Bout Of Books 10

Another readathon. Yay! Isn't that great? I'm so excited about this one!

If you don't know what this readathon is about:

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 12th and runs through Sunday, May 18th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 10 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

My goal is to read at least three books. I hope I can do this, but I also have uni things to do. Let's see.
I started the readathon with "Unspoken" by Sarah Rees Brennan and I have high hopes for this.
On my TBR list is also "The Archived", "Vicious", "The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe" and "The Ocean At The End Of The Lane." But I expect some books in my mail on Thursday and this means that my TBR can change a bit.
I will add some photos soon, but right now I'm in a hurry.

Keep your fingers crossed for me and good luck to all the participants!

AYearAThon May

Hello everybody!
I'm going to participate in another readathon (actually I have two readathons planned for this month. Isn't this exciting?

The first one is the AYearAThon. The theme for May is Finish/catch up on a series which sounds pretty much perfect to me. So May 5-11 I will try to catch up/finish some series. I only have two books I definitely want to finish, but there are a lot more of my maybe list.

I already started "Day of Blood and Starlight" this week and I'm going to finish this book during the readathon.
Then we have my German copy of "Inkdeath" there. I read the first two books years ago and it's about time to finish this series. (I was inspired by Catriona at LittleBookOwl to read this during the readathon.)

Here is my maybe list. I'm not sure if I can read any of them, because I have uni things to do and both books are really big books, but I always need a maybe list. "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe" is a really small book and I think it could be nice to read it after "Inkdeath". 
"Vortex" by Julie Cross has been sitting on my TBR shelf for a while now and it's time to read it (especially because the third book was released at the beginning of the year). I really liked "Tempest" and so I'm not sure why I haven't read "Vortex" earlier (maybe because I don't remember that much about the first one mhmm).
And then there is "Reached" by Ally Condie. I liked "Matched", but "Crossed" was so boring and I disliked it a lot (that's the reason why I haven't read "Reached" yet), but I hate dropping a series when there is only one book left and I do want to know what happens at the end.
I also have some books on my kindle I could read, but I plan on reading the books you can see here first.

Is anyone else participating in this readathon?

After the YearAThon I will participate in the Bout of Books 10.0 Read-a-Thon, but I will post another entry for that soon.

Read-A-Thon 2014 Wrap Up

Book completed: Me And Earl And The Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews, Obsidian by
Jennifer L. Armentrout and Red At Night by Katie McGarry

Book started: The Wicked We Have Done by Sarah Harian

 

Total pages read: 777

 

This read-a-thon was a lot of fun and I recommend it to anyone who likes reading.

Read-A-Thon Update Hour #21

Hour #21

Currently reading: The Wicked We Have Done by Sarah Harian

Book completed: Me And Earl And The Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews and Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout and Red At Midnight by Katie McGarry

Pages read since last update: 84

Total pages read: 682

Thoughts/Notes: Red At Midnight was really cute read and perfect for the morning. I'm not sure what I will read next. I could read The Turn Of The Screw for uni, but I think I'm not in the mood for a uni literature now.

Read-A-Thon Update Hour #11

Hour #11

Currently reading: nothing

Book completed: Me And Earl And The Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews and Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Pages read since last update: 109

Total pages read: 598

Thoughts/Notes: Obsidian was entertaining and now it's 2am and I think I'm going to bed. Let's see what tomorrow brings.

Read-A-Thon Update Hour #9

Hour #9

Currently reading: Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Book completed: Me And Earl And The Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Pages read since last update: 185

Total pages read: 489

Thoughts/Notes: I'm half way through Obsidian now and it's like Twilight meets Roswell, but also kind of addicting. 

Read-A-Thon Update Hour #6

Hour #6

Currently reading: Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Book completed: Me And Earl And The Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Pages read since last update: 156

Total pages read: 304

Thoughts/Notes: I went grocery shopping (I feel like I spent more time grocery shopping then reading. How dare you steal my time, grocery shopping?) and then finished Me and Earl and the Dying Girl. I'm not a huge fan of this book.

Read-A-Thon Update Hour #2

Hour #2

Currently reading: Me And Earl And The Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Book completed: None

Pages read since last update: 148

Total pages read: 148

Thoughts/Notes: I'm not sure if I like this book. Mhm, let's see.

Read-A-Thon Update Hour #1

Hour #1

Currently reading: Me And Earl And The Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

Book completed: /

Pages read since last update: 0

Total pages read: 0

Thoughts/Notes: My first read-a-thon. Everything is so exciting!

