Books available on Scribd

Hi everyone! So in a vlog on my YouTube channel I looked at books on Scribd (audiobooks and ebooks) and saved all of the books that I am interested in reading to see if it would be worth using Scribd again. And I was unexpectedly surprised by the large number of books available. So I decided to make a list of all of the books that I have found so far that I personally want to read. 

You can get a free 60 day trial of Scribd if you use my referral link and I also get a free 30 days, then it is 9.99 a month and you can read as many books as you like. (I have heard of Scribd limiting some people but it sounds like you can still read quite a few books a month so I think it's definitely worth it). Please note that these are books available in the UK so check the website if you're based in a different country as some books aren't available in different countries. These are just some of the books available:

Ebooks:

• The Thief- Megan Whalen Turner
• This Savage Song- V. E. Schwab
• The Archived- V. E. Schwab
• The Unbound- V. E. Schwab
• The Near Witch- V. E. Schwab
• The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo- Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Sadie- Courtney Summers
• The Crown's Game- Evelyn Skye
• If We Were Villains- M. L. Rio
• The Diabolic- S. J. Kincaid
• Hunted- Meagan Spooner
• Temeraire- Naomi Novik
• Snow Like Ashes- Sara Raasch
• Ice Like Fire- Sara Raasch
• The Deepest Blue- Sarah Beth Durst
• Ruined- Amy Tintera
• The Demon King- Cinda Williams Chima
• Flamecaster- Cinda Williams Chima
• Ink and Bone- Rachel Caine
• The Winner's Curse- Marie Rutkoski
• Prince of Thorns- Mark Lawrence
• The Library of the Unwritten- A. J. Hackwith
• The Gilded Wolves- Roshani Chokshi
• The Bone Witch- Rin Chupeco
• The Gilded Ones- Namina Forna
• Crown of Feathers- Nicki Pau Preto
• Daughter of the Siren Queen- Tricia Levenseller
• Warrior of the Wild- Tricia Levenseller
• All the Stars and Teeth- Adalyn Grace
• The Traitor's Kiss- Erin Beaty
• Ever Cursed- Corey Ann Haydu
• The Glass Spare- Lauren DeStefano
• Dark Shores- Danielle L. Jensen
• Radiance- Grace Draven
• Labyrinth Lost- Zoraida Cordova
• An Unkindness of Magicians- Kat Howard
• Flames of Chaos- Amelia Hutchins
• Ashes of Chaos- Amelia Hutchins
• The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter- Theodora Goss
• Ashes of the Sun- Django Wexler
• Eragon- Christopher Paolini
• The Grace of Kings- Tracy Deonn
• Sawkill Girls- Claire Legrand
• The Last Magician- Lisa Maxwell
• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children- Ransom Riggs
• Firekeeper's Daughter- Angeline Boulley
• Akarnae- Lynette Noni
• Jackaby- William Ritter
• The Element of Fire- Martha Wells
• Isle of Blood and Stone- Makiia Lucier
• Balance Keepers- Lindsay Cummings
• The Cloud Roads- Martha Wells
• Touch of Power- Maria V. Snyder
• Splinters of Scarlet- Emily Bain Murphy
• The School for Good and Evil- Soman Chainani
• The Princess Curse- Merrie Haskell
• Venturess- Betsy Cornwell
• Between Burning Worlds- Jessica Brody
• We Are Blood and Thunder- Kesia Lupo
• Song of the Current- Sarah Tolcser
• Sky Without Stars- Jessica Brody
• Mechanica- Betsy Cornwell
• The Death of the Necromancer- Martha Wells

Audiobooks:

