Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Top 5 Wednesday Books You've Read Because of Booktube/Blogging


Welcome to another Top 5 Wednesday. It feels like ages since I've done one. 


The Fault In Our Stars
  • John Green
Every one was talking about The Fault in our Stars . I picked it up and while I liked the book it was one of those books that the hype up was massive. Everyone seemed to talk about it 

To All The Boys I've Loved Before 
  • Jenny Han
To All The Boys I've Loved Before was one of those books πŸ“š that I wanted to love because of all the recommendations but couldn't. 



Fan Girl
  • Rainbow Rowell
Back in late 2013 early 2014 everyone was raving about Fan Girl. And because of them all raving about it I picked it up.  Was it great. Not really it was ok. 


One Day
  • David Nichols 
My aunt came over and visited about 6 years ago and was reading the book. She left it and I have read it a few times since and have actually enjoyed it more. 


Animal Farm 
  • George Orwell
The first booktuber that I watched was Ariel, she mentioned a few times her favourite book was Animal Farm. Now I'm not a massive classic book reader and I can see why. This book went completely over my head. 

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Small Thrift Store Book Haul


On one of the hottest days that we've had had for a while I decided to take a trip to some thrift stores and have a look around. 

Girls In Love
  • Jacqueline Wilson 
  • $1
  • Teen Challenge Thrift Store
If like me growing up in England you loved reading Jacqueline Wilson books. She was my favourite author as a child/teen and collected a lot of her books. A large amount I still have but some I either lost or gave away.  My dad told me about a book store that was near my house and stupidly one the hottest day we've had in a while I went and had a look around. At the books anyway. And this was the first book I saw. I was going to pick up the PC and Kristen Cast Book series but decided not to as I'm not really reading those kinds of book at the moment. 

The Casual Vacancy 
  • JK Rowling
  • $4 
  • Good Will
Who isn't a JK Rowling fan. I was looking for another author but they didn't have any that I was looking for. And then BAM πŸ’₯ there was The Casual Vacancy by JK.   


The Choice 
  • Nicholas Sparks
  • $4
  • Good Will
Who doesn't love a good romance novel by Nicholas Spark

Thursday, September 21, 2017

Authors Who I Have A Love Hate Relationship With

Welcome to Authors Who I Have A Love Hate Relationship With.  This is based on if I have read two or more books by the same author (or in some cases tried to). 



John Green
  • Looking For Alaska 
  • The Fault In Our Stars
  • Paper Towns
  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson


I first heard of John Green about 2012, when the vlog brothers had that big surge of popularity like most other YouTube channels and then around the same time The Fault in our Stars was having massive popularity as well and everyone seemed to be reading it and loving it. 
I remember getting Looking for Alaska as the free book on audible and loving the book. 
Out of the books I have read by John Green I found that Paper Towns was the weakest of them.  While I liked the concept of the book for me I liked TFIOS and Looking for Alaska more. 

For me John Green is one of those authors whose books are either people love or hate 

Sarah Dessen
  • Just Listen
  • Lock and Key 
Sarah Dessen for me is the one person that I have a massive love hate relationship with. I hated Just Listen so much that I DNF'd it but I loved Lock and Key. It's one of my favourite books that I have read this year so far. 

Marissa Meyer
  • Cinder
  • Scarlet
  • Cress
I have read only the first three books of the Lunar Chronicles and I honestly have the biggest love hate relationship with Marissa Meyer.  I liked the first book Cinder, hated the second book and loved the third (of what I have read so far). 




Gayle Forman
  • If I Stay and Where She Went
  • Just One Day and Just One Year 
I loved all but one of Gayle Forman's books. But I found the second book in her duologys not as exiting or easy to read as the first book. I liked Where She Went as a second book, but Just One Year was a DNF for me. 





Nicholas Sparks
  • Safe Haven
  • The Last Song
No matter how hard I try I really can't get into the last song by Nicholas Sparks.  I wanted to love it but couldn't. I couldn't even finish it. But I love Safe Haven. 

