September’s Top 5 Wednesday’s were really hard for me to do single posts each week, that I decided to have them all together.
Friendship Groups (5th September)
- Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and The Weasley Family
I loved the friendship of everyone involved, even if they had a small part
- Adele and Kamryn
- My Best Friends Girl
- Dorothy Koomson
Yes the friendship for a while was based on lies and then went bad, but Adele knew she wanted Kamryn to look after Tegan, and subconsciously Kamryn knew she’d look after Tegan long term once she found out about Adele’s illness.
Books For My Younger Self (12th September)
Books that I wish I had forced myself to read when I was younger for a life lesson, more confidence or open my eyes.
Honestly I was never really a massive book reader in my teen years. If I wanted to read a book I would read it. If a book looked interesting I would have picked it up.
Classics I Wish Had A Modern Adaptation (19th September)
- Anne Frank’s Diary
Ok, I know The Diary of Anne Frank isn’t fiction but it would be interesting to see how people in places like Iraq or Afghanistan dealt with the war.
- The Great Gatsby
I’d absolutely love to see the Great Gatsby set in England. Not London England but somewhere along the south coast in like the early 2000’s
Favourite Covers Update (26th September)
- Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
It’s such a beautiful cover. All the details are to die for.
- The Brighton Mermaid
It’s just so simple. And I like book covers that are just so simple. It’s also very much a Brighton kind of cover.
- Dorothy Koomson Books
Some of Dorothy’s earlier books have different covers depending on where they are published.
Welcome to another Top Ten Tuesday, and to 10 books on my Fall TBR
Welcome to my rough idea of what I want to read this fall. I am not a Fall kind of person. If you live in Canada it means that it’s about to get super cold. And I don’t like the cold
Harry Potter Book 5-7 (Order of the Phoenix, Half Blood Prince and Deathly Hallows)
- JK Rowling
You know I have to finish the rest of the Harry Potter series
The Choice and At First Sight
- Nicholas Sparks
These are the last two books I have to read of Nicholas Sparks
Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- John Green
Just like with the two Nicholas Sparks books this is the last book of John green’s that I own and only one I haven’t read
Just Listen
- Sarah Dessen
I want to finish a book that I started and never finished. I was about half way through the book when I had enough so I wanna read it at some point before the year is over.
Just One Year
- Gayle Forman
Just like the book before I want to read it before the end of the year. I started it. Just never finished.
Today’s post is 10 book related Confessions.
1. I Never Finished Reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Right Away
I got pretty far though, I think I got about no more than five chapters and the epilogue left to have read that first time. But life took over. I was working a lot, and any free time I was going out with friends. I was generally living my life as an 18 year old.
2. I Very Rarely Get Books At Full Price
I have so many books on my book shelf, and a majority of them I never paid full price for.
All but one of my Nicholas Sparks books I paid anywhere between $1.50 and $4.00 for, brand new at the book store they are over $25.
The Pretty Little Liars books I have ( I have 6 books, one is a duplicate, and I think there is between 15-20 of them) and I haven’t paid more than $3 for any of them. Where as one book is normally $18ish dollars here in Canada 🇨🇦.
3. When I Get Obsessed With One Author
I always do this but when I get obsessed with an author I always want to buy all of their books, it happened with a lot of the authors on my shelf, and after a while I’ll get bored of reading their books. It happens constantly.
4. Fred and George Weasley and Ginny Weasley Are My Favourite Characters
I will never ever get over Fred’s death it killed me inside.
I have no solid reasons why Fred, George or Ginny are my favourite characters. I always joke around saying that Fred and George are my favourites because I love twins. But I think I like the three of them because they are smaller characters in the book yet they all bring something to the table that no one else for me does in the book.
5. I Totally Judge An Author By The Previous Book I Read
I did this with Sarah Dessen, John Green, Stephanie Meyer, Gayle Forman. Basically anyone that I have read one or more books by. Which is a lot.
Sometimes I am pleasantly surprised. Like with Sarah Dessen. I tried so hard to enjoy Just Listen but couldn’t so when I read Lock and Key I wasn’t expecting much. But in the end I totally enjoyed more than I thought.
With Stephanie Meyer I thought how can it get any worse. I mean I can just about cope with twilight, but after that it went so down hill that it’s put me off reading any other book by her.
