In case you didn’t know, I’m totally a daredevil.
I stay up past my bedtime. I’ve run with scissors. I nearly fell off Uluru * once because what is the edge for if not to lurk near it. And you know how they say “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”? Sometimes I don’t eat an apple every day.
Few are as darkly devious as I.
In light of these thrillingly fearless announcements, I’ve decided to politely steal the #IDareYou book tag off Shannon @ It Starts At Midnight. (While we’re speaking of Shannon — you must really follow her blog!! She’s hilarious and my TBR hates her because her reviews are so convincing.) It’s not technically stealing because she said “hey everyone can do this” but because of the whole daredevil thing going on, I NEED TO ACT DEVIOUS AND FIERCE. ERGO. I STOLE IT. Unfortunately the tag has only 18 questions so I’m have to add 2 more. I have to. It has to be done.
I’m not actually sure why this tag is about daring things (??) but nevertheless, I do like to answers questions about me ** and books, so hence I felt the sudden undeniable urge to steal.
* In case you are uncultured swine, this is the most FAMOUS ROCK IN AUSTRALIA. I was about 15 and I have very bad perception of what other people consider “dangerous” and what I just consider “fun”. My parents and I disagreed a lot on this in my youth, BUT HELLO IT COULD’VE BEEN WORSE. I WASN’T DOING ARMED ROBBERY OR ANYTHING. And also I’m still alive. So there.
** What can I say, I’m a fun topic.
1. WHAT BOOK HAS BEEN ON YOUR SHELVES THE LONGEST?
It’s most likely A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket, since I’ve been collecting them (ALLL !! MATCHING !! HARDCOVERS !!) since I was twelve because you gotta start obsessions young. It’s healthy I’m sure.
2. What is your current read, your last read, and the book you’ll read next?
This question seems like a lot of life commitment, to be honest. I never plan my TBR because I have the decision making skills of a dead eggplant. Nevertheless:
I just finished Tash Hearts Tolstoy and I’m currently reading The Dark Prophecy by Rick Riordan and I’ll probably start Strange the Dreamer. Soon. Maybe. HELP ME WHY IS IT SO HUGE. I THINK IT SWALLOWED AN ENTIRE PLANET OF MOTHS AND GOT SWOLLEN UP.
3. WHAT BOOK DID EVERYONE LIKE, BUT YOU HATED?
I have so many of these it’s actually embarrassing. But YOU ASKED! *
- A COURT OF THORNS AND ROSES: romanticises abusive relationships + insipid perfect snowflake heroine
- THIRTEEN REASONS WHY: romanticises revenge suicide, seriously problematic mental health rep
- PASSENGER: bored, mate, so bored
* Actually you didn’t ask. I stole this tag and so really I’m asking myself. Sheesh, Cait, would you please pull it together.
4. WHAT BOOK DO YOU KEEP TELLING YOURSELF YOU’LL READ, BUT YOU PROBABLY WON’T?
I do absolutely intend to read EVERYTHING OF EVER. Even classics!!
Will I read them!! Except also: absolutely not!! But yet here I am, telling myself that Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, and Charles Dickens are all on my TBR!! Ha ha ha!! Let me lie to me!!
5. WHICH BOOK ARE YOU SAVING FOR RETIREMENT?
Well I’m going to be immortal when I grow up and never die or retire. I also don’t quite understand the idea of saving a book for a specific time. I just read, mate.
READ IT ALL.
ASAP.
6. LAST PAGE: DO YOU READ IT FIRST OR WAIT TO THE END?
I HAVE NEVER IN MY LIFE READ THE ENDING FIRST. I ABSOLUTELY HATE SPOILERS. THEY RUIN MY SOUL WHICH IS PRECARIOUSLY BALANCED BETWEEN VILLAINY AND A LOVE OF CUPCAKES AS IS.
Except, while we’re speaking of potential spoilers, I was listening to an audiobook and it decided it’d be Super Cool Fun to start in the middle. I, being a trusting sweet scone, did not know. I thought maybe I was just taking a while to get into the book because it was so confusing.
Then I realised the truth.
But that time I had listened to 29840 spoilers and the sun had died, the moon wept, my dog left for college without a goodbye, the grass perished, and the last dinosaur laid in the dust with the bones of its captives.
#suffering
7. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: ARE THEY A WASTE OF PAPER AND INK OR INTERESTING?
They’re so interesting!! I absolutely love acknowledgements and always read them!! Here are so reasons why I think acknowledgements are the best:
- Generally you see the author fangirling over their own book child and I LOVE THAT.
- Sometimes the book is the saddest thing of ever and then turn to the acknowledgements and — BOOM — author has made 3 Supernatural references and thanked tacos for existing and suddenly I love them.
- I love recognising author names! Like OH Rick Riordan knows Cassandra Clare!! OMG. FANGIRL MOMENT.
- It’s really encouraging to know how many people go into making a book.
- I want to know how many cats they have.
- ALSO IT PROLONGS THE BOOK FINISHING. WHICH I NEED.
8. WHICH BOOK CHARACTER WOULD YOU SWITCH PLACES WITH?
After watching the Fantastic Beasts movie think I’d do a really good job at being Newt. I am hopeless at people, prefer animals, am awkward yet still adorable, I would absolutely raise an animal that’s terrifying and deadly and shout “MUMMY’S HERE IT’S OKAY” before nearly dying by it. And I want his suitcase so bad. I want to live in it.
Petition to make me Newt Scamander.
(Should I like read the book though???? Probably yes.)
9. DO YOU HAVE A BOOK THAT REMINDS YOU OF SOMETHING SPECIFIC IN YOUR LIFE?
Even though we’ve established that I have the memory of a pecan, I absolutely recall lying on the lounge reading Mockingjay and my family started hanging over me saying “HEY IT’S LUNCH TIME!!”
You know Mockingjay.
YOU KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING.
I was very close to losing my freaking mind and crying more tears than Alice and I think I beat them all back with a hardcover book.
