This week's topic is all about my 5 fave male + male relationships.
It's Top 5 Wednesday again!
This week's topic is all about my 5 fave male + male relationships. Time for the last Top 5 Wednesday of the month!
So, I don't really have a favorite genre, but the genre that I read the most of is probably contemporary fiction. Here are my most underrated faves: Happy Top 5 Wednesday!
It's time to get a little salty up in here. Here are my top 5 books that I did not like, but I'll tell you all about what's wrong with them. ROFL Happy Wednesday!
It's time for another Top 5 Wednesday. This week's topic is all about those books about those people who did those things and stuff or something or other. I can't remember. Hiya! This week's Top 5 Wednesday topic is all about those books I've been meaning to get to for the past 100 years but somehow never found the time.
What books have been sitting on your shelf mocking you relentlessly for ages? This week's Top 5 Wednesday topic is all about my 2018 reading goals.
Be sure to let me know your own goals in the comments below! We're down to the last Top 5 Wednesday of the year! This week's topic is all about the type of books I want to read more of in 2018. 1. Big BooksIn the past, I've focused more on the QUANTITY of books I wanted to read in the year, rather than focusing on the QUALITY. That means that I've put off a lot of bigger books, intimidated by their size and the amount of time they take up to read. Next year, I want to read less books overall, and choose the ones I want to read most of all, regardless of size. That means there will undoubtedly be more bigger books on the agenda. 2. ClassicsAs you can probably tell by my last week's top 5 favorite books for the entire year, I really enjoy reading classics. 3 out of 5 of my top 5 favorite reads in 2017 were classic books. While I did manage to read a pretty decent amount of classics this year, next year I want to read even more. Less YA, more LIT. 3. FantasyI feel like I put off reading a lot of my fantasy books in 2017, and focused on smaller, contemporary reads. I'd like to switch it up next year and go back to reading more fantasy. It really is a genre that I love but also one that I hardly read anymore. 4. Under-hyped booksIn the past few years, since discovering Booktube and Bookstagram, I've fallen into the bad habit of really only reading things that I've seen other people reading. While that is okay on a small scale, I think I would rather find my own reading material, based off of what I think is interesting, even if nobody else cares to join me. 5. Books I OwnI had a lot of fun utilizing my local library in 2017, but I think that next year, I'd rather read the books I own that I haven't gotten to yet. (There's over 100. That should keep me busy for the entire year.) I'll maybe reward myself with one library read per month, because some of the books have been sitting on my shelf for two years or so and it's just getting ridiculous. So what do you think? What kinds of books do you want to read next year? This week's topic for Top 5 Wednesday is a bit of a tall order. I have to try and pick my top 5 favorite books out of all the books that I've read this year. Here goes! 1. Gone With The Wind by Margaret MitchellNever thought I'd read it. Never thought I'd love it. Nevertheless, I did and I do. It took me two weeks to get through but it was 1000% worth it. The story and the characters will stay with me until the day I die. 2. A Dog's Purpose by W. Bruce CameronI've been gushing about this book all year. I've never cried so hard and so many times while reading before. It was the good healing sort of cry though. If you love dogs as much as I do, I think you'd enjoy this book immensely. 3. Wuthering Heights by Emily BronteI was on a Bronte kick this summer and this one was my favorite out of the three I read. I still think about it all the time and quote it probably once or twice a month. Shout out to Jane Eyre for also being amazing and beautiful. 4. Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. MaasThis was the sexiest and most exciting book I read all year. It was actually the second book I read this year, but I remember how awesome it was and it was definitely the best book in the series in my opinion. 5. The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa MeyerOkay, this one is cheating, since it's a whole series but nah nah nah poo poo. I do what I want. I had this series sitting on my shelf since mid 2016 and I dreaded reading it because I was afraid I wouldn't like it. Well, I'm an idiot because I FRICKIN LOVED IT. My favorite book in the series was Cress. (What can I say? I'm a sucker for a good Tangled story.) The whole series was so much fun. Definitely one of my all time favorites. I feel dumb for waiting so long to read them. I did not trust the hype. This time, the hype was real. Yay! I'm super curious. Have you read any of these books? What are your top 5 for 2017? Let me know in the comments below. Hiya! Time for another Top 5 Wednesday. This week, it's time to talk about my top 5 characters who deserve a spot on Santa's naughty list. 1. Jacob BlackSorry, all you die hard members of Team Jacob out there. He's just one character who rubs me the wrong way. He started out nice enough, but as the books went on, he irritated me more and more by the way he tried to "make" Bella choose him. The heart wants what it wants. Leave the lady alone and quit being all immature about everything. Plus, anger issues out the wazoo! You're on the top of Santa's naughty list. Enjoy your coal, fool! 2. Draco MalfoyWe all know that Santa hates Draco. But don't worry, his parents were rich so I'm sure he still had plenty of presents under the tree. During this year's reread of Harry Potter, I surprised myself by yelling out loud to my book: "Oh, BLEEP off, Draco!" Two seconds later, in the book, Harry tells Draco to go away. He's such a little weasel. 