#author: tracy wolff

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My copy of “Charm” by Tracy Wolff came in today (seen below). This is book 5 in Tracy Wolff’s “Crave” series. It’s suppose to give us a glimpse into the 4 months of time that Grace is missing between the end of Crave and the beginning of Crush. I have read all the other books in this series so far (I do recommend them if you enjoy paranormal romance). I’m looking forward to reading this once I’m…

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Title: Crave

Author: Tracy Wolff

Series or standalone: standalone

Publication year: 2020

Genres: fiction, fantasy, romance, paranormal, supernatural

Blurb: Grace’s whole world changed when she stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here she is, a mere mortal among gods...or monsters. She still can’t decide which of these warring factions she belongs to...if she belongs at all. She only knows the one thing that unites them is their hatred of her. Then there’s Jaxon Vega, a vampire with deadly secrets who hasn’t felt anything for a hundred years. But there’s something about him that calls to Grace, something broken in him that somehow fits with what’s broken in her...which could spell death for them all. Jaxon walled himself off for a reason, and now someone wants to wake a sleeping monster, and Grace is wondering if she was brought here intentionally...as the bait.

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2023 Reads: thelonelybrilliance

Final count 72! I set a goal of 52 originally but raised the bar when I realized that would only bring me into early November.

Decided it would be fun to share some stats and recommendations along with the full list.

First, ten recommendations:

The Queen's Thief series by Megan Whalen Turner (best completed series)

Gregory Orr, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write (best new poetry read)

Minka Kelly, Tell Me Everything (best memoir)

E.B. White, Here Is New York (best short read)

Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist (best journals)

Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family (best children's lit)

Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout (best poetry memoir)

George Eliot, Middlemarch (best classic)

Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart (best food writing)

Red Rising series by Pierce Brown (best sci-fi/ongoing series + best audio drama (Red Rising (Book 1))

Of my 72 reads, 31 were rereads, 41 new . Four were audiobooks, the rest print (primarily e-books). My longest read was David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. My shortest read (I think? A lot of poetry collections are short) was the longform essay, Here Is New York by E.B. White. I read the most books in December (15) and the least in June (2). 50 authors were women, 21 were men, and one poetry collection was multi-author. My most-read authors were as follows:

Megan Whalen Turner (7 books)

Lucy Maud Montgomery (6 books)

Louise Glück (5 books)

Elizabeth Wein (5 books)

Jane Austen (3 books)

Pierce Brown (3 books)

Full list organized by month under the cut!

