Blog Awards – One Lovely Blog Award

Hi guys! Today I bring you more Blog Awards. I have a few blog awards and tags that I haven’t done yet so I’m trying to catch up. If you tagged me or nominated me for anything don’t worry I’ll end up answering it, I just don’t know when 🙂 . I was nominated to the One Lovely Blog Award by Cristina @ My Tiny Obsessions so thank you Cristina for the nomination 😀 .

Rules:

• You must thank the person who nominated you and include a link to their blog.
• You must list the rules and display the award.
• You must add 7 facts about yourself.
• You must nominate 15 other bloggers and comment on one of their posts to let them know they have been nominated.
• You must display the award logo and follow the blogger who nominated you. (not really…)

7 Facts About Myself:

• I was born 3 days before the end of the 80s so I still consider myself a 80s girl;
• I grew up listening to 80s songs. I may love pop music but I also love a lot of 80s songs (especially Bon Jovi and 80s movie songs);
• Talking about movies… I never ever watched Star Wars. I want to but then I remember how long it will take me. Also, Dirty Dancing and Moulin Rouge are my favorite movies;
• My favorite artists are Taylor Swift (I’ve been listening to her songs since her 1st album) and Imagine Dragons. Right now I also love James Bay and all of these artists have been my ringtone at some point in the last few years;
• I mastered the skill of braiding my own hair through Youtube (let’s just say that I spend a lot of time on Youtube). Not normal braids but fishtail, french and others weird braids. I can do a fishtail braid in myself in less than 2 minutes;
• I love celebrity gossip. It’s a guilty pleasure but I can’t help myself from doing it. And if you need to know something about celebrities just ask me, I normally know it;
• I used to be obsessed with football (soccer if you’re from America). Now the only sports I watch are tennis, figure skating and MotoGP (I know… weird).

Nominations:

Warisha at Warisha Reads

Valerie @ Little Dutch Bookshop

Kacie at Kacie’s Bookshelf

Bianca @ The Ultimate Fangirl

Raven @ Dreamy Additions

Kimsiang @ LazyCaramelReads

Bhramori @ thecrazyperfectionist

Trey at Trey Schnarr Books

joysofbookworms at Live.Laugh.Read.

Alextheshadowgirl

I’m not nominating 15 bloggers because I don’t have time to look for other blogs but if you want to be nominated just tell me in the comments. Also, if I nominated you but you’ve done this already just ignore it

This is it, the One Lovely Blog Award. Thank you again Cristina for nominating me.

August Wrap-Up

Hi guys! We’re in the last day of August which means that it’s time to do my monthly wrap-up. I actually started the month pretty well and read 3 books in a week but the remaining weeks were just terrible. So these were the books I’ve read during the month of August.

          

• Break Your Heart – 4 out of 5 stars
• A Summer Like no Other – 3.5 out 5 stars
• Everything, Everything – 5 out 5 stars
• Another Day (Every Day #2) – 3.5 out of 5 stars
• The Girl’s Guide to the Apocalypse – 2.5 out of 5 stars

Currently Reading:

• Armada – Ernest Cline

Once again I was able to post daily during the month of August (ok, not daily because I don’t post on weekends 🙂  ). Not only I posted daily but sometimes I posted twice a day something that it’s not normal to me. These were my post during the month of August.

• Break Your Heart – Review here
• Everything, Everything – Review here
• Another Day (Every Day #2) – Review here
• The Girl’s Guide to the Apocalypse – Review here

• The Reader Problems Tag
• Real Neat Blogger Award
• The Creative Blogger Award
• The Sunshine Blogger Award
• Summertime Madness Book Tag
• Siblinghood (Sisterhood) of the World Bloggers Award
• 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge #2: Day 1, Day 2 and Day 3

• A Book by One of Your Favorite Authors
• Book with a Character who has Really Bad Luck
• Oh no! Summer is almost over!
• It is Almost Time to go Back to School

• Favorite Maps
• Favorite Required Reading
• Least Favorite Tropes
• Book Series I Wish Had More Books

• July Wrap-Up
• New Weekly Meme – Book Traveling Thursdays
• Things a Book Lover Will Never Say
• Anticipating Book Releases – September 2015
• A Great Surprise =)… (In August I also got to 200 followers something I wasn’t expecting in less than 6 months of blogging. Once again thank you so much to anyone who follows me and reads whatever I decide to ramble about 🙂 )

This my monthly wrap-up. Once again, I will not do an September TBR because I’m terrible with keeping up with my TBR and end up reading anything I feel like I want to read.

