Feature and Follow Friday #4

Feature and Follow Friday is an awesome weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Every week they choose a featured blogger with questions to answer to everybody. A wonderful way to meet other bloggers and discover blogs! Share the love!

This weeks question:

When you step out of your USUAL genre what do you like to read? Best books in that genre?

For now, my usual genre would be Young Adult. However, that has only been so for about a year and half, I'd say. I used to really enjoy a good crime novel (anything by Agatha Christie, Rex Stout and Erle Stanley Gardner.) Also epic fantasy has always been my soft spot, I just usually prefer it in YA genre. But my current love is A Song of Ice and Fire series by G.R.R. Martin. Long live! And I have always loved historical fiction about Ancient Egypt, my personal favorites are Sinuhe the Egyptian by Mika Waltari and Ramses series by Christian Jaque. Such fond memories!

Feature and Follow Friday #3

Feature and Follow Friday is an awesome weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Every week they choose a featured blogger with questions to answer to everybody. A wonderful way to meet other bloggers and discover blogs! Share the love!

This weeks question:

What book do you think would make a great Halloween movie? (Please explain in graphic detail and goriness...)

Well... the only book (actually the whole series, to be more exact) in my read shelf I could come up with was the Saga of Darren Shan. And I know, that technically the first book(s) has already been made into a movie, but I feel the series was just awesome, creepy and gripping, that the should definitely go on with it, and hopefully start from the beginning again.
It's full of truly gruesome and horrific twists and turns. I usually see through the tricks, but here all the unexpected kept happening. The characters are creepy and just awesome. Overall, this series is phenomenal and would make an awesome Halloween read/movie!

Top Ten Tuesday ( #2) Books You'd Hand To Someone Who Doesn't Like To Read

Top Ten Books is an awesome weekly  meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish.This week we were given a free pick from all the previous topics, which is really good, because I've missed out so much! I want to dedicate it to my little brother, who always says he hates reading and after a lot of grumbling and convincing ends up loving the books I choose. While choosing, I tried to pick books, which would make the reader enjoy it and want to read more. So without further ado, my choice for this weeks TTT:

Top Ten Books You'd Hand To Someone Who Says They Don't Like To Read:

1. Percy Jackson and the Olympians series by Rick Riordan. I think this series is an awesome way to get people reading. You couldn't really not like it. Every book is different and filled with myths combined with our everyday lives. It's funny, quick paced and just plain awesome!
2. The Secrets of the Immortal Nicolas Flamel series by Michael Scott. It's pretty much the same. A great series about completely ordinary brother and sister who are suddenly thrown into the midst of magic and long forgotten mythical creatures. 
3. Pretty much any book by Terry Pratchett. He is just hilarious and as one of my favorite authors I recommend his books to everyone. I mostly end up laughing and clutching my stomach.
4. Following the same track, I most definitely would recommend the Bartimaeus trilogy by Jonathan Strout. I still remember reading it for the first time, I though it was the best series in the world. There'shardly anything more amusing then a stuck up gin released from a bottle and a clumsy teenage boy.
5. From the classics, depending on a person, but still, I'd recommend Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë. It still stays as one of my favorite books and had a huge impact on me. I think everyone would get something out of Mr Rochesters and Janes relationship.
6. Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare. A YA series, which I found absolutely hilarious, action packed and full of surprises. The writing style made me grip my stomach from laughter.
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë. Another one of my absolute favorites. Sinister and greedy, this book lets you see the ugly side of love. It is so strangely touching, impossibly sad and passionate, that it just has to affect you.
8. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. Yeah I know half of the people hate this book with fire, but it still stays as one of the classics in my list. It shows a side of literature you usually might not pick up. Naive and at the same time fierce.
9. The Alchemist by Paulo Coleho. I only decided to pick it up, because I received it as a present, but it ended up as one of the most motivating books in my list. It was spiritual, but not in the strict sense of the term. It made me think about myself and the way I look at the world. Quick and easy read.
10. And last but not least, the Harry Potter series by JKR. I think no one can say after reading Harry Potter that they did not enjoy it even a little.

                          

Feature and Follow Friday #2

Feature and Follow Friday is an awesome weekly meme hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Every week the choose a featured blogger with questions to answer to everybody. A wonderful way to meet other bloggers and discover blogs! Share the love!

This weeks question:

What hyped up book do you think was worth all the talk? 

I would have to agree with a lot of you and vouch for The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins!! It left me breathless and awed. It was my first Dystopian novel and just, wow! So worth all the hype. (But only the first book. And second a bit maybe. But the third one should have never happened.) For more details, see my review.

Leave me a comment below to let me know of your thoughts or a link to your own post and I'll be sure to check it out. And don't forget to follow, I always return the favour as well! 
 

Feature and Follow Friday #1

Feature and Follow Friday is an awesome weekly meme I just discovered, hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. Every week the choose a featured blogger with questions to answer to everybody. A wonderful way to meet other bloggers and discover blogs! Share the love!

This weeks question:

What hyped up book do you think was not worth all the talk?

For me it would be the Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. I remember being really excited and waiting to read it. The cover was beautiful, synopsis awesome and reviews on GR made it shine in a golden glory. And then I read it. For three long months I read it. Painfully, a bit by bit. Waiting, wishing for it to get better. *sigh* (My review)

Leave me a comment below to let me know of your thoughts or a link to your own post and I'll be sure to check it out. And don't forget to follow, I always return teh favour as well!

Top Ten Tuesday (#1): Fall TBR List

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I've been keeping an eye on it for ages, yet only now decided to participate.

Not many new books on my list. I've been lazing around for the whole summer and now have some massive catching up to do.

Top Ten Books On Your Fall TBR List:

1. Crushed by Jennifer L. Armentrout. Sounds almost as awesome as the Lux series.
2. Clash of Kings (Song of Ice and Fire #2). Should probably add the whole series. Just finished the first book and I'm completely hooked. Winterfell!
3. Origin by Jessica Khoury.
4. City of Lost Souls by Cassandra Clare (Mortal Instruments #5). For some unknown reason have been putting it off for a while. I loved the first three books, but felt a bit let down by the last one.
5. The Janus Affair by Philippa Ballantine(The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences #2). The first book was hilarious. Poor Wellie, I almost feel bad for him again, agent Braun can be a bit overwhelming xD
6. Seduction and Snacks by Tara Sivec (Chocolate Lovers #1). Recently discovered. I yearn for a good laugh!
7. Auracle by Gina Rosati. So many great reviews and a must-read of 2012, I'll give it a try!
8. For Darkness Shows the Stars by Diana Peterfreund. "Inspired by Jane Austens "Persuasion"" and Dystopian? I'm in!
9. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (The Grisha Trilogy #1). I'm  a huge fan of high fantasy and epic, now add YA and it becomes almost a must read!
10. My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick. I yearn to read a good chick lit romance without an overbearing drama. This seems to be an exactly, what I'm looking for!