The Harry Potter 30 Days Challenge #18

Welcome back for the 18th day of The Harry Potter 30 Days Challenge! As you know by now, Leannaatc @Short Story Long had this idea of a month full of Harry Potter and you can find the prompt for each day here here.

– Day 18: Least favourite book? –

I will start by saying that I do have a least favorite Harry Potter book, but that’s just it: it’s a least favorite, I still love it, but just not as much as the others – it still comes ahead of several others books that I love.

That book is Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. I honestly can’t give you a specific reason, I would have to re-read everything to give you some points, but overall it’s the one I find most frustrating to read. Hermione is not in a huge chunk of it, it could be a reason… But we meet the Burrow, and I love the Burrow!

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– Day 1: Favorite Book? – 

– Day 2: Favorite Movie? –

– Day 3: Is there anything in the film adaptations that annoyed you? – 

– Day 4: Who’s your least favourite female character and why? – 

– Day 5: Who is your favourite male character and why? –

– Day 6: Which house would you want to be in? –

– Day 7: Who’s your favourite female character and why? – 

– Day 8: What’s your favourite lesson from the series? – 

– Day 9: Who’s your least favourite male character and why? – 

– Day 10: Horcruxes or Hallows? – 

– Day 11: Which character would you say you are most like? – 

– Day 12: Favourite ship? –

– Day 13: Least favourite movie? – 

– Day 14: Team Voldemort or Team Harry? –

– Day 15: Pick three characters to be your best friends at Hogwarts? –

– Day 16: Expecto Patronum! What form does your Patronus take and why? –

– Day 17: Favourite Harry Potter Fan adaptation? –

The Fandom Book Tag!!!

Hello, here we are again for another tag, and this one is special: it’s a Fandom Book Tag! I don’t know about you, but love a variety of things, and even though I’m not very active in the fandoms, I do belong to a lot of them. I was tagged by Jocelyn @52Letters, thank you very much, and this post was original created by Fangirlfashionista, and you should check her original post.

Doctor Who: a book with a (mostly) blue cover

You Had Me At Hello by Mhairi McFarlane.

Marvel: a book with a (mostly) red cover

The Wrath and the Dawn by Renée Ahdieh.

The Simpsons: a book with a (mostly) yellow cover

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera.

Harry Potter: a book featuring magic

The Bane Chronicles by Sarah Rees Brennan, Cassandra Clare, Maureen Johnson.

Sherlock: A book featuring a a psychopath/sociopath

Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. The Phantom is not very right…

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: a book featuring a BADASS heroine

Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas, for sure. Celaena is the definition of Badass!

Breaking Bad: a book revolving around drugs

Clockwork Prince by Cassandra Clare. It doesn’t revolve exactly around drugs, but the Yin Fen is featured heavily in the 3 books of the trilogy.

Game Of Thrones: a book featuring dragons

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling (just because actually saying Game of Thrones would a bit in your face, right?!).

Supernatural: a book where the main character comes back to life

****SPOILER ALERT!!!****

City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare. Simon does return to the world of the living, twice, although through different manners and consequences.

Charmed: a book about sisters

To all the Boys I loved Before, by Jenny Han, is as much about the boys as it is about Lara Jean, Margot and Kitty.

Percy Jackson: a book based on ancient greek myths

Love in the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block.

The Vampire Diaries: book featuring vampires

The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer.

Heroes: a book featuring humans with powers

Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard

The Fault In Our Stars: a book about a cancer patient

The Heartbreakers by Ali Novak.

Pretty Little Liars: a book in which people get blackmailed

Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli.

Once Upon a Time: a book inspired by fairytales

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas.

Futurama: a book featuring robots

Clockwork Princess by Cassandra Clare (they’re considered robots of some kind, right?)

Merlin: a book or series that you wish had gone on longer

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell… I just wanted to see a bit more of Cath and Levi.

Grimm: a book that features monster

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. They have some crazy stuff of that arena.

The Hunger Games: a book in which kids/teenagers are murdered or die

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir.

Frozen: a book that takes place in winter or a cold climate

Landline by Rainbow Rowell takes place during winter.

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More questions to which I had no answers…

• The Walking Dead: a book about zombies
• Star Trek: a book featuring aliens or takes place in space
• Orphan Black: a book about clones/cloning
• Lord Of The Rings: a book featuring elves
• The Maze Runner: a book featuring a incurable disease
• Firefly: a book that not many people know about, but that you LOVE
• Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.: a book revolving around an agency or a secret government organization

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I Tag:

Kat @Life and Other Disasters

Josie @Josie’s Book Corner

Makayla @Random Reads

Holly @Nut Free Nerd

Tasha @Head in the Clouds, Heart in the Books

 

Bout of Books 14: #FictionalWorldTravel

The first challenge of the Bout of Books Read-a-thon is the Fictional World Travel Challenge!

Basically is to show 3 to 6 books of fiction that take place in countries other than my own. I decided to go ahead and do it because it’s do damn easy – I can’t even remember a book that has action in either Portugal or Spain (not counting national authors).

1. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz –  El Paso,Texas, USA
2. More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera – Bronx, New York City, USA
3. Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare – Victorian London, UK
4. Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux – Paris, France
5. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden – Kyoto, Japan
6. The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion – Melbourne, Australia

My first Read-a-thon: Bout of Books 14

For a few weeks now I’ve been seeing posts about this thing, Bout of Books 14, a read-a-thon. Now, I’ve been itching to participate in one, but generally the goals are a bit too high for my time availability. But this one has no set goals, I can make my own, so seriously, why the hell not?!

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, August 17th and runs through Sunday, August 23th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 14 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. – From the Bout of Books team

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Reading Goals:

I’ll set my goals reasonably, because I don’t want to fail miserably on my first attempt at a Read-a-thon (and because I still need to get some actual work done during this week). So, I plan to read 3 books:

1. The One Thing by Marci Lyn Curtis – I started this one last night and I’m loving it so far. I’m having a really big problem putting it down, which again, is not convenient because I do need to work. This is an eARC and want to finish it tomorrow at most.

2. The Wrath and the Dawn by Renee Ahdieh – this one is in my August TBR and I have to finish it by August 22, because I want to participate on the August readalong hosted by BIBLIOPHILE GATHERING.

3. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi – which is also in my August TBR, but I’ve been putting it off because I wanted to get a move on on some ARCs (to get my stats up on Netgalley). But I’ll wait no more, it will be done before next sunday.

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So this is it, let’s see how it goes. Ideally I would also be able to start a fourth book this week, but I’m not that optimistic considering my work load.