New Reads:

This week, I'm reading The Diviners by Libba Bray. I really liked the Gemma Doyle trilogy that she wrote a few years ago so I snatched up her newest offering.  I'm only a few pages in so far, but I really like it.

It goes like this:

"Do you believe there are ghosts and demons and Diviners among us?

Evie O'Neil has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City -- and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic.  It's 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live with her Uncle Will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult.

Evie worries he'll discover her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. But when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and Will is called to the scene,  Evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer.

As Evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps. A young man named Memphis is caught between two worlds. A chorus girl named Theta is running from her past. A student named Jericho hides a shocking secret. And unknown to all, something dark and evil has awakened...

Printz Award-winning and New York Times Bestselling author Libba Bray opens a brand-new historical series with the Diviners, where the glittering surface of the Roaring Twenties hides a mystical horror creeping across the country."

Doesn't it sound deliciously creepy? So excited to read it. And so excited to hear that it's a series! I love stumbling upon a new series. It's one of my very favorite things. Finding a great new book is great but discovering that the story doesn't end there, that there is more to come is even better. It's one of the very best surprises.

If you're interested in how I'm progressing in my reading goal for the year, check it out after the jump.




I'm doing really well! I've almost reached my target number. I may even go over before the year is out.
Here's how the list looks so far:

1. Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
2. Everything I Needed to Know About Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
3. The Sweet Far Thing
4. Interview with a Vampire
5. The Tales of Beetle the Bard
6. Spud
7. The Secret History
8. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
9. A Discovery of Witches
10. Death Comes to Pemberley
11. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest
12. A Week at the Beach
13. Little Bee
14. Anthropology of an American Girl
15. Naked
16. Just as Long as We’re Together
17. Here’s to You, Rachel Robinson
18. The Hunger Games
19. Catching Fire
20. Mockingjay
21. The Alchemist (The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel)
22. All He Ever Wanted
23. Back When We Were Grownups
24. Moon Over Manifest
25. Shadow of Night
26. Divergent
27. Insurgent
28. The Pleasure of My Company
29. Emma
30. When We Were Orphans
31. Viola in Reel Life
32. Mr. Darcy Presents His Bride
33. The Ordinary Princess
34. The Extraordinary Education of Nicholas Benedict
35. Viola in the Spotlight
36. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place Book 1: The Mysterious Howling
37. The Mysterious Benedict Society
38. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place Book 2: The Hidden Gallery
39. Acceleration
40. Blood and Chocolate
41. Beautiful Redemption
42. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place Book 3: The Unseen Guest
43. Hourglass
44. I Remember Nothing
45. Betsy-Tacy and Tib
46. Betsy and Tacy Go Over the Big Hill
47. Besty and Tacy Go Downtown
48. Heaven to Betsy
49. The Glass Castle
50. Timepiece
51. Betsy in Spite of Herself
52. Betsy and Joe

P.S. Have you ever read the Betsy-Tacy series by Maud Hart Lovelace? It's a charming little children's series about a group of friends set in the early 1900s. The first book starts when they are five years old and the last book ends with them getting married. My mother read these books as a child and she introduced them to me when I was little. I have read them about once a year ever since. They are so cute and I have so many happy memories of them growing up that I let myself disappear back into the world of Deep Valley, Minnesota whenever I can. If you have never read them, I strongly encourage you to. Even if you missed them as a kid and you're all grown up now. Read them. I promise you'll enjoy them.