We're an Open Book
Kat and I have been on a bit of a blogging hiatus; between family events, moving and maybe just feeling a general spring time slump. We are back and ready to jump back in. But even when I’m away from blogging, books will always find a way into my daily life.
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Every now and then I’ll hear a podcast episode and think “THIS IS JUST LIKE THAT ONE BOOK” So, today I’m pairing amazing podcast episodes with some of Books and Sensibility’s favorite books.
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The Lunar Chronicles series is like a snowball rolling down a hill. We start off with the singular story of Cinder, a plucky cyborg mechanic. Cinder discovers she might be something more and soon a viscous plague, the future of the empire and the fate of a moon kingdom might be in her hands
As we roll down the hill with each book in the series we pick up new characters and story lines that are all incorporating and mixing together to form the giant snow ball finale that is Winter, which comes in at 900 pages or 23 hours of audio.
While the sweet and quirky Princess Winter is our titular character this book brings the entire gang together (Cinder, Thorne, Iko, Cress, Scarlet, Wolf and Kai) for one last mission to overthrow Queen Levana. Meyers just knows how to juggle a cast of characters. But she probably didn’t need to do it in so many pages. There were a lot of section I felt weren’t necessary.
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This is our third post on bookish podcasts Here’s another fresh batch of insightful and fun bookish podcasts we’ve been listening to lately.
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I love audiobooks and will usually listen to anything on audio, but recently I’ve have had a long line of DNFs.
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