Top Five Wednesday: Teachers & Mentors

Teachers & Mentors

Top 5 Wednesday is a group challenge created by Lainey and run by Sam that includes a new book-related topic every week. Check out the goodreads group for topics and to interact with the community.

This week's Top Five Wednesday, we're talking about mentors and teachers. For some reason, this week's list ended up being very male-oriented, which is kind of a shame, so if you have any suggestions for books with great female mentors, I would love to hear them.

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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

Title: The Song of Achilles

Author: Madeline Miller

Date Read: January 29th 2018

Published: September 20th 2011 @ Bloomsbury

Genre: Mythology Retelling/Historical Fiction

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐

"Name one hero who was happy... You can't. They never let you be famous and happy... I'm going to be the first. Swear it."  

"Why me?"  

"Because you're the reason. Swear it." 

"I swear it."

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TBR: The Reading Quest

To Be Read: #TheReadingQuest

So at the very very last second, I decided I really wanted to take part in the Reading Quest readathon. I've never participated in a readathon before, and I thought this one sounded like a lot of fun. It's based on RPG-style games, and you get to choose a character from the categories of Rogue, Bard, Mage or Knight, and follow their path to complete the quest. There are also additional side quests, and if you're a faster reader than I am, you can continue on to another character once you've completed the quest of the first one. 

All of the information and quests can be found at readatmidnight's blog post here. The readathon begins today, August 13th, and runs until September 10th. So without further ado, let's talk about what I plan to read to slay my dragons and complete my quest.   

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