TOP TEN TUESDAY

August 15, 2017August 15, 2017 Captivated~By~Fantasy8 Comments

I try to do these weekly but I have failed for a long time now haha. Forgive me? This is a weekly challenge hosted by the broke and the bookish. I saw this weeks on Coffeeloving Bookoholic and the books she picked and some of my all time favourites- so I feel like I HAVE to do it.

TOP TEN BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS IF YOU WANT TO GET INTO CLASSICS.

I absolutely love classics I do…good thing I studies an English Literature undergraduate course.

My all time favourite book is – On the Road by Jack Kerouac. It both breaks my heart and baffles me when I see people giving it like one star. WHYYYY? I initially read this book in anticipation for the 2012 movie starring Kristen Stewart (one of my all time favourite actresses) but I am so glad I read it then because it still stays with me now.
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald. I first read this years ago and then I had to study it for first year at University and I fell in love with it deeper.
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens. I love love love Dickens.
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte.
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding.
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Have you read any of these?

Which classics do you love?

A little obsessed?

August 14, 2017August 14, 2017 Captivated~By~Fantasy11 Comments

One of my obsession and has been for many years now is Harry Potter. In my defence who isn’t obsessed with Harry Potter? 🤔😏 When I was little (I can’t write that anymore without thinking of Louisa Clarke from Me Before You‘) I had Harry Potter everythannngg- bike, cloack, Nimbus 2000, figurines, towels….you name it, I had it. Evidently my Harry Potter transport was on point haha…

But you know, as I got older the merch started going to car boot sales and charity shops.. *Why mum…why???* In hindsight I should have kept it all but I didn’t.

But let’s not let that get us down because recently my sister went to Florida and got me a wand. Harry’s wand in particular…yaaaaaayyy! When I visit I am going to buy another one or two – cough cough- probabally all of them because I have no self control.

Behold – Harry’s wand. Am I the chosen one now because I feel like it?

Do you love Harry Potter? Is so, why?
Which house are you in?
Who’s your favourite character?

What I’m currently reading…

August 14, 2017 Captivated~By~Fantasy5 Comments

Last time I did this post I was reading Louis Pentlands book Wilde Like Me, which I will review soon.

Now I am reading This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp. I was sent this in ARC form months and months ago but life has been super busy so I borrowed the physical copy and now I’m devouring it.

The cover for this book gives me life!
I’ve heard sooo many good things about it.
I’m nearly half way and I’m hooked.
The switching of perspectives makes the pace fast, which makes my adenraline pump with anticipation.

Everyone has a reason to fear the boy with the gun.

Blurb-

10:00 a.m. The principal of Opportunity, Alabama’s high school finishes her speech, welcoming the entire student body to a new semester and encouraging them to excel and achieve.

10:02 a.m.The students get up to leave the auditorium for their next class.

10:03.The auditorium doors won’t open.

10:05. Someone starts shooting.Told from four perspectives over the span of 54 harrowing minutes, terror reigns as one student’s calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.Winter ‘

Have you read this book?
Have I intrigued you to read it?
What did you think?

More Bookish Habits Revealed…

August 9, 2017August 9, 2017 Captivated~By~Fantasy31 Comments

I have some book confessions for y’all and I hope you can share yours with me. Yay lets get to know each other.

If you like this post, go and check out My Weird (yet wonderful) Bookish Habits Part One.
If you like this post, go and check out My Weird (yet wonderful) Bookish Habits Part Two.

I do judge a book by its cover. SORRY. I just appreciate a really nice cover and my eyes are drawn to them in shops etc. That being said, if I know what a book is about and I am well informed, I don’t mind what the cover looks like. I will give any book a chance but ascetically speaking, I judge book covers.
I HATE when characters have stupid names in book or names that are hard to pronounce. When this happens…I either ignore the names while reading completely or the name pronunciation changes constantly.
Sometimes I am awful at finishing series. I know I KNOW, I am sorry. I have the best intention…and I want to finish the series but sometimes life gets in the way and time flies past, thus resulting in me not reading them.
I become attached to characters very quickly, especially if they are relatable.
I sometimes talk to my books in act of desperation for answers. WHHHYYYY….WHYYY would an author write such a heartbreaking narrative.
I have a very active face when I read, if you see me reading youll be able to know if I am enjoying it or not.

