Ok so I wanted to do a list of my fave books that I read in 2013, and I read A LOT, and loved almost every single one of them. If you are looking for book recommendations, stay. As usual, I won't spoil. These books might not have come out in 2013, but I read them in 2013, and that's kinda the point of this list.
Without further ado, and in no particular order, here is:
My top 7 books of 2013
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
First time I read anything by her, and I gotta say, what a first! Sometimes you need to read a few novels to really be able to say that you love the author, but with Life After Life, you just can't help but love Kate Atkinson.
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded by Lewis Carroll
A Lewis Carroll book. I read all of his works back in like February 2013, so that's more than a year ago now, but it was so much better than the preceding novel Sylvie and Bruno. Also, I will probsb always say that the Sylvie and Bruno duo is better than the Alice duo.
The Fault in Our Stars by We-All-Know-So-Why-Bother-Writing-His-Fucking-Name
Yes, like everyone else I love this book, and no, reading it doesn't make you hiptser. Just fucking read it, OK?
The One-Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out Of The Window And Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Say what for a long title, guyses. This was written by a Swede (person from Sweden. duh), and initially takes place in Sweden. The only other books I've read by a Swede are Astrid Lindgren's books. Idek if non-scandinavians know who she is, but she's pretty cool. Also, even if it might not have been the most intriguing book ever, reading it is def worth the experience.
One Day by David Nicholls
It's so cute and fluffy and even if you don't like contemporary, it doesn't matter, it's good anyway. It's about British Emma and Dexter, and we get to read about one day in their lives each year (I think it's July 25th, but don't blame me if I'm wrong) and it's just so genuienly GOOD and FOR BOTH BOYS AND GIRLS. btw it ends in tears, sorry
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
This book is made of mystery and horror. Don't read it at night, cuz it'll scare you shitless. BUT IT IS SO FANTASTIC AND I CAN'T WAIT TO GET A HOLD OF THE SEQUEL. If you like weird timey wimey stuff along with kids who possess superpowers, then you've founf the right book. Basically any Whovian would love this to death (JK all whovians died last Christmas)
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne
Yes, I know it's old, but it's gold. To me anyway. I just love th old fashioned scifi genre. Is that weird? well idgaf. Idek what was even so great about this book, I just enjoyed it so much I wanna read it again. Jules Verne has some pretty good stuff, and some pretty crappy stuff...
So yeah... There y'all have it, Guyses. My fave books of 2013. Weird collection, but who gives a shit? If you want to tell me about YOUR fave books of 2013, just write a comment, and I'll see if I can get a hold of the books you recommend.
onsdag den 12. marts 2014
mandag den 3. marts 2014
February Book Summary
So I know I haven't posted in forever, but I thought I'd just take a chance and see if anyone is sactually interested in reading my blogposts, and so a post about the books I read in February. You can always find me newest book updates on Goodreads were my URL is Potterlocknerd just like on Instagram and Twitter.
So the first book I finished in February 2014 was The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, and the first thing I wanna say about this, is that I wasn't just crying at the end, I was ugly-sobbing. I was on so high a nope-level as I haven't been since I watched the Doctor Who episode Doomsday (srsly the best and worst ep ever, go watch DW now!). The Book Thief was so not what I had expected. I thought it would be about a girl who stole books from stores and got in trouble for it, but boy was I wrong! Now y'all probably know what The Book Thief is about, but just in case you, like me, are often far behind on these things, I'll just give a quick spoiler-free summary.
So we're in Germany in like the early 30's and this girl Liesel sees her little brother die. At his funeral she steals a book, even though she can't read. For reasons I'm not gonna explain, cuz it'd be too lengthy, her new foster father teaches her to read, and she soon steals more books and gets a friend and yada yada yada, the book is full of feels and tears, but so is TFIOS and nobody thinks less of John Green for writing an incredibly sad book.