How was your August Wrap Up? Which books have you read? Share your wrap ups with me in the comments 🙂 .

The Girl’s Guide to the Apocalypse by Daphne Lamb – Review

Publication Date:

September 1st 2015

Publisher:

Booktrope

Goodreads Synopsis: 

Welcome to the Apocalypse. Your forecast includes acid rain, roving gangs and misplaced priorities, in this comedic take on the end of the world as we know it, from debut author Daphne Lamb.

As a self-entitled, self-involved, and ill equipped millennial, Verdell probably wouldn’t have ranked very high on the list of those most likely to survive the end of the world, but here she is anyway. Add in travelling with her work addicted boss, her boyfriend who she has “meh” feelings for, and a handful of others who had no businesses surviving as long as they have, and things aren’t exactly going as planned. But despite threats of cannibalism, infected water supplies, and possibly even mutants, Verdell is willing to put in as little effort as she can get away with to survive.

Review:

*ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review*

I don’t know what to say about this book. I was expecting a funny book that it would show how to survive the Apocalypse. Unfortunately the jokes in this book weren’t for me. I just didn’t understand the humor and I had a hard time to finish this book.

This was a book with a big potential and the blurb looked interesting but I just didn’t enjoy to read it. There were a few chapters were the situations were funny and that’s the only reason why the rating for this book isn’t going to be lower. My main problem in this book were the characters. I understand that the author probably didn’t want to have a hero/heroine in this book and wanted them to have flaws but the characters were just a bunch of whiners and idiots who care a lot more about things that anyone should care about instead of caring about their friends and family. The main character made some bad decisions but it’s impressive how she was one of the smartest people on this book and still everyone tried to get rid of her.

Overall, this book had a lot of potential with some weird situations. However, I think that this type of comedy it’s not for me and it’s the main reason why I had problems with this book.

Rating:

Have you read this book? If so, what did you think about it? If you haven’t read it would you read it?

Book Traveling Thursdays #4 – It is Almost Time to go Back to School

Today is thursday which means that is Book Traveling Thursdays, a weekly meme created by me and Danielle @ Danielle’s Book Blog. This weekly meme consists in picking a book related to the weekly theme that is announced in the group Goodreads page (if you want to join click here) at the beginning of each month. After that you can write a blog post where you explain why you choose that book and choose different covers from different countries. To make it a little bit easy you are going to choose different editions of the original cover, the cover from your country, your favorite cover, and your least favorite cover. This week theme is It is Almost Time to go Back to School which means that he have to choose a book that mostly occurs in a high school. For this week theme I decided to choose one of my favorite books ever, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky.

Original Cover:

This is the cover that I see everywhere. I didn’t like this cover before but it’s something that grew on me and now I actually like it. I like how simple it is and that doesn’t show Charlie’s face.

Cover from my Country (Portugal):

Once again I can’t find the portuguese cover but I’m pretty sure that I saw the book around when the movie was released. I haven’t found the cover but I decided to share the brazilian cover first because it’s written in portuguese and also because I’m pretty sure that the books that I saw a few years ago had a similar cover to this one. Another reason why I decided to share this cover is Logan Lerman. He’s great and I try to use any excuse to have his face in this blog 😛 .

Favorite Cover:

I love both of these covers. They are just beautiful in their own ways. I can’t even find a thing that I don’t like in these covers.

Least Favorite Covers:

I don’t know what these people had in their minds but these covers are just terrible. I don’t understand the german cover. It looks like they wanted something similar to the original cover but they failed miserably. The lithuanian is just weird and I don’t understand how this cover relates to the book itself.

So this is it, this week Book Traveling Thursdays. What did you think of these covers? Tell me in the comments 🙂 .

3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge #2: Day 3

Hi guys! Today is the last day of the 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge. Thank you again Lara @katnisspotterbooklover for tagging me to do this challenge :). If you want to see the quotes for day 1 and day 2 click here and here. If you want to see my first 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge for day 1, 2 and 3 click here,  here and here.

The Rules:

1. Thank the person who nominated you.
2. Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day).
3. Nominate three new bloggers each day. (I’m not tagging anyone because I think that a lot o people did this already. If you haven’t and want to do this challenge tell me in the comments and I tag you 🙂 )

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Today I’m bringing you a quote from one of my favorite book series, The Infernal Devices. I honestly don’t know why I only decided to use a quote from this series now especially because Tessa and Will are amazing and are such bookworms.