6. E Books Are Not My Thing
It’s something about holding a physical copy of a book that I enjoy so much more than actually having an ebook.
7. I Tend Not To Go For Popular Books Right Away
I’ve done it. Plenty of times where the book has been so hyped up that I’ve rushed out and got it. There are a few difference since then. I don’t always have the funds to do that. And the major one. I have found the 99% of the time I don’t think they are worth the hype.
8. Hardback vs Paperback… I Have No Preference
What I do have a preference on is mass market production of a book, while they are great for price, and easy just to put in your bag, and I have a few but I am more of a full sized version of a book.
9. All Of The Dorothy Koomson Books I’ve Read I’ve Not Wanted Them To End.
I want her books to all have sequels. I’d love to see how the characters have developed over years.
10. I Would Love Dorothy Koomson and Nicholas Sparks to Write A Book Together .
I mean how amazing of a book would it be. A romance across the sea’s, with a twist.
Welcome to the road so far Tag. I’ve been looking for a newish Tag to do, and this one seemed like a good idea.
Q1 - If you could pick a fictional world to live in, what world would you chose and why?
I would say The Wizarding World.
Q2 - What solo book and/or book series surprised you the most?
The Ice Cream Girls,
If you’ve read any of my posts relating to Dorothy Koomson then you know I love her work, she is one author I just can’t get enough of. The Ice Cream Girls for me is a switch in her writing that shows how she had changed/grown as an author. The two previous books I’d read by her (My Best Friends Girl and Marshmallows For Breakfast) are Great I love them, but when you read The Ice Cream Girls it’s totally different than a woman looking after children.
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Matched Trilogy and Lunar Chronicles
I find that they are both very similar. How they start with one character and then by the third book it’s confusing because there are so many characters involved.
But honestly I found the Lunar Chronicles so much more confusing. I thought that it would have been more like a stand alone kind of series (where each book was a stand alone book biased on a Disney character than a series where it developed over the course of the series)
Q3 - You can pick one author to meet, who would you chose and why?
Dorothy Koomson. For me she is my queen 👑 and has been for a while. She is definitely someone who should be a lot more popular across the world.
Q4 - If you could only ever read one genre of book for the rest of your life what genre would you chose and why?
This is such a hard choose because I like to read so many different genres of books. Anything than YA books. While I like YA books they can become repetitive
Q5 - What genre do you rarely read, but wish you read more?
Classics. I have so many classic books and have only read a small number of them. They just don’t seem to keep me interested
Q6 - What is the most intimidating book or book series you’re too nervous to begin?
The Host by Stephanie Meyer for the sheer size of the book. It’s only in the 600 page regain but it seems so much bigger.
Q7 - If you had to recommend one book and/or book series above all others what would that be?
I can’t go and choose one of Dorothy Koomson books, so I’m just going to say her books.
Q8 - Final question, what are your reading plans & book blogging plans for the next six months?
I want to read the rest of my books by Nicolas Sparks. I think I have two or three left to read
I want to review more movies based on books
Finish the Harry Potter series (again)
To fully get back in to blogging.
What I find with books is that if I find them on my own (ex if the book wasn’t recommended to me) I like it a hell of a lot more than a book that was over hyped.
- Hate List
- Jennifer Brown
I was drawn to Hate List. When I was working in the mall for about 15 I would walk around the bookstore before my shift started. And for some reason I was drawn to the Hate List. So from one of my pay checks I picked it up. I had no idea what it was about. But I loved it.
- The Great Gatsby
- F Scott Fitzgerald
I am not a classic book kind of person. I do have many of them but I have only read two, and DNFd another two.
- My Life Next Door
- Huntley Fitzpatrick
Because I was on such a low after reading To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, I was sure that any YA contemporary book would have just pissed me off but I was surprised 😮 with My Life Next Door and how good it was.
- Lock and Key
- Sarah Dessen
I had had a hard time reading another of Sarah’s books, but for some reason I wanted to give her another try. I thought that this was another book, I picked it up by accident. But it was a happy one as I loved it.
- Since You’ve Been Gone
- Morgan Mattson
SYBG, is very much like Paper Towns, yet I liked it a lot more. While it won’t make it on to any of my favourite book lists I also wasn’t expecting to like it as much as I did
- The Lucky One
- Nicholas Sparks
I have a love hate relationship with Nicholas Sparks. Some of his books I like and others I don’t.
