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Who out there has the 'sine queue non' tag? I know you're out there but I can't remember which blog it is as the search function doesn't want me to find you

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Hokay, so...

I’ve been reading Star Trek: New Frontier and I want to do an intro to this series, as I read the first 8 books last year and won’t be reviewing them. This is going to take some time. I’m taking a hiatus from blogging until the end of the month. I’m going on vacation in 2 weeks and have a lot to do to get ready for that. I hope I can work on this while I’m chilling at the beach. :)

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A Ride Into Morning: The Story of Tempe Wick

Number of Pages: 368 (paperback)

Publisher: HMH 

Rating: 3 Stars

Synopsis: The Revolutionary War is raging. General Wayne's soldiers are freezing, underpaid, and resentful. Whispers of mutiny abound. A stone's throw from the restless camp, Tempe Wick wages her own battle for survival. Despite her efforts, she fears she won't be able to feed her family, care for her ailing mother, or maintain her farm for long. As the whispers get louder, the soldiers get bolder. Mutiny is imminent. And Tempe faces a gut-wrenching decision: Should she join the revolt?

Review: Meh. I do like Ann Rinaldi, and have liked many of her books, but meh. I was looking forward to this one, too.

ARIM is about the legend of Tempe Wick, the woman who hid her horse from mutineers during the winter of 1780-81 in Morristown, NJ. For some context: the mutiny concerned the Continental Army who were wintering in Morristown, NJ during the winter of 1780-81. It was one of the coldest winters on record and the men, along with the women and children that had followed them, were starving and dying. They hadn’t been paid in a long time and unlike Valley Forge, Gen. Washington wasn’t there to inspire them. The men of the Pennsylvania Line did respect their commander, Gen. Wayne, but the deplorable conditions, and lack of food and pay, brought the men to the boiling point. In the evening of January 1, 1781, ~2,000 men of the Pennsylvania Line attempted to leave the camp and head to Philadelphia to demand their pay. The mutiny was put down quickly and without bloodshed (one man was shot and killed). The men got their pay and the war went on.

Tempe Wick’s family owned a farm in Morristown and were Patriots. They gave aid to the army as they could. Two weeks before the mutiny, Tempe’s father Henry died, leaving her to care for her sick mother. Tempe had a brother, Henry, whom everyone thought was a lunatic. The legend goes that Tempe rode her horse (who was named Colonel in the book) to her brother-in-law’s house to bring him back to help her mother, her brother-in-law being a doctor. She was accosted by some of the mutineers trying to take her horse. She feinted, and rode him back to the farm, where she hid him in the house for a time until the mutiny was put down.

ARIM is actually told by Mary Cooper, Tempe’s 14 year old cousin. Mary was banished from her home for being a Patriot, while her family was primarily Tories. She was sent to live with her brother Nathan until he became fed up with her and sent her to live with the Wicks. Throughout the book, Mary tells the story of the state of the army, her encounters with Tempe’s older brother Henry, Tempe’s involvement with the ringleaders of the mutiny and the relationships with Tempe’s mother Mary, the rest of the family and her crush on Gen. Wayne. And while this story was well written and expanded on a legend that I didn’t even know about, it didn’t really go anywhere. The climax, the mutiny itself, doesn’t have much of an impact, as Mary only saw a bit of it, before returning to the house and hiding. She does play an important role giving information about all the players in the drama, but meh. Even the whole “hiding the horse in the house” part was boring. The desperation of the time came through so you sympathised with everyone, which is important. But meh. It was entertaining when I was reading it, but I won’t go back. I’m sure if I do visit Morristown, NJ, the legend will have more impact, tho I don’t know when that will be.

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Updated TBR List for May 2016

Here’s what I bought/got for my birthday in April!

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson

Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu

Wife Number Seven by Melissa Brown

In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of WWII by Keith Lowe

The Wild Princess by Mary Hart Parry

Tories: Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War by Thomas B. Allen

Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

The World of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin (currently reading)

Star Trek: New Frontier #9: Requiem by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #10: Renaissance by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #11: Restoration by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #12: Being Human by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #13: Gods Above by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #14: Stone and Anvil by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #15: After the Fall by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #16: Missing in Action by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #17: Treason by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #18: Blind Man’s Bluff by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier: No Limits Anthology by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier: The Returned pt 1 by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier: The Returned pt 2 by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier: The Returned pt 3 by Peter David