Favorites: Bold | Rereads: Underline

Fiction: Blue | Non-Fiction: Red | Poetry: Purple | Audiobook: *

JANUARY

Megan Whalen Turner, The Thief

2. Annie Chagnot & Emi Ikkanda (eds.), How Lovely the Ruins

3. Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen

FEBRUARY

4. Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice

5. Richard Siken, War of the Foxes

6. Jane Austen, Sense & Sensibility

MARCH

7. Rita Dove, Playlist for the Apocalypse

8. Louise Glück, The Seven Ages

9. Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

APRIL

10. Megan Whalen Turner, Moira's Pen

11. Megan Whalen Turner, The Queen of Attolia

12. Megan Whalen Turner, The King of Attolia

13. Megan Whalen Turner, A Conspiracy of Kings

MAY

14. Megan Whalen Turner, Thick as Thieves

15. Megan Whalen Turner, Return of the Thief

16. Elizabeth Wein, The Winter Prince

17. Elizabeth Wein, A Coalition of Lions

18. Elizabeth Wein, Sunbird

19. Elizabeth Wein, The Lion Hunter

JUNE

20. Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

21. bell hooks, Applachian Elegy

JULY

22. Michael Gibney, Sous Chef: 24 Hours on the Line*

23. C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

24. Elizabeth Wein, The Empty Kingdom

25. Dorothy Dunnett, Spring of the Ram

26. Michael Bazzett, You Must Remember This

27. Lisa Ampelman, Romances

28. Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential

29. Natalie Diaz, Post-Colonial Love Poem

AUGUST

30. Jenny Han, The Summer I Turned Pretty

31. Jenny Han, It's Not Summer Without You

32. Natalie Diaz, When My Brother Was an Aztec

33. Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother

34. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

35. Ocean Vuong, Night Sky with Exit Wounds

SEPTEMBER

36. Gregory Orr, The Last Love Poem I Will Ever Write

37. E.B. White, Here Is New York

38. Minka Kelly, Tell Me Everything

39. P.G. Wodehouse, My Man Jeeves

40. Carrie Fisher, The Princess Diarist

41. Jonathan Stroud, The Screaming Staircase*

42. Tobias Wolff, Old School

OCTOBER

43. Emi Nietfeld, Acceptance*

44. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

45. R.F. Kuang, Yellowface

46. Louise Glück, Vita Nova

47. L.M. Montgomery, Emily of New Moon

48. L.M. Montgomery, Emily Climbs

49. L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest

50. Ada Limón, The Hurting Kind

NOVEMBER

51. Ron Rash, Poems

52. Louise Glück, Meadowlands

53. Tom Perrotta, Election

54. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

55. Louise Glück, Averno

56. L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

57. Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep

DECEMBER

58. Tom Perrotta, Tracy Flick Can't Win

59. Pierce Brown, Red Rising*

60. Diana Wynne Jones, Howl's Moving Castle

61. Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess

62. Pierce Brown, Iron Gold

63. Sydney Taylor, All-of-a-Kind Family

64. William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

65. George Eliot, Middlemarch

66. Louise Glück, Ararat

67. Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

68. Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

69. Kate Baer, And Yet

70. Marguerite de Angeli, The Lion in the Box

71. Pierce Brown, Golden Son

72. Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout

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oh i forgot to give the tuesday new release roundup huh

new john sandford thriller 'judgement prey'

yet another "danielle steel" book - 4th this year i think?

jordan peele's black authored horror-writing anthology is out: 'out there screaming'

sir patrick stewart memoir! 'making it so'

and awesome new music photo book! 'll cool j presents the streets win: 50 years of hiphop greatness' - this looks like an incredible gift book but i didn't get a chance to crack one open yet

book five of lore olympus graphic novel series in paperback

new kerri maniscalco adult novel set in her teen kingdom of the wicked verse - like tracy wolff she's branching out of ya: 'throne of the fallen'

hmmm what else ... new big hardcover d&d book 'lore & legends': quote "an illustrated history of the beloved fifth edition through artwork, interviews, and visual ephemera"

michael lewis has another business book out (he wrote the big short and liar's poker) 'going infinite'

oh also taylor lorenz's 'extremely online' finally hit the shelf

did i mention that 'chalice of the gods', the new rick riordan percy jackson book, came out last week?

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Crush by Tracy Wolff

8/17/2023-8/30/2023

4 Stars

SPOILERS

This was a good followup to the first book. Still not blown away by the quality of the writing, but I still very much enjoyed the story. Once again, the author has a weird obsession with starting sentences with “For long seconds…”, but at least had the decency to switch it up and use it in the middle of a sentence a few times. Going forward, I’ll have to count how many times she uses the phrase in each book. I have learned that the author also has a poor sense of time when it comes to her own story. In the first book, it is mentioned thatJaxon’s brother died 7 months before the book starts. That books spans about 2 weeks. Crush begins 4 months after the end of the first, and Hudson’s death is mentioned as being 16 months ago, when it should only be about 12 months. Grace is also “gone” for 3 months and 21 days, according to Jaxon, but then a few pages later he says she was “gone” for 121 days, but that should only be 111 days. The author also creates a game (Ludares) and then forgets the rules she made for said game. According to her, each player on the team has to touch the ball at least once before crossing the end zone. But later while they’re playing, the ball has been held by 2 people on the team and about to reach the end zone, and Grace is surprised that the game is about to end so easily, completely forgetting that 6 more people (including herself) needs to have the ball, otherwise the other team wins. I’m probably being too nitpicky, but it kinda pulls me out of the story when I have to go back and reread sections because I feel like I misread or misunderstood something, when really the author is just inconsistent.

