Top Ten Tuesday (8)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish.  Every week, The Broke and Bookish post a new topic that that week's top ten lists are based on!  This week's topic is: Latest 5 Star Reads

Top Ten Tuesday (7)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish.  Every week, The Broke and Bookish post a new topic that that week's top ten lists are based on!  This week's topic is: Ten All Time Favorite Authors of All Time.

Top Ten Tuesday (6)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish.  Every week, The Broke and Bookish post a new topic that that week's top ten lists are based on!  This week's topic is: Ten Inspiring Quotes From Books.

Top Ten Tuesday (5)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish.  Every week, The Broke and Bookish post a new topic that that week's top ten lists are based on!  This week's topic is: Ten Places Books Have Made Me Want To Visit (real or fictitious)!

Let's get started!

Top Ten Tuesday (4)

I was looking back and I saw the last time I did a TTT was on August 5th!  Horrible.  So I decided to do one for today.

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish.  Every week, The Broke and Bookish post a new topic that that week's top ten lists are based on!  This week's topic is: Top Ten Books That Were Hard For Me To Read (because difficult of book, subject matter, because it was cringeworthy-- however you want to interpret).

I'm going to use all of those definitions...

This book just didn't... grip me I guess...

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The main character in this book was so horrible and her POV was just a barrage of hate.  And it was also about a murder so you know.

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This whole series went from okay to pretty cringeworthy.  This is the last book and I'm kinda regretting I bought it (it wasn't available in my library) even if it was only $2.

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It was hard to get through this book mainly because it's written in verse and I've never actually read a book written in verse.  It just took some adjustment.

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This was just a bizarre book for me.  I understood it... it was just weird.

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Keeping all the characters straight was harder than it was when I read And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie.  Seriously.

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This is the same deal as Brave New World.  It was just weird and I couldn't get into it.

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This literally took me 3 months to read.  It was so dense and sometimes pretty boring in long sections.  And the dialogue!  It went on and on and on.  Sometimes, one person would speak for a good 3 pages.

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This story was stretched out farther than it needed to be in my opinion.  I had to force myself through it.

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This is a good series - don't get me wrong.  I just got so bored during the introduction and sometimes the style of writing would leave me in the dust.  Watching the movies helped me so much.

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Have you read any of these books?  How'd you like them?

Top Ten Tuesday (3)

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish.  Every week, The Broke and Bookish post a new topic that that week's top ten lists are based on!  This week's topic is Top Ten books I'd give to readers who have never read X (pick any genre).

I've decided to do Fantasy!  So let's get started shall we?

The Bloodlines series by Richelle Mead is just fantastic.  I just finished the 5th book Silver Shadows last night and loved it (review to come).  I suppose it is more about vampires and paranormal but it still applies to fantasy as well!

The Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead is the companion series to the Bloodlines series.  If you're going to tackle this whole world that Richelle Mead created, I recommend starting with reading this series first and then Bloodlines.

The Iron King series by Julie Kagawa is everything you could want in a fantasy series.  It includes everything but does mostly focus on the fey.  I've reread this series so many times I've lost count!

I've only read the first book (Hush, hush) in the Hush, Hush series but I absolutely loved it and it covered the whole angels and demons topic.

I've read the first two books in The Mortal Instruments series (City of Bones and City of Ashes) which were both very good.  I finished City of Ashes as well last night and although it wasn't as good as the first book in my opinion, it is an excellent fantasy series.

If you have the patience and have a love for high fantasy, The Lord of the Rings series is an excellent choice.  It was long but worth it.  I actually watched the movies first which helped me get through the books.  I've read The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers and The Hobbit.  The other book is currently on hold.

The Inheritance Cycle series is another great series for lovers of high and/or epic fantasy.  They are incredibly long books but the pages just flew by for me.  I finished the series a while ago and have yet to publish my review for the series in its entirety.

The Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi is pretty much the love of my life.  I loved every book (it's a trilogy with 2 novellas).  It takes place in a dystopian world.

The Masque of the Red Death series is sort of a combo between fantasy, historical fiction, and steampunk.  It's about the red death in a more obscure sense... if you read it you'll get what I mean.