Readathon 2014

This is a last minute decision and a friend of mine is to "blame". Without her and her kind and exciting words I wouldn't participate. It's my first readathon and I'm really excited.
Let's get to the books, shall we?

 I never know what I should read next and so I needed some books to chose from.

You can't have too many books, right? So here are some ebooks I could also be in the mood to read.

I will keep you updated how the readathon went.

I hope you have a great weekend and happy reading!

My Bookish Identity Tag

I saw those videos around youtube and I adore them. Okay I don't have a youtube channel, but let's do it the old school way and blog about it!

What dystopian/fantastical world would you live in?

Okay if you know me you will know the answer. Hogwarts. Duh. Did you really believe I would say something else?

Who would your partner be?

How about British and badass?
Candidats are William Herondale, Ron Weasley, Cassel Sharpe (okay not British, but I love him), Ed Skye (Graffiti Moon), Adam Wilde (Where She Went) and Peeta Mellark. Okay the Britishness is a bit missing, but that's okay. You only wanted to hear one name? Uhm not sure if that's possible. I mean I could continue with this list.

Who would be your godly mother/father? (Percy Jackson)

I love Poseidon, Apollo and Hermes in the books. I love water, swimming, oceans (hey Poseidon and I could talk to animals which is super cool); I love music and poetry (hey Apollo and come on! He's hot and wearing Ray-Bans!); Hermes is just cool, a traveller, likes pranks and he's a troublemaker.
Okay I can't decide between Poseidon and Hermes. Sorry. (Already had this problem while reading the books)

Would you be a downworlder or nephilim? (Shadowhunter world)

A badass nephilim.


Which house would you be in? (Harry Potter)

Slytherin. Pottermore and other HP quizzes agree with me.


Which faction would you be in? (Divergent)

I love Dauntless and I wish I could be fearless, but I think I'm going to say Candor. I can be a bit like Tyrion Lannister. I just can't keep my mouth shut and have to say some things (well you get the picture). If I were a boy I guess I would have been in a couple of fights, because the truth is not always nice.

What would be your daemon? (Northern Lights)

This is a difficult one.  I always wanted to know this. An owl or a wolf would be awesome, but let's find a quiz to answer this!
I got: Jokester Soul -  Forms: Magpie, Raven, Kangaroo, Wild Boar, Baboon.
I think I would choose a kangaroo (or raven) then. 

My favourite Booktubers

Hey there :) Long time no see. Today's post is about my favourite booktubers. Enjoy!

Sanne from bookandquills. I love all her videos and I just adore her!
Choncey from spiffinglycino. Look at her book shelves! What is there not to love?
Priscilla from the readables. I guess everyone knows her, but she is so amazing.
Charley from charley reads. Watch her readerproblems video. I fell in love.
Raeleen from padfootandprongs07. I love her book and songs videos.
Amy from shoutame. She is adorable and so friendly and a huge Lord of the Rings fangirl.
Sarah from clumsinessisacurse. One of my newer booktubers, but I already love her videos.


So. Of course I follow some more people, but these are my favourites. If you are interested in more booktubers just let me know and I will write another post. I also follow three or four bookish people who are not on youtube, but they write amazing blogs. (I could add them to the list if you want me to.)
Which are your favourite booktubers?

Top 10 Books of 2013

2013 is already over and it's time for my Top 10 books. Enjoy.

1. Out Of The Easy by Ruta Sepetys

  

It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in an investigation that will challenge her allegiance to her mother, her conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti Street.

Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures her in her quest for truth, dangling temptation at every turn, and escalating to the ultimate test.

2. The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language by Mark Forsyth 

Do you wake up feeling rough? Then you’re philogrobolized.
Find yourself pretending to work? That’s fudgelling.
And this could lead to rizzling, if you feel sleepy after lunch. Though you are sure to become a sparkling deipnosopbist by dinner. Just don’t get too vinomadefied; a drunk dinner companion is never appreciated.
The Horologicon (or book of hours) contains the most extraordinary words in the English language, arranged according to what hour of the day you might need them. From Mark Forsyth, the author of the #1 international bestseller, The Etymologicon, comes a book of weird words for familiar situations. From ante-jentacular to snudge by way of quafftide and wamblecropt, at last you can say, with utter accuracy, exactly what you mean.

 3. Easy by Tammara Webber

I took a deep breath and exhaled it slowly before turning around. It was Lucas who stood there. His gaze was penetrating, not wavering for a moment, and my pulse hammered under his silent scrutiny. I couldn't remember the last time I'd been so full of pure, unqualified desire.

