Books Read in 2021

So 2021 was just as bad a year as 2020 because of COVID-19 and because of me being ill but I was able to surpass my goal of reading 40 books and I read 46. A lot of my reads in 2021 were rereads due to not being able to go to the library and me not wanting to buy more books until I had read the ones I already own.

Here's what I read in 2021:

1. Gravity Happens Lizzie James
2. Elbow Grease: Teamwork Wins! by John Cena
3. Wintercraft Jenna Burtenshaw
4. Blackwatch by Jenna Burtenshaw
5. Legacy by Jenna Burtenshaw
6. In Conclusion, Don't Worry About It by Lauren Graham
7. Addicted to Love by Alice La Roux
8. Claws that Catch by Alice La Roux
9. Paint it Red by Alice La Roux
10. Good Girl by Alice La Roux
11. Breeding Lilacs by Alice La Roux
12. Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult
13. Shadowed Heart by Candace Wondrak
14. Point of Extinction by Tara Ellis and Mike Kraus
15. Layers of Extinction by Tara Ellis and Mike Kraus
16. Brink of Extinction by Tara Ellis and Mike Kraus
17. Spread of Extinction by Tara Ellis and Mike Kraus
18. Escaping Extinction by Tara Ellis and Mike Kraus
19. Surviving Extinction by Tara Ellis and Mike Kraus
20. Myths and Legends by Laura Greenwood
21. Die for Me by Amy Plum
22. Summer Hollow by Jennifer Malone Wright
23. Keeper Vs Reaper by Jennifer Malone Wright
24. Keeper of the Peace by Jennifer Malone Wright
25. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C. S. Lewis
26. Oi Aardvark by Kes Grey
27. Another Forgotten Child by Cathy Glass
28. Hidden by Cathy Glass
29. Damaged by Cathy Glass
30. Cut by Cathy Glass
31. Will You Love Me? by Cathy Glass
32. Daddy's Little Princess by Cathy Glass
33. The Saddest Girl in the World by Cathy Glass
34. Pool House by Melissa Lozada-Oliva
35. The Brick Slayer by Harold Schechter
36. The Pied Piper by Harold Schechter
37. Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie by Harold Schechter
38. Beauty Slain in Bath by Harold Schechter
39. The Veil by Rachel Harrison
40. Addie Bell's Shortcut to Growing up by Jessica Brody
41. City of Villains by Estelle Laure
42. Fated by Alyson Noel
43. Payback by Natalie Y Moore
44. A Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
45. Isabella the Warrior Queen by Kirsten Downey
46. Missing: A Boy and the Evidence Against His Accused Killer by Joaquin Sapien

My goal for 2022 is 40, I know I can read that as I've done it before but with life going back to being 'normal' again means I will be going back to work after my operation as well as having my final year of university starting later this year.

I hope you all get to do plenty of reading in 2022 and you all keep safe x

Top 10 Tuesday

I didn't like this weeks Top 10 Tuesday topic so I turned it into a Top 10 Freebie: Books/Series I’m defiantly going to re-read.

1. Evermore by Alyson Noel
2. Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw
3. Unremembered by Jessica Brody
4. The Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen
5. My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
6. The Vampire Stalker by Allison Van Diepen
7. Die For Me by Amy Plum
8. Heist Society by Ally Carter
9. Firebird by Alice La Roux
10. Facing up to Fatherhood by Miranda Lee

Top 10 Tuesday

This weeks Top 10 is a Freebie so I picked Top 10 Favourite Books Released In the Last Ten Years (one book for each year) (submitted by Anne @ Head Full of Books)

1. Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw (2010)
2. Dark Flame by Alyson Noel (2011)
3. 52 Reasons to Hate My Father by Jessica Brody (2012)
4. Horizon by Alyson Noel (2013)
5. Doll Bones by Holly Black (2014)
6. Unchanged by Jessica Brody (2015)
7. The Case of the Curious Canine by Tara Ellis (2016)
8. Fire Sentinel by Erin Maxwell (2017)
9. Firebird by Alice La Roux (2018)
10. The Secret of Sanctuary by Tara Ellis (2019)

