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Illustration from Sankta Magda from 'The Lives of Saints' by Daniel J. Zollinger

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alina starkov in “the lives of saints” by leigh bardugo.

illustrator: Daniel J. Zollinge ☀️

siege and storm, chapter 23.

“brought me a pitcher of fresh water to fill the basin. A mirror had been set directly into the stone, and when i glimpsed myself, i let out a little cry. The heavy pitcher shattered on the floor. My skin was pale, stretched tight over jutting bones. My eyes were bruised hollows. My hair had gone completely white, a fall of brittle snow.”

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The Lives of saints - Mythes et miracles du Grishaverse de Leigh Bardugo

🎄 Mon #avis sur The Lives of saints / @PageTurners_ 👉Un livre-objet qui ne m’a pas laissée insensible, bien au contraire ! J’ai aimé découvrir l’histoire de ces Saints, le tout agrémenté de sublimes illustrations couleurs. Un très bel ouvrage !

Si comme moi vous adorez l’univers de Grisha que ce soit la principale série avec Alina ou bien Six of Crow et plus récemment King of Scars, il vous faut cet ouvrage ! Un livre pas comme les autres, car il ne s’agit pas d’un roman, mais de la vie fictive des différents Saints du folklore propre à l’univers de Grisha. Son résumé : Mon avis : J’avais hâte de me plonger dans la vie de ces Saints…

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"THEY ARE HERE" digital painting/illustration by Dan Zollinger ©2017

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Daniel J Zollinger

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New Young Adult Releases Coming Out Today! (October 6th, 2020)

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Note: Since so many release dates have been changed for various Young Adult novels, keep in mind that there might be some titles missing in this post.

Have I missed any new Young Adult releases? Have you added any of these books to your TBR? Let me know! ___

New Standalones/First in a Series:

Broken Wish by Julie C. Dao

The Code for Love & Heartbreak by Jillian Cantor

I Hope You’re Listening by Tom Ryan

We Were Restless Things by Cole Nagamatsu

Forget this Ever Happened by Cassandra Rose Clarke

One Way or Another by Kara McDowell

Into the Real by Z. Brewer

Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf by Hayley Krischer

Blazewrath Games by Amparo Ortiz

Dreamwalkers by Leslie Rush

A Royal Christmas Quandary by Samantha Hastings

Eventide by Sarah Goodman

Hush by Dylan Farrow

Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards

The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo & Daniel J. Zollinger

The Poppy & the Rose by Ashlee Cowles

Deepfake by Sarah Darer Littman

Girl On the Run by Abigail Johnson 

New Sequels: 

Kingdom of Sea & Stone (Crown of Coral and Pearl #2) by Mara Rutherford

The Shadow Mission (The Athena Protocol #2) by Shamim Sarif

Spell Starter (Caster #2) by Elsie Chapman 

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Happy reading!

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March/April Reading Wrap Up

MARCH

A Court of Wings and Ruin - Sarah J. Maas ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A Court of Frost and Starlight - Sarah J. Maas ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A Court of Silver Flames Sarah J. Maas ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Act Your Age, Eve Brown - Talia Hibbert ⭐⭐⭐

First Comes Like - Alisha Rai ⭐⭐

The Project - Courtney Summers ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Serpent King - Jeff Zentner ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rated - Melissa Grey ⭐⭐⭐

The Maze Runner - James Dashner ⭐⭐

The Hive - Barry Lyga and Morgan Baden ⭐⭐

Where Dreams Descend - Janella Angeles ⭐⭐⭐

Bruised - Tanya Boteju ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Honey Girl - Morgan Rogers ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

It Happened One Summer - Tessa Bailey ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Bridge of Souls - Victoria Scwhab ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Lives of Saints - Leigh Bardugo & Daniel J. Zollinger ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

APRIL

Rule of Wolves - Leigh Bardugo ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

We Free the Stars - Hafsah Faizal ⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Naturals - Jennifer Lynn Barnes ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Killer Instinct - Jennifer Lynn Barnes ⭐⭐⭐⭐

All In - Jennifer Lynn Barnes ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Bad Blood - Jennifer Lynn Barnes ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

If the Shoe Fits - Julie Murphy ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

A Vow So Bold and Deadly - Brigid Kemmerer ⭐⭐

Lock and Key, Vol 6: Alpha and Omega - Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Game Changer - Neal Shusterman ⭐⭐

All The Bad Apples -  Moïra Fowley-Doyle ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Shadow and Bone - Leigh Bardugo ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Seige and Storm - Leigh Bardugo ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I really tried to post my March wrap up on time, I really did. I had the graphic made and everything. I just kept pushing it off and pushing it off so...you lovely people get to have a long ass post. Sorry about that!

I did pretty good for these two months. In March I had 10 days off from work so I read A. LOT. of books. Some not so good, but at least they’re off my TBR now. I even finished rereading the ACOTAR series in time to read ACOSF relatively on time with release date. I really forgot just how much I truly loved the characters in the series and I think it kind of prompted me to do some more rereading in the month of April with Shadow and Bone. Watching the Netflix show is more to blame for that one but hell, I’ve been enjoying rereading stuff. It blew my mind to realize that I hadn’t read some of this in 5+ years.

Goals for this month are pretty much the same as always; read as much as I can and enjoy the hell out of myself. I’ve got some series enders I need to get to that I’ve been putting off for awhile now. My NetGalley list is pretty low (only two or three titles left) so I think I’ll work on that as well. My approval to review rating is super close to 70% and I think I can push it above that threshhold soon. I’ve been horrible about mass requesting eARCS and never getting to them so I’m trying to be better at that.

Honestly, though, I don’t really have too many goals this month besides just read. I’ll finish Ruin and Rising today and I have no idea what to read next. lol

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January Reviews

The Lives of Saints by Leigh Bardugo

I love when authors do books like this because it's mainly for the fans to get more history and be more immersed in the world. The art in this was utterly beautiful. Daniel J. Zollinger did an incredible job. I liked finally learning about all the saints, but especially the one's Inej named her weapons after. I loved trying to contact Inej with those saints and perhaps see what she saw in them. Some of it was a bit boring for me or kind of like all "I guess???" moment when they named someone a saint. BUT IF YOU GET THE CHANCE, LISTEN TO THE AUDIO BOOK BECAUSE BEN BARNES IN YOUR EAR IS DEF NOT BORING. That 100% caught my attention, in case you were wondering. Personally, I liked seeing how others thought about Alina and her Saintness and it was cool to see how Yuri (from King of Scars) kind of started in the following of The Starless One. Personally, Sankta Lizabeta was my favorite story. And I loved that the last one looked like Leigh. 4 out of 5 stars!

Skyhunter by Marie Lu

Marie Lu is an auto buy author and she never disappoints! I had such a blast reading this. I know Marie watches anime so maybe that's why I draw this comparison, but I see some Attack on Titan similarities. WHICH IS NOT A BAD THING BECAUSE AOT IS AWESOME AND MARIE IS A GENIUS AND ALWAYS MAKES THINGS HER OWN. But if you like AoT and want to read this...do it. I LOVE LOVE LOVE how sign language was a form of communication as well as a skill that an elite group of people HAD to have. I whole heartedly believe ASL should be taught to everyone and this was such a great added bonus to an amazing story. Marie Lu always breaks hearts and while she totally did (MA'AM....FIX THE ENDING, PLEASE) I do wish we could have had some more time with Talin's partner. To get to know him more beyond the small tidbits that live with everyone. Talin's mother? The only words I can use are, "inspiring, talented, badass, amazing, genius." Marie please protect her or else I'm sending you my therapist bill. I will say I fall hard for Marie's characters, and while I loved everyone, I wasn't as committed to their storylines as I normally am with her books. All in all, I had a great time reading this and I am SO READY for the next book. Please be kind to us, Marie. lololol jk pls break my heart so I can feel something for once in my life. 4 out of 5 stars.

