I was perusing the Audible website just to look at some of the books that I have in my wish list to see what I would want to get when my credits become available on Saturday when I noticed that they were having a sale on their previous daily deals. Curious, I looked through the 10 pages of books that were on sale and next thing I knew, I had a cart of 13 books that I wanted. And cannot wait to get to. I think I got a fairly good variety of books, so let's get into them.
I can't remember if I have read this book before or not but I picked up Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five. I remember hearing a lot about it in high school. In this book, we follow a man who becomes unstuck in time after an abduction by aliens from Tralmafadore. And the story goes from there. I'm interested to see how it goes from there.
Next, I bought Scythe by Neil Shusterman. There's a lot of buzz around this book on YouTube at least since the next book in the trilogy has just come out on the ninth of this month. I bought a physical copy of this not too long ago but I have so many physical books to get through that I may get to it faster in audio format. I'm interested in seeing how well I like this book. From what I understand of the plot, this book takes place at the point in the future where there is no illness or death, famine or war, etc. And the only way to die is by the hand of a scythe. We follow two people who are chosen to apprentice as scythes as they learn the trade. And that's all I really needed to know to pick this up.
The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling is a story I grew up watching in different interpretations of the books. I've always wanted to read them and now that I've found an audio version for cheap, I have no excuse to not pick it up. This is a story of a human boy, Mowgli, raised in the jungle by the animals, who teach him the Laws of the Jungle. So excited about actually reading this book.
In high school, we read the part of The Oedipus Cycle (Oedious Rex) by Sophocles. I remember going through it in no time my junior year. I don't remember my specific thoughts of the play since I graduated over ten years ago. But I do remember wanting to read the rest of the plays. From what I remember, at least Oedipus is a story of a man who was prophesied at birth to kill his father and marry his mother, so his parents sent him to another kingdom to prevent it. He grows up and lo and behold, the prophecy comes true. I don't remember what the other two plays are supposed to follow.
I remember reading The Woman in Black by Susan Hill at 23 or so. I can remember the night I read it, too. I read it in bed and it was just my luck that it had started raining while I was reading. Which made this creepy read even creepier since I do believe there was thunder and lightning as well. All I remember is the creepy factor and I don't want to know anything else.
Looking at the description for this book, it appears that My Antonia is the third book in a trilogy. Oops. Would have been nice to know when I was looking at the physical copy 5 or so years ago. But it happens. If anyone knows if you have to read the first two books, let me know. And because I don't want to ruin the story line since it is book 3, I'm going to try and avoid spoilers.
April Henry's The Girl Who Was Supposed to Die was a bit of an impulse buy. The title caught my attention and was reading the description when I saw the word "thriller" and that was all I needed to know.
Another impulse buy was Dean Koontz's Innocence. I liked some of his books when I was younger, particularly two of his Odd Thomas books that I had read. This one follows a man and a woman who are exiled from society for various reasons and would be destroyed if they were to be found. This in yet another I don't want to know too much going into before going into. And it looks like it's the first of a duology, so if I like this one, I'll definitely have to pick up book two.
I even picked up a memoir, which is something I typically don't pick up. But Not My Father's Son by Alan Cumming was something I couldn't pass up. Especially on sale. I've been getting more into this particular actor after seeing him in The Tin Man when it first aired on Syfy. I've seen a few more of his movies and things under his belt and cannot wait to read about someone whose acting skills I admire.
I was a little more than a bit excited to see Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen as part of this sale and had to immediately add it to my card.This book has been on my to read shelf on GoodReads for almost a year now and this will help me move it to the read shelf. There are two groups of people: the Reds (the working class) and the Silvers (the ruling class). And we follow Mare, who is a poverty stricken Red. Mare has a power of her own that is deadly, despite her being a red. I didn't need to know much more than that to want to pick this up.
The next two books I want to cover fall more in line with classics. The first being Aesop's Fables. I grew up hearing variations of The Tortoise and The Hare and The Boy Who Cried Wolf. But I thought it was time to actually get to reading the original stories, among the rest of the fables. I'm super excited about it.
The other classic is Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray. I've always looked at this book and possibly getting it but could never bother to bring myself to actually buy it. So I couldn't pass this up when I saw it. The story follows fashionable Dorian Gray, who sells his soul for eternal youth. Now that I have a copy, I cannot wait to read it.
And last but not least, we have reached the final book: Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett. This is a survival story that follows men who were shipwrecked in New Zealand. And this just happens to be another one where I want to know very little going in. And it's nonfiction to boot. So hopefully I'll enjoy it quite a bit.
Have you ready any of these books? If so, what did you think? Are any of them on your TBRs? I want to hear everything.
Your kindred bookmate,
Cassie
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