Top 10 Tuesday

Top 10 Tuesday Character Freebie - Characters I fell in love with

1. Damen – Evermore by Alyson Noel
2. Ever – Evermore by Alyson Noel
3. Silas Dane – Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw
4. Zen – Unremembered by Jessica Brody
5. Seraphina – Unremembered by Jessica Brody
6. Lexi – 52 Reasons by Jessica Brody
7. Seraphina – Firebird by Alice La Roux
8. Matilda – Matilda by Roald Dahl
9. Luna – Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
10. Samantha – Samantha Wolf by Tara Ellis

Top 10 Tuesday

Ten Books I Loved During The First Year I Started My Blog.

1. Evernight by Claudia Gray
2. Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw
3. Blackwatch by Jenna Burtenshaw
4. Evermore by Alyson Noel
5. Blue Moon by Alyson Noel
6. Shadowland by Alyson Noel
7. Dark Flame by Alyson Noel
8. Radiance by Alyson Noel
9. Facing upto Fatherhood by Miranda Lee
10. Heat Wave by Richard Castle

Top 10 Tuesday

Again this will be a mixture of all the topics mentioned here. Top 10 Thanksgiving themed -- Ten books I'm thankful for, authors I'm thankful for, Ten fictional families I'd like to celebrate Thanksgiving with, a personal non-bookish thankful list, etc. etc. (There is only 9 because I couldn't think of a last one)

1. Wintercraft Series - For getting me back into reading again
2. Alyson Noel, Amy Plum, Ally Carter, Jessica Brody and Jenna Burtenshaw - For writing books that made me not give up on reading because their books kept me hooked as well as frustrated with their horrible cliffhangers between books
3. Wales Comic Con - For helping me meet several new to me authors
4. My Parents - If it wasn't for my family I would never be as big a bookworm as I am
5. My Cousin Cazz - For challenging me to read more and more each year just by looking at her goodreads challenge
6. Movie adaptations - For making me read the book before the movie comes out so that it doesn't spoil the book for me when I actually read it.
7. Amazon - Without Amazon I wouldn't be able to pre-order books 
8. Goodreads - For helping me keep my books in order
9. Postman - For delivering all my new books

Top 10 Tuesday

This weeks Top 10 Tuesday is a mix of both of these topics, Top Ten Book To Movie Adaptations I'm Looking Forward To or Ten Book To Movie Adaptations I Still Need To Watch

1. Saving Zoe - Alyson Noel
2. Immortal Series - Alyson Noel
3. Unremembered Series - Jessica Brody
4. 52 Reasons To Hate My Father - Jessica Brody
5. Wintercraft - Jenna Burtenshaw
6. Papertown - John Green
7. Fault in the Stars - John Green
8. If I Stay - Gayle Forman
9. The Vampire Academy - Richelle Mead
10. My Sisters Keeper - Jodi Picoult

Top 10 Tuesday

This weeks Top 10 Tuesday topic is 10 Wishes I'd Ask The Book Genie To Grant Me (a new book from a certain author,  a reading superpower, a library that is your absolutely #librarygoals, a character to come to life, to met a certain author etc. etc.) YOU DREAM IT AND THE BOOKISH GENIE CAN DO IT.

1. A New Wintercraft book by Jenna Burtenshaw
2. More books for the Immortal Series by Alyson Noel
3. A Unremembered Spin-off
4. To be able to read faster
5. To have a library full of books that I want to read
6. To have the patients to read a whole series in one go and not between other books
7. To be able to meet Jenna Burtenshaw, Amy Plum, Ally Cater, Alyson Noel and Jessica Brody to interview them in person
8. To have a character written after me in a fantasy book
9. To have Damon from the Immortal series to come to life
10. A film-to-movie version of Revenants, Wintercraft, Unremembered, Immortal series and Heist Society.