• A Song Below Water- Bethany C. Morrow
• Howl's Moving Castle- Diana Wynne Jones
• The Poppy War- R. F. Kuang
• Legendborn- Tracy Deonn
• Dragon Mountain- Katie Tsang
• Malamander- Thomas Taylor
• The Alchemist- Paulo Coelho
• The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo- Taylor Jenkins Reid
• Elantris- Brandon Sanderson
• Warbreaker- Brandon Sanderson
• The Black Prism- Brent Weeks
• The Fellowship of the Ring- J. R. R. Tolkien
• Shattered Realms- Cinda Williams Chima
• Age of Myth- Michael J. Sullivan
• Kings of the Wyld- Nicholas Eames
• A Song of Wraiths and Ruin- Roseanne A. Brown
• Star Daughter- Shveta Thakrar
• The Black Witch- Laurie Forest
• Blood Metal Bone- Lindsay Cummings
• Crier's War- Nina Varela
• A Tangle of Spells- Michelle Harrison (all 3 of the books in the series are on there)
• Tilly and the Bookwanderers: Pages & Co.- Anna James
• Serpent & Dove- Shelby Mahurin
• Bone Crier's Moon- Kathryn Purdie
• Descendant of the Crane- Joan He
• The Last Magician- Lisa Maxwell
• Neverworld Wake- Marisha Pessl
• Night Film- Marisha Pessl
• Sawkill Girls- Claire Legrand
• An Ember in the Ashes- Sabaa Tahir
• Snow Like Ashes- Sara Raasch
• The Last Magician- Lisa Maxwell
• Daughter of the Pirate King- Tricia Levenseller
• The Devouring Grey- Christine Lynn Herman
• Nimona- Noelle Stevenson
• Never Let Me go- Kazuo Ishiguro
• The Raven Boys- Maggie Stiefvater
• All the Crooked Saints- Maggie Stiefvater
• The Scorpio Races- Maggie Stiefvater
• The Gilded Wolves- Roshani Chokshi
• The Thousandth Floor- Katharine McGee
• Ink- Alice Broadway
• Red Queen- Victoria Aveyard
• These Rebel Waves- Sara Raasch
• Circle of Shadows- Evelyn Skye
• Hunted- Meagan Spooner
• The Darkest Minds- Alexandra Bracken
• Ruined- Amy Tintera
• Carve the Mark- Veronica Roth
• The Fates Divide- Veronica Roth
• Shadow of the Fox- Julie Kagawa
• The Reluctant Queen- Sarah Beth Durst
• Grim Lovelies- Megan Shepherd
• Warrior of the Wild- Tricia Levenseller
• Onyx & Ivory- Mindee Arnett
• Shadow & Flame- Mindee Arnett
• The Great Hunt- Wendy Higgins
• The Darkest Star- Jennifer L. Armentrout
• White Hot Kiss- Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Storm and Fury- Jennifer L. Armentrout
• Magician- Raymond E. Feist
• Ink, Iron and Glass- Gwendolyn Clare
• Final Draft- Riley Redgate
• Men Without Women- Haruki Murakami
• The Strange Library- Haruki Murakami
• Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World- Haruki Murakami
• Dance Dance Dance- Haruki Murakami
• The Siren- Keira Cass
• Murder on the Orient Express- Agatha Christie
• The Murder of Roger Ackroyd- Agatha Christie
• The Murder on the Links- Agatha Christie
• The Hand on the Wall- Maureen Johnson (all 3 books in the series are on there)
• Where Dreams Descend- Janella Angeles
• The Shadows Between Us- Tricia Levenseller
• Failosophy- Elizabeth Day
• The Song of the Marked- S. M. Gaither
• The Way of Shadows- Brent Weeks
• The Glass Spare- Lauren DeStefano
• To Best The Boys- Mary Weber
• Courting Darkness- Robin LaFevers
• Eragon- Christopher Paolini
• The Girl Who Drank the Moon- Kelly Barnhill
• The School for Good and Evil- Soman Chainani
• Ikigai- Hector Garcia
• The Cerulean- Amy Ewing
• Set Fire to the Gods- Sara Raasch
• Master of One- Jaida Jones
• Rebel of the Sands- Alwyn Hamilton
• Ever Cursed- Corey Ann Haydu
• The Never Tilting World- Rin Chupeco
• The Memory Thief- Lauren Mansy
• Sweet & Bitter Magic- Adrienne Tooley

Five Expert Time Management Tips for Business Owners

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Running a business is very hard in modern society. Activities such as web updates, chasing gigs, managing employees, responding to clients’ feedback, and general administration duties can take a toll on your mental health. You must set aside time to unwind and explore self-care techniques.

Sadly, this reality will have to be your daily routine to attain success for your business in its early years. This practice is necessary because you do not have the capital to outsource skills and expertise. However, what time you will create wealth and have the capacity to hire help from professionals.

One of the areas you could outsource skills in is a specialist payroll team. Paying employees is a long process of counter-checking and endless calculations. You can outsource payroll management skills without worry.

Until that day comes, you will have to muster some time management skills to create time for family and personal development. Some of the tips include the following:

How To Better Organize Your Desktop For Productive Tasks

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When we’re intending to focus on a path of personal development, it’s best to organize our starting point as well as we can. In many cases, this can mean taking some time to curate the tools we’ll use to track our activities and tasks. Our personal desktop can help with this, no matter if we’re using a laptop, tablet, phone or personal computer, the same principles can apply. We often take these tools for granted, but they’re worth using to their fullest extent because they are quite literally able to help us with every single life task we have to some degree.

