BOTM November 2017
Hey guys it's Meagan!
Let me just be honest here my favorite thing every 1st of the month is finding out what books the judges picked at BOTM. I have been apart of BOTM for almost 2 years so I have many different genres of books that it makes me so happy. So how BOTM works is on the 1st of every month there are 5 judges that pick out 5 books for that month. You pay $14.99 a month and that gets you 1 book, but if you decide to get another book its only $9.99. You can get up to 3 books total in your box every month, which can include the books from that month or extra books from past months. Most times I have a hard time just picking one book. LOL.
Now lets just say for example you're not into any of the books that month, you can simply just skip that month and a credit for one book will be added to your account for the next month. Which I LOVE that they do it that way because then I feel like I'm not obligated to get a book that month and I'm not missing out on my money. Another reason I have stayed with BOTM for so long is because unlike other book subscription boxes BOTM's books are all hardcover!! YAY! So $14.99 for 1 hardcover is amazing since all of them in store or at barnes and noble is $30. If you want to try it out press the link and you can get your first month for $9.99 BOTM.
I decided on 3 this month, 1 from the month of November and 2 from the extra books. The first book I picked is Uncommon Type some stories by Tom Hanks.
Here is a summary of the book from the inside cover. A hectic, funny sexual affair between two best friends. A World War II veteran dealing with his emotional and physical scars. A second-rate actor plunged into sudden stardom and a whirlwind press junket. A small-town newspaper columnist with old-fashioned views of the modern world. A woman adjusting to life in a new neighborhood after her divorce. Four friends going to the moon and back in a rocketship constructed in the backyard. A teenage surfer stumbling into his father's secret life.
These are just some of the people and situations that Tom Hanks explores in his first work of fiction, a collection of stories that dissects, with great affection, humor, and insight, the human condition and all its foibles. The stories are linked by one thing: in each of them, a typewriter plays a part, sometimes minor, sometimes central. To many, typewriters represent a level of craftsmanship, beauty, and individuality that is harder and harder to find in the modern world. In his stories, Mr. Hanks gracefully reaches that typewriter-worthy level.
Known for his honesty and sensitivity as an actor, Tom Hanks brings both those characteristics to his writing. Alternatingly whimsical, moving, and occasionally melancholy, Uncommon Type is a book that will delight as well as surprise his millions of fans. It also establishes him as a welcome and wonderful new voice in contemporary fiction, a voice that perceptively delves beneath the surface of friendships, families, love, and normal, everyday behavior.
You can purchase it on amazon right here for $16.17 or you can wait until the 1st of December and order it for $9.99 from BOTM.
The next book I picked is Final Girls by Riley Sager.
Here is the summary of the book from the inside of the cover. Ten years ago, college student Quincy Carpenter went on a vacation with five friends and came back alone, the only survivor of a horror movie-scale massacre. In an instant, she became a member of a club no one wants to belong to- a group of similar survivors known in the press as the Final Girls: Lisa, who lost nine sorority sisters to a college dropout's knife; Sam, who went up against the Sack Man during her shift at the Nightlight Inn; and now Quincy, who ran bleeding through the woods to escape Pine Cottage and the man she refers to only as Him. The three girls are all attempting to put their nightmares behind them and, with that, one another. Despite the media's attempts, they never meet.
Now Quincy is doing well-maybe even great , thanks to her Xanax prescription. She has a caring almost fiance Jeff; a popular baking blog; a beautiful apartment; and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who saved her life all those years ago. Her memory won't even allow her to recall the events of that night; the past is in the past.
That is, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy's doorstep. Blowing through Quincy's life like a whirlwind, Sam seems intent on making Quincy relive the past, with increasingly dire consequences, all of which makes Quincy question why Sam has sought her out. And when new details about Lisa's death come to light, Quincy's life becomes a race against time as she tries to unravel Sam's truths from her lies, evade the police and hungry reporters, and, most crucially, remember what really happened at Pine Cottage, before what was started ten years ago is finished.
You can purchase the book through amazon with this link for $16.18 or on BOTM for $9.99 on December 1st.
The last book I got this month is Turtles all the way down by John Green.
Here's summary from inside the book cover. Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis.
Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
In his long-awaited return, John Green, the acclaimed, award-winning author of Looking for Alaska and The Fault in Our Stars, shares Aza's story with shattering, unflinching clarity in this brilliant novel of love, resilience, and the power of lifelong friendship.
Well that's it for the books I picked for the month of November and I can't wait to read one of them once I'm finished with Sleeping Beauties.
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Love Always Meg!
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