Lauren
xoxo

Saturday, September 16, 2017

Books From Before I Started Blogging

Welcome back. These are some of my favorite books from before you joined the online book community. 



  • My Best Friends Girl 
    • Dorothy Koomson 
For me I'll always have a special place in my heart for any Dorothy Koomson book that I read. Wether it was first time I was reading it or a re read but because My Best Friends Girl was the first ever Dorothy Koomson book I read it has a massive part in my life.

  • The Devil Wears Prada 
    • Lauren Weisburger 
I love this book. And it's a shame that not many people do. I think it's such a classic chick lit book.  


  • Looking For Alaska
    • John Green
Personally I think Looking for Alaska is the least talked about book by John Green, yet it's one of my favourite books

  • Marshmallows for Breakfast 
    • Dorothy Koomson 
I cant mention on Dorothy Koomson book without mentioning the other. 



  • Hate List
    • Jennifer Brown 
Literally love this book. I read it while I had a blog but before I was blogging about books. It's one of those books that made me cry and laugh and feel sorry for the characters in equal measures



Lauren
xoxo


Monday, September 11, 2017

Books I Struggled To Get Through



Welcome to a Top Ten Tuesday inspired post. I've been reading Brooke and The Bookish for a while and they do almost like a Top 5 Wednesday and every so often there is a topic on the there for Top Ten Tuesday that I like and I do my own version of it.  This post is the books that I struggled to get through. For me finishing a book is the biggest challenge. Pretty much every book I start I want to put down and DNF, but I get through them somehow. Well these are the books that I struggled through even more. 


To All The Boys I've Loved Before
Jenny Han
There are a lot of people who love the book, but for me it was one of those books that I struggled with so much that even a year so later I still can't believe that I've read the book because it was such a struggle for me to get through. The only thing that was a plus for me was the price I paid ($10 instead of $14.99) 


Paper Towns
John Green
I like some of John Green's work, but Paper Towns is the only book that I struggled to get through. I think I started it 3 or 4 times and put it down before I actually finished it. 





The Help
Kathryn Stocket
The Help is one of my all time favourite books. Now anyways, but that wasn't always the case. I put it down three times before I actually finished it. Each of those three times I actually got a little further but would always struggle getting through the book until I pushed myself.  


Scarlet 
Marissa Meyer
Ok, so with the Lunar Chronicles series I knew it was a series, but in my mind I thought it was going to be single books, with individual story lines that would finish with each book and not carry on with each book, (meaning Cinder was just Cinder, Scarlet just Scarlet and so on) I didn't think that Cinder would move in to Scarlet, so it was hard to get into, also I got a bit confused about Wolf. 


Eclipse
Stephanie Meyer
So with Eclipse I wanted to love it, but because I left it long before reading the book, and the length of the book, I found it so hard to get through. 


Breaking Dawn
Stephanie Meyer
Breaking Dawn I had pretty much the same problem as with Eclipse, and then put into effect how Stephanie had it broken down into Bella vs Jacob parts of books I hated it and struggled. 


Beneath The Glitter
Elle and Blair Fowler 
If anyone made it through this book without struggling I salute them. I found it so hard to get through without thinking about the movie Material Girls with Hilary and Haylee Duff in it. I thought that the book could have been done so much better because it didn't have the stigma of being another YouTube book because it came out before a lot of other YouTube books 





Lauren
xoxo


Sunday, September 3, 2017

Book Talk: September TBR


Welcome to my September TBR. I'm gonna start doing my TBRs and Wrap Ups as a book Talk from now on. 
  • Cress
    • Marissa Meyer
I started the book in August as a replacement for one of the two books that I DNF'd in August. It's a pretty long book but I am already half way through the book as I post this TBR. 

  • Marshmallows for Breakfast 
    • Dorothy Koomson 
Again this is a replacement for the other DNF'd book from last month. I read the book last year but as I have already read the other three Dorothy Koomson books that I own this year I had to re read it. 



  • Will Grayson, Will Grayson
    • John Green
I wanted another book on here that I haven't read before and will Grayson, Will Grayson seemed like the best choice. 




Lauren
xoxo