10. NAME A BOOK THAT YOU ACQUIRED IN AN INTERESTING WAY.
Once upon a time, I went into a small 2nd-hand bookstore to “peruse”…which is a phrase here that means “stand amongst piles of books MENTALLY SCREAMING because wants them all yet has no money”. The shop assistant than was trying to shelve Skulduggery Pleasant and they just randomly turned to me and said “Do you know if this is kids or adults?”
Well, yes, sir. I know everything.
In the like 10 mins I was there, I think I instructed the shelving of half a dozen books. Which is actually a big deal for me because #SocialAnxiety. BUT BOOKS.
They gave me a book from the off-cast pile on the way out. It was Masquerade by Melissa de la Cruz which I plan to read exactly never but like it was free????? So thanks????!
11. HAVE YOU EVER GIVEN AWAY A BOOK FOR A SPECIAL REASON TO A SPECIAL PERSON?
No.
However I have given a special book to my special dull sister for the sole reason that I wanted to read it. Boom. Now we own it! Isn’t that wonderful! What a coincidence this life is!
Am I horrible?
12. WHICH BOOK HAS BEEN WITH YOU THE MOST PLACES?
The boring answer is “My kindle!” but a FUN answer is: Lord of the Rings! I took it with me when I went to China because I though if I had absolutely nothing else to read for a month surely I would get through it and love it.
Spoiler: I read it under great duress with tears and crying and no I did not love it and it basically went all the way to China and back and stayed only partially read.
13. ANY “REQUIRED READING” YOU HATED IN HIGH SCHOOL THAT WASN’T SO BAD TWO YEARS LATER?
If I hate a book, I don’t reread it! So my opinions aren’t going to change! I loathed Robinson Crusoe so much I was allowed to DNF it. * Like why couldn’t Friday eat him??? I WOULD’VE EATEN HIM, THE RACIST OGRE.
* Homeschooler perks.
14. USED OR BRAND NEW?
My wallet says used.
My heart says BRAND NEW!! BRAND NEW!! BRAND NEW!!
15. HAVE YOU EVER READ A DAN BROWN BOOK?
Nope. Also will probably not because I doooon’t caaaaaaare!
I watched the Angels and Demons movie though and have been successfully traumatised by the priests pouring oil on themselves and setting themselves on fire. Like, shoutout to my dad for showing me that movie when I was young and impressionable. Thanks.
16. HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A MOVIE THAT YOU LIKED MORE THAN THE BOOK?
Probably The Help! That movie is hysterically perfect. And my love for The Maze Runner movie is probably on par with the book. OH WAIT. ENDER’S GAME!! The book was great but movie 10 x better.
Now I feel like I’ve committed and atrocious sin and the Bookworm Police are coming for my soul.
17. A BOOK THAT’S MADE YOU HUNGRY?
To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before was pretty horribly mean. All those cookies and cupcakes. And I’m going to glare at Heartless and all those tarts and pies. Plus not even going to lie: I need a November Cake SO BAD * from The Scorpio Races and every time I reread it, I gnaw a little further on the cover.
* AND I’LL NEVER GET ONE BECAUSE I’M ALLERGIC TO HONEY. CAN WE CRY FOR ME NOW.
18. WHO IS THE PERSON WHOSE BOOK ADVICE YOU’LL ALWAYS TAKE?
I actually don’t have many people who’s tastes align with mine completely. I mean who reads bloody stabbtastic novels like Nevernight and then goes and reads cake-filled fluff like To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before??? I’m spweshul.
But I love Maraia’s recommendations!! And when we buddy-read, there’s a pretty high chance we’ll feel the same about the book!! Also Zoe @ Stories On Stage and I have a history of identical star-ratings.
But if YOU have really similar taste to me, I 500% want to know. Hit me with your recs! Although hit me softly for I am weak and fragile like a delicate glass flower. #Sensitive
19. MOST READ AUTHORS?
Technically it’s Lemony Snicket, who I’ve read AT LEAST 21 books by. But Goodreads informs me that these authors are also winning at my life:
20. SHIP FROM TWO DIFFERENT BOOKS?
I maintain the opinion that Kell and Lila from A Darker Shade Of Magic would get on famously with Inej and Kaz from Six of Crows. I ship ’em — romantically or just friendshipishly! They’d either make a fantastic team with their thievery and their pirate ships, or they’d kill each other.
Either way I vote for a co-written book called Six Darker Shades Of Crows. Immediately.
I am putting my vote in for your crossover idea of Six of Crows and Darker shade if Magic. Because now that you have put that idea in my head I need it. NEED IT. Please arrange for this to be written.
I am all about the acknowledgements. I think I used to skip them as a child. Too much adultness, I guess. But now I can’t get enough. There is something really heartwarming about watching someone be genuinely excited about something.
Totally stealing this tag because I too am a daredevil.
Let’s kidnap Schwab and Bardugo and force them to write us this spinoff. #ExcellentPlan
And they are so heartwarming right?! Like it’s just so nice to see an author so excited over their art. I can’t wait till I get to write acknowledgements.😍
YES DO IT!! I can’t wait to read yours!
I loved this post! Thank you for stealing the tag (I may have to do the same when I stop crying about being awake into my coffee. Actually, that will never happen, so I may just have to do it after work).
My most read author based on just massive number of books written and read has got to be Stephen King. I’ve been reading his stuff forever.
Daring or safe? Man, I am the most daring of daring! One day past an expiration date? I will still consume it. I know, I know, it’s too much for most people to handle, but I like to live on the edge.
I absolutely love acknowledgements. I think it is a great way to get to know the author a little and it is pretty insightful to the mass numbers of people it takes to get a book on a shelf.
Thank you again, and at some point I may just swipe this tag too!
Oooh, that’s awesome that you’ve read so much Stephen King! I’ve read a grand total of: 0. I do want to change that someday though. 😂
YAS. YOU AND I ARE SUPER DARING. I eat expired chocolate too. So death-defying.
I think acknowledgements are so cute and heartwarming and afjkdsa I loooove.
WHAT??!!! YOU DIDN’T LIKE LORD OF THE RINGS???? WHY, WHY!!!!!!!! *sobs* WHY!
