Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish. This week's list is about what I would like to see more of in books...basically a reading wishlist.  

1. Worlds within worlds. I don't care if I have to go through a wardrobe, fall down a rabbit hole, or run through Platform 9 3/4 to get to my magical land. I eat that stuff up. There's something so magical about a place so different than your own reality tucked behind a hidden door somewhere.

2. Fun time travel series. I'm such a big fan of Doctor Who that I would love to see another time travelling series take on a lighter tone like the show. Don't get me wrong, I love hard scifi. Sometimes, I'm just not in the mood for a realistic take on time travel or alien invasions. Sometimes I just want a goofy story filled with heart and memorable characters.

3. Unique mystical/mythical creatures. I'm reading Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series right now and there is this gross/weird creature called a Mistwraith. It's a scavenger and absorbs the carcasses it devours. It has the head of a deer, human, whatever else it has eaten and numerous disgusting legs. It is so creepy and I love it. Gimme more of that!

4. Queer characters. I love my LGBT friends and enjoy seeing them represented in the novels I read!

5. A modern Nancy Drew character. I know there are probably a lot of series out there with cool, young detective female characters. I just don't know of any. I'm thinking of Veronica Mars with a lot more badassness. If anyone knows of a series like this then please tell me!

6. How about a fantasy hero who hasn't had their parents murdered or was a farm boy part of a prophecy? Can we do that?

7. Covens! Ever since AHS: Coven I have become obsessed with covens! Oh the fabulousness, I just can't even handle it.

 8. Since I work for a family practice now, I would love to read a book about how awful working in a doctor's office is...FYI it's that awful. People are ridiculous and rude. I doubt there is a book out there like this, but if there is one then it was made for me.

9. A fantasy novel that isn't 1000 pages long. Please, I know all you fantasy authors love your world building, but sometimes I just want to get to the dragon slayin'. You know what I mean?!

10. Forget the instant love bull. I've never understood it and it totally makes me reject the love story from the beginning.

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge: Day 12

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is hosted by Good Books and Good Wine.

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Day 12: How do you fight blogger fatigue?

A: COFFEE! Coffee is the answer for everything. Or if  I'm feeling classy or British then I'll have some tea. Pinky up, of course. Sometimes I'll put on some really bad pop music from the 90's and early 2000's and just dance around for ten minutes. That usually gets my brain juices flowing. You know what I'm sayin'?

If the dancing and coffee don't work then I'll just sit down and remind myself why I started this blog. I usually find some kind of motivation still in me. Luckily, I'm still in the honeymoon phase. My blog isn't that old so normally I can't wait to blog.

Feature & Follow Friday #5

Feature & Follow Friday is an event hosted by Parajunkee and Alison Can Read. The goal is for bloggers to meet new friends and gain new followers.

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Q: What do you do with your books after you are done reading them?

A: I keep them and hoard them. I go into my "book cave" and cuddle with my books and tell them they're my precious...

Okay, so I don't really do that...for the most part.  I usually put the book back on the shelf. Simple as that. Sometimes I'll leave it out on my night stand because I'm lazy. Right now my room is covered in books and comic books. I moved into a new place a few months ago and I don't have any book shelves. I've been told to donate them to make room, but no. That's not going to happen.

Woah, two gollum gifs in one post. I'm on a roll. Anyways, if you want to follow me then you can do so via twitter google+, RSS, bloglovin', goodreads, facebook, and pinterest. I got em' all, baby! Just leave a comment that you followed me and I will be happy to follow back. Happy Friday!

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge: Day 11

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is hosted by Good Books and Good Wine.

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Day 11: Show off 5 of your blog posts!

1. My very first post EVER was a review of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane. That was a month and five days ago. I can't believe it has only been a month since I started blogging. Anyways, I think my reviews are starting to evolve. I"m much more focused when I read now. I take notes. This helps me write better reviews. So check out my first post ever. Don't laugh!

2. One of my favorite reads of 2013 is Horns by Joe Hill. It is fantastic. Check out my review here.

3. I've only done one movie review, but I want to do more. I love weird, what the hell movies. If you're into that too then here is my review for Beyond the Black Rainbow. 

4.  Like comic books? Me too! Check out some of my favorites. 

5. Another favorite read of mine is The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi. It was the second book I reviewed. 

Okay, so there you have it. I hope you find something you like. 

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge: Day 10

The 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is hosted by Good Books and Good Wine.

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Day 10: How do you choose what book to read next?

I choose books a lot of different ways. I belong to a few groups on Goodreads. Sometimes I'll read the books the group is reading. Sometimes I'll look at lists on the website and choose a book I find interesting. I also read reviews posted by other bloggers. If they recommend that book then I'll check it out. Recommendations help a lot. Now that I'm starting to receive eARCs, I've been using release dates to help choose which books I read next. Books with the closest release dates move up on my reading list!

On a different note, I've decided to stop reading Moon Called. I just can't seem to get into it right now. I plan on finishing it, but I want to wait until I'm in a more urban fantasy mood. So, on to The Inevitable!

