Down the TBR Hole ★ 13
Wednesday, 31 July 2019
Down the TBR Hole is a bookish meme created by Lia @ Lost in a Story.
Down the TBR Hole 411
Down The TBR Hole is a meme that revolves around cleansing your TBR of all those books you’re never going to read and sort through it all to know what’s actually on there. Most of you probably know this feeling, your Goodreads TBR pile keeps growing and growing and it seems like there is no light at the end of the tunnel. You keep adding, but you add more than you actually read. And then when you’re scrolling through your list, you realize that you have no idea what half the books are about and why you added them. Well that’s going to change!
It works like this:
• Order on ascending date added.
• Take the first 5 (or 10 (or even more!) if you’re feeling adventurous) books. Of course, if you do this weekly, you start where you left off the last time.
• Read the synopses of the books
• Decide: Keep it or should it go?
We're back again with the segment known as Down the TBR Hole! Fasten your seatbelts, keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times, Once Upon a Time, I Read a Book and its owner is not responsible for any additions to your TBR list and is indemnified in any book buying that occurs as a result.
Why didn't anybody tell me that I reposted #12 as #13? I am hurt and betrayed, mostly by myself. Now, here's the remade #13.
Why didn't anybody tell me that I reposted #12 as #13? I am hurt and betrayed, mostly by myself. Now, here's the remade #13.
Better Than the Best Plan by Lauren Morrill
Plans are made to be broken.
It’s the last day of junior year, and seventeen-year-old Ritzy—short for Maritza—is pretty sure she has a great plan. Summer job—check. Hang with friends at the beach—check. Keep looking after herself as she’s been doing since her mom bailed to follow her bliss—check. Or no check?
After someone reports that Ritzy is living alone, a social worker shows up and puts her into foster care. That’s surprise enough. Even more surprising? Ritzy has been in foster care before, as an infant, and the woman who cared for her then takes her in again. But maybe the greatest surprise of all for Ritzy is that living with her foster mother, Kristin, in Kristin’s gorgeous house, isn’t all that bad. And neither is the cute, friendly boy next door. If Ritzy’s mom hadn’t gotten her back all those years ago, this is the life she could have had. But is it the life she should have had?
When Ritzy’s old life catches up with her new one, she has some decisions to make. Can she plan for the worst, but still hope for the best?
Tidbit
I like the premise of this book, and that cover is so neat. But I'm not sure if it's something I'm going to be happy reading. And we should only read what makes us happy. I think that since I'm sceptical on that front, I'm going to remove it from my list. Maybe I'll run into it again and change my mind, maybe not. Who knows, it's a mystery.
After someone reports that Ritzy is living alone, a social worker shows up and puts her into foster care. That’s surprise enough. Even more surprising? Ritzy has been in foster care before, as an infant, and the woman who cared for her then takes her in again. But maybe the greatest surprise of all for Ritzy is that living with her foster mother, Kristin, in Kristin’s gorgeous house, isn’t all that bad. And neither is the cute, friendly boy next door. If Ritzy’s mom hadn’t gotten her back all those years ago, this is the life she could have had. But is it the life she should have had?
When Ritzy’s old life catches up with her new one, she has some decisions to make. Can she plan for the worst, but still hope for the best?
Tidbit
I like the premise of this book, and that cover is so neat. But I'm not sure if it's something I'm going to be happy reading. And we should only read what makes us happy. I think that since I'm sceptical on that front, I'm going to remove it from my list. Maybe I'll run into it again and change my mind, maybe not. Who knows, it's a mystery.
Love at First Like by Hannah Orenstein
Eliza Roth and her sister Sophie co-own a jewelry shop in Brooklyn. One night, after learning of an ex’s engagement, Eliza accidentally posts a photo of herself wearing a diamond ring on that finger to her Instagram account beloved by 100,000 followers. Sales skyrocket, press rolls in, and Eliza learns that her personal life is good for business. So she has a choice: continue the ruse or clear up the misunderstanding. With mounting financial pressure, Eliza sets off to find a fake fiancé.
Fellow entrepreneur Blake seems like the perfect match on paper. And in real life he shows promise, too. He would be perfect, if only Eliza didn’t feel also drawn to someone else. But Blake doesn’t know Eliza is “engaged”; Sophie asks Eliza for an impossible sum of money; and Eliza’s lies start to spiral out of control. She can either stay engaged online or fall in love in real life.
Tidbit
I don't know why I put this on my TBR but I did. It's there and I cannot fathom a reason as to why. Okay, maybe the cover. It's cute. I'm going to remove this from my TBR simply because it has a lot of things in the synopsis that don't sound like something I'd enjoy. But I do like the cute cover!
Tidbit
I don't know why I put this on my TBR but I did. It's there and I cannot fathom a reason as to why. Okay, maybe the cover. It's cute. I'm going to remove this from my TBR simply because it has a lot of things in the synopsis that don't sound like something I'd enjoy. But I do like the cute cover!
Our Dark Stars by Audre Grey & Krystal Wade
While she sleeps, the whole universe changes.
Princess Talia Starchaser has it all. Wealth. Status. Adoring citizens. But on the eve of her eighteenth birthday, she’s forced to publicly betray her best friend, a companion mock she’s had since birth, setting events into motion that lead to the destruction of the humans, and the princess floating through space, a remnant of a time when humans ruled over droids.
