Snow Like Ashes

Top 5 Wednesday: September 27, 2017

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Books You’ve Read Because of Booktube/Blogging/etc.

Discuss the books you’ve picked up because you’ve heard of them in the online book community or platform you use.
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  1. The Raven Cycle // Maggie Stiefvater
    Well I had to put this series first because it’s the one I’m the most grateful to booklr for convincing me to read. I had seen The Raven Boys (book 1) on a shelf before, but had specifically not even picked it up because of the title. Then even when I did pick it up and read the blurb, I remember thinking it would be just a dumb romance about private school boys and setting it back down! (I’m ashamed to even admit that…) So it wasn’t until several posts from booklr peeps and direct cajoling from a reader friend that I finally decided to give it a chance.
  2. We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
    This book comes second because I think it’s the second most important in that it taught me not to blindly trust booklr hype! I reviewed it, if you want to know more, but long story short: booklr straight lied to me about this book; it was trash.
  3. The Lunar Chronicles // Marissa Meyer
    I was pretty resistant to reading this one, but now that I have I can’t remember what my reasoning was… I should have known I would enjoy a sci-fi fairytale retelling series!
  4. Snow Like Ashes (Snow Like Ashes, book 1) by Sara Raasch
    Anyone on booklr knows how all over this series the community was for a while there. I bought into the hype of course, because I’m weak, and found this to be a pretty enjoyable book. I was reading it when I went to sign my pre-trial diversion paperwork and my lawyer and I talked about it at length. (Apparently it’s one she recommends all the time.) Unfortunately I couldn’t get into the sequel despite repeated tries and wound up abandoning the series.
  5. Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children // Ransom Riggs
    This is another series I am so grateful to the booklr community for recommending! There’s just so much to love about this series. The first time around, back in 2014, I really liked the story, but I don’t think I appreciated it as much as I did when I went back and reread it at the beginning of this year.

I’d love to know about some books the online book community you are a part of convinced you to read! Comment or make your own post and leave me a link.

Top Ten Tuesday: November 17, 2015

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Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme created at The Broke and the Bookish. Each week will feature a new Top Ten list. Everyone is welcome to join. All that’s asked is that you link back to The Broke and the Bookish on your own Top Ten Tuesday post. Don’t worry if you can’t come up with ten every time…just post what you can!

This week’s topic is: Top Ten Quotes I Loved From Books I Read In The Past Year Or So!

(I know I’m posting this a bit late, try to forgive me, I’m ill yet again…)

  1. Her wrath became a song in her blood as she ended them.
    – Queen of Shadows, Sarah J. Maas
  2. Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.
    – The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, Michelle Hodkin
  3. “Oh, I’m sorry,” Chubs said, “apparently the middle of my sentence interrupted the beginning of yours. Do continue.”
    – Never Fade, Alexandra Bracken
    (Let’s face it y’all, I can’t wait to use this line on somebody!)
  4. Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don’t want to waste it being afraid.
    – Such A Pretty Girl, Laura Wiess
  5. No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.
    – Snow Like Ashes, Sara Raasch
  6. I’m not sure this is a world I belong in anymore. I’m not sure that I want to wake up.
    – If I Stay, Gayle Forman
  7. He had been willing to die because he refused to take a life.
    But me, I contemplated shooting everyone.
    – Reboot, Amy Tintera
  8. Libraries were full of ideas–perhaps the most dangerous and powerful of all weapons.
    – Throne of Glass, Sarah J. Maas
  9. The problem with alienating, self-destructive behavior is people get it into their heads it’s a cry for help. It wasn’t.
    – Cracked Up to Be, Courtney Summers
  10. Once you read something, you can’t erase it from your brain.
    – Wake, Lisa McMann