#WHAT A GENIUS YOU ARE MRS STIEFVATER

[zulemmita]

LOVE IS REAL

[luci-cunt]

hi! i was wondering what books are on your to be read list? i need some new books and your taste is *chefs kiss* immaculate !!!

Oh my god I’d LOVE to tell you, alsdkjfl;asdkj thank you so much asjd;flaksjd, there’s so fucking many right now XDD. In no particular order--

Sticks & Stones [Abigail Roux + Madeleine Urban] (she’s currently at #1ish because I’m an addict now--if you’re wondering it’s part of the Cut & Run series, fucking fantastic)

The Lady’s Guide to Petticoats and Piracy [Mackenzi Lee] (I read A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue and fucking LOVED it, but I still haven’t gotten around to this one)

The Gangs of New York / Chicago [Herbert Asbury] (I have both books and my dad and I are reading them together so we can make fun of the show XD)

Brothersong [T.J. Klune] (T-T it doesn’t come out until October but it’s b4 in the Green Creek series which is AMAZING)

Crooked Kingdom [Leigh Bardugo] (b2 of the Six of Crows books--again, fantastic, 10/10 would recommend if you like found family and crime + books a bit on the grittier side. lol I still have to finish this but it got spoiled for me and now I’m upset because one of my favs dies T-T)

The Raven Cycle [Maggie Stiefvater] (All of these books including Call Down the Hawk are on my tbr list, I read the first/ second but had to stop cuz they hit just a bit too close to home XD I liked them tho and wanna get back into em)

Dracula [Bram Stoker] + Frankenstein [Mary Shelley] (I know, I know, point and mock the uncultured swine XDD I just haven’t gotten around to reading them!!)

Essays Against Everything [Mark Greif] (I picked this up at an airport bookstore and read about halfway through it and loved it, the guy just rambles very concisely about things he doesn’t agree with and I like how he writes)

God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater [Kurt Vonnegut] (I have no idea what this is about or even what it is, I just saw Vonnegut and had to buy it XD)

Lord of Shadows [Cassandra Clare] (b2 of the Dark Artifices series. Honestly I have very mixed feelings about Clare’s work but, I love Ty more than anything so this remains on my tbr list XD)

The Lost Hero/ Heros of Olympus Series [Rick Riordan] (I’ve actually already read the whole series but lol with the pjo resurgence it’s making me nostalgic)

Those are all I can think of off the top of my head, but also here’s some of my favorite books as suggestions!! <33

All for the Game [Nora Sakovic] (I feel like if you’re following me you’ve probably read this XD but I’m putting it on here anyways)

The Princess Bride [William Goldman] (I love this book with my entire heart, it’s cheesy, genius, and fucking hilarious, plus the fight scenes are actually so fucking cool. OH! And the movie fucks too!!)

The Song of Achilles [Madeline Miller] (This book is just so fucking pretty, its literal art. Plus it’ll make you bawl your eyes out)

Red, White and Royal Blue [Casey McQuiston] (another of those that if you’re following me you’ve probably read but I fucking adore it)

Slaughterhouse Five [Kurt Vonnegut] (this book is ROUGH, but so, so good. Kinda hard to follow at first--like all of Vonnegut’s work he’s special XD--but it’s one of my alltime favorites)

Sapiens [Yuval Noah Harari] (it’s literally the history of all of humanity, but nowhere near as long as A People’s History and I LOVE the way he writes, it’s so cool, he literally starts at the beginning of time and I love it)

Happy reading!! <3

[audikatia]

Considering my goal this year was 50 books, not too shabby! My full list (and my ratings) is under the read more for anyone interested.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling *****

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J. K. Rowling *****

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling *****

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by J. K. Rowling *****

Harry Potter and the Order of Phoenix by J. K. Rowling *****

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince by J. K. Rowling *****

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J. K. Rowling *****

Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir by Bill Hayes ****

The Witchfinder’s Sister by Beth Underdown ***

The American Plague: The Untold Story of Yellow Fever, The Epidemic That Shaped Our History by Molly Caldwell Crosby ****

The Strange Case of the Broad Street Pump: John Snow and the Mystery of Cholera by Sandra Hempel **

Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from the Black Death to Avian Flu by Philip Alcabes *****

Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery by Henry Marsh ***

The Matter of the Heart: a History or the Heart in Eleven Operations by Thomas Morris ***

The Chick and the Dead: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors by Carla Valentine ****

Pulse by Michael Harvey **

The Sleep Solution: Why Your Sleep is Broken and How to Fix It by Dr. W. Chris Winter *****

The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die by Katherine Ashenburg ***

Pantomime by Laura Lam ****

Shadowplay by Laura Lam ****

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson ****

Weirdo by Cathi Unsworth ***

I’ll be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamera ****

The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum ****

Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954: Pain and Passion by Andrea Kettenmann ****

The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin **

The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert ****

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen **

Uprooted by Naomi Novik (recommended by Genevieve Senechal) **

The Dreamers by Karen Thompson Walker ***

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together In the Cafeteria?: and Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Daniel Tatum ****

The Sun and Her Flowers by Rupi Kaur *****

Why Men Love Bitches: From Doormat to Dreamgirl - A Woman’s Guide to Holding Her Own in a Relationships by Sherry Argov  (recommended by Arielle Ridolfino) ***

The Elizas by Sara Shepard ***

Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard ***

Veronica Mars: The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas *****

Veronica Mars: Mr. Kiss and Tell by Rob Thomas *****

The Monster of Florence by Douglas Preston ***

Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather ***

The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black ****

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini ****

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs ***

The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown ****

The Coldest Girl in Coldtown by Holly Black ***

The Vegetarian by Han Kang ***

Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris (recommended by Eileen Streeter) ****

The Spellman Files by Lisa Lutz ***

Curse of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz ***

Revenge of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz ***

The Spellmans Strike Again by Lisa Lutz ***

Trial of the Spellmans by Lisa Lutz ***

The Last Word: A Spellman Novel by Lisa Lutz ***

The Passenger by Lisa Lutz ***

The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: A Shocking Murder and the Undoing of a Great Victorian Detective by Kate Summerscale ***

The Truth is a Cave in the Black Mountains by Neil Gaiman ****

The Murder Business: High Profile Crimes and the Corruption of Justice by Mark Fuhrman **

I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong (Lauren Duguid) ****

Someday, Someday, Maybe by Lauren Graham ***

Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan ***

The Trouble with Goats and Sheep by Joanna Cannon **

The Winter Sister by Megan Collins **

Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly ****

The Kite Runner by Khalid Hosseini (recommended by Joseph Guillen) ****

Hollow City by Ransom Riggs **

Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham ****

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins ***

Bossypants by Tina Fey ****

White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in American by Nancy Isenberg ****

One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus ****

The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade for Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Deborah Blum *****

Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep  *****

Red, White, and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston *****

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green ***

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes ****

The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty (recommended by Rachel Dunn) *

The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore *****

Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus ****

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls by Anissa Gray ****

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson ****

The Mermaid by Christina Henry ****

Fruits Basket, Vol 1 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 2 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 3 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 4 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 5 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 6 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 7 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 8 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 9 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 10 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 11 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 12 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 13 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 14 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 15 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 16 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 17 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 18 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 19 by Natsuki Takaya *****

Fruits Basket, Vol 20 by Natsuki Takaya *****

The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman (recommended by Julia Stenard) *

Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman *****

Teen Titans: Raven by Kami Garcia *****

The Infinite Noise by Lauren Shippen ****

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green **

Yes Please by Amy Poehler ***

Say Nothing: a True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe *****

The Last Lone Inventor: A Tale of Genius, Deceit, and the Birth of Television by Evan L. Schwartz ***

Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris ***

You by Caroline Kepnes ****

The Swallows by Lisa Lutz ***

The Silent Patient by Alexander Michaealides ***

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz ****

The Word is Murder by Anthony Horowitz ***

The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers (recommended by Sarah Mullersman) *****

She Lies in Wait by Gytha Lodge ***

Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater *****

Bright Earth: Art and the Invention of Color by Philip Ball **

The Murder of the Century: The Gilded Age Crime that Scandalized a City and Sparked the Tabloid Wars by Paul Collins **

