help: https://www.goodreads.com/…/1152882-where-we-ve-been-master… Fixin' to Die by Tonya Kappes - 6/14/16 - 224 pp
• 30 points: Read a “Rory Gilmore” book. The character of Rory from the Gilmore Girls was shown reading over 300 different books throughout the series. Choose one of them from this helpful link: https://www.buzzfeed.com/…/all-339-books-referenced-in-gilm… The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - 12/6 - 190 pp

• 30 points: Read a book from a genre that you’ve never read (or rarely read.)

• 35 points: Read a book with time travel. Helpful link:https://www.goodreads.com/…/4018.The_Best_Time_Travel_Books…

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MY BOOK LIST

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My 2017 BetterWorldBooks Reading Challenge Sign-Up Etc

This is cool!  The graphic for the challenge also has the book list on it, so...not a lot of typing for me! I'll keep track of my books for this challenge on this post.  You can click on the button to get more information about the challenge.

My Booklist (section added 1/4/2017)

1.  A collection of short stories - The Best American Humorous Short Stories

2.  A young adult novel - The Parting by Beverly Lewis

3.  A book with a color in the title - Night of the Purple Moon 

4.  A book that's more than 100 years old - Unknown to History by Charlotte Mary Yonge - pub 1882

5.  A book you picked based on its cover

6.  A book set in a place you want to visit - A King Ensnared by JR Tomlin (Scotland)

7.  A book based on a fairy tale - Swept Away by Vanessa Riley

8.  A National Book Award Winner - 

9.  A book that takes place in a forest - ALTDORF: The Forest Nights #1 by JK Swift

10. A romance that takes place during travel

11.  A book under 200 pages

12.  A book over 400 pages - 

13.  A banned book - 

14.  A nonfiction book about nature

15.  A fantasy novel - Gateway to Nifleheim by Glenn G. Thater

16.  A book by a person of color - 

17.  A book by a female writer - My Father's House by Rose Chandler Johnson

18.  A book of poetry - Autumn Poetry by Jan Darrow 

19.  A book set in Asia

20.  A book about immigrants - 

21.  A book about a historical event - The Voyage by Roberta Kagan

22.  A book with a child narrator -

23.  A book translated from another language - 

24.  A book that's been adapted into a movie - 

And since that took a LOT less time to set up than I thought it would, I'm going to add...

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MY TUESDAY BOOKISH LINK-UPS!!!

(edited 3 January 2017 @ 1122 hrs to reflect change of link-up host!)

Thanks to The Purple Princess for hosting Teaser Tuesday at her blog, The Purple Booker.

Thanks to Diane at Bibliophile by the Sea for hosting FCFP.

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In this thrilling and candid memoir, world record-holding and controversial Big Wave surfer Garrett McNamara chronicles his emotional quest to ride the most formidable waves on earth.

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TEASER TUESDAY

(from page 143)

"I was standing in line at Foodland on a January day in 1990 and heard the checker tell the person in line in front of me that the Eddie was on.  Foodland is the only grocery store on the North Shore, not far from Shark's Cover where Pupu-kea Road meets Kam Highway.  Every surfer who winds up on the North Shore, which is to say pretty much every big-name surfer in the world, finds himself or herself buying some orange juice or tortilla chips at Foodland now and then.  The checkout clerks hear it all and they know everything."

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FIRST CHAPTER, FIRST PARAGRAPH

(from the books prologue on page 1)

"Everyone wonders where you go when you die.  I had a preview.  I was standing in the living room of my mom's house in Pupu-kea, on the North Shore of O'ahu, talking on the phone to my doctor when suddenly the lights went out.  I apprently dropped to the floor.  There was no going toward the light, no reaching for a bright spot at the end of life's long tunnel.  This new place was velvet black, calm and pain-free.  The lack of pain was everything.  I lay there, at peace.

Then I woke up to my brother Liam crying my name."

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So, I'm wondering....

Which reading challenges are you participating in this year?

Have you or someone you know ever surfed?