PageHabit is a monthly book and bookish item subscription. The subscription costs $29.99 per month, and you can choose from a variety of genres available like Mystery, Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Romance, and Young Adult Fiction. PageHabit also gives back to the community – each month, they partner with different organizations to make sure that children around the world have books to read.
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The box is filled with brown squiggles and our goodies!
The info card has this month’s picks for every category!
You can now add selections! They’re $18.98 each.
Here are the books in the other subscriptions:
- Romance – The Other Lady Vanishes By Amanda Quick ($18.88)
- Mystery – The Perfect Mother By Aimee Molloy ($16.71)
- Young Adult Fiction – Furyborn By Claire Legrand ($15.13)
- Literary Fiction – The Ensemble By Aja Gabel ($19.38)
- Fantasy – MEM By Bethany C Morrow ($18.47)
- Horror – The Dead House By Billy O’Callaghan ($18.47)
- Historical Fiction –The Map Of Salt & Stars By Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar ($20.20)
Everything in my May 2018 box!
I picked Historical Fiction this month. My box includes one (1) newly released book, plus several bookish goods.
Streamline Pull Light ($12) We need a source of light for sneak reads and this pull light might just be our solution! It has a 46″ adjustable cord.
It has LED light and works with 3 AAA batteries (which you have to buy separately). It has 2 settings, the basic white light or if you feel like partying, the red one.
Unfortunately when we tested this out this light emitted at best a soft glow – maybe enough to stumble your way to the bathroom. We’ll use it as a fun nightlight but that’s about it. This item was basically a fail.
Bookmark. The classic black bookmark of PageHabit…
…with the quote of Nikola Tesla at the back.
Of all things, I liked books best.
Kikkerland Shoemark Bookmark ($6) I love the witty packaging of this bookmark as it perfectly illustrates its purpose.
The fold made it seem like it’s a book and the bookmark had done its job of holding your place on page 233.
It is made up of plastic.
This is how it looks like when used. The shoes are supposed to stick out! It is stinking cute!
The Ones Who Remain By John Sollitto. The box features short stories too. I pick them up whenever I need quick and easy read.
When Agent Dennis heard about the domestic disturbance at the Andersons’ place, he thought it would be a run-of-the-mill assignment. Question the suspect, find the motive, start rehabilitation. But Heather is no ordinary suspect, and she’s not willing to just move on. Will Dennis get her to admit her guilt, or will Heather be trapped by her own inability to let go?
PageHabit offers a platform and publishes the submitted short story in a small booklet and their work reaches out to all subscribers of the box.
It’s a letter from this month’s featured author, Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar. It’s heartfelt and genuine. Her words at the last part positively struck a chord in my heart.
Whoever you are, dear reader, I hope this book will remind you that if we learn to redefine our home, if we keep it alive in our stories & our love for each other, it can never be lost.
There’s also a welcome note from the author in Syriac writing.
The Map Of Salt & Stars By Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar ($20.20)
“This imaginative but very real look into war-torn Syria is a must.” –Booklist (starred review)
This rich, moving, and lyrical debut novel is to Syria what The Kite Runner was to Afghanistan; the story of two girls living eight hundred years apart—a modern-day Syrian refugee seeking safety and a medieval adventurer apprenticed to a legendary mapmaker—places today’s headlines in the sweep of history, where the pain of exile and the triumph of courage echo again and again.
In the summer of 2011, just after Nour loses her father to cancer, her mother moves Nour and her sisters from New York City back to Syria to be closer to their family. In order to keep her father’s spirit as she adjusts to her new home, Nour tells herself their favorite story—the tale of Rawiya, a twelfth-century girl who disguised herself as a boy in order to apprentice herself to a famous mapmaker.
But the Syria Nour’s parents knew is changing, and it isn’t long before the war reaches their quiet Homs neighborhood. When a stray shell destroys Nour’s house and almost takes her life, she and her family are forced to choose: stay and risk more violence or flee across seven countries of the Middle East and North Africa in search of safety—along the very route Rawiya and her mapmaker took eight hundred years before in their quest to chart the world. As Nour’s family decides to take the risk, their journey becomes more and more dangerous, until they face a choice that could mean the family will be separated forever.
Following alternating timelines and a pair of unforgettable heroines coming of age in perilous times, The Map of Salt and Stars is the epic story of one girl telling herself the legend of another and learning that, if you listen to your own voice, some things can never be lost.
At the back of the book are congratulatory notes from other authors and colleagues.
The book design is great, from the cover to the pages, everything’s beautiful. They jumped right into the good stuff in this synopsis.
The edges of the pages remind me of parchments and papyrus paper. It gives a raw, vintage feel to the book that gives a nod to Rawiya’s maps.
This must be a glimpse of Rawiya’s map.
She also shares her personal childhood memories that she included in her novel. Just like what she wrote in her letter, “we, too, can be the protagonist of our own stories.”
She points us in the right direction as she tries to give insights through her notes.
I love that we even get a little taste of action in this novel and fun to know she enjoyed writing it too!
This chapter looks like it’s outlining a map of Jordan & Egyp.
PageHabit does it again (mostly – the light was disappointing)! They help everybody with their businesses, as they build partnerships with authors and encourages the art of writing and the love of reading. They are connecting people, authors and readers alike, and strengthening ties by partnering with different organizations to help those in need wherever part of the world it may be. They donate books for every use of their hashtag and every purchase of their subscription. I love my book and the items with it especially the cute shoemark bookmark. The Map of Salt and Stars is a good choice and beautifully written. I enjoyed the dual storylines and how Nour and Rawiya relate to each other even though they live in separate times. It shows that everything can change but the issues of the human condition are still the same. But whatever change we face or whatever time and place we are in, just as long as we hang on to the memories, we will never be lost. Our home depends on where our heart is.
What genre is your favorite?
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