I didn’t even try to hold my tears back in mockingjay. however, i did hide under a blanket with a flashlight so my siblings wouldn’t ask dumb questions and scathingly abuse THIS BOOK THAT IS BREAKING MY HEART. and they won’t even read it to review it properly. How rude. I may have been obliged to hit them with the book and soak them with my tears a few times. #iampleased
Most crazily, ~Olive
Sooooorry.😭I like the movies though! Does that count? 😂 Mockingjay is just so ridiculously good and TERRIBLE and I will never recover.
fine. it counts. but only because I love the movies to. XD
I KNOOOOOOOW it’s gonna KILL me some day! *sobs for my little dead darlings* 🙁 🙁 🙁 🙁
Most crazily, ~Olive
As I don’t eat any apples ever, does that make me more darkly devious than you?
I’m always so happy when I see others who disliked ACOTAR – I often feel like a special snowflake because there is love for that book everywhere??? Though there was some discourse about the third one going on this week on Twitter so maybe everyone’s eyes will be opened.
WHY WOULD THAT AUDIOBOOK DO THAT. I remember when I started to watch Sherlock season 2 on DVD, and they had put the discs in the wrong order. I started at The Reichenbach Fall and was SO CONFUSED
Absolutely. You’re practically flirting with death there. BE CAREFUL. *eats an apple to feel safe*
Also *HI FIVE* for not like ACOTAR…I think it’s worryingly problematic, but worse is how people say it’s YA. Erm, no. At least if it was acknowledged as being NA (or adult)…that would be a start. ANYWAY. I’m glad people are finding problems with ACOWAR. I confess to having the words blocked on twitter. I’m so tired of it haha. 😂
AGH THAT IS NOT OKAY ABOUT YOUR SHERLOCK EXPERIENCE EITHER. Why is technology mean to us. 😭
Cait,I didn’t know you had a kindle among all those gorgeous books😍😍 And YASS to the crossover idea and maybe Jesper and Wylan will get along with Rhy and Alucard ❤❤ How will we know without this book??
I love acknowledgements too but I have to say that sometimes the dedication of the book wins my heart.Like, I am tearing up BEFORE EVEN STARTING THE BOOK?? WHY???
I am reading Strange the Dreamer too AND I LOVE LAZLO.He had his nose broken by a book.This is so relatable because I had a teeny tiny injury too 😂😜
Yes!! I love my kindle!! And I 100% think Jesper/Wylan will get on fabulously with Rhy and Alucard. Can you imagine Rhy and Jesper though!? WHY DOESN’T THIS CROSSOVER BOOK EXIST. CAN WE KIDNAP THE AUTHORS AND MAKE A REQUEST.
I just started Strange the Dreamer tonight and fjadklads I LOVE LAZLO ALREADY.😍
According to Goodreads, my most read author is Tamora Pierce (though I haven’t read her books since I was 14), followed by John Marsden. Cassandra Clare is only #6 (I’ve read 12 books by her). When I was younger I stuck to the same authors (I don’t tend to do that anymore), so these stats are from I was aged 11-15 ish.
I am not daring at all. The most daring thing I’ve ever done was go on my first overseas trip to Sydney like 24 hours after deciding/being invited to go. It was a great decision, but man I was brave! I’m definitely a planning and sticking to what I know kind of gal.
I like reading the acknowledgements mostly to see if there are any names in there I know, because like you said, finding out an author knows another author is exciting!
Wow you were dedicated on Goodreads then!! I wasn’t on GR until I was about 16 so I don’t have my childhood obsessions logged in.😂 Or else, hello like 63 Boxcar Children books haha.
SPONTANEOUS MOMENT OF DAREDOM. WELL DONE! I am like a very much not-spontaneous-and-please-let’s-plan-for-at-least-8-years sort of person myself.😂
I might actually steal this tag. It sounds fun. 😀
Dare I ask why you disliked LOTR?
Also, I very much know what you mean about giving a book to a person so you can read it. I may or may not have done that for my sister a few times . . . thankfully, we have very similar tastes in reading, so we basically just share bookshelves. I’m not sure what we’re going to do when I graduate college and go find my own job . . . though by that point, she’ll be in college herself, so.
Yes totally do!! I’d love to read your answers!
Oh haha I was just super bored. It’s really not my style of book.😂
And that’s what family is for right?!? Gift them something YOU’D want?? Double use! IT’S JUST BEING THRIFTY.😂
Maybe I will. I need something new to post …
Ah. Fair enough.
Exactly! And they can’t complain because you’re being generous and sharing something you love with them!
OH MY GOSH, Cait, as usual, you made my morning! 🙂
“Six Darker Shades of Crows” – HA!!!
By the way, there’s a very interesting debate going on right now in the USA about the “13 Reasons Why” Netflix series. Basically a lot of teachers and parents are saying what your review did – that it damages people who are already experiencing trauma/mental health concerns, and it should be taken off the streaming. I happened to see something about it on last night’s evening news.
Omg GOOD. I’m glad people are getting upset about it because it’s horrible. I don’t even ever want to see the show. I think the worst part is people are praising it for being a good depiction of mental health, when really it’s not. It says Hannah had depression, but I honestly think she might’ve had a different mental illness than that…she didn’t read like a depressed person at all. I have a ton of links in my monthly recap about other people’s analyses on why it’s bad. 🙈🙊
What a delicious, wholesome post!! I’m confused as if to whether this a post or food? I clearly have issues 😛 😛 I love this tag!! And I’ve never got anyone special books too..hell I hardly have enough money to buy special books for myself; people can’t really expect me to splurge on their ‘to-buy’ list 😛 And as a kid Enid Blyton’s books made me SOOOO hungry..she would always describe all that the children eat and almost in every chapter we have pie and jam and ginger-beer and stuff and I’m always wanting to be in the book with them <3 So much comfort food and mysteries are a perfect combo in her books but of course there is a bit of problematic stuff, I realize that now!