I'd like to thank Perola Lima (@xperola on Instagram. Go follow, she's awesomsauce) for sending me this book for Christmas, cuz it was one of the most interesting literary experiences I ever had.
5 of 5 stars
The second book I read was Delirium by Lauren Oliver. Now this book has been on my shelf since summer and I'd not bothered to pick it up before February. There has been so much talk about this book and it's series and peeps have been saying it was just fantastic, so y'know I kinda HAD to read it, and I did. I gotta say I found it real cheesy, and it reminded me so much of Divergent, I kept picturing Lena as Tris, which really fucked me up later cuz Lena is dark haired where Tris is blonde. To me it was no more than a basic dystopia, but since the dystopia genre iss one of my faves I gave it 4 of 5 stars.
One thing I really did like was how love was twisted around, and people only knew the bad things that could happen. It is proabably the scariest form of the future I have ever encountered in a book, and I liked what was outside the fence much more than what was outide the fence in the Divergent trilogy. Honestly Allegiant disapointed me a lot.
After Delirium, I decided it was time to continue The Mortal Instruments series, and read City of Glass by Casssandra Clare. A while ago, I had read the first 50 pages and then given up, cuz it wasn't that interesting, but I have a friend who loves the series and that inspired me to keep going. And also it's a New York Time bestseller, how bad can it be? It turned out to be incredibly good, just as the other two, City of Bones and City of Ashes, had been. I considered starting City of Fallen Angels directly after that, but decided against it, as I usually get tired of an author's writing style after a book or two, and I wanted to preserve the magic Cassandra Clare's books possess.
I really liked the ending of City of Glass, and I think it was hte best part of the series so far. Also, I love how we see both bad and good sides of all the characters. And ofc there were all the ships. Malec is my TMI OTP. Sorry to say it, but they beat Clace.
We read Jace's POV a lot and half the time he was there, I sat hugging the book, telling Jace he was my bby and I loved him and he was perff and plz don't hate yourself bby.
BTW I WAS SO THRILLED TO FIND OUT IT WAS NOT ALEC ON THE COVER!
5 of 5 stars
You enjoying this, guyses? we're only half way through xD
Ok so on to a book I had been meaning to read for months, and I mean months, that I just kept putting off, but that I finallygot round to: The Sorceress by Michael Scott.
Spoiler free. I promise.
This is the 3rd book in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (with a silent 's' in Nicholas. He's French.) Now to tell you guyses a funny lil story, I was at B&N in Jefferson City, MO and it was my first trip ever to a B&N so I was so excited (duh) and I saw teh first book, The Alchemyst, just sitting on a shelf. It is one of my best-friend-at-the-time's fave series, so I pick it up and see it's not alone. I grab one of each of the books they have from the series, thinking they were books 1, 2, 3, 4. I come home and kik my friend, who then tells me I've got book 1,2,3, and....6. The last book in the series.
At this point I was sop mad at B&N for not having the entire series, but there was nothing I could really do about it y'know and I've learnt to live with it. Now I need to buy The Necromancer and The Warlock, so I can finish the series.
Perenelle Flamel is my fave character in this series, and as the title refers to her, and she is the POV like 50% of the time, I think this has been my fave book in the series so far. Also a great cliffhanger with The two that are one, and the one that is all, and what happened to Jo and... well can't say. That'd be a spoiler.
5 of 5 stars because I literally couldn't put this book down (Not actually 'literally' but y'know what I mean, guyses)
5th and fave read of the month was, not surprisingly, a John Green book. Yes, I love John Green, yes, I love his books. Everyone does. I posted a pic of this book on Instagram, and y'all were so excited for me to read it, and tbh with you: IT WAS THE BEST JOHN GREEN BOOK OF THEM ALL! No I am not talking about TFIOS.