Favorite Quote:

“I’ll never make you choose, Grace. How could I when I know that you’d never choose me?”

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Blog Tour: Top 5 Reasons to Read SWEET NIGHTMARE by Tracy Wolff! #tbrbeyondtours

Welcome to Book-Keeping and my stop on the TBR and Beyond Tours blog tour for Sweet Nightmare by Tracy Wolff, the first book in the new Calder Academy series! This one released yesterday, so you can snag it ASAP! I've got all the details for you below, plus my top 5 reasons to read it. If you're a fan of YA paranormal, you're gonna love this one!

About the Book

title: Sweet Nightmare author: Tracy Wolff publisher: Entangled Teen release date: 7 May 2024

The scariest school on earth Is about to experience real fear… Most schools are about being the best. This school? It’s about being the worst. Calder Academy is where the rogue paranormals go. The ones who break the rules or lose control. And when that happens for vamps, werewolves, witches, and dark fae? It gets pretty freaking scary. I should know. Because I’m trapped here. Look, every seventeen-year-old girl thinks their mom is a tyrant. But mine just happens to run Calder Academy, which paints a giant target on my back. The way I make it through these dark halls is by steering clear of the things―and kids―who go bump in the night. Especially Jude Abernathy-Lee. But when a freak storm hits our isolated island, I’m stuck without a backup plan. The power is gone. The lights are out. And our worst nightmares are suddenly real―and out for blood. Now the only way to survive is to align myself with one evil to avoid the other. And the only thing worse than the idea of getting close to Jude? Secretly loving every minute of it.

Add to Goodreads: Sweet Nightmare Purchase the Book: Amazon | B&N | Bookshop.org

About the Author

New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Tracy Wolff is a lover of vampires, dragons, and all things that go bump in the night. A onetime English professor, she now devotes all her time to writing dark and romantic stories with tortured heroes and kick-butt heroines. She has written all her sixty-plus novels from her home in Austin, Texas, which she shares with her family.

Connect with Tracy: Website | Twitter | Instagram | Goodreads

Top 5 Reasons to Read

Sweet Nightmare evokes all the feelings of the old glory days of paranormal YA books! ANY fan of YA paranormal is going to want to read this one asap.

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Okay, so I don't think there was actually a bear shifter...and not lions or tigers, but definitely other big cats with two leopard shifters! This book has alll the great paranormal creatures plus some I'd not seen before: vampires, fae, wolf shifters, mermaids, sirens, even manticores (no, I did not know what they were until this book, lol).

Clementine has a difficult relationship with her family, but there is so much found family here that it just warmed my heart. it's one of my favorite tropes, and the Calder Academy students came together for each other in the most difficult of circumstances.

Clementine and Jude have the most adorable friends-to-lovers relationship! My favorite thing about them is how Jude calls her by the name of every citrus fruit so she calls him by the name of Beatles songs, ahhhh it's just too sweet!

Although this is YA, Tracy is not at all afraid to put her characters in dangerous situations and make them, even as teens, work through it. These kids are put through the wringer! She does not shy away from the gore and even death such situations would bring either, which I personally would have loved as a teen reader myself.

Seriously, if you're at all a fan of YA paranormal books, including Tracy's Crave series and older standards like Twilight, pick this one up!

Check out the Bookstagram tour as well! My post can be found here, and the full schedule is here.

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went to an authors panel today with t.j. klune, kim harrison, tracy wolff, and david slayton and it was really cool :o inspires me to work harder to get into the publishing industry someday

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Hi! I had a question regarding converting a fanfic to original fiction.

I’ve been very careful to make a lot of changes to my work, but I feel I can still see “the spirit of the piece”, regarding the outline and settings of the scenes. I’m worried one can still see the inspiration, even when I’ve changed the events and characters themselves.

I realise I can’t escape inspiration entirely, and I realise no one expects me to, but I was wondering if you had any advice regarding how much you would consider “majorly derivative”.

That's a tough question.

What I can say is that there have been books that started out as fan-fiction, and even when the inspiration was obvious to canon fans, it didn't stop these books from being traditionally published, nor were these authors or their publishers sued for plagiarism or copyright infringement.

