book club thursday - reading challenge 2018











Welcome Readers

My name is Cyn and each week we (me and my BFF Ann from  Romancing the Readers) blog all about books and book related topics on something we call Book Club Thursday(BCT).  Learn more about me and BCT here


Our feature today is:


Pretty simple- read a book that fits any of the "challenges" listed below


Read a book published before 2010
Read a book published in the month (not year) you were born
Read a book set in your home state
Read a book with a cover you don’t like
Read a book you once gave up on
Read a book with a clever title
Read a new to you author
Start a new series
Read a hardcover
Read a trade
Read a “small-town” romance
Read a book with a favorite trope
Read a historical set anywhere but the USA
Read a book you keep meaning to read
Read a book that taught you something
Read a Trifecta book (sounds, cover, title must all be same theme)


Anger Management (a book that PISSED you off at some point)
Anything Goes (read ANYTHING you want)
Just Because (you read this “just because”…state the reason)
Bird- Beast – Fish (atypical animals are part of the story)
Land-Sea-Sky (features bodies of water, mountains, planes etc)
Double Dip (can re- do any challenge)
An Apple a Day (medical main character(s))
Recommend By (say who / what )
I Tried, But… (one you couldn’t finish and why)
Second Chances (an author you are giving a “second” chance to)
Hot for Teacher (main character(s)is a teacher)
Read a historical set in the USA
The Great Outdoors (main character(s) work outdoors)
AKA (author with a pseudonym)
BOO! ( book with a ghost)
Survivors (books with hard subject matter)


* completed challenges 


My challenge:

Recommended by


So I was checking out some author websites/blogs, particularly from author Barbara Bourland whose novel I'll Eat When I'm Dead, is up there on my favorites list and she mentioned this title - it caught my eye...





Life changes at the orphanage the day seven-year-old Marina shows up. She is different from the other girls: at once an outcast and object of fascination. As Marina struggles to find her place, she invents a game whose rules are dictated by a haunting violence. Written in hypnotic, lyrical prose, alternating between Marina’s perspective and the choral we of the other girls, Such Small Hands evokes the pain of loss and the hunger for acceptance.



Don't let this slim novel fool you. 

There's more going on here in these scant 100 pages than in most novels that are double or triple that.

It's a translated body of work and only a few times did it seem awkward, if that's the word I'm going for.

This book is so deeply moving for so many reasons. It's bound to raise the hairs on the back of your neck, and maybe leave you with more questions than answers. 

There's not much I can say because it would ruin things and in turn there really isn't anything to say...crazy but once you've read / if you've read this, perhaps you can understand. 















Check out her "challenge"  



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