Halloween Themed Books.

Do you re-read certain books around Christmas-time? Or around Halloween? I definitely watch christmas themed movies during the holidays, and I am OBSESSED with Halloweentown every year when october rolls around. All of the halloweentowns have my heart. Are they cheesy? Perhaps. BUT THEY ARE GREAT. Just one of those things, I guess.

Anyway. I digress. This October I've been reading up a storm to keep up with my Goodreads challenge, so I've been trying to read halloween-ish books. SO, I made a handy little youtube video full of my new halloween-y books.

If you are interested, take a look. I even dress up in costume... sort of.

I like my books. [September edition]

 I am trying to get better at voicing my opinions about the books I love. A lot of the time all I can say is JUST READ IT. So in the future I will try to do a book review or something... until then- enjoy my september book haul.

ALSO CAN I JUST SAY THAT I JUST FINISHED THE DARKEST MINDS AND MY MIND IS BLOWN. I CANNOT FUNCTION WITHOUT IT.

Sorry for the melodrama, but I am seriously considering re-reading it right now. EVEN THOUGH i do not have the time for it.

Eee.



Give me your book recommendations, friends! Please. :)

My first book haul + blog video.

Helloooooo... and Happy Monday! The school year has officially begun for pretty much everyone! Eep! That means the boyfriend AND the roommate have started back in classes, which means a lot of weird feelings are coming my way! To combat these feelings I have picked up some books that I mean to read soon. I've also been youtubing it up all weekend, and decided to make my first youtube video! Its a book haul. Which seems kind of silly, now that I'm done with it. But if you're interested, it is posted below. You can skip the first three or so minutes because it is just me rambling about goodreads and their 2013 reading challenge that I have taken on. ANYWHO, after doing the video I realized I will probably have to review some of these books in the future. We shall see, friends. We shall see.

Check it out below:

iRead Again.

Well, I can't seem to stop myself from ordering books online.

So.

I read Jane Eyre finally, for the first time ever. I am not very surprised (although I am kind of surprised) how quickly I went through it. Mr. Rochester... i love. Such a strange character, but him and Jane are so charmingly weird! I want to re-read it and memorize all the fantastic quotes it contains because they are so perfect. so perfect. As you know since I quoted one of them here. ANYWAY, if you're into the Bronte genre then you should GO FOR IT. although you probably have already. I am behind the rest of the world.

Also since I have last blogged my reading- I read Paper Towns by John Green. I'd been meaning to read it, and for some reason I read all his other books first (Looking for Alaska, An Abundance of Katherines, & of course TFIOS). This one was pretty entertaining. TFIOS takes top place for me, with An Abundance of Katherines taking second place. Paper Towns did make me laugh out loud in the last third part of the book. But I didn't loooove the ending, and the middle lagged a bit for me. Oh well.

Maybe I didn't like Paper Towns so much because I had read Thirteen Reasons Why prior to it, and it put a bit of a damper on it. hah. Thirteen Reasons Why was a good read, but so very sobering and sad. Hannah Baker narrates the story of why she decided to commit suicide on seven cassette tapes, and then has them delivered to thirteen people who played important parts in her story, so that they would know why she did it. Clay is the ninth person to receive them, and is obviously horrified to hear what he does, but also embarks on the Hannah-designated adventure to understand her decision. So, obviously, it is a hard read. I felt like I was sitting in a bubble while I read this book. After it was done I realized I'd turned all my music off (which I neverrrrr do), and was sitting on the couch in silence. Lots of feels. The whole time I was wondering how it could end without it being so sad, and the author did a good job of pulling it all together.

Any good book recommendations? I read almost any genre so no holds barred!

Also, do you any of you listen to City and Colour? I just discovered them and am obsessssssed. Listen to them here!

Happy Monday!

iRead.