So, how can we better curate our digital lives in order to aid us and keep us on the straight and narrow, limiting procrastination or a sense of undue ignorance? We have some worthwhile advice, but it’s worth remembering that any advice given must be tailored to your own tastes, your own working processes, and how you might enjoy things going together. One person’s work desk rarely looks like another, after all.

Let’s consider some tips below:

Personal Development Strategies To Finding Your Purpose In Life

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One thing most people consider to be the million-dollar question has to do with what a person’s life purpose is. From horoscopes to visiting palm readers, many people have found themselves resorting to different approaches to help them gain some form of direction in their lives. Most experts or life coaches will advise you to find something you’re passionate about and pursue it if you want to make your life more meaningful. But that is always easier said than done, as many people remain trapped in life’s “rat race” - waking up to lives they don’t want. So, are you looking to find your life goals and purpose? Consider the following tips.

Book Spotlight: Jasmine Perez Series by Joharra Harper

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Hi everyone! Today I am doing a spotlight post! These are posts where I haven't read the book but I am sharing information about it to help authors reach a wider audience. If you are interested in checking out the book, the links are included!

Jasmine Perez and the Wicked Sorceress (Book 1)

by Joharra Harper

Summary: 

This is a story about Jasmine Perez. She is the Princess of one of the many Kingdoms in that Realm. But one day, a Wicked Sorceress kidnapped her people, including her father, the King. Jasmine has to leave her Palace, even though she has never left the Kingdom walls, along with two servants and her fiancé. They go on a long journey and find something that can help the on their mission, and find people who can help them as Jasmine practices her newly discovered magic. There is love, hate, adventure, action, anticipation, and lots of magic. Will she be able to stop arguing with her companions long enough to stay focused? Will she be able to defeat Lilac and save her people? Watch as Jasmine figures out who she is in time to save her Kingdom, and her entire Realm. 

Links:

Goodreads

Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.com

Jasmine Perez and Another Realm. (Book 2)

by Joharra Harper

Summary:

It has been a year since Jasmine and Lucas disappeared through that portal. The group has been a mess since. Jax is distraught. Ben is trying to be there for everyone. Ava has other things on her mind. Ginny is hanging on by a thread. Lucas is close to breaking Jasmine, and Lilac is picking off her friends one by one. But when Amara comes to them, it looks like they may be able to save Jasmine after all. But first, Jasmine has to learn about both Rosemary and Alice's past. With Jasmine back in her Realm, the race is on. It is time for them to cook up a plan. To save Ben and Ava. To stop Lilac for good. But that may not be so easy. With everyone telling Jasmine she will have to Kill Ava, she looks to Alice and Rosemary for advice. But it may be hard for Jasmine to follow her heart, when the power inside her tries to take over her soul.

Links:

Goodreads

Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.com

If you’d like to see more bookish content please check out my YouTube channel!

If you are an author and you’d like your book/s to be considered for a spotlight post please email me with your book information to lucyisreading@gmail.com

Book Spotlight: Tales of Lunis Aquaria by Tessa Hastjarjanto

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Hi everyone! Today I am doing a spotlight post! These are posts where I haven't read the book but I am sharing information about it to help authors reach a wider audience. If you are interested in checking out the book, the links are included!

Tales of Lunis Aquaria
by Tessa Hastjarjanto

Summary:
The balance is tipping. Something shifts in the world of Lunis Aquaria. Menacing creatures, daunting deserts, and treacherous mountains. Hardships and solace, friendships and love. Read the stories of what went on before the world is lost in disparity and meet the heroes who will one day restore harmony.

Tales of Lunis Aquaria is a collection of nine short stories set in the fantastical world of Lunis Aquaria.

The coming of beasts ~ The sacred maiden ~ Moonflower ~ Thomas and the wolf ~ The witch from Monterra Mountain ~ Shepherd’s Stick ~ Archipelago of wonder ~ Decapod’s ire ~ Lovers across time

Links:

Goodreads

Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.com

If you’d like to see more bookish content please check out my YouTube channel!