I am talking about An Abundance of Katherines. I read this book in less than 48 hours, which is something I hardly ever do. Just Colin with his frickin anagrams and his frackin obsession with a dam name! Colin is so bby! Like I want to just pull a mini Colin out of the book and tell him how special and loved he is.I should not have told you that, I should not have told you that. I especially loved the appendix where Daniel Bliss explains what is going on, because (in case you guyses hadn't noticed) I am a huge math geek and even though I might not be as good at math as someone like Colin, I still enjoy it, and it is one of my fave subjects in school. I guess the book would also be awesome to peeps who don't like math, but I think it'd lose some of it's magic.
Even though Book Thief was unique experience, and it definitely deserved it's 5 stars, An Abundance of Katherines just went striaght to my heart. I know a bit of what Colin is feeling about not being as smart as he used to be, and I feel like I can relate to him a lot. Besides the fact that most of my friends are people who would want to go to college and not sit around on their ass all day watching TV.
As I said, it was my fave read of this month, and therefore it is kinda obvious that I gave it 5 of 5 stars.
I will end this February wrap up with a book like no other. Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus. I did a review of this on Goodreads, cuz my friend Zaynab (@zaynabalibazzi on Instagram) asked me to do one, so y'all guyses can go read it there.
5 of 5 stars cuz reasons.
So that was my February wrap up! I'll do one for March too, and I'll probs start posting like maybe twice a month on here, or just whenever I can. next week I have project-week in school and so I won't really be able to post or read as much as I'd like to. Hope y'all can forgive me.
ILY guyses!
So the first book I finished in February 2014 was The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, and the first thing I wanna say about this, is that I wasn't just crying at the end, I was ugly-sobbing. I was on so high a nope-level as I haven't been since I watched the Doctor Who episode Doomsday (srsly the best and worst ep ever, go watch DW now!). The Book Thief was so not what I had expected. I thought it would be about a girl who stole books from stores and got in trouble for it, but boy was I wrong! Now y'all probably know what The Book Thief is about, but just in case you, like me, are often far behind on these things, I'll just give a quick spoiler-free summary.
So we're in Germany in like the early 30's and this girl Liesel sees her little brother die. At his funeral she steals a book, even though she can't read. For reasons I'm not gonna explain, cuz it'd be too lengthy, her new foster father teaches her to read, and she soon steals more books and gets a friend and yada yada yada, the book is full of feels and tears, but so is TFIOS and nobody thinks less of John Green for writing an incredibly sad book.
I'd like to thank Perola Lima (@xperola on Instagram. Go follow, she's awesomsauce) for sending me this book for Christmas, cuz it was one of the most interesting literary experiences I ever had.
5 of 5 stars
The second book I read was Delirium by Lauren Oliver. Now this book has been on my shelf since summer and I'd not bothered to pick it up before February. There has been so much talk about this book and it's series and peeps have been saying it was just fantastic, so y'know I kinda HAD to read it, and I did. I gotta say I found it real cheesy, and it reminded me so much of Divergent, I kept picturing Lena as Tris, which really fucked me up later cuz Lena is dark haired where Tris is blonde. To me it was no more than a basic dystopia, but since the dystopia genre iss one of my faves I gave it 4 of 5 stars.
One thing I really did like was how love was twisted around, and people only knew the bad things that could happen. It is proabably the scariest form of the future I have ever encountered in a book, and I liked what was outside the fence much more than what was outide the fence in the Divergent trilogy. Honestly Allegiant disapointed me a lot.
After Delirium, I decided it was time to continue The Mortal Instruments series, and read City of Glass by Casssandra Clare. A while ago, I had read the first 50 pages and then given up, cuz it wasn't that interesting, but I have a friend who loves the series and that inspired me to keep going. And also it's a New York Time bestseller, how bad can it be? It turned out to be incredibly good, just as the other two, City of Bones and City of Ashes, had been. I considered starting City of Fallen Angels directly after that, but decided against it, as I usually get tired of an author's writing style after a book or two, and I wanted to preserve the magic Cassandra Clare's books possess.