One hundred years later, half-mock captain Will Perrault and his ragtag crew discover a device floating in space. When a very human Talia emerges from its depths, Will suspects she’s the key to buying his way back into the regiment he once commanded against the last remaining rebel humans—and the ruling mock queen’s good graces.
Both Talia and Will would rather get space-tossed than trust one another, but with the queen’s forces chasing them across the galaxy and the fate of both worlds hanging in the balance, they’ll forge the unlikeliest of alliances to survive.
Tidbit
Why haven't I gotten this yet? I need this book! Excuse me a moment, I need to go remedy this. BTW - this is available on Kindle Unlimited at the time of this posting. Have at it, I am.
One hundred years later, half-mock captain Will Perrault and his ragtag crew discover a device floating in space. When a very human Talia emerges from its depths, Will suspects she’s the key to buying his way back into the regiment he once commanded against the last remaining rebel humans—and the ruling mock queen’s good graces.
Both Talia and Will would rather get space-tossed than trust one another, but with the queen’s forces chasing them across the galaxy and the fate of both worlds hanging in the balance, they’ll forge the unlikeliest of alliances to survive.
Tidbit
Why haven't I gotten this yet? I need this book! Excuse me a moment, I need to go remedy this. BTW - this is available on Kindle Unlimited at the time of this posting. Have at it, I am.
The Ash Family by Molly Dektar
When a young woman leaves her family—and the civilized world—to join an off-the-grid community headed by an enigmatic leader, she discovers that belonging comes with a deadly cost, in this lush and searing debut novel.
At nineteen, Berie encounters a seductive and mysterious man at a bus station near her home in North Carolina. Shut off from the people around her, she finds herself compelled by his promise of a new life. He ferries her into a place of order and chaos: the Ash Family farm. There, she joins an intentional community living off the fertile land of the mountains, bound together by high ideals and through relationships she can’t untangle. Berie—now renamed Harmony—renounces her old life and settles into her new one on the farm. She begins to make friends. And then they start to disappear.
Thrilling and profound, The Ash Family explores what we will sacrifice in the search for happiness, and the beautiful and grotesque power of the human spirit as it seeks its ultimate place of belonging.
Tidbit
Cult Fiction, not to be confused with pulp fiction (I have done this), is interesting. Who isn't a little smidgen of a bit fascinated with cults? Growing up in Vermont, I had a lot of warnings about cults and overly friendly strangers from an early age because we have not one or two but three communities of a Top Ten cult around the state. I'm keeping The Ash Family on my TBR list because, cult.
Thrilling and profound, The Ash Family explores what we will sacrifice in the search for happiness, and the beautiful and grotesque power of the human spirit as it seeks its ultimate place of belonging.
Tidbit
Cult Fiction, not to be confused with pulp fiction (I have done this), is interesting. Who isn't a little smidgen of a bit fascinated with cults? Growing up in Vermont, I had a lot of warnings about cults and overly friendly strangers from an early age because we have not one or two but three communities of a Top Ten cult around the state. I'm keeping The Ash Family on my TBR list because, cult.
The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry
A page-turning debut of suspense about a young couple desperate to have a child of their own—and the unsettling consequences of getting what they always wanted.
Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. All that’s missing is a child. When Janie, an abandoned six-year-old, turns up at their hospital, Christopher forms an instant connection with her, and he convinces Hannah they should take her home as their own.
But Janie is no ordinary child, and her damaged psyche proves to be more than her new parents were expecting. Janie is fiercely devoted to Christopher, but she acts out in increasingly disturbing ways, directing all her rage at Hannah. Unable to bond with Janie, Hannah is drowning under the pressure, and Christopher refuses to see Janie’s true nature.
Hannah knows that Janie is manipulating Christopher and isolating him from her, despite Hannah’s attempts to bring them all together. But as Janie’s behavior threatens to tear Christopher and Hannah apart, the truth behind Janie’s past may be enough to push them all over the edge.
Tidbit
Y'all this has a lot of resemblance to the 2009 movie, Orphan, and that movie was both freaky as all hell and riveting at the same time. I'm keeping this on my list for the time being but I make no promises about reading it!
But Janie is no ordinary child, and her damaged psyche proves to be more than her new parents were expecting. Janie is fiercely devoted to Christopher, but she acts out in increasingly disturbing ways, directing all her rage at Hannah. Unable to bond with Janie, Hannah is drowning under the pressure, and Christopher refuses to see Janie’s true nature.
Hannah knows that Janie is manipulating Christopher and isolating him from her, despite Hannah’s attempts to bring them all together. But as Janie’s behavior threatens to tear Christopher and Hannah apart, the truth behind Janie’s past may be enough to push them all over the edge.
Tidbit
Y'all this has a lot of resemblance to the 2009 movie, Orphan, and that movie was both freaky as all hell and riveting at the same time. I'm keeping this on my list for the time being but I make no promises about reading it!
Total Books Kept 3
Total Books Removed 2
Honestly, I'm finding a lot of not-me books on my TBR lately. Is adding random books to my TBR a side effect of any medications? I'll have to look into that since I'm a walking pharmacy. I'm going to have to start looking for a new laptop soonish. Mine's a few years old and starting to glitch on me. I do hate to shop for laptops. Send help!
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