The Sunshine Blogger Award [5]

While I was on break, I was nominated for the Sunshine Blogger Award by the lovely Hundreds & Thousands of Books! Thank you for nominating me, and sorry it took me so long to get to it. 😓

the rules

• Thank the blogger who nominated you. Do this in your blog post and include a link to their site.
• Answer the 11 questions that the nominator asked you.
• Nominate 11 new bloggers to receive the award. Write 11 new questions for them. Notify them by commenting on one of their posts.
• Within your blog post, include these rules and the Sunshine Blogger Award logo.

The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson | Book Review

Title: The Hero of Ages
Series: Mistborn, #3
Author: Brandon Sanderson
Publisher: Tor Books
Genre: fantasy
Pages: 768
My Rating: ★★★★★ (is it possible to give this thing six out of five stars?)
Goodreads page

There is a spoiler-free section in this review.

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas |Book Review

Title: The Hate U Give
Series: N/A
Author: Angie Thomas
Published: February 28, 2017
Genre: YA, contemporary, fiction
Pages: 444
My Rating: ★★★★★
Goodreads page

This is review is super short and spoiler-free.

1984 by George Orwell | Book Review

Title: 1984
Series: standalone
Author: George Orwell
Published: June 8 1949
Genre: dystopia, classic
Pages: 237
My Rating: ★★★★☆
Goodreads page

There are no spoilers in this review.

YA Author Upcoming Release Compilation

If you’re anything like me, you are the last person to know about new releases and book news. I don’t have a lot of social media to keep up with the authors, and I don’t use the ones that I follow authors on that frequently. To be completely honest, it’s a lot to keep track of all the new releases and things that are going on so I decided to take some of my favorite and (I think) well-known YA authors and compile all their upcoming releases.

Some of the information I got off of posts on the authors’ social media or websites (which I’ll link in this post) and others I got off of Goodreads. I can’t guarantee that I will catch all the stories their working on but hopefully this will give you an overview of what to expect.

The authors I’m covering in this post are:

Cassandra Clare || Leigh Bardugo || Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff || Marie Lu
Sarah J. Maas || Tahereh Mafi|| Rainbow Rowell || Adam Silvera
Angie Thomas || Nicola Yoon

At the bottom of the post I put a timeline-ish thing that gives you an overall look on all the authors and what they’re releasing in case you don’t want to read through all the stuff I wrote.

Fictional Friend Crushes

School is around the corner, and that means new classes and new people to meet. Comparing my schedule with all my friends, it turns out that I don’t have any classes with them. That means I’ll be needing to make some new friends to get through this school year. As an introvert, at the beginning of the school year, I have some people that I have a friend crush on. Then that got me thinking what it would be like if I were friends with fictional characters.

This list does not limit itself to just book characters. It also includes TV show and movie characters.

Fictional Foods I Want to Try IRL

Do you ever have those instances where you’re reading a book and a character is really enjoying some food and you feel kind of jealous? And then while you’re reading about food, you get hungry but all you want is that food that the character is eating? Yeah, it happens to me all the time.

Also, I just really love food. I mean, who doesn’t? Especially bread. I know it’s super bad for you if you eat too much of it but I love the fluffiness and smell and-

Okay I’ll stop. I’m getting hungry.

Legend by Marie Lu | Book Review

Title: Legend
Series: Legend, #1
Author: Marie Lu
Published: 11/29/11
Edition: paperback
Pages: 305
My Rating: 5 / 5
Goodreads page

This review is spoiler-free.

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera | Book Review

“Sometimes pain is so unmanageable that the idea of spending another day with it seems impossible. Other times pain acts as a compass to help you through the messier tunnels of growing up. But pain can only help you find happiness if you remember it.”

Title: More Happy Than Not
Series: standalone
Author: Adam Silvera
Published: 06/02/15
Edition: paperback
Pages: 300
My Rating: 4 / 5
Goodreads page

ATTENTION: This review is spoiler-free.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen | Book Review

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Title: Water for Elephants
Series: standalone
Author: Sara Gruen
Published: 5/26/2006
Edition: paperback
Pages: 335
My Rating: 4 / 5
Goodreads page