I really liked the ending of City of Glass, and I think it was hte best part of the series so far. Also, I love how we see both bad and good sides of all the characters. And ofc there were all the ships. Malec is my TMI OTP. Sorry to say it, but they beat Clace.
We read Jace's POV a lot and half the time he was there, I sat hugging the book, telling Jace he was my bby and I loved him and he was perff and plz don't hate yourself bby.
BTW I WAS SO THRILLED TO FIND OUT IT WAS NOT ALEC ON THE COVER!
5 of 5 stars
You enjoying this, guyses? we're only half way through xD
Ok so on to a book I had been meaning to read for months, and I mean months, that I just kept putting off, but that I finallygot round to: The Sorceress by Michael Scott.
Spoiler free. I promise.
This is the 3rd book in The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel (with a silent 's' in Nicholas. He's French.) Now to tell you guyses a funny lil story, I was at B&N in Jefferson City, MO and it was my first trip ever to a B&N so I was so excited (duh) and I saw teh first book, The Alchemyst, just sitting on a shelf. It is one of my best-friend-at-the-time's fave series, so I pick it up and see it's not alone. I grab one of each of the books they have from the series, thinking they were books 1, 2, 3, 4. I come home and kik my friend, who then tells me I've got book 1,2,3, and....6. The last book in the series.
At this point I was sop mad at B&N for not having the entire series, but there was nothing I could really do about it y'know and I've learnt to live with it. Now I need to buy The Necromancer and The Warlock, so I can finish the series.
Perenelle Flamel is my fave character in this series, and as the title refers to her, and she is the POV like 50% of the time, I think this has been my fave book in the series so far. Also a great cliffhanger with The two that are one, and the one that is all, and what happened to Jo and... well can't say. That'd be a spoiler.
5 of 5 stars because I literally couldn't put this book down (Not actually 'literally' but y'know what I mean, guyses)
5th and fave read of the month was, not surprisingly, a John Green book. Yes, I love John Green, yes, I love his books. Everyone does. I posted a pic of this book on Instagram, and y'all were so excited for me to read it, and tbh with you: IT WAS THE BEST JOHN GREEN BOOK OF THEM ALL! No I am not talking about TFIOS.
I am talking about An Abundance of Katherines. I read this book in less than 48 hours, which is something I hardly ever do. Just Colin with his frickin anagrams and his frackin obsession with a dam name! Colin is so bby! Like I want to just pull a mini Colin out of the book and tell him how special and loved he is.
Even though Book Thief was unique experience, and it definitely deserved it's 5 stars, An Abundance of Katherines just went striaght to my heart. I know a bit of what Colin is feeling about not being as smart as he used to be, and I feel like I can relate to him a lot. Besides the fact that most of my friends are people who would want to go to college and not sit around on their ass all day watching TV.
As I said, it was my fave read of this month, and therefore it is kinda obvious that I gave it 5 of 5 stars.
I will end this February wrap up with a book like no other. Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus. I did a review of this on Goodreads, cuz my friend Zaynab (@zaynabalibazzi on Instagram) asked me to do one, so y'all guyses can go read it there.
5 of 5 stars cuz reasons.
So that was my February wrap up! I'll do one for March too, and I'll probs start posting like maybe twice a month on here, or just whenever I can. next week I have project-week in school and so I won't really be able to post or read as much as I'd like to. Hope y'all can forgive me.
ILY guyses!
onsdag den 18. december 2013
First Blogpost...yay?
So uhm, hello everyone! Those of you who came from Instagram or Tumblr might already know me. In case you do not already know who I am, here are some facts about me:
- I am 15 years old
- My name is Lis
- I live in Denmark (That's in Europe)
- This is going to be a fandom and book blog
- My fandoms include: Harry Potter, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Percy Jackson, Divergent, John Green, Lord of the Rings + The Hobbit, a bit of this and a bit of that
- I don't know how often I will post
So yeah, this is a bit about me! If you wanna follow me on other websites, my URL for Instagram, Tumblr and Goodreads is Potterlocknerd.
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