We had such fun required reading!! We had Sherlock Holmes, The Canterville Ghost and some book I can't remember but was a fun mystery 🙂 As for Robinson Crusoe..i think it could do with a retelling done better! I liked the getting marooned part and living off on stuff, making things..the whole Friday and Crusoe thing was racist as hell! Rewrite it Cait! With dragons and ghosts! 😀
Oooh, yes to books that make us hungry! I LOVE THEM AND YET I HATE THEM because like even if you’ve JUST EATEN they still make you super hungry. SO rude. 😂
I think someone needs to retell Robinson Crusoe asap.😂 THAT’S FOR SURE. And please let him get eaten omg. And don’t tempt me…there’s so much room for islands + dragons….*swats away plot bunnies*
Okay, can I just REALLY STRONGLY disagree with you?
Maybe?
Okay
So
(all my opinions, do not mean to offend)
Ahem
*Clears throat*
YOU JUST SAID *breaths* that you like the Ender’s game movie better than the book.
JUST NO. Look, I liked the movie but it didn’t have the WHOLE MEANING of the book. Like, how violence was not the answer and all the stuff about hot there’s more to it then killing and all the wonderful philosophical stuff. THE BOOK WAS DEEP — IT HAD FEELS – IT WAS MORE THAN JUST ANY OLD SCI-FI. And then the movie? They just scrapped it all to pieces. They got the plot right but it just became like any other SCIENCE FICTION – haha. Aliens, why, kill, die, sad, happy, yay. The whole movie.The movie wasn’t rubbish but it didn’t capture what I loved about the book. THe acting was okay, the scenes got boring and the book essence just WASn’T THERE. Okay, sorry for rambling.
HAHAHAH THAT’S OKAY.😂 I don’t mind! I like the book and movie both! But I agree that movies very very rarely can capture the whole essence and thoughts behind a book.
Shannon is so awesome, I love this tag! It’s so much fun 😀 And yes, I don’t understand people who read spoilers, or worse.. read the end of the book first. However I should tell you, my older sister is actually one of those people and it drives me insane lol.
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My mum is one of those people who read the ending first! I ASK YOU WHY. HOW CAN THEY EVEN?!??!? I actually hate it when books are spoiled for me so so much that I generally put of reading them for just about forever.😂
I also geek out over the acknowledgments. You actually get to see the author’s personality in those. My most-read author is Stephen King. His books have their own shelf in my bedroom, and it’s a huge shelf. How does he write so much?
I think Stephen King is pretty amazing for how much he writes!! (Also why haven’t I read anything by him yet?! EEEK.) 😂 and yES. I lvoe seeing the author’s personalities in acknowledgements! I can’t remember which one it was, but I read a super serious book once and then the acknowledgements where them thanking food for existing.😂I love it.
Ugh, Passenger was a drag for me, too. I didn’t hate it, but I sort of wish I had, because being apathetic about a book is somehow worse than just being able to absolutely love it or loathe it. Maybe I’m weird about that, though.
WHO READS THE LAST PAGE FIRST?!?! I’d like to meet one of these people and see if they’re really from this planet.
I love the acknowledgements! When I was young and naive I would skip it (and the dedications) all the time. How very deluded I was. It’s so fun to get a peek at the author’s personality and see who they like on Twitter and what TV shows they watch and who has had to comfort them in the early morning with chocolate and tea when they’re freaking out about their book being horrible. It’s also super fun to see which authors are friends, like you said.
Newt Scamander is the actual best. I love him so much, I’ve seen the movie four times already. #perksofworkingatamovietheater And you should definitely read the book, even if it’s not really a novel. It literally is a field guide. (But people like Harry, Ron, Hermione, Fred, and George leave “notes” in the margins of the books along with doodles and funny conversations to each other. It’s super clever.)
OMG, I love that you became a low-key employee for a bookshop by accident. xD I was once in a BAM bookstore and was approached by a mom who saw me carrying about a thousand more books than I could afford in my arms and she just started asking me for suggestions for her teenage daughter. Then suddenly I was surrounded by at least three other moms who were staring at me as I scrolled through my Goodreads to remember what books I’ve read and liked because they wanted to know what to get for their kids.
Most of the books I read for “school” (my parents didn’t do a lot of assigned reading for me with homeschooling because I read so much already) were classics I wouldn’t have thought to pick up on my own, but because my reading level was so advanced at the time, I think I read too many classics too young and didn’t appreciate them as much as I probably would when I was older. I’d like to revisit some of them again (except for Catcher in the Rye. Why is that a book that people like. Why. Why.)
You’re usually the first person I go to on Goodreads so I can read a review of a book I’m thinking about reading since 90% of our tastes match up. But it’s so hard to recommend anything because you’ve usually already read whatever I was going to recommend and loved it. xD
Totally stealing the tag.
YAS STEAL IT!! I will look forward to your answers.😂
And omg my MUM actually reads the endings of books first…I can’t even. It’s like a huge bookworm sin, tbh. (Also Passenger = so boring. It’s put me off trying the Darkest Minds series unfortunately.)
I totally love acknowledgements far too much and like 98% of the reason I want to be an author is to write acknowledgements. Totally legit and sensible. *nods* AND WHY IS NEWT SO ADORABLE AND PERFECT. He’s too precious for this world and I shall read Fantastic Beasts so soon even if it isn’t a proper story. (Although that makes me wonder where they GOT the story for the movies from then?!??? It’s not really an adaption is it??😂)
Haha that is so cool!! You are like a living breathing Goodreads. :’)
AWW I’M HONOURED THAT YOU GO TO MY REVIEWS FIRST. <3 LET ME FLAIL NOW AND PERHAPS SHARE A CAKE CRUMB WITH YOU.
I absolutely love acknowledgements!!! I am a very daring person, IF you count reading 15241 books at once daring. (Spoiler: it is.) Heartless made me sooo hungry. So did The Wrath and The Dawn and The Star Touched Queen. Great post, Cait!!
I think that is absolutely daring *nods sagely* You are the daringest of us all. HEARTLESS WAS CRUEL WITH ALL THOSE CAKES. And I wanted to eat my copy of TW&TD to be honest. Ugh. Why must books be so delicious.
