ALL MY TBR BOOK

AND THERE IS A LOT OF THEM

1. Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas
2. Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
3. Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
4. Angel Time by Anne Rice
5. Of Love and Evil by Ann Rice
6. Heartless by Marissa Meyer
7. The Rose and the Dagger by Renée Ahdieh
8. The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkowski
9. The Winner's Crime by Marie Rutkowski
10. The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkowski
11. No Virgin by Anne Cassidy
12. Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
13. A Thousand's Nights by E.K. Johnston
14. A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir
15. A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir
16. City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
17. City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
18. City of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare
19. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
20. Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare
21. Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare
22. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon
23. Drums of Autumn by Diana Gabaldon
24. P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
25. Always and Forever, Lara Jean by Jenny Han
26. The Host by Stephenie Meyer
27. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
28. All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
29. Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
30. Lux: Consequences by Jennifer L. Armentrout
31. Lux: Opposition by Jennifer L. Armentrout
32. The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson
33. The Heart of Betrayal by Mary E. Pearson
34. Alienated by Melissa Landers
35. The Forbidden Wish by Jessica Khoury
36. Winter by Marissa Meyer
37. Stars Above by Marissa Meyer
38. Ten Thousand Skies Above You by Claudia Gray
39. The Fate of the Tearling by Erika Johansen
40. Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake
41. One Dark Throne by Kendare Blake
42. A Clash of Kings by George R.R. Martin
43. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
44. Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
45. Traitor the Throne by Alwyn Hamilton
46. Hero at The Fall by Alwyn Hamilton
47. To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo
48. Red Rising by Pierce Brown
49. Rebel Spring by Morgan Rhodes
50. The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan
51. The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
52. The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
53. The Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan
54. The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan
55. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzie Lee
56. They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
57. Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson

Reader Problems TAG

hello everybody, after a while I am back with yet another book tag! This one I found on harbackhoarder youtube channel (hardbackhoarder). This tag was created by beautiful Tiffany back from About to read (About to Read). So let's jump right in!

1. You have 20,000 books on your TBR (Sounds about right). How in the world do you decide what to read next?

• Usually, I just go what I'm in a mood for. For example, I just finished Hunted by Meaghan Spooner and I really enjoyed the scenes of the book where the character was talking different stories to the Beast. And because of that, I decided to read next The Wrath and the Dawn by Reneé Ahdieh which I have heard is how the main character managed to survive. By telling the stories.

2. You’re halfway through a book and you’re just not loving it. Do you quit or are you committed?

• I am very committed to finishing the book no matter what, but mostly I tend to skip sections or only to read certain chapters. Of course, there were times where I decided to just not continue with the book but only rarely when I just couldn't care less about the storyline or the characters itself.

3. The end of the year is coming and you’re so close, but so far away on your Goodreads reading challenge. Do you try to catch up and how?

• I don't set my goals high in first place. This year my goal was 55 books but around January this year my old friend Reading Slump decided to stay for a visit and I knew that I would never be able to reach it. not when in May I only finished about seven or eight books so I changed my challenge to one book and I will see where the roads will lead me from there

4. The covers of a series you love do. not. match. How do you cope?

• I hate this so much! Mostly, okay, mostly I can cope if the cover has changed (somehow), but what I can't stand is when the height of the books are not the same!!!

5. Every one and their mother loves a book you really don’t like. Who do you bond with over shared feelings?

• I don't really go to anyone but is always nice to meet someone who shares the same opinion about as you, mostly when everyone else seemed to be against it (Six of Crows, duh)

6. You’re reading a book and you are about to start crying in public. How do you deal?

• I am not ashamed to cry over a book in any place even though I earned some laughing while doing so

7. A sequel of a book you loved just came out, but you’ve forgotten a lot from the prior novel. Will you re-read the book? Skip the sequel? Try to find a synopsis on Goodreads? Cry in frustration?!?!?!?

