#ReadingMyLibrary: Week Two Update

I don't want to say I haven't finished a library book yet, buuuuut.... A Little Life is really really long, ok? I'm going to finish it tonight, don't even worry about it. So, you know what? I'll just count it as done. For the sake of this post and my dignity. What an ending, right?!

I did go to the library again this week, because I had to pick up an additional copy of Burial Rites by Hannah Kent for my boss. We're officially reading it for the now three-person book club, which is pretty exciting. Starting that tomorrow.

How much money I've saved on books read:

$30 wow!! And that's just one book so far! Libraries are actually the best.

The challenge for this week is to tell you what books I'd like to suggest to my library. And, the thing is, I'm actually always suggesting books to my library. Because I know what Chicago needs, obviously. So I guess I'll just list the things I most recently remember suggesting they buy (and they do actually listen to me. They haven't rejected me yet).

Science fiction about places that are not America and a reality tv show celebrity memoir. This list is actually very telling.

 

Do you suggest books to the library? What is your library lacking? 

 

#ReadingMyLibrary: Week One Update

Oh hey, guys. It's time to update you on my #ReadingMyLibrary Challenge! I went to the library both on Monday AND on Friday. The first time, I grabbed Dendera by Yuya Sato and Hammer Head by Nina MacLaughlin. It was very stressful, because I didn't actually have my library card. The second time I got I Am Sorry to Think I Have Raised a Timid Son by Kent Russell, Karen Russell's brother, and Burial Rites by Hannah Kent. Because I only read books by people with "Kent" in their name.

I totally didn't intend to grab Burial Rites this time. It wasn't in my plan of what to read this month. But I saw it and I was like fuck yeah, why not. And now it's decided that it will be the book for my now THREE person book club with my boss and a coworker. So now I just have to go back at some point to pick up two more copies.

Reading-wise, I've just been chipping away at A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. I want to make some bigger progress with it this week, so I can move on to my other library books (even though I do love being in this very sad Little Life world). 

The challenge for this week is to tell you a little bit about my library. Now I used to go to a huge, monstrous library that was so beautiful. But I moved. So now I go to a modest, two floor library that I'm now very comfortable with. Even though it's small, it's in the Chicago Public Library system, so I can pretty much get whatever book I want. And I regularly suggest books for them to buy that they actually listen to!

The first floor is mainly children's books, computers, reference, the hold shelves, and a shelf with some new books. That's where the librarians hang out too.

When I'm not just dropping by to grab a hold book, I'm upstairs in the hyper-quiet reading room. That's where all the rows of fiction books are and some cds I think. In the center of the room there are tables for reading and working.

I'm not sure if the librarians recognize me yet, but they really should. I'm there pretty regularly. I just want to be their best friends, but I don't know how to approach them. I'm very intimidated. If you guys have any tips on how to befriend a librarian, please let me know!!

What's your library like?

#ReadingMyLibrary Challenge

I don't know if you guys know this, but I absolutely adore libraries. I visit mine just about every week. I wrote a post about weird things that have happened to me at libraries here. They're just the best.

It's being hosted at Caught Read Handed for all of April in honor of National Library Week from April 12-18. There's going to be a big library scavenger hunt, twitter chat, giveaways, and ideally some reading. It's a great way to save money, make friends, and support your library!

If you're interested in joining me, go check out the sign up post! You have until April 15th to get in on it. All you have to do is read one library book, but I'm aiming for six! Here's what I'll be (probably) reading from the library this month!

You guys, you can literally get whatever books you want for free. WHAT. GO DO IT.

2015 TBR Pile Challenge

I have a serious book buying problem. Every time I'm near someone with a car (which, granted, isn't too often), I somehow coerce them to taking us to a bookstore. I love used books. And I've been doing this for a while. I have books on my shelf that I bought actually nine years ago that I still haven't read. It's an issue.

I haven't done Roof Beam Reader's TBR Pile Challenge before, but it seems very relevant to my life. You just read 12 books in your TBR Pile by the end of the year. Easy, right? I'm not good at sticking to lists of books. I very much read whatever I want on a whim. But I absolutely 100% need to cull my shit and get it under control. So here are the 12 books I intend to read this year with two alternates.



