Taylor Swift Book Tag

This tag was originally created by TheBookLife (original video here). I saw this from a video on Kat from Katytastic (click here to check the video out) and I thought that it sounded pretty cool even though I am not the biggest Taylor Swift fan. And this tag has been around for a long time. So, let's do this!

12 Days of Christmas Book Tag

Happy holidays everyone! I am here to do the 12 Days of Christmas Book tag. I first saw this on Kassidy Voinche's channel (click here to see said video) and this tag was originally created by LizzieLovesBooks and click here to see her video. My procrastination has kicked in and I am doing a Christmas book tag last minute, and unfortunately at this moment I will not be able to provide much of an example for any of these. I will show the cover and title of these books and hopefully after the holidays pass by I will come back and add explanations for these. Anyway, let's get started.

Top 10 Auto-buy Authors

 

actually going to be top 5 because for some authors i don't own more or all of their books

 I was tagged to do this by the lovely Rachel @A Perfection Called Books, and it sounds really interesting and fun to do, so let's do this!

The Book Blogger Test

 

I wasn't tagged to do this, but I saw this on A Perfection Called Books and I thought it looked pretty cool (plus I don't have too many blog post ideas and I want to put something up) so, let's do this~

Liebster Award: The Unexpected Sequel

So, after my first request I have been getting a lot to do this so I'm just going to do this and the three or four others that I have been nominated from (and also take a little bit of a break from reading from the booktube-a-thon even though I've only read like fifty pages today but shhh....), if you have been waiting a while for this I am terribly sorry, but I am doing it due to everyone ever nominating me, so here it is:

The Social Media Tag

I haven't done a tag in like 5ever and this one sounds really really interesting to do so, let's do this. I am both  excited and nervous to do it but I'm going to do it anyway.

A-Z Book Survey

 I saw my good friend Rachel at A Perfection Called Books do this and it looked so fun so I'm going to this.

#Goodbyes Books

I saw Ariel from Ariel Bissett make this video (link to it right here), and it inspired some people to do the same thing so I'm doing the same thing right now. Let's do this.

Now, let me say something right now. I personally am really picky about the books that I do pick out (except at second-hand bookstores, I do go a little crazy there). Even though my TBR pile is probably so big that I'll never be able to read them all, I do know what books I want to get and at a time, which ones I want to check out from the library, which ones I actually want to read. So, this pile isn't very large.
I did go through all of my books earlier today when I'm writing this (5/11/14), and I picked out five books that I don't want anymore. They all do have their separate reasons for why I am giving them away, so let's just jump in with this.

1. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

 Now, let me clarify this. Like another book later in this list, I do want to read this and I do have the desire to read this. However, I have two reasons for wanting to donate this book. Reason #1: Because it isn't in the absolute best condition since I did get this at a second-hand bookstore (not in the worst possible but still), and reason #2 (and this is the main reason): There are new paperback covers for this series,

and I strongly prefer them over the old ones. Also in case I do like this series and want to get the rest, I do want my series to match with the covers.

2. Words in the Dust by Trent Reedy

I am 200% sure you are like 'WTF is this book?' well, I got this book from school for free, and when I was looking through my books I literally felt no desire to read this book. So I'm giving it away to someone who will.

3. Pretty Little Liars by Sara Shepard

I don't think I really need to describe the reason why I'm giving away. But the main reason I'm giving this away is because there are too many books for me to commit to in this series. There are 16 books in this series. 16. It's too many for me to follow along with.

4. Crossed by Ally Condie

This was actually the one I was on the fence about. Even though I did not like the first book much, I don't see myself reading this book anytime soon. If I want to read this book, I will probably borrow it from the library. But overall I just don't see myself reading it. I am, however, keeping Matched because I can see myself rereading it. And who knows, I may like it better the second time.

5. Throne of Fire by Rick Riordan

Now, this is the other book I said I wanted to read but I am getting rid of. And the reason is because my copy is a paperback, and the first and third books are in hardcover. So I naturally want to obtain a hardcover of this book. I don't know when I will get to this book, but I do know that I do want to get a hardcover copy of this book to match the rest of my series.

Mortal Instruments Monday; Week 2: Zombie Apocalypse Tag-Shadowhunter Version!

Only two weeks away, we are only two weeks away from the release of City of Heavenly Fire, the final final book in The Mortal Instruments series. In order to celebrate to the end, I decided start a mini-series type tag that I describe more in Week 1 which you can check out right here. But basically every week on the Monday, there is a Mortal Instruments related post, counting down to the release of the last book. For this week, we are doing the Zombie Apocalypse tag, but we are only going off the TMI and TID characters.
So, if you have no idea what this game is or how it works, I'll put down the rules really quick:

You take 5 of your favorite books (for this version only the TMI and TID books, just your 5 favorites from those both of those series altogether) and you write the titles down and put them in a jar. Once they are in the jar, you pick out a slip of paper and it decides the book you pick. When you do that, you take the book and open to a random page and the first name that you see on the page will be your character for the question/team member that will be part of your zombie apocalypse team. If you see a name that has already been picked, you use the next name.

