Books I just HAD to buy but are still sitting unread on my shelf

Okay, So from the heading of this post you should all have figured out what I’m going to be talking about today. This will probably apply to some of you readers out there! I have a bad habit of buying books that I just have to read and having them sit on my shelves for AGES.

I guess you could put this down to laziness, but let me tell you. I think it’s a little different! You know sometimes you just have this absolute need to read a book so you pick it up and just go with it and end up finishing it within a couple of hours or days. This usually occurs with me, and usually those books I have brought stay on my shelves because I fell like I’m not ready to read them yet. Hence why they are left unread. It’s funny though, seeing my parents question my whole process. They just don’t understand why I keep going out and buying more books to sit on my shelf. I guess anyone who doesn’t read wouldn’t understand. It doesn’t really matter how long they have been on my shelves, it could be months or days, I will end up reading them!

So without further analysis about this topic, I guess I should tell you guys all about these books that I have not read yet that are feeling lonely on my bookshelf.

Book Review: Dumplin’ By Julie Murphy

“Self-proclaimed fat girl Willowdean Dickson (dubbed “Dumplin’” by her former beauty queen mom) has always been at home in her own skin. Her thoughts on having the ultimate bikini body? Put a bikini on your body. With her all-American beauty best friend, Ellen, by her side, things have always worked…until Will takes a job at Harpy’s, the local fast-food joint. There she meets Private School Bo, a hot former jock. Will isn’t surprised to find herself attracted to Bo. But she is surprised when he seems to like her back.

Instead of finding new heights of self-assurance in her relationship with Bo, Will starts to doubt herself. So she sets out to take back her confidence by doing the most horrifying thing she can imagine: entering the Miss Clover City beauty pageant.”

The Versatile Blogging Award?!!

Hello, Hello, Helloooooo!!

I was nominated by the lovely Ellie for the versatile blogging award! This is quite a shock haha, so thank you very much, Ellie, I very much appreciate it! 💕😁

And also sorry for only just replying to this blog award, as you would have realised I have been on hiatus for a while. Just some personal things came up and I needed a break to think and ponder everything.

Book Review: This is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

“10:00 a.m.
The principal of Opportunity, Alabama’s high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.

10:02 a.m.
The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class.

10:03
The auditorium doors won’t open.

10:05
Someone starts shooting.

Told over the span of 54 harrowing minutes from four different perspectives, terror reigns as one student’s calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.”

Tag: The A – Z Bookish Survey

A – Author you’ve read the most books from

I have read the most Richelle Mead books of course.

 

B – Best sequel ever

To stray away from Meads book for a bit I would have to say City of Bones sequels, I was totally obsessed with them during high school.

 

C – Currently reading

Crown of Midnight, Suicide notes from beautiful girls and the Murder Complex

 

D – Drink of choice while reading

Water or Orange Juice

Book Review: Stolen by Lucy Christopher

 

IT HAPPENED LIKE THIS.

I was stolen from an airport. Kidnapped. Taken from everything I knew, everything I was used to. Imprisoned by sand and heat, dirt and danger. And he expected me to love him.
This is my story. A letter to my captor.

 

 

The Leibster Award!

Heya Readers!

So I was nominated by Kelsey for the Leibster Award! Thank you so much! It is very much appreciated. And guys, please take a minute of your time to check out her blog! 😁

The Liebster Award is an award made for bloggers, by bloggers, passed on from person to person to support each other in our writing community, while getting a bit closer to our readerships, too.

Sounds great so far! Okay so here this goes, the rules are as followed:

Tag: Book Characters

G’day fellow readers! How are you all so far in the New Year? So today I will go ahead and do the ‘Character book Tag’, which will include a whole lot of questions in regards to the book I have read! So let’s go!

 1 – Who is the best kick ass character 

If you have to ask me this, then you obviously don’t know me very well since I have been ranting about this for SO LONG NOW😂 *cough* Rose Hathaway *cough* Did you expect something different???

 

2 – Which character do you most dislike?

Jesus, well, where do I start. I’m just going to put this out there, that this is my opinion and that is all. But I have never really been a big fan of John Green’s work, especially his book ‘Looking for Alaska’ and also ‘The Fault in our stars’. I did in fact read half (around there) of his book looking for Alaska and I just couldn’t do it. The main character was just so annoying. His narration just annoyed me so much I couldn’t deal with reading it anymore. Chill guys, don’t bite my head off!!

Book Review: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

“R is having a no-life crisis–he is a zombie. He has no memories, no identity, and no pulse, but he is a little different from his fellow Dead. He may occasionally eat people, but he’d rather be riding abandoned airport escalators, listening to Sinatra in the cosy 747 he calls home or collecting souvenirs from the ruins of civilisation.

And then he meets a girl.

First as his captive, then his reluctant guest, Julie is a blast of living colour in R’s gray landscape, and something inside him begins to bloom. He doesn’t want to eat this girl–although she looks delicious–he wants to protect her. But their unlikely bond will cause ripples they can’t imagine, and their hopeless world won’t change without a fight.”

 

January TBR!

Hello from the other side [of 2016] *sings in Adele’s voice*

 

Anyways, Hello guys! We are officially in 2016 (yes I know you all know this but whatever), and since it’s a new month I will be writing the ritual ‘*insert Month here* TBR’! (I can sense all the excitement😂)

As you all know so far, I have been doing my TBR very differently, this is because I was finding it difficult to stick to the set books for the month. Because you all know that feeling when you don’t want to read a book, so you put it off until like 4 months later, but whatever!

So, it’s a fresh new year, and to start this year off with a bang, I’m going to give myself

FEED by MIRA GRANT 

 

as my set reading for this month! Let’s do this!! (as you can already tell I’m very pumped for this year, it’s going to be full of reading and amazingness {did I really just type that, Ignore!})

 

I have a few book reviews coming your way as well, these include the following:

• Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion
• Stolen by Lucy Christopher
• This is where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

 

So stay tuned my friends!!

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Happy new year to you all and I wish you all the very best. May your blog and life be filled with books!