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Saturday, July 6, 2013

Book Haul

Recently I learned that my favorite used bookstore is closing. After trying to sell the entire store and not being able to the owner decided to just try to sell off as many books as she could. I went today and closing day is in a week so all used books were $1 and all new books were around $5ish.  I'm going to jump right in to my huge stack of books. Be sure if you have read any of the books to leave a comment letting my know how it is!

I am a fan of country music so when I saw this book I thought it would be a good and interesting read. Little did I know there is another book about the same characters, but I dont really think it is a series.                                  

Next, I picked up Fishbowl by Sarah Mlynowski. The author is one I am familiar with so I thought this might be a good read.                                                                                           

In all honesty the cover of the next book pulled me in. After reading the back excerpt thing I decided I would go ahead and put in the basket.


The next book has been on my to-read list for a while now. I was so excited when I saw a copy of it and could finally read it.


Next we have a book that was a fantastic movie. I am hoping that the book is just as good.


Next is a book I have never heard of before. I dont know what compelled me to pick it up and read the back but it seems interesting and I cant wait to read it.


Last but not least a book that is probably one of my favorite movies that I had no idea was a book!

Thursday, June 20, 2013

Book Sacrifice Tag

I love watching booktubers and this tag was originally from Arial Besset on YoutTube. It is essentially a bunch of situations in which you can sacrifice books you didnt enjoy. Lets get started.


1st situation: You are in a book store when....BAM...zombie apocalypse. There is an announcement over the PA system saying the military found that the zombie weakness is over-hyped book. What book that everyone else says is amazing but you hated do you throw to the zombies. 

 Now I know this book doesnt have the hype it once did, but it was over-hyped at one point. I found this book confusing and lacking character development. I got tired of flipping through Clays thoughts and Hannahs explanation. I found myself losing interest the more ernest Clay became in finding his tape. I think suicide is a very sensitive topic and I dont think this book handled it well.


2nd situation: You are coming out of the hair salon with the best hair cut/style of your life when...BOOM...downpour of rain. Which sequel do you sacrifice to protect your hair.

 Now I am just going to say that I LOVE this entire series but when ending this book I felt like this . This book could be taken out of the series completely and the series be just as good. Rose ends just where she started like NOTHING happened and it irritated me. I feel Richelle Mead was feeling pressure to finish a book and she threw this filler in to calm the raging fans.


3rd situation: You are in an English class and the professor is going on and on about this classic. He/She says that it is just amazing and revolutionized literature and you know that is complete B.S. You go so feed up with him/her that you chuck the book at his/her head. What classic do you chuck?

  I dont really remember specifics from this book besides that it was boring and pointless. I do have strong feeling of hatred toward this book.

4th situation: You are in the library when global warming explodes and the Earth is suddenly a frosty wasteland. Your dad calls you and tells you to stay there and start a fire to keep warm. Which book did you hate so much that you go and burn with no regrets. 

Now in real life I would run to every other section but YA first. I would be burning some cook books or non-fiction. That being said if I had to burn a book I have read I would choose this one. . The sisterhood was such a pivotal part of my youth and changed how I thought about things that I would burn all of these and pretend they were never written. I will stick with the original 4 and not the depressing express road to an emotional roller-coaster.