My 2014 TBR Pile Challenge List:

1. Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)
2. Neuromancer by William Gibson (1984)
3. We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson (1962)
4. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (1925)
5. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz (2007)
6. Play It As It Lays by Joan Didion (1970)
7. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847)
8. Perdido Street Station by China Mieville (2003)
9. The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula Le Guin (1971)
10. The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami (1997)
11. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (1963)
12. The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (1966)

Alternates:

1. Naked Lunch by William Burroughs (1959)
2. Illywhacker by Peter Carey (1985) 

Are you participating? What books have you taken forever to get to?

Bout of Books 12 Wrap Up

Bout of Books was an enormous success for me and I'm so pleased I participated as much as I did!

You can see all of my goals and updates here. I accomplished all of them, except for reading the two books that I was already partway through. I did read one of them, though! And I probably didn't read 3 hours a day, but I didn't count, so who knows.

I did a challenge every day, too! Some of them are tiny and hidden in my master update post linked above, but my here's my Scavenger Hunt and my Top Ten Recommendations.

I was most pleased with participating in the twitter chat and checking out people's blogs. Shout out to some of the cool people I got to talking with and blogs I really enjoyed: Shaina Reads, Forrest of Books, Story Notions, Unbound Books, among many others!
 
                  

Anyway, I finished 3 books, which was exactly what I was aiming for. And all of them were good! Happy Like Murderers was good enough, but The Killing Moon and All the Birds, Singing were both amazing. I love those books, holy shit.

Total pages: 578

Pretty good for me.


I'm slightly sad, because I probably won't be participating in the one in May, seeing as it's happening right around my last week of college. Looking forward to August, though!

Did you accomplish everything you wanted to this Bout of Books? Read anything good?

Bout of Books Challenge: Top Ten Recommendations

Hey, gang. Day two is going pretty slowly, but I'm not too concerned about it. Hope everyone else is getting a lot of reading done! I almost forgot to check the challenge today, but here I am. This one is hosted by Trees of Reverie here!

The Challenge: You’ve just started to work at a bookstore (or library) - what are your top ten go-to book recommendations?
Prompts:

• You may select any TEN BOOKS of your choice. These books can be from a specific genre, or you may like to choose a few books from various genres.

Extra Prompts:

• Why did you choose these books?
• What would you say about each of these books when recommending them to a customer or library patron?
• What would be close favourites for book recommendations that didn’t make it onto your list?
• Is there anything else that you’d like to mention about the books you’ve chosen to include on this list?

So I'm going to do all of the prompts and extra prompts! I pretty much act like a small library to my friends, so I knew exactly what books I wanted to recommend. Each blurb next to the book is what I would say about it to a customer, including why I'm choosing them! Check them out!


House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski - This is more like an experience than a book. The bulk of the book is a manuscript that the narrator found. It was written by a man who's now dead. The narrator communicates mostly through footnotes. The manuscript is about a documentary that isn't real. It doesn't exist in our world or in the narrator's. The documentary is about a house that's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside, and the horrors the family who lives there face. As the book goes on, with the narrator trying to figure out why this manuscript exists and what happened to the author of it, the format starts to get crazy. You have to spin the book around to read all of it. You have to flip back and forth through footnotes and appendices. You don't know if the author, the narrator, or you are going crazy. It's a crazy horror ride, very subtle and creepy, and one of my all time favorite books.

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien - This trilogy is a given. And, yes, I'm recommending it as one book because you can totally buy it as a single volume. I have! I'm obsessed with Lord of the Rings. It's a beautifully written classic fantasy trilogy that's just as exciting to read every time I decide it's time to revisit it. It covers the classic issues of good vs. evil, and man can this guy describe some nature. Excellent characters and story.






Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer - I can't stop praising this one. Annihilation completely filled the hole LOST left in my heart. It's weird, it's got nature stuff, and it's pretty creepy. You don't realize how much the story's getting to you until you're alone in your apartment at night. That's when it hits you. A wildly original science fiction piece beginning the Southern Reach Trilogy that can stand alone, but ends beautifully in the last novel, Acceptance. A solid pick for people who just like pretty covers too.





