Fun Fact Friday: Top 5’s

Round III of Fun Fact Friday is here! This week I am sharing my Top 5 answers to the 5 categories listed below. It’s a lightening round of fun facts, kinda like speed dating.

The Top 5 categories I chose:
1) Favorite Books
2) Books Disliked
3) Albums of All Time
4) Movies
5) Holiday Movies (since Christmas is only 3 days away!)

Another – not-so-hidden – fun fact in there: you can tell by my category choices that I am a lover of books, music and movies.

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Share your 1st Book of the Year!

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I happened to stumble upon Brona’s Books blog – Hi Brona! – where I learned of a really cool book share tradition hosted by Shelia at Book Journey.

Share what you plan your 1st book of 2018 will be with Shelia, and on January 1st she will be posting our submissions for all to see. You can look forward to adding to your ever growing TBR list when you view your fellow book lovers’ submissions.

More details on how to share your book choice with Shelia can be found here.

I look forward to seeing what you all have submitted! You will have to wait and see what I selected too: you can try and guess, but I still won’t tell  😉

Goodreads Monday: Perfect Little World

Hello Monday! I came across Snazzy Books‘ Monday post and thought I would join in on Goodreads Monday too!

Goodreads Monday is a weekly meme hosted by Lauren’s Page Turners. To take part, you simply choose a random book from your TBR and show it off. Don’t forget to check out Lauren’s Goodreads Monday blog post to share your Monday selections.

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Perfect Little World
by Kevin Wilson
Published: January 24, 2017 by Ecco
Purchase: Amazon or Barnes & Noble

Goodreads Synopsis:

When Isabelle Poole meets Dr. Preston Grind, she’s fresh out of high school, pregnant with her art teacher’s baby, and totally on her own. Izzy knows she can be a good mother but without any money or relatives to help, she’s left searching.

Dr. Grind, an awkwardly charming child psychologist, has spent his life studying family, even after tragedy struck his own.  Now, with the help of an eccentric billionaire, he has the chance to create a “perfect little world”—to study what would happen when ten children are raised collectively, without knowing who their biological parents are.  He calls it The Infinite Family Project and he wants Izzy and her son to join.

This attempt at a utopian ideal starts off promising, but soon the gentle equilibrium among the families disintegrates: unspoken resentments between the couples begin to fester; the project’s funding becomes tenuous; and Izzy’s growing feelings for Dr. Grind make her question her participation in this strange experiment in the first place.

Written with the same compassion and charm that won over legions of readers with The Family Fang, Kevin Wilson shows us with grace and humor that the best families are the ones we make for ourselves.

 

My favorite of 2017: The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne

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Published: August 11, 2017 by Hogarth Press
Category: Historial Fiction, LGBT

Do not let my next statement stop you from reading the rest of this review. Promise? Ok, good. Now that we have an understanding what I say next will not scare you so I am just going to say it: the hardcover is 582 pages. Please do not make that deter you (you promised, remember). This book is glorious. Really, it is. It is my favorite of the year.Read More »

Book Review: Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant

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Published: June 2, 2016 by Mulholland Books
The additional .5 disco ball was because I actually finished it

Yikes. Reading this was like going to the dentist: Painful. Just opening my kindle to keep reading was like pulling teeth. I questioned categorizing it as a DNF (do not finish) more than a few times, but since I got it from NetGalley I felt like I needed to try and finish: it took me a week. A week of reading I cannot get back.Read More »

Talk to Me Tuesdays (Yes, I know its Thursday)

I forgot this Tuesday to post my 2nd ‘Talk to Me Tuesday’ topic. I was just so excited to share my The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas review that it skipped my mind. I can’t say it won’t happen again, but I will try and remember correctly for next time.

Today’s topic: Book Covers

Are you a judger of book covers? (How horrible does that sound? Not very nice, but as long as you only judge actual book covers and not people, you should be ok.)

Similar to selecting a new bottle of wine: labels, covers, what have you, are important in my decision making process. I will more than likely read a book synopsis if the cover is intriguing, and pass if its too boring/vague/cluttered, I could go on.

Below are some of my favorite covers of books I have read, or that are on my TBR list. Whether I liked the book or not, you have to admit they are pretty, pretty:

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Are you a book cover “judger?” (Remember: a nice one, not a mean one) What are some of your favorite book covers, regardless of how you rated the book?