Easter Book Tag

I don’t know why I keep doing tags,  knowing that my stats on this kind of post lowers it, but I love them since they are fun, great for book recommendations and excellent for finding new people in the book community. Plus, it’s a chance for collaborations between bloggers. Since Easter is next Sunday, I thought I would do it today, so give people time. If I tag you in this one, but you don’t celebrate Easter, consider yourself tagged in any other tag you want to do. The original creator is RosieTheReader.

Rabbits – A book that you wish would multiply – So a book you want a sequel to (that doesn’t have one)

Hear me out. I know that the author combined it with her first novel in verse, Alone, but I felt that this left me with a bit of a cliffhanger, knowing from the first book that the author won’t have the characters.

Goodreads Blurb:

After an imminent yet unnamed danger forces people across Colorado to leave their homes, a group of kids including an aspiring filmmaker and a budding journalist find themselves in the same evacuation camp. As they cope with the aftermath of having their world upended, they grow curious about the mysterious threat.

And as they begin to investigate, they start to discover that there’s less truth and more cover-up to what they’re being told. Can they get to the root of the conspiracy, expose the bad actors, and bring an end to the upheaval before it’s too late?

Egg – A book that surprised you

It was a surprise that I liked this one. If you remember, this book was likely to be a DNF, and I rarely enjoy a college setting.

Goodreads Blurb:

Are the bonds of our first true love as strong as they feel when we’re young, innocent and consumed with the promise of forever?

The last time Charlotte Mason saw Simon Wade, he was shoving a paper bag from the pharmacy into her hands with a morning-after pill inside.

Even though he literally left her holding the bag, when love is true it’s limitless, and Charlotte wants more for Simon than the ties that bind him to their dead-end town. He has one shot at a better life, and she’ll stand aside so he can take it.

Nearly four years later Charlotte is still nowhere to be found, and it’s not as if Simon hasn’t been looking. How can he forget the girl who still haunts his dreams?

Hunt – A book that was hard for you to get your hands on

I still can’t find it to read, no matter how much I want to.

Goodreads Blurb:

All these months of staring at the wall?
All these months of feeling weak?
It’s ending—
I’m going back to fencing.
And then it’ll be
like nothing ever happened.

No one knows hard work and dedication like Valentina Camacho. And Vale’s thing is fencing. She’s the top athlete at her fencing gym. Or she was . . . until the accident.

After months away, Vale is finally cleared to fence again, but it’s much harder than before. Her body doesn’t move the way it used to, and worst of all is the new number Myrka. When she sweeps Vale aside with her perfect form and easy smile, Vale just can’t accept that. But the harder Vale fights to catch up, the more she realizes her injury isn’t the only thing holding her back. If she can’t leave her accident in the past, then what does she have to look forward to?

Lambs – A children’s book that you still enjoy

The only thing that came to mind is Matilda, but I never read the book, just watched the movie. Maybe one day I will.

Jesus – A religious or spiritual book that you love

Honestly, the first book I thought of was His Wake-Up Call by Jan Thompson since I finished it yesterday and kept wondering why the author added the religious element I didn’t get the reason behind. So, I picked Scorched Grace by Margot Douaihy.

Goodreads Blurb:

Sister Holiday, a chain-smoking, heavily tattooed, queer nun, puts her amateur sleuthing skills to the test in this debut crime novel.

When Saint Sebastian’s School becomes the target of a shocking arson spree, the Sisters of the Sublime Blood and their surrounding community are thrust into chaos. Unsatisfied with the officials’ response, sardonic and headstrong Sister Holiday becomes determined to unveil the mysterious attacker herself and return her home and sanctuary to its former peace. Her investigation leads down a twisty path of suspicion and secrets in the sticky, oppressive New Orleans heat, turning her against colleagues, students, and even fellow Sisters along the way.

Sister Holiday is more faithful than most, but she’s no saint. To piece together the clues of this high-stakes mystery, she must first reckon with the sins of her checkered past-and neither task will be easy.

Rising from the dead – A book from a deceased

I didn’t have an answer for this one, but after I saw a list on Goodreads, I downloaded A Woman to Blame: The Kerry Babies Case by Nell McCafferty.

Goodreads Blurb:

oanne Hayes, at 24 years of age, concealed the birth and death of her baby in County Kerry, Ireland, in 1984. Subsequently she confessed to the murder, by stabbing, of another baby. All of the scientific evidence showed that she could not have had this second baby. The police nevertheless, insisted on charging her and, after the charges were dropped, continued to insist that she had given birth to twins conceived of two different men. A public tribunal of inquiry was called to examine the behavior of the police and their handling of the case. The police, in defense of themselves and in justification of “confessions” obtained, called a succession of male experts on the medical, social and moral roman catholic fiber of Joanne Hayes. Her married lover detailed the times, places and manner of her love making. Using the “twins” theory as a springboard, the question was posed and debated “Did she love this man or what was he and other men prepared to do with her?” After six months of daily discussion among the men, the judge declared “There were times when we all believed she had twins.” The treatment of Joanne Hayes, who stood accused of no crime, was a model for Irish male attitudes to woman. She was caught up in a time of rapid social change between two Irelands, an earlier Ireland in which the Catholic Church had held a moral monopoly and a new liberal and secular Ireland.

Baskets – A book that is in your amazon cart or wish list right now

The Washington Poe series is one of my favourite thrillers, so it is no wonder I want to read it when it comes out tomorrow.

Goodreads Blurb:

An invisible killer with a 100% success rate. No one is safe. Not even those closest to Washington Poe . . .

A shooting at Gretna Green. A bride is murdered on her wedding day, seconds after she slips on her new ring. It’s brutal and bloody but she isn’t the first victim and she won’t be the last. With the body count now at 17, people are terrified, not knowing where the sniper will strike next.

With the nation in a state of panic, the police are at a loss and turn to Washington Poe and Tilly Bradshaw – the only team who just might be able to track down a serial killer following no discernible pattern and with the whole country as his personal hunting ground. Can Poe and Tilly stop an unstoppable assassin, who never misses his mark and never makes a mistake? Or will he find them before they find him…

Candy – A book that is sweet

It’s my most recent five stars; it’s sweet with elements of sadness.

Goodreads Blurb:

When Geetha and her mom move from India to Rhode Island after her parents’ divorce, they leave everything Geetha loves behind—her family, her friends, her dog, and all that’s familiar. As if that’s not hard enough, Geetha is bullied at her new school for her clothes, her food, and her English (who knew so many English words could be spelled or pronounced differently in the US—or just be altogether different!). She finds some solace in playing her flute and writing poetry, and even more when she meets Miguel, a kid with whom she has a lot in common, and the two of them help rescue an injured harp seal stranded on the beach. But Geetha can feel her anger building over lots of things—careless people who pollute the sea and hurt animals, and her mom for making her move. She’s never been so sad and angry. She can see a lot of her fears mirrored in the injured seal when she visits it at the Marine Mammal Rehabilitation Center, and this broadens her understanding of survival skills. And when she and Miguel start a beach-clean-up venture, she’s surprised to find how many kind kids are out there. Geetha is torn as the time comes to let the seal go, knowing she’ll miss him, but wanting the best for him. She’s learning to live with mixed feelings and accept that while there will always be.

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