“Six Darker Shades of Crows” sounds like a Fifty Shades of Gray novel. XD
And maybe I have the memory of a goldfish, but I forgot you were HOMESCHOOLED!! Homeschoolers ftw.
UGH WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT AND DON’T RUIN IT LIKE THAT. 😂
*homeschooler hi five*
This is very interesting Cait! I thought Trials of Apollo will be released in May?? How can you already read it??? I also fangirls when I can recognize names in author’s acknowledgement, it’s so cool! And… I’m actually one of those few people who read the ending before I read the first page xD I can’t resist xD My most read is definitely Rick Riordan! He has so many books haha!
Omg the amount of people who have got after me for Trials of Apollo!😂 I have a review-copy! I read advanced books a lot. 😜😉
AHHH I LOVE when I recognise other author’s names in the acknowledgements! It’s so cool when you find out your favourite authors are actually friends. Also do they have like a secret author club or something?!?? It is so cool.
RICK RIORDAN IS THE BEST.
Bahaha it’s okayy! I just thought maybe aus get an early release? You know different country different date thing. Usually my country got early movie release, example we got marvel movies like 5 days earlier than the rest of the world. That’s why I thought like “oh my country get early movie release, her country got early book release” xD
I love this! I think I’m going to steal if from you 😀 when I manage to leave the house, I like to do daring things like ride roller coasters and go skydiving! But not try new foods? I’m weird like that.
YAS DO!! I’d love to read your answers! And I’m just going to pretend I’ll totally nod and agree about skydiving and roller coasters except also…no thanks.😂 I think I’m only daring when I can control the situation ahhahahaha. #EPICFAILCAIT
I did steal it! It’s set to post tomorrow! 😀 It was funnnn! For some reason I love surveys? They are just so much fun, so I’m all about answering them hahaha I have no idea why I love actual thrill seeking things, because like…I don’t even like driving because it’s too stressful? But roller coasters and jumping out of planes is okay? I’m not sure how that worked out, but yeah. Hahaha!
Yup I would probably pick those three movies too! Ender’s Game, The Help, I don’t like Dan Brown either BUT if we do intent to read ALL THE BOOKS [I freaking love that cartoon from hyperbole] I guess we’ll have to cave in and read Dan Brown. 🙁
Wait let me log in GR to see what is the author I read most….
OK I’m back. GR doesn’t have that kinda statistics [or I didn’t find it]. BUT I think it’s probably J.K. Rowling because she has 8 books. 🙂
I have never read Holly Black so now I’m off to see who that lady is 🙂 🙂
THAT IS TRUE. Maybe one day I’ll cave and read a Dan Brown.😂 And it’s not like I’m violently opposed, they just don’t interest me at all haha.
And yay for JK Rowling! (Also you can find the stat thingie at the bottom of your list of shelves!) Also Holly Black is AMAZY and writes the best stabby faerie books of them all. 😍
My most-read author is Ann M. Martin. She wrote The Baby-Sitter’s Club series. Well, the first books, anyway. I don’t know if there was a ghostwriter by the end of it (there were hundreds of books). Rounding out my top 5 are Beverly Cleary and Diana Wynne Jones with 9 each, L. M. Montgomery with 8, and Charles de Lint with 7. Well, at least I’ve got 2 Canadians on my list… (Huh… Goodreads says I’ve only read 6 books by J. K. Rowling. But I know I read the whole Harry Potter series! Which one did I forget to mark as “read”?)
I’m not daring. I was the sort of kid who, if everyone else said they were going to jump off a bridge, would be reminding them of all the horrible potential consequences.
To be honest, I usually skim over acknowledgments, unless I’m really curious about how the story came together. Usually, though, that information will be in a separate “author’s note”, not the acknowledgments.
Ahh, yes, those wonderful series that have a dozen authors and 50 million books.😂I must’ve read at least 60 books of Boxcar Children…did you ever read those?! Haha, AH GOOD TIMES. (I also love Beverely Cleary!!)
Honestly, I think my most read author is Cassandra Clare. Below that is most likely John Green because as I have stated before, I am absolute John Green trash.
Cait, I can’t recommend a book to you because I feel like you probably have already read it/are going to read it next because OH MY GOSH YOU READ AS MUCH AS I WISH I COULD. I suck. I am a rotten orange. Reading acknowledgements is one of my FAVORITE THINGS. Also, dedications. BUT I HATE WHEN THEY’RE EXTREMELY VAGUE LIKE I WANT TO UNDERSTAND YOUR LIFE, BELOVED AUTHOR PERSON. I need specificity in my life.
John Green is AMAZING and I love his books so much. I’ve reread TFIOS but I want to reread it again because I like pain apparently. (Also Cassandra Clare is endlessly fabulous. ALWAYS.)
I DO READ A LOT. IT CAN BE A PROBLEM.😂 Although tbh I’ve been slacking off on reading majorly. I’m supposed to be reading right now but HERE I AM. Blogging instead. *sighs at self*
My most read author is Sarah J Maas! The one you hate. #awkward Definitely daring, Cait. Definitely daring. *dramatic realization* Which is a very Gryffindor thing to say and I’m actually a Slytherin?? Confession: I’ve never read acknowledgements but now, I’m curious and I’m going to go back and read all the acknowledgements in every book I’ve ever read. #help
Also, can I steal this tag, too?
HAHA SORRY ABOUT THAT.😂😂 And omg HELLO fellow Slytherin! *evil hi five*
Of course you can steal the tag!! I’d look forward to reading your version. 😀
*returns evil five* In case you’re interested… https://stonesofrome.wordpress.com/2017/04/30/i-dare-you-booktag/
The Dark Prophecy’s out?! How did I not know that?! My life is falling apart! Tomorrow, I’ll wake up and fifty years will have passed and I’ll have missed all the books! :'( (I’m sorry. It’s exam period. This is basically me until everything’s handed in. Also, Blogger is giving me formatting issues. That may or may not be contributing.)
Point six is drama queen goals! (I should know, I am one.)
And Goddammit! Now I want to read that crossover! This is not okay!
Goodreads informs me that my most read author who isn’t a manga artist is Rick Riordan at number eight (I read a LOT of manga…).