The Martian by Andy Weir - This book is just so much fun. Reading it was an absolute blast. It's basically the movie "Gravity" but on Mars, with less melodrama, more science, and more humor. It's not my favorite book of all time, but I can't think of many people that wouldn't get a kick out of this book. Very well paced. An excellent novel for science fiction fans and people not into science fiction alike.






The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison - Now this is a stunning novel. If you haven't read Tonni Morrison before, you have to, and this is an excellent one to start with. The Bluest Eye is about an African-American family (I don't really want to spoil what they go through) and the struggle with feeling beautiful as a black girl. Actually the most beautiful writing I've ever seen. I'd recommend it for that alone (I read it for a fiction writing class), but the story is so much more important than that. Read it and be blown away.





Geek Love by Katherine Dunn - This book follows a family of circus performers that made a point of doing drugs while pregnant to create babies with stranger and stranger developmental problems. There are conjoined twins, an albino hunchback dwarf, a boy who is referred to as "Aquaboy" due to his flipper-like limbs, and a young boy whose talent isn't revealed for quite some time. The plot was twisted, and the writing was beautiful and moving. I cried multiple times because of the very human tragedies this family faces. This is a really good pick for people interested in family dramas who also have a bit of a weird streak like me.



The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes - This is a short, poignant book that could appeal to anybody. Beautifully written, Barnes explores memory as he recounts narrator Tony's past. He's a divorced man who is trying to connect his past to his present and the realizations he makes are incredible. This one the Booker Prize for good reason.






 
When Women Were Birds by Terry Tempest Williams - Right before Williams' mother died, she told her to take her many journals (a Mormon tradition) and only read them once she had passed. A while after her mother died, she finally looked through them. They were all empty. When Women Were Birds is part memoir, part exploration on voice -- having one and choosing whether or not to use it. She explores being a woman, being a mother, being a daughter, and what her mother could have been trying to say. Poetic and beautiful. I read it in one day and it made me tear up a little. Excellent pick for your boyfriend's mom (or at least she told me it was excellent).

 

Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee by Megan Boyle - This is a really good pick for anybody looking for something a little different. Maybe a 20-something who doesn't read much, but not because they don't like to read. Selected Unpublished is written in a stream of consciousness, almost blog/twitter like entries. It covers what it's like to be a 20-something with in this day and age. Often hilarious and on point (akin to Lena Dunham), sometimes sad, but always hopeful. This was my first foray into alt-lit and I was very impressed.




Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander - This book is just hilarious. For fans of Woody Allen. The premise: Main character, Kugel, finds Anne Frank (an old woman now) hiding in his attic. Yeah. There's a lot of amazing, very Jewish neurotic humor when it comes to how his mother raised him and how the family lives now. His mother acts like she went through the holocaust, though she is too young for that to have been the case. One thing I remember specifically: she read one day that holocaust survivors hide bread, so she suddenly starts hiding bread. I died. It's all absurd, dark, and very well written. Not for everyone, but I think everyone who likes that kind of black humor should give it a try.



Honorable mentions that were slightly too niche for me to recommend to just anybody:

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
• A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick
• Orlando by Virginia Woolf
• Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

What books would you recommend most highly? Happy Bout of Books, everyone!

Bout of Books: Day 1 - Scavenger Hunt

I love scavenger hunts. I am a child and I love scavenger hunts, please let me do a million scavenger hunts. Ok, one will do. You can find this one at Caught Read Handed if you want to do it too!

Ta-da! Phone picture.

The Challenge: Find a book with the following criteria on a bookshelf:

1. Find an author with the same initials as you - My initials are impossible, so I went with middle name. JM - Juliet Marilier.
2. Find a book with the color yellow on it - Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
3. Find an author’s name with the letter “S” in it - Joshua Ferris' The Unnamed
4. Find a book with a female protagonist - An Untamed State by Roxane Gay!
5. Find the longest book you own - 2666 by Roberto Bolano at 866 pages. Because Infinite Jest is in Chicago.
6. Find a book with a map in it or on it - Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien
7. Find a book with a face on it (photograph or illustrated) - Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
Bonus: Find something on your shelf that isn’t a book. - So much stuff!