There are 10 different positions that the book characters, and they are the following:
1. The first person to die
2. The person you trip to get away from the zombies
3. The first person to turn into a zombie
4. The person that trips YOU to get away from the zombies
5. The idiot of the team
6. The "brains" of the team
7. The team's medic
8. The weapons expert
9. The brawler
10. The Team Captain

This was created by Nathan Hale on Youtube and you check out his video right here.

So now that you know the rules, let's get this tag started.

Liebster Award

 I was nominated for this by Anna from Unquenchable Reads, thanks for the nomination Anna!

Rules:
Link back and thank the blogger who nominated you in your post.
List 11 facts about yourself.
Answer the 11 questions asked by the blogger who nominated you.
Pick 5-10 new bloggers (must have less than 200 followers) to nominate and ask them 11 new questions. Do not renominate the blogger that nominated you.
Go to each new blogger’s site and inform them of their nomination.

 11 Facts:

1. I did not get obsessed with reading until Mortal Instruments back in August of 2013 (if you want more of an explanation, click here to check out how I got into the TMI series).
2. I own about 120 books.
3. I discovered booktube near the end of September of last year.
4. I have never read a single Harry Potter book. I know, all of the shame on me (don't worry, I will read one this summer).
5.  I can usually read 2 books at the same times, but I'll sometimes read 3 books at the sometimes. I will never read more than 5 books at the same time.
6. I love Pokemon. And I also super excited about the Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire remakes! It's been 3,000 years...
7.  If I had to pick one favorite book of all time, it would probably be The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken.
8.  This is fact number 8.
9.  Hourglass was the first e-book I read and completed on my e-reader.
10.  I still have to read the rest of the TMI series for the first time before COHF comes out.
11.  I have more to-be-read books than I will books I will actually read in my life.



Questions:

1. Who is your favorite author?

Cassandra Clare without a doubt.  Her novels and the world she created are just phenomenal and I feel like everyone should give City of Bones a try.

2. What do you like most about blogging?

 I love being able to talk about books and putting reviews and tags and monthly wrap-ups/tbrs up and just a book blog in general.

3. What’s your favorite book series?

 The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. But if I had to choose a different series, I would say the Lunar Chronicles series by Marissa Meyer.


4. What was the worst book you have ever read all the way through?

Probably Matched, but I did not hate it when I first read it. I would have to say Gone maybe because I just did not like that book, during, and after reading it.

5. Have you ever stopped reading a book and never picked it back up?

I don't like to think of books I put down like that. Even the book that I absolutely did not like that I put down, I want to finish it someday. I haven't encountered a situation like that with a book, and I don't know if I would because I do fine good in every book I read, even if I hate it.

6. What if you could meet one author, who would it be and why?

I don't know, I probably would fangirl too much if I met any author. But if I had to chose one, I probably would say Marie Lu or Jennifer L. Armentrout. I don't know, too many to choice! Too many I would fangirl over!

7. What do you like to do other than reading?

Listen to music, play video games, eat food, and watch movies. TV shows could make it up here, but I have like lost the ability to successful watch TV shows without getting behind.

8. Favorite ship?

Any of the ships over there <---, but my ultimate ship would have to be Clace. I don't think I have to describe it. Let's just go onto the next question.

9. Ebooks or physical books?

Definitely physical books. I just love the feel of physical books and how the actual covers and the pages and ink and I just love physical books. But recently I like ebooks because you can carry like a hundred stories on one device.

10. Where do you mostly buy your books from?

Mostly from stores like Target. Sometimes I will go to Barnes & Nobles, but that is only on special occasions.

11. Favorite color?

I love pretty much all of the colors, I don't like certain shades of colors and I am not a huge fan of yellow, but I love basically all of the colors. If I had to pick a favorite, favorite color, I would say a royal purple/plum color.


Who I nominate:

Note: I only have two blogs down because I am having/had trouble finding blog who haven't done this/haven't been nominated to do this. So, I am going to cheat a little and only put two down.

1. http://devin-reads-books.blogspot.com/
2. http://books-abeautifultword.blogspot.com/

11 Questions for my people:

1. What was the first series that you really got in?
2. Do you prefer reading on an ereader or a physical book?
3. If you had to pick one favorite book of all time, what would it be?
4. When did you join goodreads?
5. What is your favorite thing to post on your blog?
6. Are you subscribed to any booktubers?
7. What is one book you don't think you'll ever read?
8. What do you think of putting books down?
9. What is a genre you have rarely or never read?
10. If you had to pick one fictional world to live in, what would it be?
11. What is a book-to-movie adaption, that is done right, you would love to see?