Ah the Sweet Trilogy by Wendy Higgins (she's actually working on a fourth companion book called Sweet Temptation that's due to be released in 2015).  This series is the perfect combo between fantasy and romance.

Have you read any of these books?  What did you think of them?

Top Ten Tuesday #2

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish.  Every week, The Broke and Bookish post a new topic that that week's top ten lists are based on!  This week's topic is Top Ten Books on Your TBR List!

I'm really not that organized so I don't have a specific TBR list but some books I've been wanting to read are as follows:

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We Were Liars by E. Lockhart

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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

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Under the Never Sky by Veronica Rossi

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Teardrop by Lauren Kate

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The 5th Wave by Rick Yancey

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Life After Life by Kate Atkinson

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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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Across the Universe by Beth Revis

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Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

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The Beginning of Everything by Robyn Schneider

There are of course, a LOT more on my list.  With a TBR list 2,452 books long, I have quite a few books to read!  I may have a itsy bitsy book problem...

What are your TBR books for summer?

Top Ten Tuesday #1

Ok so Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly event hosted by The Broke and Bookish.  Every week, The Broke and Bookish post a new topic that that week's top ten lists are based on!  This week's topic is favorite books so far this year.

I ended up with 12 books (2 of those are actually series') because I couldn't possibly choose!  I won't even bother numbering them - they're all equally amazing in my eyes!

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I actually just recently reviewed this book.  I received it as a R&R books from the author and absolutely loved it!  See my review HERE.

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When I read this book, it literally touched my soul.  It does an excellent job in my opinion of bring out the goods and bads of humanity and how a boy named August broke down every barrier.  See my review on GR.

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This is the fourth book in the Violet Eden series.  Ever since I picked up the first book on a whim, I've been obsessed.  Honestly, I don't know what else to say... it has an amazing storyline and everything!  See my review on GR.

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This actually includes the rest of the series as well (Scarlet and Cress).  I love the concept of this book and I'll often catch myself gaping, ranting, laughing, or crying while reading this series.  It sucks me in!

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After hearing so much about the Bloodlines series and the Vampire Academy series, I decided to give it a shot and I'm so grateful I did!  Sydney and I - we're like this *crosses fingers*.  I really should have read VA before this book (and ultimately the series) but I ended up reading them sort of at the same time.  I actually have the fourth book in this series (The Fiery Heart) sitting on my shelf waiting to be read!

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Who didn't see this coming??  Yeah I was so excited for the movie and basically bawled the last half of the book and the movie.  Yeah.  Okay.  This book was so emotional for me which is a sign that I really connect with the book which is what I want in a 5 star book!  See my review on GR.

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This is the second book in the Throne of Glass series.  Maybe I just have a thing for assassins but this series and basically any series with an assassin in it draws me in like a bee to honey!  I'm beyond excited to read Heir of Fire!!  See my review on GR.

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I just loved the ending of this.  It wasn't the typical ending to a dystopian book.  It was more focused on Juliette (the main character) and her personal growth.  Of course that left a lot of questions about what happens to the rest of the world but you can't have everything right?  I did a review on this one too a while back.  See it HERE.

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I just did a review on this one on Sunday.  See it HERE.  I guess the idea of this book is enough for it to be on my list.  The whole Shadowhunter thing is so different that anything I've read before.  Also, the humor in this book is just my speed!

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This is the final book in the Covenant series.  From the minute I picked up the first book, Half blood, I was hooked.  Jennifer L. Armentrout's writing always seems to draw me with in intense action, lots of romance, and witty humor.  See my review on GR.

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I don't know WHY I didn't read these books sooner but I cringe at what I was missing.  I've only read them all once so I couldn't possibly pick a favorite out of the series so this is a representation of the whole series!  If any of you haven't read this series, GO READ IT!  See my review of the whole series on GR.

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This is the second book in the Courier's Daughter series (the first book being Defiance).  I picked up the first book on a whim and I'm glad I did!  The plot never slows down and the idea is just so different.  I really don't know how to describe this one's awesomeness!  See my review on GR.

So there are all my favorite books/series' so far this year!  What are some of your favorites?