• I am well known to read and love and enjoy a book and then never got around to read the next in a series. Not because I'm scared to, but simply because I don't like reading about the same world for a longer time. I need a break but then the break is longer than work on Monday and I totally forget about it. Luckily, most of the times I do remember pretty clearly what happened, but also there were cases where I had to reread the first book twice, before continuing with the series (which to be honest, I still haven't)

8. You do not want anyone. ANYONE. borrowing your books. How do you politely tell people nope when they ask?

• I always say that I just forgot about it until they forget about it

9. Reading ADD. You’ve picked up and put down 5 books in the last month. How do you get over your reading slump?

• This is what I was trying to find about for the last six months

10. There are so many new books coming out that you’re dying to read! How many do you actually buy?

• See here's my problem. I'm always excited about the new releases, I wait for them, I envy them on Goodreads but when they come out I rarely buy them. But then six months later and I happen to come across them and buy them just then

11. After you’ve bought the new books you can’t wait to get to, how long do they sit on your shelf before you get to them?

• Another year

Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern

“People who say it’s a long story mean it’s a stupid short one that they’re too embarrassed and couldn’t be bothered to tell.” 

Rosie Dunne and Alex Stewart have been friends since they were 5 years old. Years later Alex and his family move to Boston. Rosie plans to follow him there but something happens which forces Rosie to abandon her plans. As the years go by, the pair keep in regular contact but their friendship is put under tremendous strain through a variety of things. Are the pair destined to ever be together or will they always be just best friends?

There is something about this book; I hated it, but at the same time I loved it so deeply. I was determined to leave it be, but every time I looked at it I had to pick it up again. The story of Alex and Rosie frustrated me to the core, I wanted to yell JUST GET TOGETHER ALREADY! But the love story was somewhat realistic, life will always get in the way. Sometimes It would make my heart well up and sometimes it would make me cry. This book isn't your typical soppy romantic trashy novel, it has substance. The unusual style of writing also made it an interesting reading experience.

The  book was organised and made up completely of letters, emails, instant messages etc. I must admit it took a while to get used to but when you do it works so well and makes the story so much more interesting. You really get to dig deep into the main character's emotions and feelings this way and I really enjoyed it. However, at times it did become annoying because it kind of skipped main events and you didn't get to find out much about them (which I would have really liked). 

Basically, this book was an absolute roller coaster ride filled with extreme frustration and a severe case of toying with my emotions, but I am very much pleased with the ending of this book.

I'd watched the film before reading this and now I can say that despite the differences between the book and the film, I loved them both.

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The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern

“The circus arrives without warning.”

Imagine a circus that is only open at night, with everything being colored in black, white and shades of grey. Wondrous experiences await you within numerous striped tents under the starry sky. But what is real and what is illusion?

 This is a story about magic, star-crossed lovers and rivalry, all set in and around a mysterious circus Les Cirque des Reves (The Circus of Dreams). The main plot-line centres around two characters by the names of Marco and Celia who find themselves competing against each other in a 'magicians duel' which they have been entered into by their respective mentors. There are also several sub-plots, all of which meander around a whole host of characters who are all linked to the circus in some way or another.

Much like the circus in the book, The Night Circus seemed to come out of nowhere. It suddenly appeared on the scene and garnered massive hype -hype that I never fully understood or followed. It was not until glowing reviews started appearing on Amazon that I started to believe that the hype was real.

 

From the first page, Night Circus cast a spell on me. Every page -every sentence -is infused with magical, elegant prose that leaps off the page with emotion and life. It's been so long since I have read anything as enthralling, as enchanting and fabulous as The Night Circus

Although I really enjoyed this book I could also see many people hating it. It all depends on what you like as far as writing style. I don't usually love flowery prose, but I'd say I have a high tolerance for it. I usually love a very quick fast paced plot, and this book didn't offer that. With this book the plot moved pretty slowly and it was full of descriptions. Morgernstern created a world that I truly wished I could have visited. She describes her world so well you will feel you have been transported there.

