Simon, Quinn and I are at home today.
We decided to take a family mental health day.
On today's agenda: relaxing, helping Quinn practice standing and walking and carving the million pumpkins we bought. Check in tomorrow for the results!
Now on to the subject of this post.
Having just finished up The Night Circus, I am desperate for a good read.
So I turned to the internet and here's what I found:
You simply enter the last book or author you just read and it gives you suggestions for what to read next. This is good for people who want to read something similar to what they just finished. Not so good if you want something completely different.
Give it a try if you are suffering for a major book hangover.
When I entered in The Night Circus it suggested a whole list of books. Among them was this one which I thought looked promising:
"Quentin Coldwater is brillant but miserable. He's a senior in high school, and a certifiable genius, but he's still secretly obsessed with a series of fantasy novels he read as a kid, about the adventures of five children in a magical land called Fillory. Compared to that, anything in his real life just seems gray and colorless.
Everything changes when Quentin finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the practice of modern sorcery. He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. But something is still missing. Magic doesn't bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he though it would.
Then, after graduation, he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real."
Everything changes when Quentin finds himself unexpectedly admitted to a very secret, very exclusive college of magic in upstate New York, where he receives a thorough and rigorous education in the practice of modern sorcery. He also discovers all the other things people learn in college: friendship, love, sex, booze, and boredom. But something is still missing. Magic doesn't bring Quentin the happiness and adventure he though it would.
Then, after graduation, he and his friends make a stunning discovery: Fillory is real."
Interesting... sounds kind of like a modern day, real-life Harry Potter?
Since I've made reference to Good Reads several times on the blog, this seems like an apt time to give it kudos. If you've never been over to Good Reads and you like to read good books, stop everything you are doing and go there NOW. Its free to sign up, you check off what genre of books you like and it suggests books of those genres for you to read. Straightforward and awesome. Good Reads also suggested I read The Magicians.
Well, I guess the universe has spoken.
Downloaded to Kobo.
Let's hope Quinn has a nice, long morning nap.
xo, Vicky
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