The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton ****

The Whisper Man by Alex North *****

The Hiding Place by C. J. Tudor *****

Unsub by Meg Gardiner *****

Into the Black Nowhere by Meg Gardiner ****

Noir by Christopher Moore ***

Death Prefers Blondes by Caleb Roehrig ****

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith/J. K. Rowling (recommended by Caitlin Markey) ***

The Hunger by Alma Katsu ***

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert (recommended by Kiersten Spence) ****

As Bright as Heaven by Susan Meissner ***

1Q84 by Haruki Murakami (recommended by Sheyla Ruiz) ****

The Pursuit of Miss Heartbreak Hotel by Moe Bonneau ***

The Weight of the Stars by K. Ancrum ****

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite ****

The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith/J. K. Rowling ****

Career of Evil by Robert Galbraith/J. K. Rowling ***

[lilacmermaid25]

Books Read in 2018

Favourites in bold, ask me about any of them!

1. Song of the Current (Sarah Tolcser) 2. The Lost Book of the Grail (Charlie Lovett) 3. Traitor to the Throne (Alwyn Hamilton) 4. What Happened (Hillary Rodham Clinton) 5. Fifteen Dogs (Andre Alexis) 6. Call the Nurse (Mary J Macleod) 7. Strands of Bronze and Gold (Jane Nickerson) 8. Mr Rochester (Sarah Shoemaker) 9. The Island of Books (Dominique Fortier) 10. In Calabria (Peter S Beagle) 11. Ashes of Twilight (Kassy Taylor) 12. The Underground Railroad (Colson Whitehead) 13. Wolf by Wolf (Ryan Graudin) 14. Grandmother Stories: How the Earth and Sky Began (Daniel Auger) 15. The Black Key (Amy Ewing) 16. A Song for Ella Gray (David Almond) 17. The Secret Chord (Geraldine Brooks) 18. On Chesil Beach (Ian McEwan) 19. Spindle (E.K. Johnston) 20. The Fate of the Tearling (Erica Johansen) 21. Norse Mythology (Neil Gaiman) 22. This Monstrous Thing (Mackenzie Lee) 23. Underground Airlines (Ben H Winters) 24. Labyrinth Lost (Zoraida Cordova) 25. Into the Bright Unknown (Rae Carson) 26. Eagle and Empire (Alan Smale) 27. The Seafarer's Kiss (Julia Ember) 28. Retribution Rails (Erin Bowman) 29. Court of Lions (Jane Johnson) 30. Three Dark Crowns (Kendare Blake) 31. The Girl with Borrowed Wings (Rinsai Rosseth) 32. Dragon Seer (Janet McNaughton) 33. Every Hidden Thing (Kenneth Oppel) 34. The Lightkeepers (Abby Geni) 35. Passenger (Alexandra Bracken) 36. Beneath Wandering Stars (Ashlee Cowles) 37. The Inconceivable Life of Quinn (Marianna Baer) 38. All Fall Down (Ally Carter) 39. Everfair (Nisi Shawl) 40. The List (Patricia Forde) 41. Nexus (Scott Westerfeld, Margo Lanagan, & Deborah Biancotti) 42. The Labyrinth of Drakes (Marie Brennan) 43. The Huntress: Sea (Sarah Driver) 44. Neverhome (Laird Hunt) 45. The New Boy (Tracy Chevalier) 46. Blood for Blood (Ryan Graudin) 47. Circling the Sun (Paula McLain) 48. Sovereign (April Daniels) 49. The Wonder (Emma Donoghue) 50. The Bone Witch (Rin Chupeco) 51. Moth + Spark (Anne Leonard) 52. Circle of Treason: A CIA Account of Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men he Betrayed (Sandra Grimes & Jeanne Vertefeuille) 53. All the Crooked Saints (Maggie Stiefvater) 54. Nutshell (Ian McEwan) 55. Shadowsong (S Jae-Jones) 56. The Lost Sisterhood (Anne Fortier) 57. Ape House (Sara Gruen) 58. Shadowshaper (Daniel Jose Older) 59. The Immortals (Jordanna Max Brodsky) 60. The Watcher in the Wall (Owen Laukkanen) 61. The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: The Donald J Trump Presidential Twitter Library 62. Blood and Sand (C.V. Wyk) 63. You Can't Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President (Alec Baldwin & Kurt Andersen) 64. A Very Stable Genius (Mike Luckovich) 65. Caroline: Little House, Revisited (Sarah Miller)

[andrwminyardx]

Bookish Questions Tag

Thank you @snowflakes-and-sparks for tagging me! Sorry this is late. 