Eep, no don’t worry.😂 Not yet! I think it comes out May 2nd? I just have a review-copy.
LET’S KIDNAP SCHWAB AND BARDGUO AND FORCE THEM TO WRITE THE CROSSOVER FOR US. It needs to happen. It’s basically destined. I mean Kaz and Kell are basically the same names anyway.
(Also Rick Riordan is so fabulous so I approve of your rapid devouring of all his books.)
I’ve read…..yikes. 48 Terry Pratchett books? All the Discworld books, plus A Blink of the Screen, Strata, Nation, Good Omens, and The Science of Discworld Vols. 1-3. My second-most read would be Tolkien, and I’ve read a lot of Anne Rice as well.
BUT THE WRATH & THE DAWN, THO. All the food in that book made me SO HUNGRY. It reminded me of this amazing little Lebanese cafe in my town.
I loved The Da Vinci Code, omg. I was actually able to figure out a few of the clues before the characters, which made 11-year-old me feel like the raddest thing on two wheels. XD
Strange the Dreamer is a maybe read for me, so I look forward to hearing your thoughts! I’m currently reading three books (halp): City of Saints and Thieves, The Girl Who Soared Above Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two, and Albion Academy, I have no idea what I’ll read next?? Maybe The Kite Runner, or Commonwealth. As for books everyone loved but me, I’d have to go with It’s Kind of a Funny Story, HP and the Sorcerer’s Stone, and Blue Lily, Lily Blue.
Ellie | On the Other Side of Reality
THAT IS A LOT OF TERRY PRATCHETT. EXCUSE ME WHILE I SIT HERE IN ENTIRE AWE OF YOU. (Honestly that is amazing.😂 Although I could probably rival you with my fearsome childhood reign of the Boxcar Children books…which were probably like 10 chapters long but WHATEVEr.) 😂😂
I wanted to eat TW&TD. Such a cruel book omg.
AFjsdkald I already LOVE Strange the Dreamer. <3 It's the ultimate bookworm appreciation story and I am perhaps losing my mind with love for the gorgeousness of it. The audio is fantastic too!! Oh oh is City of Saints and Thieves good?!? I have that one on my TBR!!
OMG YASS ON ROBINSON CRUSOE!!!!!!!! I was ready to jab my eyes out with rusty tweezers. LIKE ALL HE DID WAS BUILD A BOAT ABD GROW CORN FOR 800% OF THE BOOK. I AM SO SO DONE ALREADY.
I didn’t finish it the first time (homeschooler perks 😉), but years later I foolishly thought “maybe I’ll like it better now that I’m older” and I slogged relentlessly and joylessly through its entirety. And I hated it so much. That larned me. Now I know my first impressions should probably be trusted.
Also, though I haven’t read ADSOM yet (I KNOW!! I KNOW!! I’m a horrible person. But it’s on my TBR), I have thought for the longest time that Kell/Lila and Kaz/Inej would make a splendid foursome (if they didn’t kill each other first though), and like had them associated for some reason. 😜 I vote yes on the Six Darker Shades of Crows. 👍🏼
I SO AGREE. LIKE UGHHGHG WHAT WAS HIS PROBLEM. He whined the whole time AND he committed the horrible sin of having an awesome name (c’mon, Crusoe is awesome) and being an absolute stupid iguana. At least you finished it. 😂 I’d rather stab myself in the eye with a spork.
DUUUUDE, READ ADSOM, BECAUSE IT IS THE SERIES I RECOMMEND RIGHT AFTER ALL THE STIEFVATER BOOKS. MY FAVOURITE SERIES. AHHHHHHHHHHHH.
I’m so happy that you like acknowledgments too and I am not alone!!! I’ve been thinking of reading A Court Of Thorns And Roses, but based on this maybe I won’t? It’s not really my usual kind of book anyway. I was surprised but intrigued to find out you don’t like it as everyone rates it so highly!
Eep, I’m glad YOU like acknowledgements too!! *hi fives* And like ACOTAR is definitely a favourite for a lot of people, so if you’re curious, try it! But I do think it’s very problematic and it bugs me that it’s called YA when the characters are in their twenties and it’s got a lot of abusive romance/sex. *sighs*
Omg you’re allergic to honey??? YOU POOR LITTLE THING. And omggggg Six Darker Shades of Crows NEEDS to happen. Even if it’s fanfiction.
And AGGGH I LOVE READING THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. It’s suuuuuper cool to read all about the author’s interactions and how the baby book child came to be. It’s also amazing to see their little circle of writer friends (I WANT SOME), as well as the relationships with the editor and agent and all those wonderful people. #goals
All the Fantastic Beasts gifs just made my heart give a little happy dance. #HPforlife
I AM A POOR LITTLE THING. 😭 The Scorpio Races food and I will forever be tragically parted. <— most depressing love story of ever
And ajfdkslad I'm so glad you like acknowledgements too! THEY'RE SO CUTE THOUGH.😍 And I love it when authors get so excited that they wrote a book. That would be me too. If I ever get published my acknowledgements are just going to be me yelling "HEY LOOK!! I ACTUALLY DID IT!!" 😂 And then probably thanking cake, tbh.
NEWT THOUGH. 😍 I LOVE NEWT.
According to Goodreads, Debbie Macomber is my most read author, but it looks like the site is counting want-to-read books as well, so I’m not 100% sure how accurate that system is. I know I’ve read over 20 of her books, though, so it’s probably safe to say it’s her either way. I’d be shocked if Nora Roberts were higher, either. I went through a tear of these sorts of books when I was younger and still enjoy a lot of them.
I play it safe for the most part. I’ve been burned one too many times and would prefer to proceed carefully.
I don’t really geek out over acknowledgements. I’ll glance over them to see if they’re interestingly written. Some authors really go all out, like Riordan for example. Other times they’re a bit like reading a telephone book.
I might do this tag in a bit. We’ll see. 😉
Eeep, it’s counting want-to-reads for you!? I don’t think mine is, thank goodness.😂 That would be confessing. but YAY that you’ve read that many books from one author!! Honestly unless it’s a childhood series obsession, I’ve barely read more than 10 books from most authors.😂 I’m such a slacker and terrible at comittment.