For a debut novel I think this book was very impressive. I will say that it's not for everyone, though. Morgenstern's beautiful writing could have went on for another 100 or so pages and I would have loved reading every bit.

The Night Circus is a cross genre fan’s delight. This will appeal not only to the YA crowd, but the romance reader and the literary fiction lover. It’s a supernatural, fantasy extravaganza that had me wanting more. When I read the final page, I hugged the book close. Erin has truly written a masterful tale that may span generation of readers.

Marvelous & outstanding. A masterpiece that will surely sweep you off your feet and would make you want to join the circus. 

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Read from: June 21 to June  25 2016

My Summer Reading List 2016

1. Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon (Outlander #2)

The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.

2. Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern

Rosie and Alex are destined for one another, and everyone seems to know it but them. Best friends since childhood, their relationship gets closer by the day, until Alex gets the news that his family is leaving Dublin and moving to Boston. At 17, Rosie and Alex have just started to see each other in a more romantic light. Devastated, the two make plans for Rosie to apply to colleges in the U.S. 

She gets into Boston University, Alex gets into Harvard, and everything is falling into place, when on the eve of her departure, Rosie gets news that will change their lives forever: She's pregnant by a boy she'd gone out with while on the rebound from Alex. 

3. Just One Day+ Just One Year by Gayle Forman

Allyson Healey's life is exactly like her suitcase—packed, planned, ordered. Then on the last day of her three-week post-graduation European tour, she meets Willem. A free-spirited, roving actor, Willem is everything she’s not, and when he invites her to abandon her plans and come to Paris with him, Allyson says yes. This uncharacteristic decision leads to a day of risk and romance, liberation and intimacy: 24 hours that will transform Allyson’s life.

4. Cress by Marissa Meyer (The Lunar Chronicles #3)

In the third installment of the Lunar chronicles, Cress, having risked everything to warn Cinder of Queen Levana's evil plan, has a slight problem. She's been imprisoned on a satellite since childhood and has only ever had her net screens as company. All that screen time has made Cress a great hacker. Unfortunately, she's just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.

5. Since You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson

It was Sloane who yanked Emily out of her shell and made life 100% interesting. But right before what should have been the most epic summer, Sloane just…disappears. All she leaves behind is a to-do list.

On it, thirteen Sloane-inspired tasks that Emily would normally never try. But what if they could bring her best friend back?

             6. The Raven Boys+ The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater                            (The Raven Cycle #1, #2)

Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her.

7. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (AAITA #1)

Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.

Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear. 
It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do. 
But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy.

8. Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas (ToG #3)

After serving out a year of hard labor in the salt mines of Endovier for her crimes, 18-year-old assassin Celaena Sardothien is dragged before the Crown Prince. Prince Dorian offers her her freedom on one condition: she must act as his champion in a competition to find a new royal assassin.

9. A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas (ACOTAR #2)

When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world.

10. Heavier Than Heaven: The Biography of Kurt Cobain

The art of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain was all about his private life, but written in a code as obscure as T.S. Eliot's. Now Charles Cross has cracked the code in the definitive biography Heavier Than Heaven, an all-access pass to Cobain's heart and mind. It reveals many secrets, thanks to 400-plus interviews, and even quotes Cobain's diaries and suicide notes and reveals an unreleased Nirvana masterpiece. At last we know how he created, how lies helped him die, how his family and love life entwined his art--plus, what the heck "Smells Like Teen Spirit" really means. 

What book are you planning to read this summer? :)

Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

"There's no story," I say. "I saw you one day, and I just knew."

STEPHANIE PERKINS NEEDS TO WRITE STORIES FOR EVER. Because they are just PERFECT.