The King in Love: Edward VII’s Mistresses by Theo Aronson

The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick

The King’s Curse by Philippa Gregory

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran

The Duchess by Amanda Foreman

The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

Heir to the Jedi by Kevin Hearne

The Sowing by K. Makansi

The Last Jews in Berlin by Leonard Gross

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic’s First Class Passengers and Their World by Hugh Brewster

The Jewel by Amy Ewing

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George RR Martin

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor

Legacy of Kings by Eleanor Herman (currently reading)

Queen of Someday by Sherry D. Flicklin

Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret Stohl

Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Megele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel

State of Emergency by Summer Lane

Ophelia by Lisa M. Klein

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Capital Dames by Cokie Roberts

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower

No Ordinary Sound: A Melody Classic by Denise Lewis Patrick

His Only Wife by Melissa Brown

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Finoa Carnavaron

Warriors: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter

Between Love and Honor by Alexandra Lapierre

Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman

China: A History by John Keay

Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King

Ana of California by Andi Teran

We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

Voice of Gods by Eleanor Herman

The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Thomas Jefferson: Author of America by Christopher Hitchens

Dance Upon the Air by Nora Roberts

Heaven and Earth by Nora Roberts

Face the Fire by Nora Roberts

A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas and Sergei Mironenko

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry

Lea and Camilla by Lisa Yee

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand

The Ghost Wind Stallion: A Kaya Mystery by Emma Carlson Berne

The Glowing Heart: A Josefina Mystery by Valerie Tripp

The Finders Keepers Rule: A Maryellen Mystery by Jacqueline Greene

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwall

The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdeih

No Parking at the End Times by Brian Bliss

Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Secret Agent of WWII by William Stevenson

Anna and the Swallow Man by Gavriel Savit

The Crownby Kiera Cass

Divided We Fall by Trent Reedy

The Prelude: Soren Skaarsgard by K. Makansi

The Reaping by K. Makansi

The Harvest by K. Makansi

Emerge by Heather Sunseri

Burn Baby Burn by Meg Medina

A Tyranny of Petticoats ed. by Jessica Spotswood

Flawed by Cecelia Ahern

The Heir and the Spare by Emily Albright

First Ladies: Presidential Historians of the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women by Susan Swain and C-SPAN

King Edward VIII: A Life by Philip Ziegler

The Disappearing Dictionary by David Crystal

Every Man for Himself by Beryl Bainbridge

Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom by Catherine Clinton

Tower of the Hand: A Flight of Sorrows by various

Tatiana Romanov, Daughter of the Last Tsar: Diaries and Letters, 1913-1918 by Helen Azar

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I’m working on loading up my queue with book aesthetic--books themselves and my favorites when I can find them. I’ll also put in pics of fall/Halloween and food. I want to keep this blog going in between my reviews.

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Updated TBR List for April

It’s my birthday month! I hope to get some more books for my birthday. But until then, here’s the updated list for April:

The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt by Toby Wilkinson

Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu

Wife Number Seven by Melissa Brown

In The Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin by Erik Larson

Savage Continent: Europe in the Aftermath of WWII by Keith Lowe

The Wild Princess by Mary Hart Parry

Tories: Fighting for the King in America’s First Civil War by Thomas B. Allen

Fire From Heaven by Mary Renault

Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith

The World of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin (currently reading)

Star Trek: New Frontier #9: Requiem by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #10: Renaissance by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #11: Restoration by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #12: Being Human by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #13: Gods Above by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #14: Stone and Anvil by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #15: After the Fall by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #16: Missing in Action by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #17: Treason by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier #18: Blind Man’s Bluff by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier: No Limits Anthology by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier: The Returned pt 1 by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier: The Returned pt 2 by Peter David

Star Trek: New Frontier: The Returned pt 3 by Peter David

The King in Love: Edward VII’s Mistresses by Theo Aronson

The Summer Queen by Elizabeth Chadwick (currently reading)

The King’s Curse by Philippa Gregory

The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark

Rebel Queen by Michelle Moran

The Duchess by Amanda Foreman

The Testing by Joelle Charbonneau

Grave Mercy by Robin LaFevers

Heir to the Jedi by Kevin Hearne

The Sowing by K. Makansi

The Last Jews in Berlin by Leonard Gross

Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage: The Titanic’s First Class Passengers and Their World by Hugh Brewster

