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.
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
Sunday, 16 February 2014
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?
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?
Friday, 3 January 2014
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
2. The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language by Mark Forsyth
3. Easy by Tammara Webber
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
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
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
(in no special order)
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)
Wednesday, 30 October 2013
All Hallow's Read
Under My Hat: Tales From The Cauldron by Jonathan Strahan
I decided to make this collection of 18 short stories my Halloween read 2013 after I saw a post by Stacy (The Pretty Books) about it. I only read 3 stories so far, but I'm looking forward to the other ones.
In case you are looking for a novel I can recommend "The Diviners" by Libba Bray. Before Stacy's post I wanted to read this as my Halloween read, but now it has to wait. I read the first chapter of it and I already liked it a lot.
What is your All Hallow's Read? Do you have any favourite spooky/Halloween books?
Sunday, 27 October 2013
October book haul
Here are the books I bought this month.
All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill
Allegiant by Veronica Roth
More Weird Things Customers Say In Bookshops by Jen Campbell
Just One Year by Gayle Forman
Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi
Mr Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
It's Kind Of A Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
I also bought the new Kindle paperwhite (which I love!) and downloaded some books.
Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Losing It by Cora Carmack
Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
I guess I can say that I bought quite a lot this month. Which books have you bought or downloaded?
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