The year’s closer to being over than not and I’ve accomplished diddly squat. That’s not entirely true, but I feel like time is speeding up much too fast, so this tag actually allowed me to reflect on the beginning of the year! Thank you orang-utan librarian and icebreaker694 for tagging me! Check out their blogs if you like reading entertaining stuff. Let’s go:
Best Book You’ve Read Yet in 2016
This wasn’t a conclusion I came to lightly. There was a large amount of math and science involved that allowed for these two novels to win, blah blah blah. Okay, so that’s obviously false, but I did think about it for awhile before making this decision.
Best Sequel You’ve Read So Far in 2016
I haven’t read many sequels this year, so I guess Saga Vol. 2
New Release You Haven’t Read Yet But Want To
There’s so many but these two will do.
Most Anticipated Release for the Second Half of the Year
I guess this would be it. (P.S. I’ve already read this but when I wrote this I hadn’t)
Biggest Disappointment
Serious disappointment.
Biggest Surprise
Two authors I’d never heard of and I don’t like contemporary romance often (Wallbanger).
Favourite New Author
They’re completely different genres and styles of writers, but I’m loving them both.
Newest Fictional Crush
Zeus
Newest Favourite Character
Ummm……I really don’t know.
Book That Made You Cry
Nothing. I’m not overly emotional, however, the closest would be The Air He Breathes
Book That Made You Happy
Not necessarily happy but they were very funny.
Favourite Book to Film Adaptation
I don’t really have a favorite but they did great on The Martian – it was exactly like the book.
Favourite Post You Have Done This Year
Haha, I really don’t know. The funnest was the Rip it or Ship It Tag
Most Beautiful Book You’ve Bought This Year
Stardust & Binti, but the year’s still young.
What Books Do You Need to Read by the End of the Year
A lot of the books I have, but mostly Hamlet.
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Totally random comment but the dude on the cover of The Air He Breathes has a really nice beard.
Haha, he does!
Thanks for the tag! I really want to read some of these, especially Vicious and The Martian! Also that Stardust cover is soooo beautiful – I’m jealous!! 🙂
No problem! I haven’t read Vicious yet, but The Martian was great! Haha, isn’t the cover beautiful – I love it 🙂
So beautiful – I need it in my life! Which other V.E. Schwab books have you read? I just finished A Darker Shade of Magic and loved it, and I got to meet her last weekend at this YA book convention I went to in London!! 🙂 She was so lovely.
I’ve actually only read the same one you have, A Darker Shade of Magic, but I’m trying to read book 2 pretty soon. Whoa! That’s so cool – both London and V.E. Schwab ❤ 🙂 So cool to meet authors and they're just as awesome as you'd hope.
Ahh awesome – I really want to read book 2 asap too 🙂 And exactly- I love it when authors are as awesome in real life as you imagine they would be from reading their book!
Wow, thank you so much! Congratulations on hitting 100 followers – that’s awesome! Love your blog!
Agree with you about the Martian movie 🙂 And Schwab is great!! Would you believe that I still haven’t read Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy? (cos I can’t) Hamlet is amazing!! Love your post!
Thank you! Wasn’t the movie for the Martian great! Matt Damon did a great job as Mark. ADSOM was great can’t wait to read book 2. Oh wow, really?! Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy was great but I had to listen to the audiobook while reading. There’s a lot of lingering text. I’m ashamed to say I’ve never read Hamlet lol.
Yeah he really did!! It really was and I really liked the second one too- but now I’m desperate to read the third one. Ahh was that a problem? Well it’s well worth it 🙂
I’ve been trying to get my hands on a copy of book 2 since I finished book 1 – these Georgia libraries suck. Did you write a review for book 2? Haha, for me it was. It read like a literal handbook at times, which, although funny, kinda dragged on. I’m glad to hear it (well, see it in this instance ;))!
ahh that’s annoying!! I did actually- you can read it here https://theorangutanlibrarian.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/a-gathering-of-shadows/
oh that’s a bit of a pain
Awesome! Thanks 🙂
You’re welcome!