What do you think of this quote? I hope you liked the quotes I’ve chosen to the 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge 😀 .

T5W – Book Series I Wish Had More Books

It’s that time of the week again when I bring you the Top 5 Wednesdays, created by gingerreadslainey. If you want to know how T5W works you can go to the Goodreads group by clicking here. This weeks theme is Top 5 Book Series I Wish Had More Books. There aren’t a lot of series that I wanted to have more books because most of the series that I’ve read had a great closure but I was able to find a few for this top. So let’s start this list.

5. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before – Jenny Han

If you’ve read my review for P.S. I Still Love You (here) you might know that I had a few problems with the book but I would love to read something that was years later and mainly from Kitty’s POV because I loved Kitty and she was my favorite character in the series.

4. Anna and the French Kiss – Stephanie Perkins

I think that this series is perfect to have more books. We could have one book from Meredith’s POV or even Calliope. It would be pretty cool and we could hear more about the other characters again.

3. Shatter Me – Tahereh Mafi

Ok… I’m going to be honest here. I just need Warner back to my life so a few more books in this series would be great and I think that Tahereh would find the perfect story to tell next.

2. The Night Circus – Erin Morgenstern

Technically this is not a book series, it’s a stand alone but I would love to read how the circus is a few years later from Bailey’s POV or even better, a prequel from Tsukiko’s POV. I would do anything for a prequel.

1. Harry Potter – J. K. Rowling

Well, I haven’t finish Harry Potter yet but seeing that I started this year it’s pretty good that I only have two books left. However it’s not like I don’t know what’s going to happen, I saw the movies. I think that it would be great to have a prequel about the Marauders or even a sequel about the children. And I promise that I wouldn’t wait so long to read them as I did with the Harry Potter series.

These are some of the book series I wish had more books. What about you? Which books did you included in your top? Tell me in the comments.

3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge #2: Day 2

Hi guys! Today is day 2 of the 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge. Thank you again Lara @katnisspotterbooklover for tagging me to do this challenge :). If you want to see yesterday quote click here. If you want to see my first 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge for day 1, 2 and 3 click here,  here and here.

The Rules:

1. Thank the person who nominated you.
2. Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day).
3. Nominate three new bloggers each day. (I’m not tagging anyone because I think that a lot o people did this already. If you haven’t and want to do this challenge tell me in the comments and I tag you 🙂 )

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Today I decided to choose a quote from one of my auto-buy authors. I have this thing with Nicholas Sparks and I’ve read all of his books. I’ve been like this since I was 16 years-old and I still try to read his book every time he releases one. For today I decided to choose a quote that has been in my life since the day I read and watched A Walk to Remember. I just love this quote and every time I watch the movie I say it with Shane West just because.

What do you think of this quote? I’ll be back tomorrow with another amazing quote from an amazing book for the last day of the 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge 😀 .

Anticipating Book Releases – September 2015

Hi guys! Can you believe that August it’s almost over? This year is going on so fast. The good thing about the end of August is that September it’s almost here which also means more amazing books to read. So, these are some of the books that are going to be released September . If you want more information about the book click on its cover. It will take to the Goodreads page.

September 1

      

Queen of Shadows (Throne of Glass #4) – Sarah J. Maas

Vengeance Road – Erin Bowman

Everything, Everything – Nicola Yoon

Hello, Goodbye and Everything in Between – Jennifer E. Smith

September 8

  

Fans of the Impossible Life – Kate Scelsa

The One Thing – Marci Lyn Curtis

September 15

      

Tonight the Streets Are Ours – Leila Sales

Dumplin’ – Julie Murphy

Mirrored – Alex Flinn

The Weight of Feathers – Anna-Marie McLemore

September 22

  

Library of Souls (Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children #3) – Ransom Riggs

Walk on Earth a Stranger (The Gold Seer Trilogy #1) – Rae Carson

September 29

Six of Crows (Six of Crows #1) – Leigh Bardugo

These are some of the upcoming September releases. Are you excited for the release of any of these books?

3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge #2: Day 1

Hi guys! I was tagged again for the 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge. Because it was so much fun to do the first time I decided to do this again. I was tagged by Lara @katnisspotterbooklover  :). If you want to see my first 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge for day 1, 2 and 3 click here,  here and here.