Beyond the Ruby Veil by Mara Fitzgerald

Morally gray characters are my shiiitttt so of course I had to pick this up. Plus the cover is so pretty! We start off with Emanuela being a very brash and cunning character. She knows what she likes and she is absolutely unapologetic about it. Scandal? Yes please. All eyes on her? Duh. Gossip? As long as she's being talked about. But the brashness does come back to bite her in the ass--multiple times--luckily she's cunning enough to try to fix things. Key word being try because boy does this girl make a mess of things. We all love strong, independent characters but we never talk about mistakes. Emanuela makes plenty and they have real, true consequences. I love that since not everything goes her way, no matter how much she wants it. She's sloppy, she's quick to act and ask questions later, and she'd rather be at the top any way possible. Her best friend, Ale is a great character but he didn't get a chance to shine until the end when he finally got more than 3 words out of his mouth before being dismissed. I was annoyed at how he was treated, though that does add on to what kind of character Emanuela was. She embodies the, "woke up and choose violence" thing lol. Honestly, she is more chaotic neutral or chaotic evil...especially towards the end. While I did like the main characters, the plot was lacking and seemed to only be useful to set the stage for the second book. And for that, a 3 out of 5 stars it gets! I am interested in the second book and can't wait for Emanuela to just be evil for real.

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A Call for Books - January 1921

On January 6, 1921, The Duncan Public Library ran an advertisement asking for book donations ahead of the Grand Opening in February. You can still access all of the 54 titles that we requested either in the library or on Project Gutenburg! Below the cut (because these are VERY long lists) you will find two lists of books with links to descriptions!

You can also read an article about it in our monthly newsletter *here*

Books from the Library, Libby, or Hoopla:

Penrod by Booth Tarkington

Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan

Aesop’s Tales

Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling

The Amazing Interlude by Mary Roberts Rinehard

Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe

Swiss Family Robinson by Johann David Wyss

Hans Brinker by by Mary Mapes Dodge

Cranford by Elizabeth Gaskell

Call of the Wild by Jack London

The Spy by James Fenimore Cooper

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Little Men by Louisa May Alcott

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

The Deerslayer by James Fenimore Cooper

The Blue Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Treasure Island by Robtert Louis Stevenson

Arabian Nights

Ben Hur by Lew Wallace

The Virginian by Owen Wister

Freckles  by Gene Stratton-Porter

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Books from ProjectGutenburg.Org

 The Bird’s Christmas Carol by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

The Crisis by Winston Churchill

Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse / Los Cuatro Jinetes de Apocalpsis by Vicente Blasco Ibanez

The Lady of the Decoration by Frances Little

Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb

Little Lame Prince by Dinah Maria Mulock

Little Minister by J. M. Barrie

The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come by John Fox Jr

Lovey Mary by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

Man Without a Country by Edward Everett Hale

Mother by Maksim Gorky

Mother Carey’s Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin

Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch by Alice Caldwell Hegan Rice

Potash and Perlmutter by Montague Glass

Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson

Red Fairy Book by Andrew Lang

Rollo at Work by Jacob Abbot

Rollo at Play by Jacob Abbot

Standish of Standish by Jane G. Austin

Tanglewood Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne

To Have and To Hold by Mary Johnston

Trail of the Lonesome Pine by John Fox Jr

Two Little Confederates by Thomas Nelson Page

Uncle Remus, His Songs and Sayings by Joel Chandler Harris

Water Babies by Charles Kingsley

Widow O’Callaghan’s Boys by Gulielma Zollinger

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FEMME FATALE Digital sketch by “Z” (Daniel J Zollinger )

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© Daniel J. Zollinger - Hotel Hideout (2015) | .D.rei. 2019

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Daniel J. Zollinger, illustrations for Leigh Bardugo's "The Lives of Saints"

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Sankt Juris à L´Épée

Sankt Juris était un guerrier qui tuais un dragon quand il était en vie. Sankt Juris protège des soldats fatigués.

Art de Daniel J. Zollinger

Relié Liens:

Maison, Vocabulaire, Ravka et La Grisha, Sankts, Sankta Lizabeta à La Roses, Sankt Grigori à Le Bois, Sankta Alina à Le Pli, Le On Sans Étoiles, Le Ombre Pli, Ensuite

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"Ghost Caddy" by Dan Zollinger on INPRNT

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"Men In Black 1890" by Dan Zollinger on INPRNT