Besides watching bad TV shows (well, some of them are good... i swear), I've found myself delving into reading and writing more. I started War and Peace, but then I saw Anna & The french kiss on sale for two bucks last Sunday. So... I bought it. I haven't read a purely "romance" book in a looooooonnggg time. But it was cute, and fun, and light. So I got lola and the boy next door which is of a similar theme. Really cute books, and I finished them almost incredibly fast. So on that note, I ventured over to B&N a couple days ago and spent my Christmas/Graduation gift cards up on a couple different books! So far I've only read The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight. I enjoyed it too! It wasn't purely about a boy, but rather a father/daughter relationship. Which was nice! Yay sentimentality! The next books I'm about to read are not light. Hullo Jane Eyre, I'm lookin' at you. I'm excited to read it because I never have before! Then I can watch the movie that has the girl from alice in wonderland, whom i love.

Enough book talk. Wait. Is there ever enough book talk? I don't think there is. I went on a book talk bender on the way to galveston last weekend with my friend who is reading books I've already read. I suddenly realized that I haven't gotten to talk about them at all because I don't know anyone else reading right now! What! Everyone is still stuck on game of thrones books, I feel like. CATCH UP TO ME, FRIENDS!

kadios :)

Bookin' It

For some reason I've been blowing through books the past couple of weeks. No complaints here! I tend to usually stay in the same genre of book, so I've been trying to branch out a little. That means I've been reading books for people over the age of 20 (aka no young adult books here!... well, maybe one.).  Thought I would document the ones I've read because when people ask me what to read I always forget what I liked and didn't like about books. So here goesssssss...

I found City of Women on Amazon's best seller list & it looked interesting so I bought it. So glad I did! I am a sucker for WWII books, especially when told from perspectives I've never heard before. In this case, the book is from the perspective of a woman living in Berlin married to a Nazi Soldier. The book takes you through her journey being in a city under siege, and in constant fear of being arrested. I found myself face-palming myself towards the middle/end of the book but probably because Sigrid is a whole lot braver than me & did things I would be too paranoid to get into. Ha. There are such good, real heroines in this book. Love it. A good read if you like stressful WW2 books. ;)

I read this book directly after City of Women and kind of wished that I'd read a few light-hearted books in between. This book is so incredibly terrifying and inspirational at the same time. I was 3 during the Rwandan Genocide, so obviously I didn't know much about it. She goes through the background of why the genocide happened, and also her time spent sitting in a bathroom for 3 months hiding from people trying to kill her. Insane. But such a good book (if you're at all religious ;). Really glad I read it even though it made going to sleep at night incredibly hard.

Mark of Athena!! Not much to say except I love Rick Riordan and Percy Jackson... been a fan for years, so I can't stop now. Great series.

I had never read the perks of being a wallflower until now! I haven't seen the movie yet, so I decided to read the book first! Such a great story. Easy to read, and soooo interesting. I love Charlie, and Sam, and Patrick. Hard not to. I heard the movie will make me cry, so we shall see.









Anyone have any other book recommendations? I need some...

Pictures from google images.

Books Books Books.

Incase any of you were wondering, tuesday was good to me.

Although I wish I was in bed, I just have a little more work ahead.

I just finished a book (or two... ok three) and I loved it!

Yay books!

After reading The Hunger Games nothing has left me as satisfied. Besides Harry Potter, nothing probably will. 

However Divergent by Veronica Roth did a very good job of distracting me.

If you liked the hunger games... this won't be as good. But it will be a good read. 

It's kind of dark, and the heroine was better than most (I'm looking at you, Bella Swan). Not really post-apocalyptic, but definitely a different reality. Very gripping read.

I also read a book called Enclave by Ann Aguirre. It was interesting, and a can't-put-down-read. But, I liked Divergent better. It's a post-apocalyptic tale that has some kinda zombie things hangin out in it. I'm not really a fan of zombies. Or apocalypses.

Then there's the Son of Neptune. Heard of Percy Jackson? No? Go read. Best series ever (after HP and HG). The Son of Neptune is the sequel to the Lost Hero and the second series of the olympians by Rick Riordan. Love it.

My sister is a 7th grade english teacher, and she gives me these young adult books that I can't seem to stop reading.

To be clear: I blame her.

K. Back to work. (: