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10 IMPORTANT BOOKWORM QUESTIONS I MUST ASK MYSELF

Kitty
1. WHAT ARE YOUR TOP 5 READS OF 2017 SO FAR?

Well, considering I only completed 6 books so far in 2017, I can’t honestly answer this one yet.

2. TOP FIVE FAVOURITE BOOK FRIENDSHIPS

3. MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASES OF 2017?

SO MANY.

4. HOW MANY BOOKS ARE ON YOUR TBR PILE?

For 2017, I have a goal of 27 books. I’m six books deep. My Goodreads To-Read Shelf gets scarier by the day as it is currently at 125 books. On the other hand though, at least I can’t say I don’t have anything to read!

5. WHAT ARE YOUR FEELINGS ON BOOK MERCHANDISE?

I really love bookish themed mugs, mostly because I can never have enough of them since I drink tea like a goddamn fish.

6. WHO IS THE LATEST AMAZING AUTHOR YOU HAVE DISCOVERED?

 7. HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN A BOOK BLOGGER?

I started this year! 😀

 8. WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE THING ABOUT READING?

I don’t have to leave my house to go on an adventure. #AgoraphobicProblems

also, it shuts off all the noise in my head if just for a little while.

9. WHAT ARE YOU READING SOON?

10. DESCRIBE YOURSELF IN 5 BOOK TITLES.

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Book Courtship Tag

Kitty
PHASE 1: INITIAL ATTRACTION | A BOOK YOU BOUGHT BECAUSE OF THE COVER

I mean, just look at that cover? It’s the Indonesian edition and honestly it’s just so gorgeous. I love that shade of blue, and the pink colors just really stood out. It’s a shame I didn’t really enjoy the story though.
PHASE 2: FIRST IMPRESSIONS | A BOOK YOU BOUGHT BECAUSE OF THE SUMMARY

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#Girlboss by Sophia Amaruso. One of my goal this year is to read more non-fiction, and the summary of this book sounds perfect for me. It looks like a great, empowering book for women, but the story fits everyone who’s in need of motivation!

PHASE 3: SWEET TALK | A BOOK WITH GREAT WRITING

The Book Thief is one of those books that you read and haunted you. It’s just so beautiful, it’s bitter, it makes you cry, laugh and smiles, it’s easy to relate and sympathizes with Liesel and other characters. And Death is an extemely good narrator, the way he narrates feel other worldly, he feels like another entity watching the humans (which he is). It’s one of those books that I easily recommended to people.
PHASE 4: FIRST DATE | A FIRST BOOK OF THE SERIES WHICH MADE YOU WANT TO PICK UP THE REST

This one is a real winner. The writing, the world building, the atmosphere, the characters… It tells the story of Shahrzad who seeks for revenge after a boy-king killed one girl every dawn, and one of those girls are her bestfriend. This book really makes me can’t wait to read the novellas and the sequel. I enjoyed the novellas (especially The Mirror and The Maze) but a bit dissapointed with The Rose and The Dagger though.
PHASE 5: LATE NIGHT PHONE CALLS | A BOOK THAT KEPT YOU UP ALL NIGHT

Goddess is the only book I stayed up all night to finish it. I just want to read a few chapters, but ended up reading the whole book and can’t keep my eyes open at school the next day. After reading this book, it’s safe to say that I have policies of no reading before go to bed.

PHASE 6: ALWAYS ON MY MIND | A BOOK YOU CAN’T STOP THINKING ABOUT

Um.. I don’t know… Possibly all my e-arcs I need to read from Netgalley? I need to get to them soon😅

PHASE 7: GETTING PHYSICAL | A BOOK WHICH FEELS NICE

Percy Jackson series feels 100000% nice. It feels familiar. The humour, the action, the characters, the mythology. It’s family. It’s home. I love it so so so much<3

PHASE 8: MEETING THE PARENTS | A BOOK YOU WOULD RECOMMEND TO YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Percy Jackson I guess? As much as I love HP, my family and friends won’t want to read it because “why read when you can watch” thing. Percy Jackson only have 2 movies, and the books itself aren’t as huge and intimidating as HP, so yeah, no excuse. Read this book folks.