That's because ideas and "the spirit of the piece" doesn't fall under copyright.

As long as you're not taking ideas that are unique to an existing story and use them in the same exact way, you're fine.

For example, can you write a story about a teenager falling in love with a vampire at their high school? Absolutely. It's not a unique idea. Cue The Vampire Diaries, cue Twilight, cue Crave by Tracy Wolff, cue The Fell of Dark by Caleb Roehrig, cue Coldest Touch by Isabel Sterling... the list goes on...

However, you can't write a story about a teen girl who moves away from her mom to live with her dad in an overcast small town, where she falls in love with a super hot vampire with super hot siblings and parents, but is torn between him and the part-wolf guy she's known since she was younger... because that's Twilight, and it's been done before. Could you write about a girl that's torn between a vampire and a wolf? Sure, but you have to change the other stuff. You can't take the same story, make a few minor changes to the characters and places, change the names, and call it a day.

I talk about it in a little more detail in my posts Similarities vs Plagiarism and Taking Inspiration from Another Story’s Premise.

I hope that answers your question to some degree!

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Hello everyone, Welcome to The Calling of Tales, my name is Tayla, and I am currently 29 years old from Trenton, Ontario Canada. This is my first article and in this I am going to be doing the newbie tag question. With that let’s get started…

• Why did I start this blog?

Honestly, I don’t have friends who are interested in books and reading; they don’t even go shopping with me. So I feel alone in my reading journey and want people I can share these exciting books and world’s with, so I created an bookstagram account which has been amazing; but I want to do something more. So I’ve decided to try booktube and blogging.

2. What are some Fun and Unique things you can bring to blogging?

I’m not quite sure what I will bring yet, but I hope to bring my own opinion, and truth to these book from my perspective. I just want to connect with other bookish people.

3. What are you excited about for this new blog?

I’m excited just to start, and talk to all of you. To share my books and read and opinions the best I can. Once I find my footing in this area, then eventually I’d like to do give aways and maybe buddy reads. I know that I might be getting ahead of myself but, we will see how things go.

4. Why do you love reading?

So I want to be an open and honest person on here, and I think a majority or readers read to escape. When I was young I went through a lot of bullying and other stuff and I Hatttted reading to be honest. But I eventually found a book Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong, at the time I didn’t realize it was a series, and it’s fourth in the specific bitten series. But when I read it, it was like a movie playing in my head, I could see all the words as beautiful images, and I was safe and free in my mind. That was comforting to me. So I continued to escape things that bothered me through reading.

5. What book or series got me into reading?

I just answered that, Frostbitten by Kelley Armstrong.

6. What questions would you ask your favorite booktubers/bloggers?

Oo this is interesting….let see.

What are you favorite reads?

What do you wish you knew before you started your channel/blog?

Where do you all get your comfy chairs lol and how do you make your bookshelves so pretty 😍

7. What challenges do you think starting a blog will be the hardest to overcome?

I think the hardest thing for me, will be able to communicate my thoughts and feelings about my reads clearly. I’ve never been in front of a camera, talking to well you guys. And I’m quite socially awkward so I think overcoming my fear of communication will be difficult.

8. When did you start reading?

I started at at early age, and of course through public school, hated that because it was always school choice reads which I never read… if someone tells me to read something nope not gonna happen. So it wasn’t truly till highschool that I got into reading and enjoying it.

9. Where did you read?

When I was younger, always somewhere quiet like my room. Now I can pretty much read anywhere except a moving vehicle….

10. What kind of books do you like to read?

I read mostly fiction books. Rarely rarely non-fiction. I just prefer to escape into something that isn’t real rather than reading about real like things. I read a bunch of different genres though, mostly YA books, but some Adult and New Adult reads as well. Fantasy, Romance, Mystery, Horror, Thriller, Sci-fi, a mix of in between.