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Pretty pleased that I could find everything (mostly).

Post your scavenger hunt link in the comments so I can see!

Bout of Books 12: Master Post

It's Bout of Books time! I already did the sign up post, but this is where I'll keep my goals and update how much I read every day so there isn't a bombardment of posts about it. But there may be a bombardment of challenge posts. I'll try to keep it under control.

Time Devoted to Reading

I will be reading all week, because I'm still on winter break and have very little to do. Thank god for a very sporadic work schedule. I'm aiming for maybe three hours a day, but I'm not going to hold myself to that. There is Maury and Judge Judy to watch, after all. I'll utilize all commercial breaks (she wrote during a commercial break during Judge Judy. Oops.)

My Goals

 

• Read 3 books! I made a list of more, so I have things to choose from. And if I hit more than 3, I have no problems with that.
• Finish the 2 books I started ages ago. I started The King in Yellow in the summer. Same with The Killing Moon. That's troubling.
• Do at least one challenge a day!
• Find one new blog a day.
• Attend at least one twitter chat.

Books to Read

 

• Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn - The first true crime book I've ever read.
• The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin - The first fantasy I've read since Lord of the Rings!
• The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers
• Bear Down, Bear North by Melinda Moustakis - Short stories about Alaska (I need to study up for the novel I'm writing based in Alaska)
• All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
• Echo Lake by Letitia Trent - Creepy and poetic, sign me up.

Updates

 

Monday
Number of pages I've read today: 100
Total number of books I've read: 1
Books I read from: Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn
#todayinsixwords: Read slowly because murder is grim.

Ok, 100 pages doesn't sound like a lot, but it sure FELT like a lot. I finished my first true crime book today about Fred and Rosemary West. It was a heavy 100 pages. Lots of detail. Not even always about murder or abuse, but like it was just bogged with detail and repetition regarding every aspect of their lives. I was interested in true crime, because the Serial podcast left me with an intense hunger for more. I watched a couple true crime documentaries that were interesting. After reading this, I think my hunger is completely gone. Don't get me wrong, it was a pretty good book for what it was. But I am SO READY to read anything else!

That all sounds like a sad beginning to Bout of Books, but fear not! I participated in my first twitter chat and it was the shit. Got to talk to a lot of bookish people all at once and it was overwhelming and very exciting. I just had no idea there were so many enthusiastic book people on the internet all at once! I found a few blogs that I really liked, and I'm hoping to find more that have similar taste to me. Not identical, of course, but similar. Sometimes I feel like a bit of an outcast as only a very very occasional YA reader. Regardless of that, I had a great time today! Onto the next one.

Tuesday
Number of pages I've read today: 62
Total number of books I've read: 1
Books I read from: The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
#todayinsixwords: Spent too much time on blogs

I didn't really read a lot today. I spent most of my time thinking about reading or checking out book blogs that I found through Bout of Books, which isn't the worst way to spend my time! But then my boyfriend took me on surprise date night and we got dinner then went to Half Price Books. It was a good time, but I bought six more books. Oops.

In the evening, I read from The Killing Moon which is SO GOOD. Most of what I did was flipping around and rereading and perusing the glossary to figure out what these words meant, because I haven't read the book since August. But after that, I got super into it. The characters are so good and the world is so interesting. It's like kind of Egyptian and with magic and weird dream stuff and CORRUPTION and oh man. It's so cool. Maybe I should read fantasy more often. I'm hoping to finish this one tomorrow!

Wednesday
CHALLENGE: Because today's challenge is kind of too small for me to justify making a blog post, I'm going to put it here. It's a Character Coupling challenge hosted by Writing My Own Fairy Tale. I have to take two characters from different books and couple them up! I don't really do this kind of thing regularly, so this is a challenge, but here goes nothing.

My Couple: Holly Sykes from The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell with Orlando from Orlando by Virginia Woolf. I bet nobody's done THAT before. I'm pairing them up to be friends or, you know, see where it goes, because they're both kind of inexplicably involved in immortality business. Holly Sykes deal with a lot of weird immortal god dudes reluctantly and Orlando just kind of lives for a really long time with no explanation (and also switches gender all of a sudden halfway through the book, but that's beside the point). They're both pretty cool ladies and I'm sure they'd have a lot to talk about. They can be exasperated about their weird shit together, it'll be great.

