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Monday Amusements 29

24th February 2014 By Julianne Leave a Comment

My #finishitfeb progress – I’m getting there!

Today is the last day of my 27th year – oh yes, it’s my birthday tomorrow! Being 26 went quite well so I’m looking forward to what this year will bring. Hopefully even more good books!

Michelle at Fluttering Butterflies has created another book tag line quiz, this one is for YA published in 2014. I could only guess two of the titles but I found it quite interesting seeing all the different tag lines together. They’re all very attention-grabbing. Don’t forget to enter the Fluttering Butterflies blogoversary giveaway while you’re there!

When Should One Quit Reading THAT Book? asks The Pewter Wolf. There aren’t many books that I haven’t finished, but I think I gave up on them all quite early on. I tend to persevere with most books, even if I’m not really getting into them. A book has to actively annoy me for me to put it down – there has to be something irritating about the style or the point of view.

Keeping Track of the TBR-list is a really interesting post. Daisy is far more organised than me at the moment. I used to have a very strict system but I gave it up at the start of 2014 because I was spending more time obsessing over the order in which I planned to read books than actually reading!

I was ill last week so unfortunately this list is rather short, but I’m
better now and should have more time for exploring the book blogosphere in the next fortnight!

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Monday Amusements 28

10th February 2014 By Julianne 2 Comments

So many books! This is my book haul from the Friday before last – the four from Oxford University Press were given out at their Storm Your Imagination event, and the others were gifts from other bloggers except for The Worst Girlfriend in the World, which came in the post, courtesy of Atom Book.

I have been adding some new blogs to Feedly! Hopefully this will lead to more diversity in my Monday Amusements.

Jo at Once Upon a Bookcase is Desperately Seeking Romance (novels), go comment with your recommendations!

I pretty much agreed with everything Raimy at Readaraptor wrote about the book age certificate debate in Certificates for YA books? Seriously?. This debate seems to rear its silly head every couple of years and thankfully never goes anywhere.

This is Not Why YA is Important – Maggie Stiefvater hits the nail on the head.

I have an enormous collection of writing guidebooks, so I really liked L.K. Hill’s mini-reviews of the how-to guides she’s been reading recently.

A Daydreamer’s Thoughts is hosting a Noughts & Crosses Read-A-Long! I am tempted but I read the first book fairly recently…

My favourite reviews this fortnight:
Grasshopper Jungle, by Andrew Smith, at weartheoldcoat
A Tale for the Time Being, by Ruth Ozeki, at Outlandish Lit
Scarlet, by A.C. Gaughen, at Rather Be Reading
Being Sloane Jacobs, by Lauren Morrill, at Geeky Chiquitas

Is there anything you think this post should have included? Let me know in the comments!

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