Follow Friday + Mermaid Challenge Reviews

Welcome to Week 13 of the Mermaid Lit Summer Reading Challenge! Below is my review for this week. If you have one of your own, feel free to link up with us and be sure to visit the others to see what they thought of their reads for this week! You may join the challenge anytime you like. See rules HERE. (Follow Friday below!)

Only two more weeks of mermaid challenge to go! It ends on August 15th!

This week, I read two mermaid books, though one of them was so short as to be considered a short story, or perhaps a novella. They were Sea Change by Aimee Friedman and Madly by M. Leighton. (See my other blog for the Madly book review.)

My reviews are going to be short and sweet today. Sea Change by Aimee Friedman was more selkie-themed than mermaid-themed, but same diff, right? Miranda goes to an island for a few weeks to help her mother clean out and sell her late grandmother's house. While there, she meets two guys--one is the perfect "Mr. Right" type. The other is an intriguing beach lover she can't help but be drawn to. But she's never been very natural around boys and she thinks Leo might have a secret.

Overall I really liked this book. The story was not terribly original, but it was well-written and it kept me turning pages to find out what would happen next. I also really liked the ending and the way it unfolded the mystery of the past and who Miranda's grandmother really was. It was  quick, fun rad and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a light, romantic beach read.

Follow Friday

Gain new followers and make new friends with the Book Blogger Feature & Follow! If this is your first time here, welcome! You are about to make some new friends and gain new followers -- but you have to know -- the point of this hop is to follow other bloggers also. I follow you, you follow me.

The Feature & Follow is hosted by TWO hosts, Parajunkee of Parajunkee's View and Alison of Alison Can Read. Each host will have their own Feature Blog and this way it'll allow us to show off more new blogs!

How does this work? First you leave your name here on this post, (using the linky tools -- keep scrolling!) then you create a post on your own blog that links back to this post (easiest way is to just grab the code under the #FF picture and put it in your post) and then you visit as many blogs as you can and tell them "hi" in their comments (on the post that has the #FF image). You follow them, they follow you. Win. Win. Just make sure to follow back if someone follows you!

Back to school time! Create a reading list for the imaginary English Lit class you'll be teaching this semester. 

Oh I could have some fun with this! I'm teaching two imaginary English Lit Classes--one for each blog. So check out the other one on my other blog! 

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I think for my imaginary English lit class, I would like to teach the classics that I love. Not many people read them anymore, but some of the greatest messages every written are in classic literature. I would include Heart of Darkness, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, Jane Eyre, Pride and Prejudice, and maybe The Scarlet Letter. Is that too many for one semester? Probably, but I love all these books! :D

What would you teach in your imaginary English Lit class?

(Check out my other answer here.)

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