Without actually looking at numbers, I would guess my most read author is LM Montgomery (especially if you count rereads. . . Have read all 8 Anne books at least a dozen times. . .)
I am fairly daring. A coworker gives me weird “make your own candy” kits from singnapore all the time and I can’t understand the instructions and my face goes weird numb tingly when I eat them… BUT I KEEP EATING THEM.
Confession: I have read The Hobbit twice. I adore the LotR movies. I have almost always lived in a house that contained the Lots novels…
….but I have never read them. :/ They just seem like such a commitment. . .
I skim acknowledgements … some are more interesting than others. Been reading a fair few WW II books and the acknowledgement sections can be very long and dry . . .
That’s so cool you love the Anne books so much! I only ever read the first one because I’m a slacker on classics.😂 And omg I’m laughing at your candy story…I mean SURe your face is numb, but does that make one a quitter in the face of confectionary? NO WAY.😂
My most read author is any of my favourites which include: Marie Lu, Sara Barnard, J K Rowling, Marie Rutkoski, Nicola Yoon, Jennifer Niven, Roshani Chokshi, Renee Ahdieh and so many more! Basically this list could go on and on if I really wanted it to #noshame. This was such a cool booktag Cait and I haven’t seen it before so I’ll have to try this out for myself too! Thanks so much for sharing!
AHhh so many epic authors right there!! I LOVE Jennifer Niven and Renee Ahdieh! (Although I need to read the sequel to the Wrath and the Dawn yet…but I’m scared everything I love will die😂).
a) I don’t normally flip to the last page (because why would you) but I often spoil myself when my eyes by accident skip to the next page when I’m reading exciting scenes and then I know what happens and it’s disappointing. I often do this when I’m on the second last page of a chapter and then accidentally read to the end of the chapter, which then ends with dramatic statement’s like ‘The Welsh King is dead’ (if ya know the book I’m referring too. XD. kaljkdsdfl;s nooof akjld jlas;lid basically)
Also the way you got that Melissa De La Cruz book is pretty hilarious. Maybe you should consider a side job as an Organiser of Books? (side note: I need more quality book op shops in my life. I currently have, like, 0)
Fun fact: when I was younger I used to never read acknowledgements. But then I realised you can discover interesting details like how authors are friend (e.g Jay Kristoff, Amie Kaufman, and Marie Lu) and it’s just so cool.
Ohh I’ve done that too with accidentally spoiling myself for a book by accidentally reading ahead.😭 Like how dare my eyeballs betray me like so. WHATEVER DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS TORMENT. *random sobs in the background*
Haha, I know right?! Someone pay me to tell them where to shelve books.😂
Your pretty pictures make me want to go and re-organise my bookshelves by colour! Except I won’t because I’m lazy and it would mean I have to split up my Neil Gaiman collection and that can’t happen.
Also – The Help, yes! Brilliant movie but I was a bit blah on the book. I preferred Gone Girl the movie over the book. It almost felt like the book was written just so it could be turned into a movie. And the movie really nailed it!
Haha I understand the pain of splitting things up.😂 I actually have a small secondary bookshelf for some of my favourite series so I don’t have to break apart the families.😂
The Help movie was SO FUNNY. I did love the book, but the movie ahhh!!! I feel evil for saying movie > book, but for that one it’s pretty close.😂
YES TO ALL OF THIS. I too don’t understand why everyone seems to love Thirteen Reasons Why, A Court Thorns Roses, and Passenger. I’m glad we always seem to twin on everything so I can at least talk to you when I’m a black sheep. And OMG the Ender’s Game movie was fantastic! I completely agree that it was probably one of the best book to movie adaptions out there. And Kaz & Inej = <3 <3 <3
Thanks for sharing and, as always, fabulous post!
PROOF AGAIN THAT WE ARE TWINS. *hi fives* 😂 Thanks for all your epic recs and reviews too, btw, Zoe!! I absolutely love them!
I always love reading your posts. You make me smile a lot. I only have a few seconds before making my son breakfast then preparing for opening day for Little League (AKA. Watching my boys play baseball all day- which I don’t really mind)
I didn’t know that you could see your most read authors on Goodreads. I thought that was cool so I went to check it out. My number 1 author was James Patterson, all books I’ve read by him have been passed to me by my neighbor. My second was Dr. Seuss. HA HA HA! Maybe I should go back and input any other book I’ve EVER read. Patterson and Seuss, what a great pairing.
Aww, JEN. 💕 You make my day!! THANK YOU. (Seriously comments like this make blogging so worth it. *flails wildly*)
And yes isn’t it cool?! Thank you goodreads for telling me who I’m obsessed with because half the time I don’t even know. 😂 Can you believe I’ve never read a James Patterson though!? I FEEL LIKE A FAILURE.😂
Honestly, once you’ve read one you’ve kind of read them all. They’re always a quick read. Some of them I’ve liked and others I’ve just read.
I have been trying to do this tag since I saw it on Shannon’s blog. *Shannon and her blog are both awesome*. Your answers were brilliant and made me laugh. Thank you!
Sam @ WLABB
Shannon is totally awesome! I can’t wait to read your version!
Six Darker Shades Of Crows! I need that to happen! I mean Kell and Lila and Inej and Kaz. I can just imagine Lila and Inej over here being badass pirates. And then Lila getting them all into trouble (because of course she would) and Kaz being the mastermind of getting out of trouble getting them out of it. It would be perfect!! 😂
I don’t know how to do the whole most read author thing but I have a feeling my most read author is Cassandra Clare lol. And I adore the acknowledgments. It’s probably silly but when I really love a book and the author thanks the readers in the acknowledgments it makes me smile a lot. 🙈
Fantastic post as always, Cait!! 😊
Wouldn’t it be perfect!?? We shall kidnap the authors and make them write us a crossover.😂 Kell would probably be 500% done with all of them immediately BUT IT WOULD BE SO ADORABLE AND STABBY.
I love Cassandra Clare!!
It makes me smile to read acknowledgements too. They’re so so sweet. :’)
IT WOULD! YES! We so should 😂🙈. And Kell definitely would and it would be funny because he would just be glaring at all of them and trying to keep Lila from getting them into trouble in the first place. But YES it would be adorable and stabby and perfect! 😍
AW Cait, you are too sweet! I am excited that you added extra questions- I should have, because why 18? That is so… random! And I have NO idea why it’s a dare. Maybe because you may have unpopular answers? Idk, it doesn’t seem that risky to me! Good call with the food in To All the Boys. How did I forget that one!? And I LOOOOOVE acknowledgments! I get a serious case of the sads when I am reading an ARC and the acknowledgments say “TK” like NO, i need them NOW, thanks.
My most read author? Hmmm. Probably Charlaine Harris, because she wrote like, 283 Sookie Stackhouse books, and I read a few of her other series too, back in the day. Then Lauren Oliver, Neal Shusterman, and Patrick Ness. Which, tbh, sounds about right. Now, if we counted the number of times I read Suzanne Collins’ books, she’d win, because I have read them each 11 times, so 33. Anyway, this was FUN Cait!! Thanks for doing it and sharing it!! 😀
WHY HAVE 18 WHEN WE CAN HAVE 20 HUZZAH!😂 Thanks for letting me steal it! (Not that, well, I asked or anything but pftt. We’ll pretend.) And omg agreed! I get sad when there’s no acknowledgements in ARCs. I’m nosey here. I want to know all the things about how many people helped beat this book into existence.😂
YAS I love Neal Shusterman and Patrick Ness so much!! And omg you truly are The Hunger Games rereading QUEEN.
LEMONY SNICKET IS THE BEST! His books were my childhood, and it’s still fun to re-read them sometimes even though *technically* I’m not a child anymore (technicalities, pffft). I like reading acknowledgements too, mostly cause of the whole prolonging thing but also cause it softens the blow of the breakup, like some long-winded yet beautifully heartfelt speech that tells you how many people went into it and how emotions came to be and how it all ties up at the end…..(this metaphor’s going nowhere I’m going to be quiet)
ONE IS NEVER TOO OLD FOR THE GLORY THAT IS LEMONY SNICKET, I SAY!! I was just rereading the books this year and I love them so much. <3
Hey, I didn’t know you did tags! Most bloggers just avoid them like the plague 😀 I guess they CAN get a little much. If taken too often, heh.
AND IS THAT CHEESECAKE, OH MY GOD.
You are so evil, You Paper Fury, You. Putting cake in your pictures WHEN I AM SO HUNGRY and boyfriend is cooking a tasty tasty stew and I’ve been smelling it for over an hour now AND IT’S STILL NOT DONE!!!
Dat cheesecake ;_;
Anyways. Jane Eyre though. Has to be read. It’s different. It’s so godly and perfect and I love her!!! Yes. Not even the book, I just love Jane Eyre. And the book, by proxy, of course. And it’s totally all wrong and we shouldn’t love her god awful Mr Rochester, and it’s all wrong to think that it’s right and a good story for girls to read and fall in love with men like that but GOD I LOVE THAT BOOK.
Yes, that sentence is that long. Moving on. Don’t ask me about it, it’s Jane Eyre, my brain shuts off when we’re talking about that. I still remember THE PLACE I was sitting (not home) when I was first reading it when I was 12. I was 12 like. Oh my god. I don’t want to say it, but 16 years ago. Maybe almost 17.
I would totally not EVER read the last page first. What’s the point then D: it even hurts to think about it!
And how would you start listening to the audiobook in the middle? xD
I also love SOME acknowledgements, but… some ARE a waste of paper. Some authors make them really good, but some just make it a list of names. Heed that as a warning about how the book is going to be xD cause some are in the beginning rather than the end.
Oh man, the bookstore shelving problems story was soooo good 😀
And we are totally on the same page about LOTR here.
I have read The Help but never seen the movie yet! Your reactions make me want to see it even more now (although I was going to). (Although I watch like one movie per year anyway). (So yeah. That’s going to happen.)
Oh no, a picture of another cake. Why are you so cruel to me!
Okay, randomness time!!!
I spied cheesecake in that first picture – yummmmmm!!!
MORIARTY! FINALLY I GET THE REFERENCES FOR I AM CURRENTLY MAKING MY WAY THROUGH THE GLORIOUSNESS THAT IS SHERLOCK AND MORIARTY IS MY FAVORITE THING. EVER.
Also I’m glad you used the name of this tag because I was tagged for the exact same one but no one seemed to know what it was called??? I was having a crisis.
Also the Eddie Redmayne gifs were on point and I really need to see that movie now because it is so freakin cute that he is the beasts’ “mum”???!!!!!!???!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?
CHEEESE CAKE IS LIFE THOUGH.
And ahh I’m glad you got my Moriarty reference.😂 You spectacular human. And like if anyone can figure out why this is a DARE I’d really like to know. I don’t even feel like I had to confess anything dastardly!??? #confused 😂
FANTASTIC BEASTS IS SO CUTE.
I will agree with 100% that the Help movie is better than the Help the book.
Both were definitely good but the movie was HYSTERICALLY funny!
My most read author is Walter Farley: nineteen books. He wrote The Black Stallion and about 30 sequels and spin offs. I think 99.9% of my preteen reading was horse and dog books. Heh heh. Nineteen books is probably all he had out before I aged out of that craving, or I’m sure I would have read more. 🙂 I love this tag. I might do it.
WOoooah that’s a LOT of spin-offs!!😂 That’s completely admirable haha.
I have found a reply finding solution… wait so long to comment that I am the last one in the list. Ha ha. XD
Wait there’s a way to tell your most read authors on Goodreads?!?! *goes immediately to read shelf and tries to figure it out……fails* Also I’ve never read a Holly Black book? Which is your favorite?
Haha thank you for doing my tag but I am glad you add those two questions in I can’t believe I have never added then great answers by the way.
Omg thank you for creating the tag!! I would’ve linked to you but I didn’t know the origin.🙈🙊