Whenever Monday’s coming up and I don’t have a topic for my Monday book topic videos, I go hunting for tags. This time I found the I Should Have Read That Book Tag on One More Book and it’s a unique tag unlike anything I’ve done before, so let’s do it!
I followed the grape vine of “thanks X for tagging me” and “I saw this on Y blog” links all the way back to mid-2019 and I can’t find any reference to who created this tag, but wow this tag has legs! I don’t know how I haven’t tackled it before.
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1. A Book That a Certain Friend is Always Telling You to Read
My sister really wants me to read this book and I ended up receiving it for Christmas. It’s still sitting beside the couch on the short list of physical books to pick up ASAP, as I promised it would be back in January, but I haven’t got to it yet.
Omens
Cainsville Book One
by Kelley Armstrong
Published 1 January 2013
by Vintage Canada
Genre: Urban Fantasy
Page Count: 472
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Following the epic conclusion of her internationally bestselling Women of the Otherworld series, Kelley Armstrong launches a brand-new series set in Cainsville, a small town as spookily fascinating as Stephen King’s Castle Rock or Dean Koontz’s Moonlight Bay.
Olivia Taylor Jones, 24, seems to have the perfect life. The only daughter of a wealthy Chicago family, she has an Ivy League education, pursues volunteerism and philanthropy, and is engaged to a handsome young tech-firm CEO with political ambitions. But Olivia’s world is shattered when she finds out that she’s adopted. Her real parents? Todd and Pamela Larsen, notorious serial killers, each still serving a life sentence.
The news brings a maelstrom of unwanted publicity to her adopted family and fiancé, and Olivia thinks the best thing she can do for herself and for them is run away from it all. She ends up in the small town of Cainsville, Illinois, an old and cloistered community that takes a particular interest in both Olivia and her decision to uncover the truth about her birth parents. Olivia decides to focus on the Larsens’ last crime, the one Pamela Larsen swears will prove their innocence. But as she and Gabriel Walsh, Pamela’s former lawyer, start investigating, Olivia finds herself drawing on abilities that have remained hidden since her childhood, gifts that make her both a valuable addition to Cainsville and deeply vulnerable to unknown enemies. There are dark secrets behind her new home, and powers lurking in the shadows that have their own plans for her.
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2. A Book That’s Been on Your TBR Forever and Yet You Still Haven’t Read It
This one has been on my TBR so many times I’ve bought it more than once. Oops! I really want to get to this one this year.
The Lies of Locke Lamora
Gentleman Bastard Book One
by Scott Lynch
Published 1 June 2006
by Spectra
Genre: Fantasy
Page Count: 752
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An orphan’s life is harsh—and often short—in the mysterious island city of Camorr. But young Locke Lamora dodges death and slavery, becoming a thief under the tutelage of a gifted con artist. As leader of the band of light-fingered brothers known as the Gentleman Bastards, Locke is soon infamous, fooling even the underworld’s most feared ruler. But in the shadows lurks someone still more ambitious and deadly. Faced with a bloody coup that threatens to destroy everyone and everything that holds meaning in his mercenary life, Locke vows to beat the enemy at his own brutal game—or die trying.
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3. A Book in a Series You’ve Started, But Haven’t Finished Yet
I’m not sure if this means I haven’t finished the book I read yet, or haven’t finished the series, but I’m going with the latter. I absolutely loved Wicked by Gregory Maguire and do own the rest of The Wicked Years, but I haven’t finished. I didn’t like A Lion Among Men, so I haven’t been extremely eager to finish the series and read…
Out of Oz
The Wicked Years Book Four
by Gregory Maguire
Published 1 November 2011
William Morrow
Genre: Fantasy
Page Count: 568
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Oz is knotted with social unrest: The Emerald City is mounting an invasion of Munchkinland, Glinda is under house arrest, the Cowardly Lion is on the run from the law, and Dorothy is back. Amid chaos and war, Elphaba’s green granddaughter born at the end of “Son of a Witch”, comes of age. Rain will take up her broom, and bring the series to a close.
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4. A Classic You’ve Always Liked the Sound of, But Have Never Actually Read
I don’t think I have an answer for this because I spent most of my life not liking the classics, partly on principle because I thought they were stuffy and pretentious, and partly because in North American schools “classics” kind of becomes synonymous with “Great American novels,” and as a timid Canadian that level of patriotism where it doesn’t necessarily belong have always felt strange to me.
