Top Ten Tuesday – Books that defied my expectations

5 de September de 20235 de September de 2023 Joana @ Bookneeders4 Comments

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

The rules:

Each Tuesday, Jana assigns a new topic. Create your own Top Ten list that fits that topic – putting your unique spin on it if you want.
Everyone is welcome to join but please link back to The Artsy Reader Girl in your own Top Ten Tuesday post.
Add your name to the Linky widget on that day’s post so that everyone can check out other blogger’s lists.
Or if you don’t have a blog, just post your answers as a comment.

This week’s topic is: Books That Defied My Expectations (books you thought you would didn’t like that you loved, books you thought you’d love but didn’t, books that were not the genres they seemed to be, or in any other way subverted your expectations!) (Submitted by Sia @ everybookadoorway.com)

Hey guys! This time we have kind of a big prompt to feel in, so I’m gonna do 5 books that I was surprised I liked and 5 I really didn’t care for and though I would.

Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Surprised Me

13 de March de 201811 de March de 2018 Joana @ Bookneeders2 Comments

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish in June 2010 out of a love of lists. It recently changed to That Artsy Reader Girl and that’s where you can find the topics for each Tuesday.

This week’s topic is:

Books That Surprised Me (in a good or bad way)

This is quite a good topic! I have some books, majority being ones that surprised me in a good way and that I would really like to rave about again. I’ll be talking about 10 books.

First I have 6 books I absolutely loved and that definitely surprised me in a good way, and those I highly recommend and would want you all to read.

Then I have 4 more books. The first two I liked, but it surprised me still in a not so great way since I was hoping to love them. And the last 2 are books I really didn’t like, and that are highly recommended by many reviewers.

Let me know in the comments what are some of the books that surprised you! Are any of these on your list or have you read any of them?

History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera

14 de July de 201719 de July de 2017 Joana @ Bookneeders5 Comments

History is All You Left Me by Adam Silvera
Series: Standalone
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Childrens Books
First published January 17th, 2017
Genres: Contemporary, YA, LGBT
Pages: 294
Format: Paperback
Buy: Book Depository | Amazon

You’re still alive in alternate universes, Theo, but I live in the real world where this morning you’re having an open casket funeral. I know you’re out there, listening. And you should know I’m really pissed because you swore you would never die and yet here we are. It hurts even more because this isn’t the first promise you’ve broken.

OCD-afflicted seventeen-year-old, Griffin, has just lost his first love – his best friend, ex-boyfriend and the boy he believed to be his ultimate life partner – in a drowning accident. In a desperate attempt to hold onto every last piece of the past, a broken Griffin forges a friendship with Theo’s new college boyfriend, Jackson. And Griffin will stop at nothing to learn every detail of Theo’s new college life, and ultimate death. But as the grieving pair grows closer, readers will question Griffin’s own version of the truth – both in terms of what he’s willing to hide, and what true love ultimately means…