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Books, Books, oh & Books📚

If you haven’t caught on from past blog entries and the layout of my blogs, I enjoy reading. If you had met be 8 years ago, I would have told you that I hate reading. Right when COVID happened and we were all quarantined, I had a few books lying around that had caught my attention based on the cover. I know I shouldn’t judge a book by its cover but that is the only way it will interest me. Really not the best advice to give but to me if the book does not look interesting through the cover or it doesn’t catch my eye, I will not get it. I do read the little summary of the book to see what it is about and half the time it convinces me to buy them. Now I want to share to you all about the start of my reading journey, favorite books, genres I enjoy, genres that I want to start reading, current favorite bookstores, my reading journal, and a new tab I will be having soon.

Start of My Reading Journey

The book that got me into my reading habits was Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid. This was also the very first book that had me break down in tears. I will say that I have a soft spot for this book and have reread it a couple of times for comfort. If I remember correctly this book took me 2 days to finish. After reading that book, I had read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and A Little Something Different by Sandy Hall. With The Fault in Our Stars, I remember getting the book because everyone around me told me that the book is really good and I should watch the movie as well. I’ve read the book and have yet to watch the movie. For A Little Something Different, I still remember going to Barnes & Nobles with my family and my sister was choosing books to read in class and I was just exploring. My mom had actually stumble upon this book and told me to get it as the very first chapter of the book was titled “September” and that was the main reason why I got the book. Quite funny to think about now as I typed this but it was a cute love story with a variety of point of views from all the characters in the book.

Favorite Books

One of my all time favorite books is The Giver by Lois Lowry. I read this book in middle school, I believe I was in 7th grade when I read this for a class. Any book given to me for a class was always hard for me to continue reading. This highest chapter I would go to was chapter 7 and from there I wouldn’t continue reading the books at all. Unlike this book, it had me hooked on by chapter 3 that I would read ahead and not read the amount of chapters I had to read. It is a good dystopian book and watching the movie was even better. My second favorite book is Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid, third favorite book is actually a series with the first book being Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber. It is a romance series with a bit of fantasy. Currently waiting for the 4th book to come out and it has been pre-ordered as well. A birthday gift from me to me. My fourth favorite is A Goode Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson. Let me just say that this book had me thinking and with my guesses about the murder case, I was not close on anything but finishing the book. It is a good mystery book and one that I recommend you to read. My last favorite and this is also a series is The Empyrean series. Starting off with Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, this book really had me thinking that I was in the book. The fantasy and the way that the plot is had me really attached. Did I cry when I read the book? Yes, yes I did. Is the book a recommendation to you? Yes, yes it is. Am I going to explain what this book is about? No, no I’m not because I fear that I will not be able to contain my excitement about this book and will just spoil it.

Go to Bookstores

Number 1 bookstore that I will recommend going is Barnes & Nobles. It is the obvious choice to go and look for books and see other genres that they have available for the public. I do like to go to new locations and as they sometimes have books that I cannot find in the other locations. My second go to spot for books is a bookstore called Ripped Bodice. This bookstore has a lot of romance books and one that I know for sure I can find my next romance book. I have gotten other stuff from there like bookmarks and stickers. These are the current 2 places that I enjoy going for books and there are many other locations that I can’t wait to check out and add them into my go to bookstores list.

Favorite + New Genres

At this very current moment my favorite genres are fantasy, romance, mystery, and fiction novels. I happened to find myself reading a lot of fantasy and romance lately. There are times when I do read poetry but for sure fantasy and romance are my go to genre's as for mystery and fiction novels are still pretty high up there as my favorites too. There is one genre that I do want to get into a lot more and that is thriller/horror. I did get the book Fantastic Land by Mike Bockoven to start reading in October to get into the spooky season feels and I hope that I do branch out to more genres to have variety in books. I have read a couple of Natasha Preston's book which happen to be thriller but they are not heavy thriller books. I want to be able to get spooked when I am reading a thriller book. If you have any recommendations, please send them my way.

Reading Journal

After reading my books, I start to add them into my reading journal. It is nice to keep record of the books that I have read to remind me of the books that I have read and to also write about what stood out to me or what was it that made me love the book. I had gotten one as a birthday gift a couple of years ago and I am nowhere near done or halfway into finishing it. But it really is nice to have to keep as book reading record.

New Tab?

As I have a lot of time available (as of right now), I want to add a tab, ”Book Babez”, where I will be writing about the books that I have finished reading. I am currently reading “Midnight on the Celestial” by Julia Alexandria. Once I am done reading the book, I will be giving my thoughts about the book and write a small review. This tab will also serve as book recommendations to anyone that wants new books to read and it will also be a way to not just motivate me but to you as well to meet your readings goals (if any) or motivate you to read a book.