Isla and the Happily Ever After brings the trilogy full circle. The story is once again mainly set at the School of America in Paris and the Paris scenery is just as wonderful as it was in Anna and the French Kiss. However, the book isn’t fully set in Paris. There is a little side trip to Barcelona as well as some time spent in New York City. Stephanie Perkins’ books may just be contemporary romances but the setting always makes things interesting. 

During the first half of the book I was slightly disappointed because everything was just too cliche and they fell in love so fast, I expected more from Stephanie Perkins... But then, she did it like she always does! THIS WOMAN IS A QUEEN!!! She manages to have control over my emotions with her perfect characters and writing, this book was no exception!

What an emotional roller coaster this series has taken me on! I'm crying and I'm hiccuping. and i can't see through the tears. OH. MY .GOD.

You know how Voldermort had 7 Horcruxes? Well that's how i feel about books. Kind of. Its like there are parts of me,of my soul out there, and the more books i read,the better are the chances to find my Horcruxes. This book,this trilogy was that for me. I found a Horcruxe

Maybe the romance moved a little too fast but then I remembered that for the other two books we had to wait until the end for the couple to kiss I get together or etcetera and I was more than okay with it. 

The cameos from Anna, Etienne, Lola, and Cricket were minor but perfect. I expected a bit more of them than I actually got but I was actually okay with that. Their parts in the story were absolutely wonderful. Isla and the Happily Ever After tied things up for all three of the couples and I couldn’t have asked for more from Stephanie Perkins. The brief glimpses of Anna, Etienne, Lola, and Cricket definitely left me with a smile on my face.

I really do think these books have to be some of my favourites and I recommend them to all! Yes, they can be cringy and cliche but wHAT IS NOT TO LIKE ABOUT THAT??? Especially when it is done so well!!

Overall, Isla and the Happily Ever After could not have been better. It’s the perfect ending to this trilogy and it left me eager to read whatever Stephanie Perkins writes next.

*hugs these books tightly for eternity*

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Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

“When it's right, it's simple.” 

Lola is a really cute story: she is a quirky, raised by gay parents, unique teenage girl.

When her first crush and ex-neighbor, Cricket, reappears on her doorstep after two years, things get complicated because Lola already has a boyfriend, Max, five years older than her, much more experienced.

As Cricket slowly worms his was back into her life - and into her heart - Lola will have to learn how to be honest with herself - and she will learn it the hard way.

 As much as I loved Anna and the French Kiss , Lola was better on nearly every level because it felt real. Anna was by no means a fairy tale without the struggle of realism, but there were some elements that took it to daydream level. Paris. Beautiful, charming British boy. The big, dramatic (incredibly swoontastic) ending.

Lola is different. They aren't in Paris, and Cricket isn't a dashing, gorgeous Brit. He's just a normal boy. A normal, awkward, amazingly sweet boy who I can't even find words to describe. (Except for, you know, those...)

Lola and Cricket had me smiling like an absolute dork the entire time. There is no way I could have read this book in public because I swear I was making some laugh-at-me faces. I just adore Perkins' style of delivering a slow building romance that blends perfectly with the flow of the entire story. As a reader, you can't help but fall into the storyline and ultimately resist the coming of the final chapters. It's the type of book you want to continue for endless chapters.

 The main character, who would normally annoy the hell out of me with her obsession with clothes, glitter, tiaras, has a very relatable voice. Reading Lola and the Boy Next Door was an infinitely relaxing experience. This book is filled to the brim with cuteness - cute boys, cute families, cute locations and cute crushes. Perkins' special gift is bringing back the memories of young love and excitements and heartaches that come with it. 

Lola and the Boy Next Door is everything first love should be--painful, awkward, desperate, tender and so, so sweet. 

Realizing this isn’t a coherent review but rather a gush-fest about my book crush, I’ll stop now and just tell you that Perkins fans and YA Contemporary readers are going to enjoy this little gem to the tenth degree.

       

  AMAZON: Lola And The Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins