The truth is? Sleeping is for the weak. Why would you sleep when you could RISE WITH THE SUN! And embrace the cold mornings! And squeeze in more time to read! Because, obviously, there is never enough reading time. I’m a mild insomniac. I spend a lot of time lying in bed pretending I’m sleeping, because I’m fabulous at pretending.
But, WHATEVER. I’m still doing the Bedtime Book Tag. Thanks Miriam for the tag!
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1. A BOOK THAT KEPT YOU UP ALL NIGHT.
Books don’t keep me up late because I’m an awfully punctual person and tend to go to bed at exactly the same time every night — good book or no.
But. I do recall the suffocatingly glorious intensity of lying awake thinking about books that inspired me. Books that made me want to just write all the things. Books that made me excited to be a writer. Good, solid, traumatically beautiful books. Like Crown of Midnight, and Sinner, and All The Bright Places and How To Lead a Life of Crime. I WANNA WRITE LIKE THIS ONE DAY.
2. A BOOK THAT MADE YOU SCARED TO SLEEP.
I was a very small, impressionable pineapple when I read Unwind. IT FREAKED ME OUT OF MY MIND. I probably wouldn’t have that reaction today, but it was one of the first horrifying YA books I’d read. I still vividly remember the arm…with the shark tattoo…
3. A BOOK THAT MADE YOU GO TO SLEEP.
Winterspell is entirely beautiful and (well, for me) entirely boring. I nearly nodded off several times. Kissing statues just WASN’T enough to keep me awake, sadly.
4. A BOOK THAT LEFT YOU TOSSING AND TURNING ALL NIGHT IN ANTICIPATION OF ITS RELEASE.
I’m FAR too emotionally invested in this series. The waiting is agony! The reading is agony! The characters are agony! THE ENTIRE THING IS AGONY WHY ON EARTH DO I READ IT?
Least to say, after anticipating it’s release for months I finally read it! And reviewed it! I was slightly…disgruntled and eNtiRELY NoT oKAy.
5. A BOOK THAT HAS YOUR DREAM BOY/GIRLFRIEND SHIP OF TWO SEPARATE BOOKS
Agh, don’t ask me these romantic questions, seriously, I can’t take pressure like that. I just wanna be a hermit. So I have redone the question, because I’m epic like that — of characters from different books who I think would make a fabulous match.
Definitely Sturmhond from The Grisha Trilogy and Celaena Sardothien. The sass would be phenomenal, and he has such class whereas she stabs people in the backs. It would be BEAUTIFUL. Don’t get me wrong, I still ship Chaolena…this is just…a thought.
6. A BOOK THAT WOULD BE YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE TO LIVE IN.
Basically everything about The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly. First she’s in a cult that CUTS OFF PEOPLE’S HANDS. And then she ends up in prison. Hello, NO.
Everything about this book is downright nightmareishly freaky. You should read it.
7. A BOOK THAT REMINDS YOU OF NIGHT TIME.
All of Holly Black‘s books. I think it’s because they look so dark and creepy? And bad stuff only happens at night and Holly Black’s books are full of bad stuff and — for goodness sakes. HER NAME IS BLACK.
8. A BOOK THAT HAD A NIGHTMARISH CLIFFHANGER.
I don’t even know why I read series. Is the trauma ever worth it? Is the pain and gnashing of teeth and shrieking of feels ever worthwhile?! SERIOUSLY?! I was a very frazzled pinecone over the cliffhangers in The Winner’s Crime and Catching Fire and Red Rising.
9. A BOOK YOU ACTUALLY DREAMED ABOUT.
I never remember my dreams…okay, almost never. I once vividly remember dreaming about Winterfell from A Song of Ice and Fire and then I invented this whole mossy, froggy, swampy castle for the Crannogmen (even though the books haven’t described them much yet) and YEAH. It was odd. I’m always very aware that I’m dreaming, so the whole time, I’m trudging around the snows and swamps thinking, “Why the heck am I dreaming about this? I’VE NEVER EVEN SEEN SNOW BEFORE.”
I also dreamed about Supernatural once. I was cleaning the yard with Castiel. Yes. We were cleaning. That’s it. I’m ready for the Hunter life.
10. A BOOK MONSTER YOU WOULDN’T WANT TO FIND UNDER YOUR BED.
Agh, this is a horrible, horrible question. I have an under-my-bed-phobia. Seriously. NEVER LET A LIMB HANG OVER YOUR BED OR A MONSTER WILL GET IT. So basically I don’t want anything under my bed. Not even a lurking bookmark.
But in The Ocean At the End of the Lane there’s this…evil worm. It crawled inside someone’s body. I DON’T KNOW ABOUT YOU BUT I FREAKED OUT RIGHT THERE. I cannot even function if someone suggests a creepy-crawly might enter my body. That is not okay. Not okay. It’s so beyond okay I need to take a moment to recover from just thinking about it.
AGH. THIS ENTIRE POST HAS TRAUMATISED ME SO MUCH. GOODNIGHT.
I tag everyone, basically, because I feel like if I had to be traumatised by relieving my night phobias, SO SHOULD YOU. But also, specifically these people: unless they don’t want to, in which case, ignore me!
Clare @ Clare’s Spot // Kara @ Diary of a Teen Writer // La La @ La La In the Library // Erica @ Novel Ink // Wesaun @ Oreos and Books // Tina @ Read the Bloody Book // JEANN @ Happy Indulgence // Mishma @ Chasing Faerytales // Alyssa @ The Devil Orders Takeout
BTW: I do actually love book tags, so feel free to tag me for things! OH and if you’d like me to tag YOU for things, do let me know! I never who to tag.
Ideally I’d just like to never sleep – so much reading time wasted! I don’t like wasting mornings by getting up too late but I also like reading late into the night. SUE ME.
And yeah, no, definitely wouldn’t want to live in Minnow Bly’s world O_O
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EXACTLY. It’s 2015 already, why haven’t they invented a way for us to be up 24/7 and read.
Gah! All the creepy night timeness! I am a complete night owl. I fear for my future self, because I know I will end up going to sleep at 4 in the morning and waking up in the late afternoon. I know what I shall become! Also I’m not as afraid of the dark, as I am of what could be hiding in it *Shudders*
ALL THE BOOKS!! I always seem to dream about my fandoms, which means I have been a tribute, I’ve been a member of dauntless, visited Idris, attended Hogwarts, tried to survive the FAYZ, roamed Middle Earth… MY LIST GOES ON!!
SO IS MIME. Clearly you are a bad influence on her. 😉 (Or vice versa?! Idek!) You miss the best time of the day though! EARLY COLD MORNINGS! SO BEAUTIFUL.
Omg, lucky you. I wish I could dream about something interesting like fandom life instead of Westeros. BUT THEN. I did dream about Castiel. (No Sam or Dean on sight though, dangit. Subconscious, what is wrong with you?!?)
Thanks for tagging me! I also love doing book tags, but they always get so backlogged I think I’m going to have to devote an entire month to clearing it. And there’s way too much pressure picking people for book tags, because you worry people you picked don’t want to do it and people you didn’t pick want to do it and just bite all your fingernails off.
Unwind was FREAKY. I read it at a fairly old age, but I was still kinda worried. I read the entire HG series in one go so I didn’t suffer that cliffhanger, and everyone was freaking out over the Winner’s Curse cliffhanger but I was like, “That’s a cliffhanger? I think that’s too perfect an ending I’m not even gonna read the second book.” Your ASOIAF dream sounds interesting, though. I think I had a very strange dream about Olenna Tyrell and Tywin Lannister once, and I’m gonna stop here.
Also: “Everything about this book is downright nightmareishly freaky. You should read it.” <– The most legit statement of the year.
PS: Um, Cait, there's a weird thing happening on here that there's a comment box above the other people's comments and also one below? And the one on top has commentluv but the bottom one doesn't but I can't tell any other difference and now I'm crossing my fingers and hoping I used the right one …
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OH YAY. I’M GLAD. I feel like I often tag the same people?! But I try to tag people I know who do tags. And omg, I have a HUGE backlog right now. o.O I get tagged for the same ones a lot though, but this one was new so I’m like “DOING IT RIGHT NOW.” hhah
Oh oh, but not the Winner’s CURSE…the Winner’s CRIME. The first book was pretty meh to me. I didn’t get it. BUT OMG THE SECOND ONE WAS SUPER AMAZING AND ONE OF MY NOW-TOP-FAVOURITE BOOKS. Omg, Olenna and Tywin?! THAT would’ve been interesting. I think they’re probably the scariest people in Westeros. o.O
YOU’RE WELCOME. I always give the best recs, though. No fluffy happiness around here. :’)
AH YES. It’s always like that. xD I was going to get rid of the bottom one but I keep forgetting. It doesn’t matter which one you use. 😛 It’s just for ease of use. *nods*
Oh I am tagged, I shall seriously be doing this! just maybe not very seriously….. I hate the thought of things that might creep inside me……. any monster like that is… ahhhh I am gonna run for my life.
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I hope you don’t mind! 😛 If you don’t like tags though *whispers* just lemme know. hehe
*Whispers back* not at all I like tags… and definitely when they are about books!
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Morning person all the way. I wake up early and listen to audiobooks. I am kept awake by unwind and The few times that I dared to read zombie books (fine, it was once for school) I have gotten nightmares. And I dreamed about REd Queen a few nights ago even though I’ve never read it. Darkness is scary
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YAYYYYY. That’s like a grand total of THREE of us morning people. -_- Seriously, why are we such a minority?!?! Mornings are AMAZING. hehe
I used to consider myself a morning person, but these days I’m a little bit of both…sometimes I’m still writing at 10:15, sometimes I get up at 6 and write like crazy, sometimes I just wake up early and go around commenting on everyone’s posts to avoid writing. (As I’m doing now.) AND UNWIND WAS SO FREAKING SCARY. I don’t think I would have handled it well at age twelve. (Not that I handled it well at fourteen, either.) And the Catching Fire cliffhanger wasn’t bad for me since I had the next book. But The Mark of Athena….NOT OKAY.
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I once got up at 6am and wrote for 2 hours straight. ONCE. haha. I’m never doing that again…omg, my fingers were SO TIRED for the rest of the day. Now I get up and go for a run and annoy my dog. heeh. It’s more relaxing. UNWIND IS INCREDIBLE AND YET HORRIFYING. I was like 15 or something when I read it and I was a MESS. Oh yes, OH YES, Mark of Athena was wickedly cruel.
Another great tag Cait! 🙂 Neil Gaiman’s worm could definitely cause insomnia. Good thing I read it during the day? And you dreamed about Winterfell? I love that the books have affected you so. Happy reading!
I read it during the day too and STILL was so so freaked out. XD
“Everything about this book is downright nightmareishly freaky. You should read it.” <- this is why I love your blog.
I'm both a night owl and an early bird – I'm up freakishly early and sleep never comes.
My dreams are weird enough without books popping up in them 😉
Really glad to see Sinner as one of your answers to question one – I'm reading it next! XD
I give the NICEST recommendations, right?!? I never tell you to read scary or dark books. *nods sagely* THIS IS WHY I’M EPIC. XD hehe
Sleeping is for the weak right?! Pfft, who even needs sleep.
OH OH I HOPE YOU LIKE SINNER. I literally hyperventilated in the middle of it because it was just so awesome and I never wanted it to end.
Oh damn that Gaiman monster sounds disgusting. I LOATHE all worm-like things (even earthworms. People say they’re harmless but I know better). I’ll be reading Dune soon because of a reading challenge and it has giant sand worms and I’m already freaking out in advance.
I once read a short story collection by this Canadian author (Aurora Montrealis, it’s GREAT) and it was so sad and yet so gripping I couldn’t stop reading and sat there in the bed at 3am, sobbing, while my boyfriend woke up ever half hour to ask me whether I’m ok and wouldn’t I rather go to sleep instead (and I then thought that if that didn’t turn him off me, he was a keeper – we’re married now).
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I agree. STAHP TRAMAUTISING US, NEIL GAIMAN. *breaks down sobbing* I was so freaked out after that book. I don’t even touch earthworms. I can’t. I shudder when I even see one. >_>
Omg DEFINITELY a keeper. XD That is such a strong reaction from a book though, I feel like I need to check that one out!!
I AM SO GLAD THAT THAT SHARK TATTOO ARM THING SCENE FROM UNWIND FREAKED SOMEONE ELSE OUT TOO! I’m not even exaggerating when I say that scene has stuck with my ever since I read it and SCARRED me! It was disgusting and scary and horrible and TERRIFYING! Ugh!
And the yearlong wait for Mockingjay after the god-awful cliffhanger that was Catching Fire was simply torturous!
But fabulous tag! I’m neither a night person or a morning person. I go to bed late (but not too late) and rise with the birds too… who needs sleep right? Lol. I do! I am SO sleep deprived ALL THE TIME but there is just not enough time in the day for reading and doing all the stuff that needs to get done. Can someone please invent longer days already!?
Oh, and I too enjoy tags so you if you are ever desperate for someone to tag well then consider me at your service!
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I WILL NEVER BE OKAY AFTER THAT SHARK TATTOO. OMG, HOLD ME, RACHEL, I’M SCREAMING HERE JUST REMEMBERING IT. I remember that scene PERFECTLY and this is coming from the person who forgets 93% of what they read. -_-
I luckily had Mockingjay to read straight after Catching Fire BUT STILL. AGH. It huuuuurt so bad.
AGh, we need like 94282 more hours in the day, tbh. AHH I WILL TAG YOU IN THE FUTURE TOO!! 😀
I AM THE SAME. BOOKNESIA IS A PERMANENT ISSUE I HAVE TO DEAL WITH BUT SOMEHOW, SOMEHOW THAT SCENE HAS BEEN MENTALLY IMPRESSED INTO MY BRAIN AND I WILL FOREVER AND EVER HAVE IT THERE, REMINDING ME AT ODD TIMES AND FREAKING ME THE HELL OUT. Ahhhhh!
Oh, and then in the Catching Fire movie they stuffed up that ONE little last line that Gale had to say to Katniss (trying to be spoiler free here, in case someone hasn’t reads it….). It was so frustrating! It was the perfect last line and they just ruined it. *cries*
Naww, thanks! Look forward to it. 😉
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I always sleeps late, around midnight or 1 am but lately, sleep has been difficult to come. I keep thinking about my life and what I’m gonna do. Basically, I have a mild existencial crisis at the age of 21. Can you believe that?
And I always wakes up early, not because I want to but because I live with my sister and she has small children and they love to annoy me in the morning.
When I was young, I used to be terrified of the dark. I thought monsters would come to eat me, lol. I eventually grew out of it.
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Yes, I can believe that. I’m 21 and my life is like 97% existential crisis. WHAT HAVE WE COME TO, SARAH?! HELP. Ahhh, I do understand what it’s like with small fries around. When I stayed with my sister for a month, she had a 1 year old and omg…he was always on my head super early. -_-
I’m still 87% certain the monster is GOING TO COME FOR ME.
Sturmhond & Celaena would be fabulous!!
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I know right?!? They would RULE.
I am such a night owl. I would honestly never sleep if I didn’t have to. Think of all the time we spend sleeping that could be used to actually get stuff done.
Unwind was super creepy. But AWESOME. I really want to read the rest of the series sometime soon.
Also, it’s great to hear that you still ship Chaolaena. Because a) I feel like everyone I know ships Dorian/Celaena and it’s NOT OKAY. and b) i’m kind of hearing that after QoS our ship sunk? IMPOSSIBLE. Our ship will live on forever and ever.
I feel ya. I never know who to tag either. If you’re ever stuck, feel free to tag me. Book tags are so much fun.
Also, I LOVE the new design!!! It’s PERFECT.
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YES. But see, sleeping in the mornings!? That’s when you get up early and get SO much stuff done! It’s frustrating on the weekends though, when I’m like waiting legit 3 hours for the rest of my family to get up. -_-
I’m going to devour the Unwind series SO SOON. I think I’m going to borrow most of them and just binge read the series. *nods*
OHHH I will tag you!! I just never know who to tag so I will remember you. XD
I must admit, I was super excited to see that The Ocean at the end of the Lane made it on your list of answers. I heart that book!
OMG THAT BOOK. SO MUCH LOVE. And terror. Like I just genuinely didn’t think I was going to be so freaked. XD
Even as a little kid, I was never really afraid of the dark. I was afraid of accidentally stumbling into a raccoon that lived in the dark (raccoons are horribly mean and will rip your face off if you even glance at them wrong). I’ll still sometimes cram myself into a small dark space to read where I won’t be bothered. Like a closet or the space between the couch and the wall or under a bed.
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Agh, why do I have such a nighttime hangup?!!? I seriously get all cranky when its dark because I don’t like it so much. *glares at all the dark things* Dark SPACES are okay, like, if there are no spiders around…but, egh, I don’t even like caves…I have trust issues. What if it falls on you?!?! WHAT IF A DARK-LOVING SNAKE COMES OUT AND EATS YOU?!?!
OMG. Is your bookshelf colour coded? Because that is pretty much the coolest (and most time consuming) thing ever. I read Unwind at the same time and that shark tattoo. Urghghgh… (However, 13 was significantly more recent for me, and I think it would still scare me today to be honest). All the bright places is amazing, let’s be honest. Fun tag!
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YES IT IS. It’s the only way I ever organise it. XD I keep all my series together on the top shelf though (series really ought to all be the same colours. hehe) YES All the Bright Places was amazing but I totally curled up in a burrito of sadness afterwards and BAWLED.
Oh, oh, oh. YES to Sturmhond and also yes to Unwind. That series has kept me up at night thinking about human rights and what it means to be a person and so many other things late at night. And that’s all I really know. I haven’t read most of the other books, and those I have did not give me very strong feelings one way or another. I will say that I am SUCH a night owl (such such such) and though dark places scare me, I conquer them because I am not a wimp. And I need to walk around in the dark usually anyway. *nods* The sun is such an ungodly thing, I think I am allergic to its face. And, yes, I have dreamed that I was in the book H.I.V.E. before and me and the headmaster of the school were using grapplers to invade a mall and escape from a non-G.L.O.V.E. operative who had commercial dominance probably in like Michigan because that’s the kind of place where I would tell a super spy/villain story. *nods* There were escalators in that dream. I thought you ought to know.
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I AM REALLY EXCITED TO READ UNWIND FOR ALL THOSE REASONS. I really want to know if it impacts me the same way. xD I had such a strong reaction to it, omg, probably the strongest ever? Except for All the Bright Places which made me curl up in a little burrito of sadness.
AGH. Nighttime is scary, but, tbh, I would rather stay inside than face the sun directly. *squints at it* I’m a writer. What is that quote from Neil Gaiman? Darkness and keyboards? We need them.
OH NO I HATE DARK SPACES TOO. Especially under the bed. And don’t forget to check inside the closet… Ew ew ew evil worms let’s not go there (remember in Clockwork Princess when Benedict Lightwood turned into a worm..?)… can you tell I am an incredibly squeamish person? I can’t remember dreaming about a book… although I am pretty sure I have at some point. I love that feeling of knowing you are dreaming but still dreaming anyway but even then I STILL CAN’T REMEMBER 99% OF MY DREAMS. It frustrates me to no end… I love your answers for this tag it seems like it was really fun (aside from the nightmares etc) to complete! 😀
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YOU AND ME BOTH THEN. I don’t even open my closet. Nope. And no dark rooms. Just. No to darkness. It is terrifying. YES THE WORM IN CLOCKWORK PRINCESS TOO. *shudders* I don’t like worms. I don’t like creepy crawlies. Any apocalyptic book with a bug plague has me screaming and running away in terror and agony.
I am a night owl. I read before bed, but I don’t like reading creepy books before bed because they bleed into my dreams! I have only read one Holly Black book, but I definitely agree that she is the night time. 😉
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Holly Black probably writes all night, I JUST FEEL LIKE THAT WOULD BE PERFECT AND NEEDED. *ahem* But seriously everyone says they are nightowls here!! Only one early morning person. I FEEL SO ALONE. XD
A few years ago, I started reading Ilsa J. Bick’s Ashes… and I had the worst apocalyptic nightmares. I actually ended up DNFing it because of that.
I used to be a night owl. You’d find me hammering away at the keyboard at 2 am! But now I go to sleep at a decent hour. I’m not an early bird, though; I never have been. If the sun’s not up yet, I’m not getting up, either!
I’m not afraid of the dark, though. Well, I’m afraid of walking around in the dark, but that’s because of the trip-and-fall risk… not because of what might be lurking.
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Omg, really!!? That’s traumatic. XD When I was little I had such bad dreams about Jack and the Beanstalk that I literally HATE that fairy tale and will never talk about it. Ever. Except for now. Omg, see the trauma I’m going through just sharing this with you?!?
I don’t usually get up BEFORE the sun. XD Unless it’s winter and the sun takes forever to get up, but omg, I love it when the world is cold and grey. Just like my soul. :’)
Ha, I NEVER read books at night any more. I was too traumatised by my Red Rising (KILLING CHILDREN!!!!)-induced nightmares! Urgh… yeah, it’s safer to read during the day. Also, my phobia of not sleeping makes me terrified to go to bed any later than my usual bedtime. Unless wine is involved, that is…
Beth x
Red Rising was so beautiful and terrifying. I read it on holidays with NO INTERNET AROUND. Such a bad idea. I didn’t even have anyone to debrief with. I SUFFERED SO MUCH.
Thankfully I’m not an insomniac but there was one night where I just couldn’t get to sleep and didn’t drift off until about three o’clock in the morning. School that day was not fun.
I actually haven’t dreamed about ASOIAF which is pretty surprising. The only book I remember dreaming about is The Ask And The Answer by Patrick Ness and I know that I dreamed about another one but I can’t for the life of me remember what one it was.
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Agh, that is the WORST. I have nights like that, but I’m kind of at the point where I don’t really die from them?! But I do sentence myself to solitary confinement or I end up being the world’s crankiest humanoid. hhaaha
Awk, I SO need to read The Ask and the Answer. SOON. I have Zeroes by Scott Westfeld next, though, and I’m sooo excited for it. XD
I feel you so much on the insomnia thing, honestly. I’m physically incapable of sleeping in past 8:30 am, except in extreme circumstances. And I love embracing the sun! I love cold mornings! (I woke up at 4:00 in the morning on a school day to finish Siege and Storm when it came out! #noshame) I’m so good at pretending to sleep now it’s almost scary. Most people get in trouble with their parents for oversleeping, but not I! No, I get in trouble for not sleeping enough.
Oh my goodness, I can’t WAIT to get my hands on Queen of Shadows. It’s a letdown that you didn’t like it, though D: (then again, I LOVED the direction the series went in with Heir of Fire, so maybe I’ll enjoy it? I WANT TO READ AND FIND OUT BUT THERE ARE LIKE 987239847349 HOLDS AT THE LIBRARY AND ALSO I DON’T KNOW IF I HAVE BOOK-BUYING MONEY.)
OH my goodness, Nikolai and Celaena would be so great together. (I see them more as a friendship than as a couple, though. Mainly because I ship Sam/Celaena *cries forever*) (Also, a thing to consider: Isabelle Lightwood and Celaena Sardothien as sassy butt-kicking fashionable BFFs.)
Gah, I NEED to get around to reading Minnow Bly. I’ve heard such good things about it PLUS creepy cult fairytale retelling yes please. And like ALL of Holly Black’s books (I want Coldtown so badly, argh). Also YES THE WINNER’S CRIME CLIFFHANGER WAS LIKE ACTUAL DEATH? Yeah.
Anyway WOW this comment has a lot of caps/parentheticals (this is what happens when I’m in fangirl form, which is all the time). But this is a really interesting tag—great post as always!
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SAME. I mean, even if I’m sick or something, I might lie in bed forever, but I don’t SLEEP. Grrr. Cold mornings are just gorgeous and make one feel very alive. :’) But omg 4am is very very dedicated. xD I once got up at 6am and write for like 2 solid hours. MY FINGERS WERE SO TIRED.
If you liked Heir of Fire then there’s like a 98% chance you’re going to adore QOS to pieces. 😉
I ACCEPT ISABELLE LIGHTWOOD AND CELANEA SARDOTHIEN TOO. Omg but wouldn’t Isabelle be so tired of Celaena’s drama? She’d probably walk over Celaena’s face with her stilettos. XD BEST FRIENDS FOREVER, OBVIOUSLY.
And Minnow Bly is just AMAZING. Like I didn’t think I’d enjoy it because I hate reading about cults…but omg, it was perfect and creepy and PERFECT. (Did I say perfect yet?) And I’m going to binge read the Tithe trilogy really soon! 😀 I also need Doll Bones. So basically: everything Holly Black.
FANGIRLING AND ALL CAPS ARE MY NATIVE LANGUAGE.
Early bird, forever! I’m serious, though, with schoolwork and the other things that in involved with being a teenage person, early morning is, like, the only time I get to have a proper, dedicated writing time. Also I fall asleep pretty quickly at night, so no insomnia here. : P And I totally understand the under-the-bed phobia … it’s real.
AHHHHH YAYYYY!!! Seriously you’re the first early bird commenter. WE MUST STICK TOGETHER, WE EARLY BIRDS. *glues self to you* It’s just so much more glorious in the morning. I used to get up at 6am and get all my homeschool done waaaay before lunch. Now I go for a run, but it’s so much nicer outside when no one else is around. 😛
I don’t even know what I am anymore, Cait! Once upon a time, I was a certified night owl. But now? I wake up at random hours of the night and fall asleep at the most inconvenient times possible :/ Oh well. Anyway, I’m not really scared of dark places, but it generally depends on where it is specifically. I’d be scared out of my mind if it’s in a place I hate, but otherwise, I don’t really mind. (It helps if I’m with people I trust, though.)
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So your like a retire night owl? 😉 heeeehe. My sister is a notorious nightowl and I’m SUCH a morning person and I think we can nearly miss each other on the weekends because our sleeping schedules are so opposite. haha.
What a fun tag! 🙂
Yay! It is, right?! I love the creative people who think this stuff up. xD
OH MY GOD so when I’m doing one of those things where I’m reading an entire series in the space of a week all I dream about is the characters! All I day dream about in the day is the books too.
I always try and stay up late reading but after 12am nothing makes sense anymore and I begrudgingly put my book down in anticipation of morning so I can carry on reading! The struggle of a lightweight.
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LUCKY YOU. I wish I could remember my dreams. XD I think I was so excited about ASOIAF and watching the show while reading the books that it was really really on my brain and for once I Just remembered what I dreamt. xD It definitely beats yard cleaning with Castiel. -_-
I’m gonna do this tag, except translate it for movies! <3 Also this post reminded me I really want to read Unwind. It sounds like a delightful book to shock the subconscious. 😀
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Hey that is such a good idea! 😀 And totally easily translatable, right?!?
I might just have to steal this from you…and I agree, Unwind is pretty terrifying. *shudders* I was traumatized for DAYS.
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YES. STEAL IT. It’s such a creepy yet wonderful tag. :’)
Ugh…Winterspell. *scowls* We totally bookish twinned (yes, that’s totally a word) on that one. It had such an amazing concept, but I just didn’t like the way it was paced, you know?
I haven’t read The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly yet, but OMG. It sounds absolutely amazing and terrifying. I have it on hold at the library but it hasn’t come in yet. (*hurry up library*) And yes to Unwind – that book is so creepy.
And AHHH. The Winner’s Crime cliffhanging is torture. Like JUST GIVE ME BOOK THREE ALREADY! *cries in agony*
Thanks for sharing this wonderful tag Cait and, as always, fabulous answers! ♥
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Twinned is an excellent word and we should just use it forever now to describe our twinned brains. *nods* OMG did you know there’s another nutcracker retelling coming out next year!!??! It actually sounds GOOD and I’m seriously excited! 😀 Look! Look! https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26165457-nutcracked
You NEED Minnow Bly. I’m like 99% sure it’s your kind of book. XD
I don’t think I’ve ever dreamed about a book, but yeah, I don’t remember most dreams, so I could have! I’ve dreamed about the Harry Potter characters before though if that counts. I don’t remember what was happening. haha
I’m so terrified of the dark. and things under the bed.
*shudder*
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Agh, I barely ever remember my dreams it’s SO ANNOYING. I just know that I’ve dreamed. I do feel like I spend a lot of time running in my sleep because I’m exhausted when I get up. -_-
aww that’s too bad Winterspell made you fell asleep haha. I really want to get it mainly because of the beautiful cover, but now I’m ‘ehhh’ about it. and Lol that’s funny how you had a dream about you and Castiel cleaning xD
The cover is GORGEOUS I completely agree. And most people seem to like it, so who knows?!?! Maybe I’m just the grumpy minority?!?! 😛
I seriously freaking love your blog I’m going to cry.. HOWWWW teach me your wayssss!!! I seriously would love for my blog to slightly be as pretty as yours, I’ve been getting so much inspiration but I’m too freaking lazy to change everything hahaha. I want a clean and professional one like yours. SO PRETTY TO ME!
Anyways, I didn’t quite like All the Bright Places, I was surprised you actually liked it because I felt weird while reading that book, maybe I was rushing it.. but I REALLY wanted to like that book, but I feel that if I re-read it, it won’t hit me in the same way as it did the first time because of the spoilery thing that happens.. *wink wink*
I’m crying waiting for Heir of Fire to come out in paperback where I live. I seriously cannot wait to get this beautiful book in my hand and I’ve been seeing AMAZING reviews for Queen of Shadows so I’m SUPER excited for it!!!!!♥
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ZOMG, JUMANA. LET ME HUG YOU AND SMUSH CAKE IN YOUR FACE THEN BECAUSE THIS IS THE KINDEST THING OF EVER. *whispers* But seriously, I’m just super lucky to have relatives who web design or else my blog would probably look like a dragon’s sneeze.
Really??!? ATBP is one of my ALL TIME favourite books and it’s the only book of ever that I felt like rereading the second I was done. *sniffles* It broke my HEART. I want the movie badly, but at the same time…no. FINCH.
So. You can always tag me. I love tags.
My mom is 60 years old and she STILL has nightmares about the shark tattoo from Unwind. I told her about the new book and the movie and she gave me the dirtiest look and told me she still can’t sleep because of the damn books and she read them literally years ago. (Well, the first 3 anyway- she read the last one last year like the rest of us!) Anyway.
I am also giving the evil eye to Catching Fire and TWC for the cliffhangers. The only redemption for Red Rising is that I can pop right on over to the next one when I eventually read it. So there’s that. And Minnow Bly, oh my goodness, talk about a horrible situation! No thank you.
Now, I think it’s pretty clear that I am a night owl. If I had my way, I’d be up until sunrise every day and then sleep all day. As it is, I am generally up until about 5, and then have to get up with one kid or another like, 2 hours later, and hope like hell that said child falls back to sleep. It’s a bad plan, but I need to read and blog! Priorities 😉
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I SHALL THEN. You are very taggable, anyway. Your blog name is so fun to type out. *nods*
I will probably still be having Unwind nightmares when I’m 60. PROBABLY STILL WHEN I’M 100. THANKS FOR NOTHING, NEAL SHUSTERMAN.
Agh, but I do have a bone to pick with Marie Rutoski, too, (while I’m being cantankerous) because The Winner’s Crime AND Curse have the same abbreviations and that’s just annoying. Grr. It’s like TWC and TWC2.
OMG DO YOU NOT SLEEP AT ALL THEN!!??!?!
THANKS FOR THE TAG MY DARLING CAIT! I love tags and I can’t wait to do this one!
Crown of Midnight was such a wonderful book isn’t it? The best in the series if you ask me. Then everything went downhill *sighs*
Oops, Winterspell was boring??? I was actually excited to read that book, but now I have my second doubts. I can’t handle dragging books. Just no!
Okay I still have to meet Sturmhound – I didn’t get a chance to continue the series after the first book – but really Cait? As if Celaena already didn’t have too many possible love interests. *snorts*
I want to read Winner’s Crime now! Winner’s Curse was a bit of a “meh” book for me, but where there’s a cliffhanger, there is Mishma, so I think I am going to give the book a shot anyway.
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YAY I AM GLAD YOU LIKE TAGS! (And now that I know that, mwhahah, beware, I may tag you for all the things. xD)
Omg, YES, Crown of Midnight was the best in the series….closely tied with The Assassin’s Blade. *nods* I just…wow, I was so addicted and they basically got me back into reading epic fantasy again. :’)
HAHA YES. Celaena certainly doesn’t need more love-interests. -_- Although I DID write this post before I reviewed QoS, so hehe, I was still feeling hopeful.
SAME THOUGH!! I didn’t evencare about The Winner’s Curse! I nearly didn’t even READ The Winner’s Crime, but the cover was so so beautiful I caved and ommmmmg, it’s one of my top favourite books.
I’m pretty sure I’ve dreamed of plenty of books before, and movies and such, but I can’t think of any examples off hand. As for the dark, I’m okay with it…to a point. Sometimes I’m fine and chill and whatever–sometimes I would rather hide under my bed and pretend that the world doesn’t exist. And I actually tend to be both a night owl and an early bird, which doesn’t make for a very nice combination sometimes.
So yeah, I may have to steal this tag.
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I seriously barely EVER remember my dreams. -_- Although once I dreamt about dragons that later kinda started off a book idea, so WHO KNOWS. Maybe it’ll be my dream-book, hehe. (Although, tbh, I don’t remember the dream at all now, just that I had it. Omg, does that even make sense?! MY MEMORY IS HORRIBLE.) I like to sit in the dark. If it’s my room and, ya know, it’s all safe and I am in control like the queen of the dark world I am.
Doooo iiiiiit. STEAL IT.
Wow! You had to start question 1 with THE THREE BOOKS I’M DESPERATE TO READ, aka Crown of Midnight (I’m reading it next! I’ll probably start it tonight! I’M SO EXCITED!), All the Bright Places (I waaaaant it) and Sinner (I mean, I’ve not actually read Forever yet, but ssshhh).
Ugh but I am desperate to read the Grisha trilogy!
Oh but ALSO you’ve never seen snow??? Never ever ever?? I thought there were parts of Australia where it snowed???? This is all madness! I started to type, just there, “I can’t imagine reading about something I’ve never seen!” and then I was like Emily hello your fave genre is fantasy, but what I mean is … well, I don’t know, but you’ve never seen snow? Wow.
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AHHHHH I HOPE YOU LIKE CROWN OF MIDNIGHT!! ALLLLLLL. THE. FEEEEELS. It’s still one of my top favourite books to this day. *sniffles happily* Although the ending tore me into pieces. And omg, get thee onto Forever so you can read Sinner. Sinner is SPECTACULAR. Although I got a few weird looks while reading it. *flips hair*
YES. It does snow in parts of Australia but I live, like, a million kilometres away. XD AUSTRALIA IS SUPER BIG, JUST REMEMBER THAT. So yeah. *nods* Like seriously I consider it freezing when it’s 10 Celsius (which is like 50 Fahrenheit). I am a cold wimp.
YAY!!! I LOVE tags, so I will most definitely be doing this at some point. When I can be bothered to find the time. Gah, I am so lazy atm when it comes to blogging. HOW DO YOU BLOG SO MUCH!?!?! AND REPLY TO COMMENTS!?!?! AND KEEP YOUR CONTENT AWESOME?!?! AND READ ALL OF THE BOOKS?!!?! GAH… I AM IN AWE!!! >.<
I want to read the Unwind series, but now I am a little nervous. I DON'T WANT TO BE SCARED BY IT!!!!
I feel like dreams from the ASOIAF series would be rather amazing, but potentially scary as hell!
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I DON’T KNOW. I AM OBSESSED WITH BLOGGING?!?!? HEHE. I just can’t stop, to be honest. ALTHOUGH. I do get burnt out for lack of ideas. That’s why I love these tags. XD But you do epic vlogs and I am inept in that department. 😉
Definitely potential for ASOIAF nightmares. o.O It was actually kind of non-life-threatening swimming with the frog people and just trudging around Winterfell. No one even tried to kill us. I mean, what even, Westeros? You fail me.
I am a nightowl, unfortunately. I say unfortunately because I always have classes in the mornings and if I am awake until really late, how the hell am I going to survive? CROWN OF MIDNIGHT FTW!!! That book was so intense and I loved it too. <3 And gah! I need to start Game of Thrones! I have neither read the books nor watched the show. SHAME, I know. Ha, you're not the only one awful at tagging people. More often than not, I end up saying I tag everyone. xD
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I barely know ANYONE who is a morning person. XD I don’t even get it! It’s so niiiiice in the early morning with the sun barely up. :’) AWK CROWN OF MIDNIGHT REMAINS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE BOOKS EVER. I read it while on holiday and I didn’t even have internet to debrief with, so I basically just walking around like a zombie yelping at irregular intervals. (Tagging is so hard, though, right?!?! I know some people hate them, but then some people LOVE them, and other people always get looked over *facepalm* SO HARD.)
Okay don’t shoot me but I haven’t read the Grisha trilogy. I really want to though. Especially now you matched one of the characters to Celaena. I’m super-intrigued. I want to know!
Those cliffhangers in Winner’s Crime and Golden Son made me cry out/sob respectively. Haha.
I won’t shoot you!! I actually kind of didn’t like Ruin and Rising?!? Book 2 is one of my favourite books of all time though SO YEAH. I’m still sobbing after The Winner’s Crime cliffhanger. I NEED ANSWERS NOW DANGIT.
There are some books that make me stay up late while I deal with existential crisis’, because I WANT TO WRITE LIKE THAT ONE DAY BUT HOW EVEN CAN I COMPARE. Crown of Midnight, ANYTHING by Maggie Stiefvater, and ANYTHING by Neil Gaiman are the cause of my equal desire and pain! AGH! Also, I really like the little picture/logo/whatever that you made for this tag? How did you do it–give me your secrets!
I GET THE SAME EXISTENTIAL CRISIS. It’s awful, and yet wonderful, and ajfkdlsad I just want to be Maggie Stiefvater when I grow up, okay?!
I just used canva.com and my wonderful imagination. 😉
That worm, in the sole of the foot. I *shudders and gags* can’t handle that. Uhhhhh, that book creeped me in the worst/best way. In the foot, iccck.
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SAME. I was so immensely creeped. *shudders* And it was THAT point that got me the worst. Even when his dad tried to drown him? Whatever. BUT THAT WORM, ERKKKKK.
Haha. XD I’m a night owl totally. The morning and I don’t get along. I’ve had lots of dreams about books. I’m also really aware while I’m in them. Just this morning I had a dream I was in an all out DC comic book war (Yes comics are books. XD).
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*is back from vacation*
*binge-reads aaaall of the Cait posts I missed so much*
YAY I LOVE WHEN YOU DO BOOKISH TAGS. THEY ARE SO FUN TO READ.
(Also, FYI, I adore being tagged. So add me to your likes-to-be-tagged list. XD)
Holly Black. YES. Honestly I’m fairly certain that the entire Curseworkers Trilogy took place at night. O_O (Okay, so it probably didn’t, but IT FEELS LIKE IT.) So I totally know what you mean. XD
I love dreaming about books!! I do it quite a lot, actually… <3
OH MY GOODNESS NOOOOOO THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE. That book was sooo terrifying! O_O (Did you review it? Because I neeeed to know what you thought of it! *flails*) Like… Just… No. I'M TRAUMITIZED TOO AHHH.
Glorious post as always! ^_^
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Yes, I think I do need to read the Minnow Bly book! I still haven’t read Red Rising, but I sure am happy I have Golden Son on my Kindle also if there is a nightmarish cliffhanger. I haven’t been scared by a book in many many years, and I keep looking for new horror books to give me a fright, but so farI have failed miserably. The last Horror story I read was Ghost Moon Night, which I did like for other reasons (Filipino folklore), but it only had one paragraph that slightly creeped me out. .This was a fun tag, but the “ship” question ate me alive, because, as you know, romance elements are not my thing either..I do think you will approve of my couple though. here is my link : . http://lalatoadstone.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-bedtime-book-tag.html
I am an ASPIRING morning person. My brain likes the IDEA of being a morning person, but my body, in the morning, in my comfy comfy bed, doesn’t. Once I get up, I’m all fine, though.
I remember my dreams a lot, but they get all fuddled in my head. So the one time I actually remember dreaming about a book was when I dreamed about LOTR and I was Sam (haha), and Frodo and I were running away from Hobbitton, because Saruman was burning the Shire. And he had GUNS. Which was the weird bit. And we helped a sad ghost who lived in an underground cavern, which was nice…
When I woke up, my sister told me I had been making gunshot noises. So yeah. 😛
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CAIT. Hi! I’m behind again. *rolls neck* LET’S BLOW THROUGH ALL THESE BLOG POSTS. Okay, so
Response To Last Comment (s) [You Responding To My Stuff Centuries Ago]: I am a writer, and these questions are totally useful. I WILL GO READ EMMY & OLIVER EVENTUALLY AND CONSUME ALL THE WITTY BANTER.
Response to Comment(s) On The Blog: ACK. Sorry for the inaccuracy on how long you’ve been blogging. I don’t know my facts. 🙁 I totally agree with the importance of making art for yourself, and dashing the rules. I totally appreciate nice comments from people but I do mainly make good art for myself. Wow, that’s kind of bad that you couldn’t find many accurate stories with deaf people, and the stereotypical autism stories makes me gape in horror and whisper, “Nooo. Stahp.” I see your logic, and yet there’s a part of me that fundamentally disagrees because…*blows air out of mouth slowly* I mean…although minorities aren’t the majority, these stories are still important enough to get published, and there are enough of us fighting for it, and demanding it that it would sell well. Even those of the majority support the release of more diverse literature. But, I totally get what you’re saying, and I get it too, but I feel it’s the lack of publishers being liberal with their views, and still being in the past mindset that’s difficult to transition out of because I feel that this is a big movement that spans the lit world, and there would be enough people supporting the book so that publishers would make more. I hope things improve when I’m an adult. (I’m a teenager). Thanks for stopping by.
Today’s Comment: THIS QUESTION. I’m kind of a bit of both, it sort of depends. Like, there are days when I like getting up early, and getting a whole bunch done, but I can also stay up late. There are also times when I go to bed pretty early, and wake up early so. Overall, I’d have to say I’m a night owl, I enjoy staying up late (although I need my rest) more than waking up early. I’m dreamed about reading and loving The Abyss Surrounds Us by Emily Skrutskie which I’m really excited for, and The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig (which I finished recently) and I was sad when I woke up that morning and had neither. I plan to request TASU soon.
I wouldn’t want to find the Monster Book of Monsters under my bed.
I actually dream about a lot of books. Red queen, glass sword, the young elites, the rose society, legend, crown of midnight, the hunger games… If it gets me really into the story, I’m dreaming!
Ooh, lucky you! 😀 I honestly wish I did because that’d be so exciting.😂