11. What does my book collection look like?

Chaotic; that’s the only word I can use right now. Book wise I think really good. I have a bunch of Kelley Armstrong, she’s my author; I’m trying to get all of her books. I have Sarah J. Maas, Bridgid Kemmerer, cassandra Clare, Colleen Hoover, James Dashner, J.k Rowling, K.A Knight, TJ Klune, Tracy Wolff and a bunch more. Look wise my bookshelves are a mess, recently my room has moved to the basement, and being renovated. So I haven’t set up my bookshelves for my new room. So my books are upstairs and just on random old bookshelves just in random spots. When I get my new ones set up I still don’t know how I’m going to put my books up, or decorate, so let me know below how you do your bookshelves. I might need some inspiration.

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the basics about me i guess, this is over do but whatever

I go by Everest or just my user i do not use my real name.

pronouns: she/her

sexuality: omnisexual

fandoms i love: The Owl House, from Blood and ash, koltc, acotar, pjo, tog, Fourth Wing,The Cruel Prince, the Spanish Love Deception, wof , Helluva Boss, maneskin, and many more.

i read a lot my favorite authors are Sarah j. maas, Jenifer L Armount, Tracy Wolff, and Christopher Paolini, and others.

my favorite music creators are: maneskin, stellar corpse and other creators my favorite genre is rock/rap.

i am 5'6 so far.

size 10/11 shoes (womans)

current mood: tired

favorite food: pasta/tiramisu

that's all for now ask questions in comments

oh yeah also i'm nurodivergent

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Crave by Tracy Wolff

Category - Young Adult Fantasy

Author: Tracy Wolff

Publisher: Entangled Teen

“There’s not much to be afraid of when you’ve already lost everything that matters.” ― Tracy Wolff, Crave

Crave by Tracy Wolff is a Young Adult novel following Grace in her senior year at Katmere Academy. Arriving in the middle of Alaska for school after her parents died, Grace discovers that her new school is nothing like what she expected. Grace's Uncle Finn is the headmaster, and her cousin Macy is a student but both are reluctant to reveal much about the school promising to help her settle in despite the unusual stares and behavior of the students from the moment she arrives. The school feels older than anything in Alaska should be and the students seem different from other teenagers she has met. When the handsome Jaxon Vega cryptically warns her to stay far away from Katmere Academy Grace finds herself more intrigued by what the school has to offer and finds herself in a world she never knew existed.

If you've heard about this book, you've probably been on tiktok within the last few years. When I was going through the books I wanted to read for my class I knew I wanted to pick a book that has gone viral on booktok due to the fact that tiktok is so accessible to so many students in high schools now. As a librarian, it's essential to know what books are trending, and what is becoming popular on social media. Hence, you have those books available within the library for students to read. Not everything trending on tiktok is appropriate for teenagers and it's important as a librarian to go through and make assessments individually based on your community and experience but the Crave series is a YA series which makes it a great pick for a high school library and one of the reasons I thought it would be a good review pick.

Crave is a book I didn't expect to love when I picked it up. I grew up amidst the rise of the Twilight books. I have always disliked anything with vampires and found myself going into this book expecting it to be atrocious but falling in love with the characters and how it was written. The book is written from the perspective of a teenager and uses slang and character commentary to establish that we are reading from the perspective of a modern-day teenager. For example, “Nothing to do but admit that—obnoxious smirk or not—this boy is sexy af. A little wicked, a lot wild, and all dangerous.” Although I have heard others criticize that aspect of the book I found it interesting because it allowed the character's voice and thoughts to center the reader's focus within the story. Grace is an ordinary girl amongst extraordinary beings and her control of the story is captivating for the reader in a world where it doesn't make sense that she would have so much control. Although Crave isn't the next great literary work of art, it's one of the most entertaining books I have ever read. I found myself yelling at the book and at Grace while listening to the audiobook and it was because I noticed more as a reader than she did. Grace is fairly oblivious to anything that doesn't match her view of the world and her experiences in life which has the reader on the edge of their seat when they notice things Grace misses. But the entertainment didn't stop there, the ending was completely unexpected and I can't wait to see where the story goes next. I have plenty of books to get through before the school year starts and I'm determined to find out what happens next!

Wolff, T. (2020). Crave. Entangled Publishing.

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Title: Cherish | Author: Tracy Wolff | Publisher: Entangled: Teen (2023)