Number of pages I've read today: 48
Total number of books I've read: 1
Books I read from: The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
#todayinsixwords: Had to work today booo ugh

Yeah, so I didn't read a lot. I had to do some work I had put off forever and I hung out with like 4 different people separately bc my friends hate each other, so it was a very busy day! Glad I got 48 pages in during the evening. My boyfriend has been very supportive and has been reading Authority by Jeff VanderMeer next to me in bed. So cute. Tomorrow I vow to finish this book! Ehiru and Nijiri forever.

Thursday
Number of pages I've read today: 153
Total number of books I've read: 2
Books I read from: The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin
#todayinsixwords: So in love with this book

Today was great! Luckily my friend bailed on me, so I had plenty of time to read (silver lining). I was totally engrossed in The Killing Moon. Whenever anybody tried to interrupt my reading to say something to me I would just sigh, and they got the picture. Anyway, I did finish the book! Yay! It was the shit, honestly. Like I didn't think I could get into fantasy, and I get that this is kind of atypical because it's like Egyptian-y, but it was amazing. Can't really think of anything that was wrong with it.

I can't wait to get the second book in the series! But for now, it's time to move onto the next book. I think I'll do The King in Yellow tomorrow and I hope I'll finish it. Wow, I'm still reeling from N.K. Jemisin. She knows what she's doing. What a fascinating ride. I'll definitely be reviewing this one.

Friday
Number of pages I've read today: 84
Total number of books I've read: 2
Books I read from: All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
#todayinsixwords: Lots of time to myself today

Today I was babysitting (not my job of choice, but I'll do it if somebody asks), so I had like 5 hours to myself in a stranger's house to read. Granted, I spent a lot of that time looking at the wall or wondering what I could eat (sunflower seeds or nothing). But I did start my third book! I had originally wanted to read The King in Yellow, but it's an ebook and my tablet was charging sooo slowly and then I accidentally left it at their house. Oops. So that kind of decided my reading for today and tomorrow.

I'm so glad the universe fucked with my plans, though. All the Birds, Singing is so good so far. Much creepier than I expected (I didn't expect any creepy, for whatever reason. Even though a woman's sheep are being inexplicably killed). The main character, Jake Whyte, is basically running from her past and finds herself on this secluded island. Every other chapter we jump back to her past, which is told reverse chronologically. It's kind of like watching the Kate parts of LOST, but sometimes you have to read it in an Australian accent when she flashes back to Australia where none of the words sound right in any other accent. I'm digging it a lot. I'll probably finish it tomorrow!

Saturday
Number of pages I've read today: 91
Total number of books I've read: 2
Books I read from: All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
#todayinsixwords: Don't want this book to end.

Got a bit of reading done in the evening before bed. I didn't finish this book yet, but I am close to the ending. At first I thought shit was getting less weird, but it's kind of getting weird again. The MC's backstory is pretty much cleared up at this point, but I still have no idea what's killing her sheep! What's going on?!

Sunday
CHALLENGE: Out of all the books you've ever read and all the characters you've ever known who would you choose to be in your family?

My Family: Mom: Holly Sykes from The Bone Clocks, because she's level headed and has plenty of stories to tell. She doesn't really take shit. Dad: Ehiru from The Killing Moon by N. K. Jemisin, because he's very thoughtful and calm, until he ends up going crazy. Sister: Jake Whyte from All the Birds, Singing, because she's a badass who can teach me how to farm and not give a fuck. She can also beat people up for me. Grandpa: Gandalf, because Gandalf. Is there anyone more delightful and grandfatherly and also a powerful wizard? My family's dysfunctional, because two of them are intense magic users and two of them don't care. Also, that dad's an assassin basically, but it's fine. Really, Holly and Jake would probably want nothing to do with Ehiru or Gandalf's nonsense. How they all ended up together is beyond me.
 
Number of pages I've read today: 40
Total number of books I've read: 3!
Books I read from: All the Birds, Singing by Evie Wyld
#todayinsixwords: Finished my third book, what fun!