The Jewel by Amy Ewing

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George RR Martin

Welcome to Night Vale by Joseph Fink and Jeffery Cranor

Legacy of Kings by Eleanor Herman

Queen of Someday by Sherry D. Flicklin

Black Widow: Forever Red by Margaret Stohl

Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Megele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz by Lucette Lagnado and Sheila Cohn Dekel

State of Emergency by Summer Lane

Ophelia by Lisa M. Klein

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas

Capital Dames by Cokie Roberts

The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House by Kate Andersen Brower

No Ordinary Sound: A Melody Classic by Denise Lewis Patrick

His Only Wife by Melissa Brown

Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle by Finoa Carnavaron

Warriors: Into the Wild by Erin Hunter

Between Love and Honor by Alexandra Lapierre

Prisoner of Night and Fog by Anne Blankman

China: A History by John Keay

Death in the City of Light: The Serial Killer of Nazi-Occupied Paris by David King

Ana of California by Andi Teran

We Are The Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson

Voice of Gods by Eleanor Herman

The Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

Poison Study by Maria V. Snyder

Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

Thomas Jefferson: Author of America by Christopher Hitchens

Dance Upon the Air by Nora Roberts

Heaven and Earth by Nora Roberts

Face the Fire by Nora Roberts

A Lifelong Passion: Nicholas and Alexandra: Their Own Story by Andrei Maylunas and Sergei Mironenko

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells

The Love That Split the World by Emily Henry

Lea and Camilla by Lisa Yee

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary by Anita Anand

The Ghost Wind Stallion: A Kaya Mystery by Emma Carlson Berne

The Glowing Heart: A Josefina Mystery by Valerie Tripp

The Finders Keepers Rule: A Maryellen Mystery by Jacqueline Greene

The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner

The Last Kingdom by Bernard Cornwall

The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdeih

No Parking at the End Times by Brian Bliss

Spymistress: The True Story of the Greatest Secret Agent of WWII by William Stevenson

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Unboxing!

My March Owlcrate is here!!! Huzzah!!! (The anticipation has kept me going all week.)

So here we go:

This is the postcard that came. This month’s theme is Writer’s Block.

Book Buttons!!! I can put them on my bag!!! These are from Bookworm Boutique and are adorable. I have to go look at their other stuff.

Banned Book socks from Out of Print! I’ll keep these to wear around the house.

(Unrelated: like my sheets? Aren’t they cute w/ the VDay candy hearts?)

This is a little book of prompts for when you’re stuck! It’s super cute. They have ones like: Write a one-paragraph treatment for a reality TV show set in your workplace; “This is 911. What is your emergency?”; The smell of an orange reminds me of...; When I smell Pine-Sol I think of...

I like it. Gives me something to do at work.

And the book this month is The Serpent King is Jeff Zentner! 

Synopsis: Dill has had to wrestle with vipers his whole life--at home, as the only son of a Pentecostal minister who urges him to handle poisonous rattlesnakes, and at school, where he faces down bullies who target him for his father’s extreme faith and very public fall from grace.

The only antidote to all this venom is his friendship with fellow outcasts Travis and Lydia. But as they are starting their senior year, Dill feels the coils of his future tightening around him. The end of high school will lead to new beginnings for Lydia, whose edgy fashion blog is her ticket out of their rural Tennessee town. And Travis is happy wherever he is thanks to his obsession with the epic book series Bloodfall and the fangirl who may be turning his harsh reality into real-life fantasy. Dill’s only escapes are his music and his secret feelings for Lydia--neither of which he is brave enough to share. Graduation feels more like an ending to Dill than a beginning. But even before then, he must cope with another ending--one that will rock him to the core.

Debut novelist Jeff Zentner provides an unblinking and at times comic view of the harsh realities of growing up in the Bible Belt, and an intimate look at the struggles to find one’s true self in the wreckage of the past.

I’d had this one on my Amazon wish list after discovering it on a list of upcoming YA books put out by Book Riot, so YAY! I’m excited for this one. It also came with a note by the author (I love that) and a postcard telling of the three friends writing their favorite quotes on a column under the bridge. There’s a contest for a free Owlcrate on the back for me to do the same thing.

And then: the thing I almost missed! A quill pen from Kikkerland! It’s a NICE pen. The tip is micro and writes beautifully. LOVE it!

So that’s March’s Owlcrate! Next month, I get 2 crates for my birthday! Book Riot’s Quarterly YA one, and Owlcrate’s April box: Dystopia. (My favorite kind of YA!!!) Happy Birthday to ME!!!