Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and Bookish. Each week the bloggers at The Broke and The Bookish put out a topic, and discuss their top ten options for said topic. This week it’s all about your book blogging confessions.
I’m terrible at cross-posting my reviews to Goodreads/Amazon/B&N/Smashwords. I try really hard to do so, but often it just slips my mind. I’m trying to make more of an effort to do it–I’ve made checklists for when I post reviews and I think this will help me cross-post.
I get really weird about the amount of book tour/gifted books compared to the books I purchase or get from the library. I want to keep an even balance, but I always feel that it skews more toward gifted books. I’ve been absent for a while, but while I was gone I worked out a schedule of postings and keeping things even enough to make me happy and not feel like everything I get is free.
I have–HAVE to finish series. Even if I don’t blog about each individual book. It’s compulsory and I’ve finished some series that I just loathed because I had to finish them. I have to read and share complete series even if it takes a while. I’m still slogging my way through the House of Night series.
My to-be-read pile has taken over the bottom two shelves of my bookcase, I have a three foot stack hiding in my closet, overtaken another book case, and I have a few boxes tucked away. I have a book buying problem. I go out for coffee and I come back with three more books. I don’t mind this compulsion, but I feel bad because I buy so many and I get distracted re-reading something rather than reading one of the many new books.
I read a lot of manga, and I want to start blogging about it more. I’m just not certain how many people are interested in it. Plus, I read some really weird/off the wall series along with the mainstream ones. I might start doing a monthly feature on a series that I’ve read or am reading.
07-Ghost by Yuki Ameiya and Yukino Ichihara. Thousands of years ago, two powerful countries existed in a delicate balance of power. Each received a magical Eye to watch over it. Each thought they were invincible… until one fell. The destinies of both now depend on only one thing… a boy named Teito. I did actually put this down, but I’ve started back up with it, so I decided to put it on this list. I nearly put this manga down because I started reading it when it was first published in the states, and the publishing company it was originally licensed by folded– meaning I’d probably never get to read the rest of it. Viz picked up nearly a year later and it still took a very long time to get the volumes out so I was still hesitant to pick it up. I ended up lifting the volumes from a friend and I’m almost current.
The House of Night series by Kristin Cast and P.C. Cast. House of Night is a thrilling, New York Times bestselling young adult fantasy series. The books follow 16-year-old Zoey Redbird as she is “Marked” by a vampyre tracker and begins to undergo the “Change” into an actual vampyre. She has to leave her family in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, and move into the House of Night, a boarding school for other fledgling vampyres like her. I started reading this out of sheer curiosity. This series was everywhere–and people were talking about it. So I picked up the first book and chugged my way through it, heartily eye-rolling every time I saw the word ‘vampyre”. And to be completely frank the only reason I’m still reading this series is I can’t look away from the train wreck.
The Night Circus by Erin Morgernstern. The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
Reece Walker from As You Turn Away By Molli Moran. A supporting character, as his younger brother is the main focus of As You Turn Away Reece stole my heart because of the story line that’s laid out for him. He’s suffered heartbreak and still manages to be there for his family and the people who need him.
Gin Ichimaru from Bleach by Tite Kubo. Gin is one of those characters you love to hate. He snuck his way into my favorites with his first introduction. He’s a sneaky, wicked character with lots of complexity and layers. And it hurts. He’s a tragic anti-hero/antagonist. I’m still not over him or his story line.
Magnus Bane from The Mortal Instruments By Cassandra Clare. I LOVE Magnus. He’s sarcastic, smart, and is so much more than he seems. I love his relationship with Alec, I love the character (within the main Mortal Instruments world, I tried the Bane Chronicles and just—no). He’s one of my all time favorite characters. I’d also love to thank the casting director for the movie for casting Godfrey Gao–because hello. That man is beautiful. I was not ready to see him as Magnus.
Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George. This was the first book that I would stay up late and sneak under the covers to read. I had bought it from a book fair when I was in elementary school, and my mom had read through it first, and put it up, saying I wasn’t old enough to read it. So I did what any kid reader would do when told that she can’t read something. I snuck it off of the shelf and read it anyway.
A Wrinkle In Time by Madeline L’Engle. This was my gateway book to science fiction. I first encountered this book as an excerpt in the back of one of my language arts books and I sought out the full book to read. Once more my mom told me I wasn’t old enough to read them, but I read the series, sneaking off with the trio of books (I need to read the others in this series) and falling in love with Calvin and the twins.
Pet Semetary By Stephen King. This was my gateway into horror and books that are turned into movies. I saw the movie when I was 9–seriously not old enough, and I read the book when I was maybe 13? This book still to this day terrifies me, and it’s the book that launched my fascination with King’s work.
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