Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts

To be read - the tag


I saw this tag on Candice's blog some time ago and I wanted to join. So, here it is!

1. How do you keep track of your TBR pile?
mmm, if I'm being honest, I should say I don't keep track. I do have my "want to read" shelf on Goodreads but it's not up to date with all the books I own and haven't read.

2. Is your TBR mostly print or ebooks?
Half and half (but mostly ebooks, since it's so easy and adictive to get them!)

3. How do you determine which book to pick up from your TBR next?
It depends on my mood, on what I've been reading before, I usually end up reading something mentioned (or related) in another book or film I saw. I get constant ideas from lots of sources!

4. A book that has been on your TBR list the longest?
A confederacy of dunces, by John Kennedy Toole.

5. A book you’ve recently added to your TBR pile?
A room of one's own, by Virginia Woolf.

6. A book on your TBR strictly because of its beautiful cover?
Lily of the valley, by Susanne Strempek Shea

7. A book on your TBR you never plan on reading?
Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse

8. An unpublished book you are excited for?
I never know when books will be published. And I'm not waiting on any book in particular to be published.

9. A TBR book everyone else has read but you.
The Harry Potter series! I only read books 1 and 2 and I still have a long way to go!

10. A book everyone and their mother is recommending to you, therefore is on your TBR?
The curious incident of the dog at night, by Mark Haddon

11. A TBR book you are dying to read.
El tiempo entre costuras, by María Dueñas.
Actually I'm halfway through it and I can't seem to get back to it!

12. Finally, how many books overall are on your Goodreads TBR shelves?
I opened it and it says 100. But... it is not completely accurate ;)

You're welcome to join in and blog about your TBR books!
Let me know in the comments.









My february book haul



Ten books. I bought ten books in just ONE month. You might think I'm crazy and that I got a bit carried away, and you would be right but I'm not ashamed. The last two are from The Book Depository. I love buying books there because I prefer reading in English (since Spanish translations are awful. Dreadful) and British editions are so much beautiful than the ones I find here in Argentina. The rest of the books you see in the pics were on sale, at different bookshops. I can't pass by a bookshop sale if I see one. And I almost never leave the shop without a book.

The bookshop book, by Jen Campbell


I first knew about it on Instagram. Several people were talking about it (especially Mel) and I got very interested, because when a book has the words "bookshop" and "book" on its title I HAVE to find out what it is. It turned out to be an amazing book, written by Jen Campbell, a young English author and bookseller (and poet, vlogger, tea drinker and book lover) who had written a series of books about the weird things customers say in bookshops (which are hilarious true facts she experienced and I recommend them!). So, I asked my mom -I mean Santa- to give me this lovely book as a Xmas present and it arrived 12 days later (living in Argentina is not easy when it comes to buying stuff online).


As soon as I started reading, I felt terribly identified and inspired by this book. It is about out-of-ordinary bookshops of the world, and also it features several nice interviews with authors and booksellers, photographs, bookish facts and other historical information. Jen managed to make a highly entertaining book, one you start reading and want to keep on reading until you get to the end of it but at the same time you don't want it to end because that would mean the end of the bookish party. It took me 13 days to finish it, but only because I delayed it. It's a book that makes you read more books because they get mentioned in it (84, Charing Cross Road, in my case). It's cake, and tea and chocolate and cream but made of paper. It's delightful, funny and very very inspiring. It made me want to open my own bookshop from the very introduction.


oh, yes, Jen! They are, definitely, the best things in life!


(This is what happens when you find LOTS of interesting opinions and ideas in a book but you cannot, for the love of Gutenberg, write a single line -not even with pencil- on a pretty book like this one: post-its galore)


If you love books and bookshops, and people who love those two things more than life itself, you should get this book (I ordered it from The Book Depository). It is such a joy to read! You won't regret it.
You can buy it from here:  buy the book from The Book Depository, free delivery

(I get a teeny tiny comission when you buy a book following my links, and I'm very thankful for that!)

Jen Cambpell makes the greatest vlogs about reading, writing and, of course, books. You can watch them here on her youtube channel. 
Also you can follow her on Instagram, twitter and Facebook.




Has it ever happened to you?


That you read a book by a certain author, you enjoy it quite a lot, and after finishing it, you go and buy *another* book by the same author and... it doesn't quite live up to the first one you have read? I bet it's happened before. Well, I got that feeling with John Green's Paper towns. I liked "The fault in our stars" very much (maybe because I saw the film first?), read it in a week (which is quick for me) and then I wanted more of that style of writing, humourous and sensitive at the same time but Paper towns was not the proper follow up. I keep reading and reading and it doesn't get any more interesting. I'm not the kind of person that quits on a book. I put a lot of effort in finishing them, even though I might hate it either way in the end. But, how would I know if it was worth it if I don't read it till the very end? besides, I invested money on it. It SHOULD pay off, souldn't it? haha. 

If you have experienced this situation, do tell me! leave a comment below!




The catcher, the rye, Holden and me

"When I really worry about something, I don't just fool around. I even have to go to the bathroom when I worry about something. Only, I don't go. I'm too worried to go. I don't want to interrupt my worrying to go." -- Holden Caulfield


I really loved this book. Such a classic, now. After so many years of being aware of its existence, I finally found the proper motivation to read it in two weeks, quite a short time for my standards. I started enjoying it as soon as I read the first pages. I got really attached to Holden and his questionings. And now that I finished reading it, I'm gonna read it again, or at least some chapters. I was able to rent it from my local library (and in English!), which is always a good thing. I love going to the library.

have you read it?
What did you think of it?