Monthly Archives: August 2014

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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #30 – Top Ten Books I’m Not Sure I Want To Read

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish. I thought this would be a fun way to share a condensed version of potential rambles and thoughts that I have.

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This Week’s Theme:
Top Ten Books I’m Not
Sure I Want To Read

Initial Thoughts:

Doesn’t this topic basically cover every single book you come across? Anyways, these are some titles that just came to me on a whim. And by all means: if you can hard-sell any of the listed books to change my mind then that will be major cool points for you!

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If I Stay (Gayle Forman) / The Fault in our Stars (John Green)

So I’m not going to pretend that I know what happens in the meat of either novel because I don’t—I only know of the gist of certain events that happen and the ending for both. It just probably isn’t my type of read, and so, I’ll probably watch the movies instead just to see why it’s being so hyped (yes, you don’t have to tell me the movie isn’t a supplement).

Jellicoe Road – Melina Marchetta

I did start this novel once earlier this year. I also tried to continue it a few months back but it just read too slow for me. My bad?

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[Music Monday] – #9 – Luke Sital-Singh – Dark

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Music Monday is a weekly meme hosted by the Total Book Geek. The purpose of this bookish variant is to match a book with a particular song; whether it is character defining, a narrative element, or just an overall book defining track.

So why am I doing this? Well if I had to choose to only have one of the five traditional senses, it would be sound perception above all else. And hey I think it’d be neat to share music I listen to on a daily basis!

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This Week’s Song:
Dark – Luke Sital-Singh 

Book Selected:
A Monster Calls – Patrick Ness

Initial Thoughts:

This is a companion post to the review of review of A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. If you haven’t read the book, well, I think you should…so you shouldn’t read any further into this post to save yourself from potential spoilers that I may or may not guarantee will be in this post. But you can surely listen to the song! (I sure hope the track plays cause there was no embed button so I adapted one from the general format).

But first off: I’d like to thank Suits for introducing this song to me. The piano track and the vocal work make me feel all the feels again—both in Suits and A Monster Calls.

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[Miscellaneous] – Bout Of Books 11

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Miscellaneous is the tagline to store my random posts that don’t really belong elsewhere. It’s more for consistency sake so I can have an itty-bitty picture to follow suit with the post.

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BoB11-200x200The 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, Aug 18th and runs through Sunday, Aug 24th 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 11 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. 

Initial Thoughts:

What Is It?

Bout of Books is a low-pressure read-a-thon which runs from Aug 18th-24th in whatever time zone you live in.

The Sales Pitch

Usually read one novel a week? Challenge yourself to more.
Fancy the sports column in your local newspaper? Try reading arts for a change.
Interested in other genres and types of reads (i.e. comics)? Here’s an excuse to throw monies away (or you could borrow, I guess).
Already participating in a read-a-thon/read-a-long? Kill two endeavours with one book.

The content of this intro-post is basically the same as last time. If you do any form of reading, you’re basically participating…so just take an extra few minutes and sign up via twitter or a blog post—head over to the site for the deets. While the focus of this read-a-thon is to, you know, read books, you can certainly create value through reading other mediums as well.

Always: experience, think, and learn.

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