Xepherus Reads

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons!   Top 5 Wednesday is a awesome Goodreads Book run by moderators are YouTubers, Lainey (GingerReadsLainey) and Samantha (ThoughtsOnTomes). I enjoy how every week this group brings the book community together. Great fun!   This week's question asks: What are your Top 5  Summer Reads ?   For this one I picked five reads that I cannot wait to begin. Some are to be released soon.       Resurgence by Kerry Wilkinson- the Silver Blackthorn trilogy comes to a close with May 31st's release of the novel. I loved the first two books, Reckoning and Renegade, and raved about them to everyone who would listen, my readers included. It is the harrowing story of one teenage girl's defiance of a king and his brutality . And the rebellion she leads against him w ith the very children that he has harmed. The first two installments were page turners that often left me breathless.   The Harry Potter Seri...

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons! I am happy to be answering my second question from the Goodreads group Top 5 Wednesday. It is a group created by Lainey from You Tube's GingerReadsLainey . Every Wednesday we answer a question and share our answers to the book community.    This week's question asks: What books have you DNF' d (Did Not Finish)?  Scarlett by Alexandra Ripley- this sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind was released in 199 2. I traveled to my local Walden books (remember them ?) , and shelled ou t the twenty-plus dollars to re ead this soon to be "new classic". I started it, did not like it, and ended up donated it to a library book fair three years later. Will I ever read this book? Probably not.   To Kill a Mockin bird by Harper Lee- this was given to me in the tenth grade as a reading assignment. I watched the movie, and g ot a "D" for my efforts (the writing was good, but the teacher found out I ...