PHASE 9: THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE | A BOOK YOU WILL RE-READ A LOT

I don’t really do re-reads.. And if I did, I never managed to finish that book. But I’ve been wanting to re-read The Night Circus for a while though, and it’s been raining a lot which is the perfect mood to read it. Hopefully I could read it soon!
PHASE 10: SHARING THE LOVE! | WHOM DO YOU TAG?

Erika @ Books and Stars and Cloe @ Mornings and Epilogues!

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11 Question Tag

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1. Favourite childhood book?

Are You My Mother?

2. Bookish world you’d want to live in?

Middle-Earth, hands down. No contest. Unless someday I meet a book world that blows Middle-Earth out of the water.

3. If you could hang out with one fictional character for one day, who would it be?

Since you didn’t say fictional character from a book, i’m going to pick my current love, Christopher Hartley from Until Dawn.

heart eyes, motherfucker.

4. Top 3 books you’re looking forward to reading?

The Seafarer’s Kiss by Julia Ember

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde

How To Make A Wish by Ashley Herring Blake

5. A book you regret reading?

The Forsaken by R.J. Craddock and The Welcome To Nightvale novel. Not liking the WTNV novel was really disappointing for me though because I REALLY LOVE the podcast and loved reading the episode transcript books.

6. If you could make one thing (magic, object, etc. but not person) from a book appear in reality, what would it be?

Tonks’ powers in general, The Invisibility Cloak or Time-Turner from Harry Potter

7. What’s your OTP?

I have a ridiculously long list. Since it’s not specifically Bookish OTP, I’ve decided to spare you from a endless blog post. I did however, mention some in the Valentine’s Day Book Tag.

8. Top 3 authors?

I’m still working this out. I don’t really play favorites with authors.

9. Favourite book adaptation?

The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings movies. I’m not even sorry. I loved them.

10. Bookish guilty pleasure?

I have no “guilty” pleasures. All reading is good reading.

11. Do you consider yourself a fast reader?

Not really? I usually aim for 50-100 pages a day, but sometimes it can be less than 50. 100 is the maximum pages I will read a day, unless the book is something I absolutely cannot put down and that I must KEEP READING OR ELSE.

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Valentine&#39;s Day Book Tag

Kitty

Standalone Book You Love 

I’m about to be completely honest right now and say I had to Google what the heckity heck a “standalone book” was and holy heck i actually read a lot of these.

One in particular that I read was And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie and I read it solely because Aidan Turner was playing Lombard in a mini-series TV adaptation last year. I LOVED IT.

Dystopian Books You Love

Only books based in Dystopian that I’ve read to my knowledge thus far was The Hunger Games series, and yes, I loved it! Although, I think everyone and their poodle has read The Hunger Games by now.

A Book You Love That No One Else Does

I bet at least one person out there in the vast world of the Earth loves the same books that I do so homie isn’t even going to play that.

Favourite Fictional Couple

From books? Goodness gracious, I’ve only since got back into reading books again so my list is going to be rather short as I pull some couples off the top of my head….

Norah / Luke [Under Rose-Tainted Skies]
Roiben / Kaye [Faerie Tales series]

Who Would Be Your Fictional Boyfriend/Girlfriend

So far? most of my fictional boyfriends/girlfriends have came from movies and video games. perhaps this’ll be the year I find my book beau?

What Book Do You Read On Valentine’s Day

I started Our Own Private Universe by Robin Talley. It’s a romance read so I suppose it fits? 🙂 It’s also pretty slow going right now plot-wise, but i’m excited that there is a queer person of color character in it.

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Review: Under Rose-Tainted Skies

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Under Rose-Tainted Skies
Under Rose-Tainted Skies by Louise Gornall
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

As someone who also suffers from severe agoraphobia, anxiety and depression, i went into this book with excitement. I also loved how Louise handled Norah’s relationship with Luke and that it didn’t go the way of GIRL FALLS IN LOVE, POOF MENTAL ILLNESS CURED! It went the way it is expected to go, your significant other becomes mindful of your limitations and works with them. I’ve seen previous reviews touch on how quickly Norah and Luke’s relationship progressed and how “unrealistic” it was. While I CAN agree with this, i feel that if it was made in more realistic terms, the book would drag on for many more pages, thus boring the shit out the reader.

Overall, Under Rose-Tainted Skies I feel accurately outlines the struggles one may face with agoraphobia along with several other mental illnesses. It’s a lot more than “not being able to leave your house” and Louise does a great job of that.

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