Top 10 Tuesday

Top 10 Tuesdays topic of the week is Top 10 Author Duos You'd LOVE To See Write A Book

1. Alyson Noel and Jessica Brody
2. Ally Carter and Amy Plum
3. Jenna Burtenshaw and Amanda Hocking
4. Jessica Sorensen and Kendare Blake
5. Keira Cass and Allison Van Diepen
6. Jennifer Lynne Barnes and Cassandra Clare
7. Ashley Salazar and Catelynn Lowell
8. Claudia Gray and Rachel Caine
9. Giovanna Fletcher and Carrie Fletcher
10. Brodi Ashton and Ruth Warburton

Top 10 Tuesday

Top Ten ALL TIME Favourite Authors (in no particular order)

1. A. A Milne
2. Roald Dahl
3. Enid Blyton
4. Alyson Noel
5. Jessica Brody
6. Amy Plum
7. Jenna Burtenshaw
8. Jodi Picoult
9. Virginia Andrews
10. Ally Carter

Top 10 Tuesday

Hosted by Broke and the Bookish

Top Ten Characters I'd NEVER Want To Trade Places With (as always no particular order)

1. Sera - Unremembered by Jessica Brody
2. Haven - Immortal Series by Alyson Noel
3. Gemma - The Fallen Star Series by Jessica Sorenson
4. Kate - Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw
5. Katniss - Hunger Games by Susanne Collins
6. Snow White - Snow White and the Huntsman by Lily Blake
7. Ash - Ash by Malinda Lo
8. Daire - Fated by Alyson Noel
9. Aislin - The Fallen Star Series by Jessica Sorenson
10. Peeta - The Hunger Games by Susanne Collins

Top 10 Tuesday

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Top 10 book on this years Winter TBR list

1. Shiver - Maggie Stiefvater
2. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
3. Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
4. A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
5. Winter Fairy - Lola Karns
6. Wintercraft - Jenna Burtenshaw
7. Perfect Scoundrels - Ally Carter
8. Echo - Alyson Noel
9. Goodnight Mr. Tom - Michelle Magorian
10. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

Top 10 Tuesday

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Top 10 books I would recommend to x person
I would recommend these 10 books to any reader. (in no order)

1. Die for Me by Amy Plum
2. Unremembered by Jessica Brody
3. 52 Reasons To Hate My Father by Jessica Brody
4. Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw
5. Evermore by Alyson Noel
6. The Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen
7. Heist Society by Ally Carter
8. Evernight by Claudia Gray
9. Facing up to Fatherhood by Miranda Lee
10. The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis

Children Literacy & Literature Lecture

I started back at university yesterday for my second year, we got to pick what we wanted to study alongside the core modules so with me being a big book fan I decided to pick the Children Literacy & Literature Lecture. It turned out to be a fun lecture and the lecturer is going to try and invite the author Liz Kessler to comes and speak with are class probably in semester 2.

Anyway the reason I am posting this is because we had to do a piece of work just so the lecturer can see who are literary influences were or are so she can make the lectures more enjoyable.

This is what we had to do (I have added my answers in there also)

Question:

If you could recommend a publication for each of these age groups to read, what would you choose?

0-3 years: The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle

3-5 years: The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson (I had a hard time thinking for this age but I remembered what my siblings did in school at this age)

5-10 years: Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

10-15 years: My Life Undecided and 52 Reasons to Hate My Father by Jessica Brody and Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw

Over 15 years: Die For Me by Amy Plum and Evermore by Alyson Noel

What are you reading now?: Perfect Scoundrels by Ally Carter, Echo by Alyson Noel and The Lost Soul by Jessica Sorensen

If you were given this to do what would you put in each category?