The last day of Bout of Books was a good one! I finished my third book, and it was really good! I mean the ending I have some trouble with, but I can't discount the rest of the book. It was so heavy and kind of disorienting, that I couldn't read another book right after. I commented on a bunch of new blogs once I was done reading for the day, which was a good time. I really really enjoyed this readathon, and I'm so glad I participated as much as I did!

Bout of Books 12 - Let's Do This

Yesssss, it's here! Bout of Books 12 is here! Ok, I wasn't like anxiously awaiting it, but I saw that it was happening in two days and I got pumped. I participated last time in August and it was just the thing to get me out of my book slump.

If you haven't heard of Bout of Books before, here's some more information:

 

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, January 5th and runs through Sunday, January 11th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 12 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

I'm not going to do official goals until my master post in a couple days, but I do intend to read at least 3 books. Or, rather, finish 3 books. I did 2 last year (one of them was 600 pages, don't hate). Right now I have 3 books sitting unfinished. Happy Like Murderers by Gordon Burn, The Killing Moon by N.K. Jemisin, and The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers. I'm like halfway through each of them and I need to get my act together.

I also really want to get into the social side of Bout of Books! I'm going to check out at least one of the twitter chats.

If you find this post from the Bout of Books linkup, be sure to say hi! I'd love to make friends with more bloggers.

Can't wait for the 5th!

Bout of Books: Day Four - Like This, Try This Challenge

This read-a-thon has been less of a complete disaster than I thought it would be. It's Day Four and I've read 467 so far. That's like 1-2 normal sized books! But I went for finishing one enormous book. Oh well. You can read more about my progress (and my devastating hangover) on the Bout of Books Master Post two posts down.

I have actually participated in all of the challenges so far (yay). I just haven't had to post them here. But today's is a recommendation post hosted by Writing My Own Fairytale, so here goes nothing.

If you liked this...

 How Should a Person Be? by Sheila Heti

You should try this... 

Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee by Megan Boyle

Because both are HBO Girls-esque explorations of the lives of 20-somethings. Selected Unpublished Blog Posts takes an interesting turn by using stream of consciousness poetry that could be appreciated by Heti fans.

If you liked this...

Jagannath by Karin Tidbeck

You should try this... 

 The Honey Month by Amal El'Mohtar

Because both are beautifully written, strange little stories. Jagannath is certainly more developed, but that's because The Honey Month is essentially short daily entries inspired by tasting different kinds of honey. What comes out of these simple pieces is delicate and surreal. Both are refreshingly otherworldly.

If you liked this...

Night Film by Marisha Pessl

You should try this... 

Silence Once Begun by Jesse Ball

Because they are investigations of strange, dark crimes that both use interesting multimedia. I wasn't blown away by Night Film, but I was interested in the potential occult crimes of an underground horror filmmaker. Silence Once Begun is 100x times better. More subtle, more interesting writing, more subtext. The anecdotes of people the narrator interviewed haunt and puzzle me to this day.

Do you agree? Have any other recommendations for fans of these books?

Bout of Books: Day One - Scavenger Hunt Challenge

Diving into the world of shelfies right now. This is about as last minute as it can be, but I'm super charmed by this scavenger hunt challenge. Here are the pictures I took for #boutofbookshunt!

1. A Book that begins with “B”  (for Bout of Books!)

For some reason this one took me a ridiculously long amount of time to come up with, so I'm looking "B"itter.

2. A book that has been made into a movie/tv show

Hey, lame movie cover and all. Sppoooookkkkyyy.

3. A series you love

Obsessed obsessed obsessed. Can't wait for the last one (Acceptance) to come out in September, even though Authority didn't blow me away.

4. An anthology of poems or short stories

Getting weird with some experimental fiction (Sixty Stories by Donald Barthelme, if you can't read such a zany photo).

5. A book on your TBR shelf, or your full TBR shelves

 I don't want to say that they are all TBR on this shelf, but probably 2/3 are. No regrets. Long live the TBR pile, the bigger the better. Ignore the vodka. Don't ignore the Lord of the Rings/Hobbit related dolls.

That was fun. I want to do it again.