3. Scarlet O'HaraPossibly the most selfish characters in all of literature, Scarlet O'Hara makes Santa's naughty list for sure. She stole her sisters man for money, was a pretty bad mother and wouldn't know true love if it smacked her across the face. That's just a fraction of the naughty things she did in Gone With The Wind. Fiddle dee dee, Scarlet! Straighten up and be good for once. But don't worry, I still love ya, you goose! 4. Eadlyn SchreaveIf you've read The Selection series by Kiera Cass, I'm sure you hated Eadlyn just as much as everyone else did. It was actually a shock to the system to go from book 1-3 to The Heir and The Crown and be abruptly introduced to America's satanic spawn of a daughter. She must have been spoiled rotten because that girl was a bad egg. Look deep into her demonic eyes and be afraid. Be very afraid! 5. Henry WottonIn The Picture of Dorian Gray, at first I liked Henry Wotton. He had a very straight-forward, tell-it-like-it-is attitude. It soon becomes apparent that he is a terrible influence on the young and impressionable Dorian, though. Henry seems to want to live his sins vicariously through Dorian and ultimately leads him down the path of darkness that ends up to be his own undoing. For that reason, Henry goes on the naughty list for sure. Who are your top 5 characters that you'd want to put on the naughty list? Let me know in the comments below! Bah humbug! Today's topic for Top 5 Wednesday has me searching the bowels of my shrunken little heart for things that bug the crap out of me in the bookish world. That's right. Not everything is peaches and sunshine. Here are my top 5 bookish things that I'm a mean, old Grinch about. 1. The Status QuoThere seems to be this pressure among the bookish community to read what's popular. And not just read it, but love it too. There have been so many extremely hyped books that I've read in the past few years that I thought were going to be 5/5 favorites because of the amount of love they get on Goodreads, Booktube and Bookstagram. Half the time, these books end up being just okay or even kinda crappy to me. I then feel bad if I give it a bad rating because I don't want to lose any friends or followers for hating up on their beloved books. I just wish that more people in our community would read some less popular and older books as well. It feels like there's this pressure to be caught up on all the new releases, and then you don't have time to get to older books that you may love even more. It's rough. 2. Superhero overloadThis one goes for both books and movies. In the past decade, superhero stories have risen extremely in popularity. Some are great, most are uncalled for. I'm not a huge superhero fan (although I do love me some Guardians of the Galaxy) and I definitely don't want to read dozens of books or watch hundreds of movies on the same topic. I hope that this fad doesn't last too long. It would be nice to have more original ideas, and less copycats of whatever is popular at the moment. 3. Parents Don't ExistDo you ever read a YA book and wonder where the heck all the parents are? Maybe they make a 10 second appearance at one point. Maybe they died when the hero was just a wee lass. The point is, 9 times out of 10, they are nowhere to be found or just plain useless. In the books, the teens will sneak out and have an epic adventure. The parents will be none the wiser. In real life, my mom would never let me sneak out, let alone hunt down an evil emperor and singlehandedly free a nation of oppressed zombie warriors. At least in Harry Potter, Mrs. Weasley was there to fight for Ginny. 4. They all grow up too fastIn real life, 16 years old is young. Very young. In some places, you're not even old enough to drive or get a job or vote or be trusted to do pretty much anything on your own really. In YA books, 16-year-olds (and all teens really) think that they are fully grown for some reason. They are ready to fight to the death or make major life decisions because they fell in instalove and let's get real. Real 16-year-olds probably aren't even responsible enough to grocery shop on their own, let alone save the entire universe or marry a vampire. 5. Everybody's sexyGah, this one pees me off so bad. It seems like these days, authors think that nobody will take a character seriously as a hero or heroine unless they are gorgeous. I'm so sick of all the hunks and hotties I could scream. Give me a character with some actual character, not just a cookie cutter clone of generic sexy love interest #1. At least in Jane Eyre, Mr. Rochester was a dog-faced wretch and Jane was plain. That's all for this week's rant. lol Join me again next week where I promise to be more positive and less bitter! |
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