Saturday 30 January 2016

What's on my bookshelves January 2016

I thought it would be interesting to log what books I have on my two bookshelves to see what changes from year to year. I do have more books. Some are in boxes in storage or in a to be read pile, and others are ones that will be put on to my bookshelves but aren't included due to being brought this month. Those will be included in a book haul when they finishing arrving and I have time to take photos of them all.

Not let's begin!


Go Ask Alice by Anonymous, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith, Pride and Prejudice By Jane Austen, Jane Austen Collection


Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series by Ann Brashares, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, three Novels from the Bronte Sisters


The Princess and the Captain by Anne Laure Bondoux, Assassin's Creed series by Oliver Bowden, The Zombie Survival Guide and World War Z by Max Brooks


The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne,  Belle by Paula Byrne, Breakfast at Tiffany's by James Patterson, Graceling Realm series by Kristin Cashore.


The Selection series by Kiera Cass, Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare


Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare, Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare


Artemis Fowl series, Airman, Half Moon Investigations by Eoin Colfer, Nagasaki by Craig Collie


The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, The Maze Runner by James Dashner, Blue Bloods series by Melissa De La Cruz


Blue Bloods series by Melissa De La Cruz, The Black Tattoo by Sam Enthoven


Ranger's Apprentice series and Ranger's Apprentice The Early Years by John Flanagan


Brotherband series by John Flanagan


The Lady of the Rivers by Philippa Gregory, Luxe series by Anna Godbersen, Austenland by Shannon Hale, Unearthly series by Cynthia Hand

Saving June, By Hannah Harrington, Iharmell series by Rhiannon Hart, Wolf Springs Chronicles by Nancy Holder and Debbie Viguie, Farseer Trilogy and Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb

The Power of Five series by Anthony Horowitz, Les Misetrables by Victor Hugo, Fallen Angels by Tara Hyland, The Name of the Stars series by Maureen Johnson, 


Warrior Princess series by Frewin Jones, Skulduggery Pleasant series by Derek Landy, Marie Antoinette by Kathryn Lasky


King Raven series by Stephen R. Lawhead, Fairest and Ever by Gail Carson Levine, Jane by April Lindner, I am Number Four series by Pittacus Lore


Fallen series by Lauren Kate,Chronicles of Nick by Sherrilyn Kenyon,


Legacy Trilogy by Cayla Kluver, Shatter Me series by Tahereh Mafi, Song of Fire and Ice by George R.R. Martin (not pictured book three part one 


Song of Fire and Ice, Dangerous Women, Rogues by George R.R. Martin,

The Host by Stephenie Meyer, Warm Bodies by Isac Marion, Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery, An American Haunting by Brent Monahan,

Ruined by Paula Morris, The Old Kingdom Trilogy by Garth Nix (not pictured is book three) Running Pink by Megan Norris


The Inheritance series bChristopher Paolini, Beka Cooper series, Melting Stones, Tortall and Other LLands by Tamora Pierce


The Secrets of The Eternal Rose series by Fiona Paul, The Laws of Magic series by Michael Payor


The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan, Sovay by Celia Rees, The Name of the Wind series by Patrick Rothfuss


Harry Potter by JK Rowling


A Book Addict's Treasury by Julie Rugg and Lynda Murphy, Petty Little Liars by Sara Shepard


Petty Little Liars by Sara Shepard, White Rabbit Chronicles by Gena Showalter, The Notebook, The Longest Ride, Safe Haven, The Lucky One by Nicholas Sparks


Dear John by Nicholas Sparks, Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud, Pikachu's Global Adventure the Rise and Fall of Pokémon by Joeph Tobin


The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, In Order to Live by Yeonmi Park, The Book Thief by Markus Zusak


Cardcaptor Sakura by Clamp


Ouran Highschool Host Club by Bisco Hatori,
I know it is a gap but a friend is borrowing it at the moment.


Pokemon Adventures: Diamond and Peal by Hidenori Kusaka


Naruto by Masashi Kishimoto


Pokemon Adventures by Hidenori Kusaka


Pokemon Adventures, Pokemon Black and White by Hidenori Kusaka


Bleach by Tite Kubo


Bleach by Tite Kubo, Fairy Tail by Hiro Mashima, Bloody Monday by Ryunosuke Takagi


Bakuman by Tsugumi Ohba


Sailor Moon by Naoko Takeuchi, Food Wars by Yuto Tsukuda

Sunday 24 January 2016

Book Review: Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher is about a teenage boy who receives tapes in the mail from a girl at his school who killed herself two weeks before, listing the thirteen reason why she killed herself. He happens to be one of them.

I found this book very interesting, once I got into it - something that took all of 50ish pages, I was hooked. I found the way it was written to be interesting. It had Hannah's tapes going though out the story with Clay's reactions and what he was doing as he was listing to them, along with what was going though his mind. I ended up feeling sorry for Clay. I felt like he wanted to do more, but didn't know what to do.

I thought Hannah's reasons why she killed her say were interesting. She decided to go all the way back to where it all started and than slowly made her way to the point where she decided to kill herself. I though it really show how some times, something you think is meaningless can led to something so much more.

I would like to say, going into this book I thought I was going to cry at one point due to the subject matter. As it turned out I did not cry. Don't get me wrong I'm not saying it wasn't sad just not as sad as what I thought it would be. I would also like to add, this is not a book you should read if you don't want to read about a heavy topic.