Lucas is the stranger who saved Jacqueline from an attack by a fellow student - she'd never noticed him before then, and now he's everywhere. But can Jacqueline trust him - or will the secrets he's hiding come between them?





4. A Storm Of Swords by G. R. R. Marton

  Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and still the wars rage as violently as ever, as alliances are made and broken. Joffrey, of House Lannister, sits on the Iron Throne, the uneasy ruler of the land of the Seven Kingdoms. His most bitter rival, Lord Stannis, stands defeated and disgraced, the victim of the jealous sorceress who holds him in her evil thrall. But young Robb, of House Stark, still rules the North from the fortress of Riverrun. Robb plots against his despised Lannister enemies, even as they hold his sister hostage at King’s Landing, the seat of the Iron Throne. Meanwhile, making her way across a blood-drenched continent is the exiled queen, Daenerys, mistress of the only three dragons still left in the world.

 


5. Amelia Anne Is Dead And Gone by Kat Rosenfield

Becca has always longed to break free from her small, backwater hometown. But the discovery of an unidentified dead girl on the side of a dirt road sends the town--and Becca--into a tailspin. Unable to make sense of the violence of the outside world creeping into her backyard, Becca finds herself retreating inward, paralyzed from moving forward for the first time in her life. Short chapters detailing the last days of Amelia Anne Richardson's life are intercut with Becca's own summer as the parallel stories of two young women struggling with self-identity and relationships on the edge twist the reader closer and closer to the truth about Amelia's death.




 6. Hold Me Closer, Necromancer  by Lish McBride

Sam leads a pretty normal life. He may not have the most exciting job in the world, but he's doing all right—until a fast food prank brings him to the attention of Douglas, a creepy guy with an intense violent streak.
 Turns out Douglas is a necromancer who raises the dead for cash and sees potential in Sam. Then Sam discovers he’s a necromancer too, but with strangely latent powers. And his worst nightmare wants to join forces . . . or else.
 With only a week to figure things out, Sam needs all the help he can get. Luckily he lives in Seattle, which has nearly as many paranormal types as it does coffee places. But even with newfound friends, will Sam be able to save his skin?



7. Entangled  by Cat Clarke

The same questions whirl round and round in my head: What does he want from me? How could I have let this happen? AM I GOING TO DIE? 17-year-old Grace wakes up in a white room, with table, pens and paper - and no clue how she got there. As Grace pours her tangled life onto the page, she is forced to remember everything she's tried to forget. There's falling hopelessly in love with the gorgeous Nat, and the unravelling of her relationship with her best friend Sal. But there's something missing. As hard as she's trying to remember, is there something she just can't see? Grace must face the most important question of all. Why is she here? A story of dangerous secrets, intense friendships and electrifying attraction.





8. Just One Day by Gayle Forman 

When sheltered American good girl Allyson "LuLu" Healey first meets laid-back Dutch actor Willem De Ruiter at an underground performance of Twelfth Night in England, there’s an undeniable spark. After just one day together, that spark bursts into a flame, or so it seems to Allyson, until the following morning, when she wakes up after a whirlwind day in Paris to discover that Willem has left. Over the next year, Allyson embarks on a journey to come to terms with the narrow confines of her life, and through Shakespeare, travel, and a quest for her almost-true-love, to break free of those confines.






9. The Help by Kathryn Stockett

 Twenty-two-year-old Skeeter has just returned home after graduating from Ole Miss. She may have a degree, but it is 1962, Mississippi, and her mother will not be happy till Skeeter has a ring on her finger. Skeeter would normally find solace with her beloved maid Constantine, the woman who raised her, but Constantine has disappeared and no one will tell Skeeter where she has gone.
Aibileen is a black maid, a wise, regal woman raising her seventeenth white child. Something has shifted inside her after the loss of her own son, who died while his bosses looked the other way. She is devoted to the little girl she looks after, though she knows both their hearts may be broken.
Minny, Aibileen's best friend, is short, fat, and perhaps the sassiest woman in Mississippi. She can cook like nobody's business, but she can't mind her tongue, so she's lost yet another job. Minny finally finds a position working for someone too new to town to know her reputation. But her new boss has secrets of her own.




10. A Clash Of Kings by G. R. R. Martin

Time is out of joint. The summer of peace and plenty, ten years long, is drawing to a close, and the harsh, chill winter approaches like an angry beast. Two great leaders—Lord Eddard Stark and Robert Baratheon—who held sway over an age of enforced peace are dead...victims of royal treachery. Now, from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns, as pretenders to the Iron Throne of the Seven Kingdoms prepare to stake their claims through tempest, turmoil, and war. 

 


(in no special order)