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Monday Amusements 15

12th August 2013 By Julianne 4 Comments

Which of these books do you think I should read next? Leave me a comment and help me choose!

Fictional Scenes I Want to Live at So Many Books, So Little Time got me thinking. I’d also love to visit Hogwarts, be Edie for that scene in the Louvre, and go to all manner of 1920’s parties.

I loved Eleanor Wood’s guest post at Fluttering Butterflies – it’s like she read my mind, I relate so much to her experience of being a teenager. I will have to read Gemini Rising.

I could have written most of this post myself: Things I’m Afraid To Tell You – A Book Blogger Confesses ALL! I am gradually reading and posting more but I’m never going to be one of those bloggers that posts a review every day, or even every other day. I have too many other interests and I love list posts! Reviews, though important, are less entertaining to write and promote.

Can you work out which books are featured in the YA Contemporary Covers Quiz?

Onto my favourite reviews! I have so many this week – thanks to some determined Feedly-reading – that I’m just going to list them.

Severed Heads, Broken Hearts, by Robyn Schneider, at So Many Books, So Little Time
Dangerous Girls, by Abigail Haas, at Writing from the Tub
The Beautiful and the Cursed, by Page Morgan, at Lunar Rainbows
The Savages, by Matt Whyman, at Wear the Old Coat
Burn Bright, by Marianne de Pierres, at The Pewter Wolf
Dead Jealous, by Sharon Jones, at Fluttering Butterflies
Ocean of Secrets, by Aimee Friedman, at Cicely Loves Books
Deception, by C.J. Redwine, at Auntie Spinelli Reads
Anatomy of a Boyfriend, by Daria Snadowsky, at Once Upon a Bookcase
Weirdos vs. Quimboids, by Natasha Desborough, at SisterSpooky
See You At Harry’s, by Jo Knowles, at Readaraptor
OCD Love Story, by Corey Ann Haydu, at Rather Be Reading
The Distance Between Us, by Kasie West, at Quinn’s Book Nook

 Finally, 12 Onomatopoeias from Around the World – is it just me or is ‘ghrutu ghrutu’ a much better approximation of the noise a pig makes than ‘oink oink’?

Filed Under: Monday Amusements Tagged With: book chat, books, links, lists, Monday Amusements

Top Ten Books I Wish Had Sequels

6th August 2013 By Julianne 4 Comments

Wow! It feels like it’s been absolutely ages since the last time I wrote a Top Ten Tuesday post. I took a little break because I was busy and the topics didn’t really appeal to me that strongly, but there’s a whole load coming up now that are right up my street! My last Top Ten Tuesday was in May, and I’ve done 24 Top Ten Tuesdays in total. As always, Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by its creators at The Broke and the Bookish.

This topic was a tricky one. Lots of the books I love have sequels, and many of my favourite standalones have neat, tied-up endings and don’t provide any material for a potential sequel. That’s why I could only manage a Top Eight!

 

Top Eight Books I Wish Could Have Had Sequels

1. Dramarama, by E. Lockhart – I would love to know what Sadye did next! There are hints about the path she might take but I’d love to read about it in full.

2. The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, also by E. Lockhart – It’s a brilliant standalone but I think it’s impossible to love it without wanting, even just a little bit, to find out what Frankie does next. Even if only at university. Or in senior year of high school!

3. Journey to the River Sea, by Eva Ibbotson – Need more Miss Minton. That is all.

4. Janes in Love, by Cecil Castellucci and Jim Rugg – This is itself a sequel to The Plain Janes, and there was supposed to be a third in the series, Janes Go Summer, but it was cancelled when the imprint was closed. Oh, comics industry.

5. Everything Beautiful, by Simmone Howell – I just want to spend more time with all the characters! I wonder how things work out between Riley and Dylan, and Riley and her stepmother.

6. Notes from the Teenage Underground, also by Simmone Howell – What does Gem do next? Don’t get me wrong, both these books are wonderful as they are, great standalones! I am just really curious.

7. Matilda, by Roald Dahl – wouldn’t you just love to know what she’s like when she’s a bit older?

8. Diary of a Grace, by Sarra Manning – I know why this has no sequel, but the little bit of me that is still fifteen desperately wants to know whether she stays with Toph or gets back with Jack!

Do you share any of my choices? Isn’t it completely annoying when sequels are cancelled? I know that happens fairly regularly with paranormal romance/urban fantasy series that don’t do as well as the publisher and author hoped. Has it ever happened to a series you loved?

Filed Under: Recommendation Lists Tagged With: book chat, books, sequels, Top Ten Tuesday

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