The Rules:

1. Thank the person who nominated you.
2. Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote for each day).
3. Nominate three new bloggers each day. (I’m not tagging anyone because I think that a lot o people did this already. If you haven’t and want to do this challenge tell me in the comments and I tag you 🙂 )

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For this first day I decided to choose a quote from The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon. I read this book in the beginning of the year and it was amazing. Not only it’s an amazing book but it also has amazing quotes so I had to use one of these quotes for this challenge.

What do you think of this quote? I’ll be back tomorrow with another amazing quote from an amazing book 😀 .

Blog Awards -Siblinghood (Sisterhood) of the World Bloggers Award

Hi guys! Today I bring you more Blog Awards. I have a few blog awards and tags that I haven’t done yet so I’m trying to catch up. If you tagged me or nominated me for anything don’t worry I’ll end up answering it 🙂 . I was nominated to the Siblinghood (Sisterhood) of the World Bloggers Award by Emily @ The Little Book Affair so thank you Emily for the nomination 😀 .

Logo designed by Summer over at xingsings

Rules:

• Thank blogger who nominated you, linking back to their blog
• Put the award logo on your blog
• Answer the 10 questions sent to you
• Make up 10 new questions for your nominees to answer
• Nominate 10 blogs

Questions:

1. Has your blogging experience changed you as a person/reader?

The only thing that changed is that know I talk more about books because I’m able to share my opinions with other bloggers.

2. If you could be best friends with any fictional character(s) who would it be and why?

I would love to have Tessa Gray as my friend because she’s a bookworm and she’s great. Also, I would have will, Jem and Magnus in my life if we were friends 🙂 .

3. If your book boy/girlfriend suddenly came to life and knocked on your front door, what would you do?

I would probably be looking to him awkwardly and don’t talk at all. It would be a really weird and awkward situation, believe me 😛 .

4. Do you follow any other blogs besides book blogs? (ex. food blogs, travel blogs, etc.)

I follow a few DIY blogs and also a few fashion/beauty blogs (even when I’m the worst when I’m trying to do my own make-up).

5. Do you have any pets?

Technically I don’t have any because I had to take my dog Jimmy (who is 11 years-old) to my grandma’s house 3 years ago when I moved because I can’t have pets in the place where I’m living now. But he’s still alive and I visit him every time I go to my hometown.

6. Nook or Kindle? If you don’t use an eReader then hardcover or paperback?

I don’t have any of this. I have a Kobo  that is sold in FNAC because two years ago they did a sale in they’re e-readers and my mom bought it as my christmas present for 35 euros instead of the normal 80 euros that it would cost and I loved it and use it almost every day.

7. Do you keep the dust jacket on your book when you read?

I don’t have a lot of hardcover books but when I’m reading one I take the dust jacket off because I almost ruined one a few years ago and I learn from my mistakes 😀 .

8. Coffee or tea?

I don’t like coffee. The only way I drink coffee is in lattes and it’s what I drink every day at breakfast but between coffee and tea I like tea a lot more (especially the Vanilla Caramel tea).

9. Do you own any bookish goodies, such as pins, jewelry, etc.?

I don’t even thought that I wanted too.

10. Favorite flavor of ice cream?

This might seem plain to a lot of people but I love vanilla ice cream mainly because I love vanilla in everything that is either sweet or a desert.

My Nominations:

Warisha at Warisha Reads

Valerie @ Little Dutch Bookshop

Cristina @ My Tiny Obsessions

Kacie at Kacie’s Bookshelf

Bianca @ The Ultimate Fangirl

Kimsiang @ LazyCaramelReads

Bhramori @ thecrazyperfectionist

Trey at Trey Schnarr Books

joysofbookworms at Live.Laugh.Read.

Alextheshadowgirl

My Questions:

1. What did you want to be when you grew up?

2. What’s the song you’re constantly listening to?

3. You’re stranded in an island. Which 3 things would you take with you?

4. If you could go anywhere on the planet, where would you want to go?

5. Are you a dog person or a cat person?

6. If you could go hang out with 2-3 characters for a day, where would you go (fictional), what would you do and why would you do it?

7. Name 3-5 fabulous people you met because of blogging

8. Did you have a book that meant a lot to you as a child?

9. What book were you “forced” to read in highschool but ended up loving?

10. A book you keep recommending you everyone you meet?

This is it, the Siblinghood (Sisterhood) of the World Bloggers Award. Thank you again Emily for nominating me.