Friday Finds #3

It's time for a Friday Finds. Here I show you some things that I discovered during the week: books, movies, TV shows, music, and everything else.

Weekly Updates #4

It's been a looooooong time since I did a weekly update (I guess it's not weekly), but I'll be trying to start posting it again.

Friday Reads #4 - The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler

Look at what arrived this week! After a long time waiting to buy it, and a long time waiting for it to arrive, now I finally have it. So that's what I'll be reading this weekend (I already started, and it's so good :D)

The Forbidden Library (The Forbidden Library #1)

Author: Django Wexler
Genres and Tags: Books about Books, Fantasy, Magic, Adventure, Cats, Library, Children > Middle Grade / Juvenile
Synopsis: The Forbidden Library kicks off a brand new classic fantasy series perfect for fans of Coraline, Inkheart, and The Books of Elsewhere!

Alice always thought fairy tales had happy endings. That—along with everything else—changed the day she met her first fairy.
When Alice's father disappears in a shipwreck, she is sent to live with her uncle Geryon—an uncle she's never heard of and knows nothing about. He lives in an enormous manor with a massive library that is off-limits to Alice. But then she meets a talking cat. And, even for a rule-follower, when a talking cat sneaks you into a forbidden library and introduces you to an arrogant boy who dares you to open a book, it's hard to resist. Especially if you're a reader to begin with. Soon Alice finds herself INSIDE the book, and the only way out is to defeat the creature imprisoned within.

It seems Uncle Geryon is more than he says he is. But then, so is Alice.

Links: Amazon, BookDepository, GoodReads

My Pull List #1 - 08/12/15 [#NewComicBookDay]

Another week, another bunch of comics to buy, read or put on the stack to read later. And now that I'm using League of Comic Geeks to manage the comics I want to read, everything is way easier.

Waiting on Wednesday #2: A Thousand Nighs by E.K. Johnston (Disney Hyperion)

It's time for another Waiting on Wednesday!

Lo-Melkhiin killed three hundred girls before he came to her village, looking for a wife. When she sees the dust cloud on the horizon, she knows he has arrived. She knows he will want the loveliest girl: her sister. She vows she will not let her be next.

And so she is taken in her sister's place, and she believes death will soon follow. Lo-Melkhiin's court is a dangerous palace filled with pretty things: intricate statues with wretched eyes, exquisite threads to weave the most beautiful garments. She sees everything as if for the last time.But the first sun rises and sets, and she is not dead. Night after night, Lo-Melkhiin comes to her and listens to the stories she tells, and day after day she is awoken by the sunrise. Exploring the palace, she begins to unlock years of fear that have tormented and silenced a kingdom. Lo-Melkhiin was not always a cruel ruler. Something went wrong.

Far away, in their village, her sister is mourning. Through her pain, she calls upon the desert winds, conjuring a subtle unseen magic, and something besides death stirs the air.

Back at the palace, the words she speaks to Lo-Melkhiin every night are given a strange life of their own. Little things, at first: a dress from home, a vision of her sister. With each tale she spins, her power grows. Soon she dreams of bigger, more terrible magic: power enough to save a king, if she can put an end to the rule of a monster.

Tags: Fantasy, Young Adult (YA), Fairy Tales, Retellings, Magic

I've never read One Thousand and One Nights, despite it being on my list for a long time. But, if it seems that I won't read it soon, this retelling looks awesome, and probably I'll get it as soon as I can.

Expected publication date: October 6th 2015, by Disney Hyperion.

Links: Amazon, BookDepository, GoodReads

Friday Finds #2 - Silver in the Blood by Jessica Day George

Better late than never:  here is a book that I just discovered.

A New York Times bestselling author brings dark secrets to life in a lush new YA perfect for fans of Libba Bray or Cassandra Clare.

Society girls from New York City circa 1890, Dacia and Lou never desired to know more about their lineage, instead preferring to gossip about the mysterious Romanian family that they barely knew. But upon turning seventeen, the girls must return to their homeland to meet their relatives, find proper husbands, and—most terrifyingly—learn the deep family secrets of The Claw, The Wing, and The Smoke. The Florescus, after all, are shape-shifters, and it is time for Dacia and Lou to fulfill the prophecy that demands their acceptance of this fate... or fight against this cruel inheritance with all their might.

With a gorgeous Romanian setting, stunning Parisian gowns, and dark brooding young men, readers will be swept up by this epic adventure of two girls in a battle for their lives.

Shelves: Fantasy, YA (Young Adult), Historical Fiction, Werewolves, Romance

Links: Amazon, BookDepository, GoodReads

Weekly Updates #3

Hello everyone. Better late than never so let's see what I did past week!

TV Shows

There's a new TV show that I loved: Zoo. It's airing on CBS and it's based on the book with the same name written by James Patterson. I almost wrote a first impressions post, but don't had time to do it. Maybe after I watch the second episode. And I'm still watch Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries and Hell on Wheels.

Cartoon and Anime

Watched some Steven Universe (season 1) and Adventure Time (season 5) episodes. Still watching Nourin and Shokugeki no Soma, and watched the first Dragon Ball Super episode. IT WAS AWESOME!!! Dragon Ball is back, yeah \o/

Books

Still reading The Agency 1: A Spy in the House and bought The Forbidden Library by Django Wexler. I can't wait to start this one, but I bet it'll take 2 or 3 months for it to arrive. Yeah, that's what happens when you live in the jungle Brazil.

Audiobooks and podcasts

I listened to a couple episodes of Welcome to Night Vale,  a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the fictional small desert town of Night Vale. Also, I started listening to Bird Box by Josh Malerman narrated by Cassandra Campbell and I'm loving it. I just don't want to stop listening to it.

And you, what are you reading, listening and watching?

BookDepository links: The Agency: A Spy in the House, The Forbidden Library, Bird Box

Weekly Updates #2

Hello everyone. It's time for another Weekly Update, where I talk about what I'm reading, watching, and sometimes eating and drinking. So let's get started.

Waiting on Wednesday #1 - Mechanica by Betsy Cornwell

Ok, I decided that from time to time I'll be posting the Waiting on Wednesday blog meme. And for this first post, I'm going with Mechanica, a steampunk fairy tale retelling of Cinderella.

May favorites

May is gone, and it's time to share what I liked the most about it. There are some links for reviews and posts about specific books/movies/shows.