BethysBookBlog

This month I tried to buy as few books as possible since I was participating in Read What You Own September. The only books I bought this month were cookbooks: Ebooks: The New Camp Cookbook: Linda Ly Zingerman's Guide to Good Eating:Ari Weinzweig A Seat at the Table: Brent Ridge and John Kilmer-Purcell Bring it!: Ali Rosen Cooks Illustrated Holiday Entertaining: Many Authors Smoke and Pickles: Edward Lee Physical Book: Cravings 2: Chrissy Teigan(apparently it's not TEE-gan it's TIE-gan)

So far it hasn't been a crazy month for reading/listening to books like last month because of all the reviewing and editing for my first book and a successful fundraising event at the nonprofit I work for. Here's what I've finished: Physical books: - Spinning Silver - Circe Audible books: -China Rich Girlfriend -Mediterranean Cruise with The Cruise Addict's Wife Ebooks: -Genius: The Con -The Year of Yesh: Mutts

Tamora Pierce is my favorite author. I own every single book she's published. Her books helped me being a very cute girl ,with a boys haircut ,who was an athlete that buried herself in books. By the time I was 9 I had a black belt in karate and I idolized Alanna the Lioness. She was my hero. I've read the Song of the Lioness series at least 20x and each time I find something new in the series I didn't see before. Her series have helped me cope with bullies, know what strong, healthy relationships look like, have compassion and empathy for others, and develop my passion for giving back to my community. I can't put into words all the lessons her books have reinforced for me. They are the first series I recommend to young women. It's the first set of books I pick up at my parents house when I get there. They were always more than books to me. I have a lot of authors I would like to meet, but none have impacted me in the way Tamora Pierce's books have and t...

It's been over a week since I posted here. Why? Because I'm actively editing and reviewing my first(technically second) book that is to be released on Oct. 31.  It's a challenging process and I'm looking forward to sending out some ARC's the first week of October. If you want one, let me know! So if my posts are kind of sporadic until then, that's why. You can find out more about me on my bookish IG  @bethybook and keep up with me there and on @spbeth.

I love to pick up books based on their cover, but I don't buy them for the covers. I am meticulous about reading the summary before buying a book. Apparently this is weird. I think buying a book without reading the summary is weird. How do you know if you'll ever read it if you don't know anything about the story? I guess some people can fly by the seat of their pants that way...but this lady can't. It's just not in my wheelhouse.  Some of my favorite covers are: 

It is Read a Book Day today! Any day that tells you to read a book is a good day.  Sadly, reading a whole book will NOT be on my agenda today. I have back to back meetings at work until 5 pm. I may be able to finish the audio of China Rich Girlfriend if I can squeeze in the remaining hour or so on the way to and from work.  May your Read a Book Day be filled with new faces, exciting places, and fantastic plot lines!

As part of #bookstagramreadsseptember today was red and orange books. I love orange. It's my favorite color. I realized I don't own any orange books. The orange books I currently have in my stack belong to the library. The following is what color psychology.org has to say about Orange: I'm not sure how accurate it is, but it does hint to me that more authors should have an orange cover for their book. I think my books will have orange covers. 

I feel like favorite authors is a rough subject for a lot of bookstagramers. Why? Because it is deeply personal. We all have our favorites and sometimes people don't mesh simply for whom they love.  It honestly makes me laugh. We are all adults and yet like a bunch of school kids- we pick our favorites and shun people who don't like what we like.  The same is true among the audiobook community for favorite narrators.  Here are my favorite authors: Tamora Pierce Sarah J Mass J.R.Ward  Christine Feehan  Lora Leigh  Sylvain Neuvel  Meg Cabot  Roshani Chokshi  Amie Kaufman   Jay Kristoff Here are my favorite narrators: Eloisa James Tamora Pierce Julia Whelan Arielle DeLisle Trini Alvarado Bernadette Dunn Angela Dawe Chip and JoAnna Gaines Lynn Chen Do you have strong opinions love/hate on any of these? Also: did you reach your reading goals for the weekend? I did not. And it's ok...

So I'm giving myself a challenge this month: Read what you already have, already pre-ordered, or are expecting from the library. This is going to be hard. Depending on what cookbooks become on sale, I might have to break that. But it will be worth it for a number of reasons:  a. I need a new bookshelf because I now have so many physical books b. Each book I don't buy I'm tallying up the cost and putting that amount towards our downpayment. We're ready to get out of a townhome and have our own place. c.Visiting libraries make me happy. My closest to home library is really small, but it has a fabulous selection of books. We have 14 libraries in our library district and they are each unique in their own way. I'd like to visit each of them by the end of this year. Anywho- On my physical TBR list this month are: On my E-book TBR this month are: On my audio TBLT(to be listened to) this month are: I...