1) What book has been on my book shelf the longest?

Probably ‘The Hungry Hungry Caterpillar’ Or I guess Harry Potter.

2) What is your current read, last read, and next read?

current read - The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater

last read - The Grisha Trilogy by leigh bardugo

next read - A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas 

3) Which book does everyone else like but you hated?

I don’t think I’ve ever really hated a book. I usually read the first chapter of a book and if I don’t like it, I don’t read it. So I guess you could say that I’ve never read a book I didn’t like. 

4) Which book do keep telling yourself you’ll read, but probably won’t?

Redeemed by P.C. and Kristen (in?) Cast. 

5) Which book are you saving for retirement?

I never buy a book that I don’t read/finish within the first week of buying it. Why would someone wait 50+ years to retire before reading a book? What kind of blasphemy is that? 

6) Last Page: read it first or wait till the end?

Sometimes when I get a little bored while reading I’ll read the last page take a peak at the last page.

7) Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?

I like reading them because it helps people and future novelist realize just how many people it takes to write a book. 

8) Which book character do you want to switch places with?

Errr... Can I be Kenji Kishimoto from Shatter Me? Or Maya from The Darkest Powers/Darkness Rising series?

9) Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, or a time)?

Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, is basically my life with a different name. 

10) Name a book you acquired in some interesting way

When I transferred to a new High School half way through my 10th grade we had SSR (Silent Self-Reading) where we basically have to read a book for 15 minutes until the next class bell rang. Well I hadn’t brought one the first week and the second week when I opened my locker the book The Mockingjay sat on the top shelf with a sticky note saying ‘You didn’t have a book so you can have mine. Spoiler, Prim dies.’ At first it was sweet but how dare they spoil it (Good thing I didn’t know who Prim was at that point) and I still can’t figure out how they opened my locker or who it was. IT’S BEEN ALMOST FIVE YEARS COULD THE PERSON WHO BROKE INTO MY LOCKER PLEASE COME FORWARD?!?!

11) Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special reason?

I get anxiety when people borrow my books, the ideal of giving any away makes me teeter on borderline panic. But I’ve bought a few younger kid books and donated them an orphanage that I volunteered at for a year.

12) Which book has been with you to most places?

The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton. “Stay gold Ponyboy.” It is my favorite book and I read it at least once a month. 

13) Any “required reading” that you hated in high school, but wasn’t so bad ten years later?

The Book Thief. I hated it in school but now I love it. 

14) What the strangest item you’ve found in a book?

Someone in the library ripped out a page from a different book and placed it perfectly over a page in another book and while I was reading there was suddenly a new character and situation going on and I sat there for almost 10 minutes wondering if I missed something before I realized that page wasn’t from the book? 

15) Used or New

Preferably new, only because I’m so paranoid about used books and I don’t like things if I didn’t know who had them and where they came from. It’s a fear of the not knowing the history of used items, or more so of any kind of unknown. 

16) Stephen King: literary genius or opiate of the masses?

I mean have you read his books? I read ‘Mr. Mercedes’ and even though I only read like 10 chapters before I lost the book, the writing was AMAZING!

17) Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the books?

Nope.

18) Conversely, which book should NEVER have been introduced to celluloid?

Twilight. They should’ve left it alone with the books. 

19) Have you ever read a book that’s made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?

Not really. 

20) Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?

My friends here on tumblr, everyone here- that I’ve talked to, has good taste and advice when it comes to literature. My IRL friends and family don’t read, at all. 

I’m tagging @corporalki , @samanthaslytherin , and @azuremirwae  (sorry if you’ve already done it) and anyone else who wants to do this!