If you are an author and you’d like your book/s to be considered for a spotlight post please email me with your book information to lucyisreading@gmail.com

Guest post- Gut Feelings: Helping Myself and Others By Writing My Cancer Memoir

In 2018, I wrote an article for Lucy Turns Pages on Writing About Mental Health and Cancer Survivorship. In it, I talked about my diagnosis of colon cancer in 2010, the effect that has had on my mental health and how writing helps me work through these things. Fear of recurrence means that I’m often wondering if the cancer will come back and if I’ll need to continue to use writing as therapy in this way – and a couple of years ago, that’s what happened.

In 2018, I was diagnosed with duodenal cancer and uterine cancer, both within two days of each other. I had a hysterectomy in September 2018 for the uterine cancer and Whipple surgery in November for the duodenal cancer. Whipple surgery is a big surgery that involved removing the duodenum (part of the small intestine); the head of the pancreas; the bile duct; and the gall bladder. The operation took eight hours and I was in the high dependency unit for two days and in hospital for a total of ten days. My hysterectomy means my partner and I are unable to have biological children, so cancer has been emotionally difficult again in new ways.

But once again, writing has helped me. Firstly, it’s helped because I decided to do my PhD on how creative writing can help cancer survivors to cope with emotional issues. I’m now in the second year of my PhD and I’m enjoying it a lot. My studies have given me a new and exciting purpose, bringing meaning to my cancer experiences.

Secondly, in 2019 I began writing my memoir and now that book has been published! Gut Feelings: Coping With Cancer and Living With Lynch Syndrome spans the time from my first diagnosis in 2010 to recovering from my surgeries in 2018. It covers not just the physical and medical aspects, but commentary on the effects and how cancer survivors can practice self-care.

My memoir was very difficult to write because it meant revisiting hospital experiences and memories of illness that are very hard for me to think about. However, it was also useful to write as it helped me to organise my thoughts and place the experience in a self-contained book. I aimed to make the book true to what happened, not just in terms of illness but other things that happened in between, like my travels and other new experiences. I also tried to make the book funny, so you’ll spot my dark humour in there a little. But most of all, I wanted the book to be an empathetic read for other cancer survivors or those at the beginning of their experience, to help them know they are not alone. Because of this, I want to reach as many people as possible who may benefit from reading about what has happened to me.

The reason why I’ve had cancer three times is because I have Lynch syndrome, which is a genetic condition that makes it more likely for people to get certain types of cancer. This also features heavily in the book, alongside colon cancer, womb cancer, having a colostomy bag and then an internal pouch, and of course, the mental health issues surrounding cancer survivorship. I hope anyone who can relate to any of those things, or is a caregiver or relative of someone experiencing any of those things, will get something out of this book.

If you are reading this and you would like to talk to someone about your own cancer experiences, please feel free to reach out to me. I’m on Twitter at @writersamr and my website is https://www.writersam.co.uk.

My memoir, Gut Feelings: Coping With Cancer and Living With Lynch Syndrome, is available on Amazon.

3 Ways To Keep People On Your Website For Longer

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You've got a business website, but there's a recurring problem. You're finding ways to get people to land on the site, but they barely stay on it for more than a few seconds. If you're lucky, someone is on there for over a minute, but they always seem to leave.

Fantastic Ways To Beat Writer's Block

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Writer’s block is a dreaded condition for any wordsmith who has a deadline approaching. Whether you are trying to finish your next best-seller for an award-winning indy publisher or an overdue presentation for your business, writer’s block can stop you in your tracks and derail any chance of success. Here are five great ways to get your mind working again if you hit upon some writer’s block.

I Now Talk About Books on YouTube (A Little Update)!

Hi everyone! So today I am writing just a little update post to let you know that I am now talking about books on YouTube!

I have been wanting to make book videos for a long time but I finally took the leap and started a couple of weeks ago. I have been back and forth with planning my schedule and what types of videos I would like to share but I think I have decided that I will aim for two videos a week, which I will likely post on Saturdays and Mondays. I will be doing TBRs (what I hope to read that month) at the beginning of each month and wrap-ups at the end with individual book reviews throughout the month depending on how much I read. My other videos will include recommendations, tags and upcoming releases that I think sound exciting. 

I have been really enjoying making book videos and discussing books with more people on YouTube. This project has been a really helpful focus for me and it is something that I am really passionate about. I love talking about books and sharing them with other people. I am having so much fun coming up with video ideas and giving them a go. 

So I will mainly be posting bookish content over on my channel but I will still be posting on my blog sometimes! I will be posting a lot of content on my channel so please feel free to check that out if you would like to talk about books with me! 

Thank you so much for your support throughout my blog's journey and this is not the end but an extra book that I am so happy exists.