If you like this post, go and check out My Weird (yet wonderful) Bookish Habits Part One.
If you like this post, go and check out My Weird (yet wonderful) Bookish Habits Part Two.
Do you do any of these?

Ravenclaw Book Recommendations

August 9, 2017August 9, 2017 Captivated~By~Fantasy12 Comments

“Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,If you’ve a ready mind,
Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind.“

As a lot of you will know, I am a Ravenclaw – Pottermore confirmed it and I feel it in my heart.

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Traits

Intelligence
Wit
Wisdom
Creativity
Originality
Individuality
Acceptance

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With these traits in mind, I thought I would recommend some books for fellow Ravenclaws.

Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel.
Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion
Atonement by Ian McEwan
Emma by Jane Austen
Matilda by Roald Dahl

So, what did you think of this post and my picks?
Would you like it if I did the other houses?
Shall I do a part two of this?

Those books that stay with you forever…

August 7, 2017August 7, 2017 Captivated~By~Fantasy48 Comments

I’ve been thinking recently what books I use as a comfort blanket and what books have stayed with me since I read them.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Great Gatsby by F.Scott Fitzgerald
Harry Potter and the Philospher Stone by J.K.Rowling
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder
The Hobbit by J.R.R.Tolkien

What books comfort or stay with you?

My weird (yet wonderful) bookish habits – Part Two.

August 6, 2017August 6, 2017 Captivated~By~Fantasy20 Comments

I had a really positive response to the first post about my bookish habits…we are all a little weird and I LOVE IT. This is my second post and I love hearing what you reply, so please comment below and lets be weird and wonderful together.

Read part one here –

Here I discussed my impulse to talk to anyone reading a book, stifling a yawn with my book, hating on people who abuse books and my favourite reading location.

Smelling books. New or Old I will give a book a cheeky little smell. Have you ever walked into a old vintage book shop and thought wow, it smells amazing. I wish they made candles in old book scent because I would burn that for daaayyyyssss. I always think old books smell well loved if that makes any sense at all. P.S. Early season Rory gives me life, she was a complete bookworm.
Leaving books scattered around the house. I am sooo guilty of this and it irritates my mum so much, she would always say she knew when I was back from university because she would just find books in random places. I need access to books at all times okay, what if something happened and I had to stay in that room…it would be okay because I would have a book with me.

3. Always having a book on me. I won’t leave the house unless I have a book with me. You never know when you will have a spare minute to read. Waiting for someone?-read. Early somewhere?-read. Unhappy?- Read. Bored?- Read. Legit the other day I went to Bath for the day with my best friend and I thought I would be early to the station so I grabbed my trusty version of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone.

4. Going on holiday and packing more books than clothes. THANK YOU KINDLE FOR MAKING MY LIFE EASIER NOW! When I use to visit my dad in Denmark over summer I would take like ten books for a week trip and SMASH them all. He would have to work somedays so I would just read in his apartment or walk to the park and read. I still sometimes take physical copies of books with me but prefer to take my kindle nowadays because it is lighter and easier to carry. Although I prefer reading books over kindle books? what’s your thoughts on this matter?

5. Spending hours on end in libraries and bookshops. Guilty again. I got spend an endless amount of time roaming the shelves in bookshops and libraries. Being surrounded by books fills me with a sense of comfort and belonging and I LOVE IT.

6. Talking about fictional characters as if they are real. I am a nightmare when it comes to this. They are real to me okay, they have touched my heart and now live in there. When I was going to my dissertation meetings my supervisor had to sit me down and advise me to stop writing and discussing the characters as if they were real. So…instead of writing Nick and Amy volitile relationship, I would have to write Flynn constructed the characters of Nick and Amy to give the illusion of a volatile relationship.Blah Blah Blah.

So here are six more reading habits of mine. Do you do the same? What do you think of mine?