Wednesday, February 12, 2014

What I'm Reading Wednesday #1

Currently Reading


Rotters by Daniel Kraus

SYNOPSIS:
Grave-robbing. What kind of monster would do such a thing? It's true that Leonardo da Vinci did it, Shakespeare wrote about it, and the resurrection men of nineteenth-century Scotland practically made it an art. But none of this matters to Joey Crouch, a sixteen-year-old straight-A student living in Chicago with his single mom. For the most part, Joey's life is about playing the trumpet and avoiding the daily humiliations of high school.    
Everything changes when Joey's mother dies in a tragic accident and he is sent to rural Iowa to live with the father he has never known, a strange, solitary man with unimaginable secrets. At first, Joey's father wants nothing to do with him, but once father and son come to terms with each other, Joey's life takes a turn both macabre and exhilarating.
Daniel Kraus's masterful plotting and unforgettable characters makeRotters a moving, terrifying, and unconventional epic about fathers and sons, complex family ties, taboos, and the ever-present specter of mortality.


What I'm Reading Next


The Companions by R.A. Salvatore

SYNOPSIS:
This latest installment in New York Times best-selling author R.A. Salvatore's beloved fantasy saga, The Companions moves Salvatore's signature hero Drizzt into a new era of the Forgotten Realms. As Drizzt's fate hangs in the balance, he reflects on the lives of the trusted allies who stood by his side throughout his early life--the friends now known as the Companions of the Hall. Meanwhile, the first stirrings of the Sundering begin.

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I have one other library book to finish and then I will be reading solely from my own shelves for a while since I have so many unread books. I'm going to spend March reading a lot of classics and children's books that I own but I won't be able to avoid the library for long because I have a few books to read before their movie adaptations come out such as The Maze Runner.
I wanted to avoid starting new series this year but I guess that isn't going to happen! :)

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