Then I hit my 30s and started reading some of the classics.
It just so happens that I recently grabbed a new illustrated edition eARC of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, so I’ll be reading that next in terms of classics.
Jane Eyre
Illustrations by Marjolein Bastin
by Charlotte Brontë
Published 2 March 2021
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Genre: Classics
Page Count: 408
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Gems of literature in a luxurious and unique design by Marjolein Bastin.
The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series is a chance to rediscover classic literature in collectible, luxuriously illustrated volumes. For the first time ever, the internationally celebrated artwork of Marjolein Bastin graces the pages of a timeless classic, Jane Eyre. Beyond bringing these stories to life, Bastin’s series adds elaborately designed ephemera, such as four-color maps, letters, family trees, and sheet music. Whether an ideal gift for an Austen or Brontë devotee or a treat for yourself, The Marjolein Bastin Classics Series, as a set or individually purchased, is perfect for anyone who feels a connection to these enduring literary gems.
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5. A Popular Book That it Seems Everyone But You Has Read
I swear every other Fantasy genre Booktuber has read A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas and its sequels, and I haven’t. One of these days I’ll listen to the audiobook, I have it in the “deliver later” holding pattern on Libby so I can grab it fast when I’m ready, but it won’t be any time soon.
A Court of Thorns and Roses
A Court of Thorns and Roses Book One
by Sarah J. Maas
Published 5 May 2015
Bloomsbury USA Childrens
Genre: YA Fantasy
Page Count: 432
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Feyre’s survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill – the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price …
Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre’s presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why, her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.
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6. A Book That Inspired a Film/TV Adaptation That You Really Love, But Just Haven’t Picked Up Yet
I recently found out that The Prestige is a novel by Christopher Priest and I really want to read the book behind the movie I love. I know the movie did a lot of messing around with the timeline and messing with the Bordons/wife/mistress relationship, but I want to see the differences for myself and probably end up loving the book even more.
The Prestige
by Christopher Priest
Published 15 September 1997
Tom Doherty Associates Tor Books
Genre: Historical Fiction
Page Count: 404
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In 1878, two young stage magicians clash in the dark during the course of a fraudulent séance. From this moment on, their lives become webs of deceit and revelation as they vie to outwit and expose one another.
Their rivalry will take them to the peaks of their careers, but with terrible consequences. In the course of pursuing each other’s ruin, they will deploy all the deception their magicians’ craft can command–the highest misdirection and the darkest science.
Blood will be spilled, but it will not be enough. In the end, their legacy will pass on for generations…to descendants who must, for their sanity’s sake, untangle the puzzle left to them.
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7. A Book You See All Over Instagram But Haven’t Picked Up Yet
I’ve seen a lot of people on both Instagram and Twitter raving about Lobizona ever since it came out and I’ve been meaning to read it but haven’t got around to it yet. I actually have to make time and get around to it now because I’ve been approved for an eARC of the second book, which I requested to force myself into reading both of them soon.
Lobizona
Wolves of No World Book One
by Romina Garber
Published 4 August 2020
Wednesday Books
Genre: YA Paranormal Fantasy
Page Count: 400
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Some people ARE illegal.
Lobizonas do NOT exist.
Both of these statements are false.
Manuela Azul has been crammed into an existence that feels too small for her. As an undocumented immigrant who’s on the run from her father’s Argentine crime-family, Manu is confined to a small apartment and a small life in Miami, Florida.
Until Manu’s protective bubble is shattered.
Her surrogate grandmother is attacked, lifelong lies are exposed, and her mother is arrested by ICE. Without a home, without answers, and finally without shackles, Manu investigates the only clue she has about her past–a mysterious “Z” emblem—which leads her to a secret world buried within our own. A world connected to her dead father and his criminal past. A world straight out of Argentine folklore, where the seventh consecutive daughter is born a bruja and the seventh consecutive son is a lobizón, a werewolf. A world where her unusual eyes allow her to belong.
As Manu uncovers her own story and traces her real heritage all the way back to a cursed city in Argentina, she learns it’s not just her U.S. residency that’s illegal. . . .it’s her entire existence.
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