Palmer's Page Turners

Welcome to another Monday...this is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey.

Last week was a productive reading week! In a marathon reading night I finished All the Light We Cannot See (my review is here). I also finished not only Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, but the third book, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban as well!

Now I'm reading a book I received from NetGalley, called Aloha Also Means Goodbye.  In addition, I also plan on starting Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire this week. I'm making great progress on my summer reading project and loving the HP series so far!!

Recently Finished: Currently Reading: What are you reading this week? Happy Reading!

Title: All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
544 pages, published May 2014
Genre: Historical Fiction
Source: Library

I've had my eye on this one since I first started reading the ARC reviews. Historical fiction, WW2, set in France...all elements that I would love in a book. After reading five star review after five star review, I was excited to read this book.

Marie Laure, blind since age six, lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as a master locksmith. To help Marie Laure, her father builds a model of their neighborhood so she can memorize it with her fingers and navigate her way. When the Germans occupy Paris, they must flee to Saint Malo, in northern France on the Brittany coast to live with Marie Laure's uncle. In Germany, an orphan boy named Werner and his sister Jutta become enchanted with a radio Werner finds. He becomes a master at building and fixing radios that earns him a place at an elite military academy. We…

Life of a Blogger is a weekly meme hosted by Jessi at Novel Heartbeat. It is a weekly feature with a different non book related topic each week so you can get to know me better! The topic changes weekly.


After seeing Brandie's  post and learning about this meme, I was super excited to write my post on this topic! I LOVE watching sports! My favorite is football, but  I'll watch pretty much any sport (with the exception of boxing/fighting). A great date night for my hubby and I is to to to Buffalo Wild Wings and watch whatever games are on. I grew up watching Indy Car racing with my Dad. Sunday mornings meant watching the race while eating pancakes!

I'm also a huge figure skating fan!! I took lessons for quite a few years when I was younger, and love watching it. My favorite skaters of all time are Tara Lipinski and Brian Boitano!

Since Oregon doesn't have an NFL team, my favorite NFL teams are the Broncos and the Seahawks!

I get to travel for work, and I got to travel…

Less than a week after finishing Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, I finished the second book, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets! This is the second post in my "Harry Potter Through the Eyes of a First Time Reader" series! In each part of the series I will provide a review and commentary on each Harry Potter book. Don't worry--I know some of you haven't read it, so just like all my reviews, there will be no spoilers here!

Title: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Author: J.K. Rowling
342 pages, published June 1999
Genre: Young Adult
Source: Amazon Prime Kindle Borrowing Library

In this second installment of the series, Harry is anxious for summer with the Dursley's to end so he can get back to Hogwarts. Before he leaves, he gets a warning from a strange creature named Dobby, who says disaster will strike if Harry returns to Hogwarts. And strike it does--something, or someone is turning students into stone. Everyone at Hogwarts suspects Harry, a…

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Breaking the Spine.  The event spotlights upcoming releases we are eagerly anticipating.

This week, I am excited for the release of:

All We Had
by Annie Weatherwax
Release Date: August 5, 2014
 272 pages
Genre: Fiction

From GoodReads:
A poignant and fierce debut novel about the relationship between a teenage daughter and her struggling single mother—from a powerful new voice in fiction.

For Ruthie Carmichael and her mother Rita, life has never been stable. Jobs are hard to find, men come and go. But when a set of unexpected circumstances strands them in Fat River, a small rural town in upstate New York, life takes a turn. Fat River becomes the first place they call home. The modest economic security they gain gives them peace and space for friends. The people of Fat River—Hank and Dotty Hanson, the elderly owners of the local hardware store being driven out of business by the new Walmart; Mel, the flawed, but kindhearted owner of the…