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge: Day 8

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Day 8: Quick! Write 15 bullet points of things that appeal to you on blogs!

• GIFS! yay! Love me some gifs. 
• good humor
•  beautiful templates. I see all these gorgeous templates and they make me full of envy! 
• I like it when bloggers post other things than just book reviews. 
• book reading challenges. I just started two this year and I must say I enjoy them. 
• helpful bloggers. When starting out, it was a little bit overwhelming. I didn't know where to begin or how to gain followers. Luckily, I found a few people to give me great advice. 
• eARCS!
• meeting new people. In my "real" life, I don't have many people to talk to about comics or science fiction books or any other geekiness. I have met some cool people through this blog that share similar interests.
• Writing reviews. I never thought in a million years I would enjoy writing reviews, but I do. It helps me remember the book better too. 
• my followers. It is pretty cool that people would actually care enough to read what I have to say. Still bewilders me. 
• Having authors contact me! It is so crazy to look in my email and see I have an email from an author. I'm like "You want to talk to me?!"
  
•  I love hearing other people's opinions on books. It helps me see the book in a different way.
•  giveaways! I am addicted to them. Maybe I will host one some day.
• Author interviews
•  discovering new books

15 Day Book Blogger Challenge: Day 7

the 15 Day Book Blogger Challenge is an event hosted by Good Books and Good Wine.

Day 7: Talk about your blogging quirks.

I love Gifs. I have a gif for almost every situation. I just think they make everything funnier. Hmm..what else. I often come off as more excited than I really am. I use a lot of exclamation points. I'll go back and read something I wrote and think I sound way too hyper or enthusiastic. A Cheerleader on uppers comes to mind. I guess I don't have the knack for conveying enthusiasm without the crazy. That's all the quirks I can think of right now. I'm sure there are more but I'm probably in denial.

Feature & Follow Friday

It's that time of the week again. Feature & Follow Friday is a weekly event hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee. The purpose is to help bloggers gain new friends and followers.

This week's Question:

Book Vacay: Where is the best destination reading spot for you? (Where do you like to go to read other then your home)

Answer: Since it is summer, I like to take my book to the pool. It's nice and relaxing until someone does a cannonball and gets my book wet. I also enjoy going to the local coffee shop to read. If I lived near the beach I would totally take my book to the beach. I'd make a few mixed drinks and put on a nice floppy hat. Nothing makes me feel more fabulous than a big floppy hat.

It doesn't really matter how you follow me. I have all the goods. Facebook, bloglovin', twitter, RSS, goodreads, google+. You decide :]

My first Musing Mondays

Musing Mondays is a weekly meme hosted by Should Be Reading. Bloggers are asked to muse about one or more of the following:

• Describe one of your reading habits.
• Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).
• What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on? Tell us about it! 
• Tell us what you’re reading right now — what you think of it, so far; why you chose it; what you are (or, aren’t) enjoying it.
• Do you have a bookish rant? Something about books or reading (or the industry) that gets your ire up? Share it with us!
• Instead of the above questions, maybe you just want to ramble on about something else pertaining to books — let’s hear it, then!

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My Musing

•  Tell us what book(s) you recently bought for yourself or someone else, and why you chose that/those book(s).

Today I bought myself The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi. Here's the summary from Goodreads: 

Jean le Flambeur gets up in the morning and has to kill himself before his other self can kill him first. Just another day in the Dilemma Prison. Rescued by the mysterious Mieli and her flirtatious spacecraft, Jean is taken to the Oubliette, the Moving City of Mars, where time is a currency, memories are treasures, and a moon-turned-singularity lights the night. Meanwhile, investigator Isidore Beautrelet, called in to investigate the murder of a chocolatier, finds himself on the trail of an arch-criminal, a man named le Flambeur...

Indeed, in his many lives, the entity called Jean le Flambeur has been a thief, a confidence artist, a posthuman mind-burgler, and more. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his deeds are known throughout the Heterarchy, from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of Mars. In his last exploit, he managed the supreme feat of hiding the truth about himself from the one person in the solar system hardest to hide from: himself. Now he has the chance to regain himself in all his power—in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed.

The Quantum Thief is a breathtaking joyride through the solar system several centuries hence, a world of marching cities, ubiquitous public-key encryption, people who communicate via shared memory, and a race of hyper-advanced humans who originated as an MMORPG guild. But for all its wonders, The Quantum Thief is also a story powered by very human motives of betrayal, jealousy, and revenge. It is a stunning debut

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I have gone to every book store in my area to find this book and it is nowhere to be found! I knew I should've just ordered it from the internet, but I enjoy going into the bookstore with my coffee and looking for my book. It's just fun for me. After searching all of the bookstores, I finally gave in and purchased it from amazon. I chose this book because I had heard great things about it. Plus, the author has a Ph.D in Mathematical Physics. I think it is cool when scientists write science fiction books. Maybe because I hope to be a scientist some day and would like to write a science fiction novel...maybe.

So, there you have it. My first Musing Mondays! Please, leave me a comment to your website so I can check your own Musing Monday!