#and zahro your answers were so entertaining!!

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I Should Have Read That (Tag)

Rules:

Thank the person who tagged you and link back to their post

Link to the creator’s blog in your post

Answer the questions below

Tag 10 others to take part

ENJOY THE TAG!

A book that a certain friend is always telling you to read:

My friend @revimakk has strongly recommended Maurice to me, and I am actually reading it! It just. takes. so. long. to get anything done! Looking forward to watching the film with you when I’m done, though ;) 

A book that’s been on your TBR forever and yet you still haven’t picked it up:

Obviously there are the classics, like Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoj (I have actually read a little bit of this, but I need to start from the beginning again) and Babettes Gjestebud by Karen Blixen, but I think a more fun answer is a books I actually really look forward to reading: The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. I’m scared of starting it because I think I’ll love it, but the series hasn’t been completed yet! 

A book in a series you’ve started, but haven’t finished yet:

I read The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander last year and loved it. It’s the first book in The Chronicles of Prydain, and I can’t wait to read the next! Did anyone watch The Black Cauldron? It’s so creepy and unsettling and GOOD! The Horned King and his undead army rising from the cauldron haunted my dreams!! But the books is in a lot of ways better because the female characters are actually cool and do stuff! What a concept!! Also Gurgi in the movie: cute, kinda annoying for the characters but funny for the viewers, I would die for him. Gurgi in the book: oh god what is that send an exorcist!

A classic you’ve always liked the sound of, but never actually read:

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne. I lovelovelove deep sea stuff, be it books, movies, documentaries, general science, spooky stories, I eat it up. What is down there? Who knows, but it’s probably super cool and kinda dangerous! I love all the weird illustrations of the book, but I read Around the World in Eighty Days last year and ... there was a lot of sexism and racism (as I’m sure must be expected of a book written so long ago by a white man), and it really soured the story for me and I ended up not enjoying it at all. I’m sure a lot of people think you must be able to detach yourself from those feelings when reading classics, but it’s my time, and I don’t want to spend it on books I don’t enjoy just for classics points. I already have so many fcking books on my TBR!!!

A popular book that it seems everyone but you has read:

Hmm, depends on if I count ‘everyone’ as my circle of friends or the general online book community. If I look at my friends it’s definitely Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice agdshgdfsjf! I’m halfway through, but it’s a heavy read for me (please, I’m nothing but a humble geologist, I can barely read anything that doesn’t have the word ‘feldspar’ in it, all these old timey romantic words and sentence structures are killing me!), and I’ve been halfway through it for about a year now... oops! For the general online book community I think it would be Throne of Glass. I wanted to read it when I first got into reading again, but after many misses I’ve finally given up on YA fantasy. If I read another American book about horny super teens in love triangles I will actually burst into flames. 

A book that inspired a film/TV adaptation that you really love, but you just haven’t read it yet:

Good Omens! Yes, Good Omens has claimed yet another soul, send help! (Also The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty. I don’t care about the movie, and I know it’s based on the book, so I’m not super invested in reading it, but the tv series is soooo good!!!)

A book you see all over Instagram/Tumblr but haven’t picked up yet:

Hmm.. I don’t really use Instagram, and I don’t see a lot of book content on Tumblr. It might not be what’s hyped the most elsewhere, but probably Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater. I think I’ll get to it at some point, because Ronan was my favourite of the main squad in The Raven Cycle series, but I HAVE to stop buying books. Someone help me. I need intervention. Help me budget. My family is starving. :(

Thanks to the lovely @zahroreadsthings for the tag! <3 I would highly recommend her blog, she knows what’s up when it comes to books!! Her post is here !

I tag @rumandyarn @khazadqueer @khaaaaaaaaaan @panzertorte @pastmydancingdays​ @revimakk​ and @darthmaulnut but no pressure! If you feel like doing it I would love to read your answers!

And I also tag anyone else who wants to do this! Esp if we’re mutuals, I was probably too shy to tag you! And if we’re not mutuals say hello!