Top 10 Tuesday

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This weeks Top 10 is Top 10 Best sequels ever

1. Dreamland by Alyson Noel
2. Shadowland by Alyson Noel
3. Night Star by Alyson Noel
4. Blackwatch by Jenna Burtenshaw
5. Legacy by Jenna Burtenshaw
6. Uncommon Criminals by Ally Carter
7. Perfect Scoundrels by Ally Carter
8. The Underworld by Jessica Sorensen
9. The Promise by Jessica Sorensen
10. Wicked Forest by V. C. Andrews

Top 10 Tuesday

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This Weeks Top 10 Tuesday is Top 10 books I would Love to see as a movie or T.V. show

1. Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw
2. Unremembered by Jessica Brody
3. Immortal Series by Alyson Noel
4. Revenants by Amy Plum
5. Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen
6. Evernight by Claudia Gray
7. Heist Society by Ally Carter
8. Gallagher Girls by Ally Carter
9. Plain Truth Jodi Picoult
10. 52 Reasons to Hate my Father by Jessica Brody

Top 10 Tuesday

Top 10 books to be read in a day.

1. The whole series of Wintercraft by Jenna Burtenshaw
2. The whole series of Riley Bloom by Alyson Noel
3. Matilda by Roald Dahl
4. 52 Reasons to Hate my Father by Jessica Brody
5. My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
6. The Vampire Stalker by Allison Van Diepen
7. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
8. Facing up to Fatherhood by Miranda Lee
9. Ash by Malinda Lo
10. Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen

Top 10 Tuesday

This weeks Top 10 Tuesday is Top 10 Authors on my auto to buy list:

1. Jenna Butrenshaw
2. Alyson Noel
3. Jessica Brody
4. Claudia Gray
5. Amy Plum
6. Marissa Meyer
7. Meg Cabot
8. Jessica Sorensen
9. Jodi Picoult
10. Cat Clarke

Top 10 Tuesday

This weeks Top 10 Tuesday is going to be a little different.
The topic is Top 10 things I love and hate about books, but instead of listing 10 things I like and 10 things I hate about books I will list 5 of each so that I have 10.

1. Cover Art
This is a good and bad thing for me. A lot of the time I buy a book because the cover looks amazing but when it comes down to reading the book it is really rubbish.

2. Deceiving Blurbs
This is kind of the same as number 1 because I always read the blurb before buying a book (unless it is part of a series then I just buy it) and sometimes the blurb makes the book sound amazing and it turns out rubbish and sometimes the blurb sounds okay but when you have read the book it turns out amazing.

3. Imagery
I love books that have brilliant description in them because I like to be able to see in my head what the characters are doing while I'm reading.

4. Holding my attention
I like it when a book grips me in the first chapter or two, if it doesn't keep my attention I get bored and it takes me longer to read it.

5. Series Numbers
I hate not knowing if a book is a part of a series before I buy it and what number in the series it is. This is annoying to huge reader like me because I have to go out and find book 1 and possibly book 2 before I can read the one I just bought. I have to do this a lot and sometimes I start reading something else before I am able to get back round to reading the new book.

6. Gripping
I love it when I have a book that I can't put down and end staying up till stupid o'clock reading because it's that good.

7. Conflict
I like to be able to love/hate a character because they have done something that deserves being hated for (eg. Damen being nice in the Immortal series which makes you fall in love with him, then him changing because of Roman so you end up hating him)

8. Believable Characters
I like to read books that have believable characters in them, if what a character does isn't believable such as having super strength in a chapter or 2 but the rest of the book they are a normal regular person then to me that isn't a believable character

9. Plots
I like a book that isn't just focused on the one plot it has to have lots of different things going on as well but has to relate back to the main plot/theme of the story.

10. Cliff-Hangers
I hate them because I hate having to wait for the next book to see what happens (Here's looking at you Jenna, Jessica and Alyson haha)

Top 10 Tuesday

Today's topic is Top 10 Books I plan on re-reading one day:
(If a book is a part of a series I'm just picking my favourite book from that series)

1. Wintercraft: Blackwatch by Jenna Burtenshaw
2. Immortal Series: Evermore by Alyson Noel (Very hard choice)
3. Unremembered by Jessica Brody
4. A Vampire Stalker by Allison Van Diepen
5. Heat Wave by Richard Castle
6. The Fallen Star by Jessica Sorensen
7. My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
8. Facing up to Fatherhood by Miranda Lee
9. Evernight by Claudia Gray
10. Rain by V. C. Andrews