Throne of Glass

I should've picked another book for a setup that's as dainty as this. 

I spent the half of my June doing a marathon of Sarah J. Maas's Throne of Glass series. Yup, I couldn't believe I was able to finish that much content in the course of two and a half weeks. But I did, and I love it when I read that way. I feel productive. Next month, when summer break is done, I'd have to bid goodbye to this kind of productivity to make way for school work.

Anyway, I'm so happy for finally knowing why there was so much hype over this series. It's pretty justified.

Carry On

"Carry on, Simon."- Carry On, Rainbow Rowell

Today, I'm reviewing another book I read in 2015. And truth be told, this book is something I still love. So much.

I told myself I wasn't going to write about this book because I didn't want to gather my thoughts about it. It was hard to gather everything I felt while reading this book into words but I couldn't not talk about it. So here it is, another magnificent work by the one and only Rainbow Rowell: Carry On.

The Rainbow Rowell read-a-thon continues: Attachments!

"Do you believe in love at first sight?"

"Do you believe in love before that?"

-Attachments, Rainbow Rowell

I finished this book two weeks ago, and while I know I should have written my writeup on this one after finishing the book because IT WAS SO DAMNED FANTASTIC (That's  how fantastic it was, I had to capslock those words), my professors decided we had to start our writing drills. But now that I finally found the time to write, here we go!

Fangirl

"What class?" he asked. 

"Fiction-Writing."

"You take Fiction-Writing? That's an actual class?"

"That's an actual question?" -Fangirl, Rainbow Rowell 

(or the time the whole world asked me why I'm taking up Creative Writing. I mean, hello?! This may not be the most quotable thing from this book but this totally describes my problem with the whole world when I try to explain creative writing)

Reasons I picked up Fangirl:

1. The title is the exact term for my life.
2. Pastel green, cute sketches of a girl and a boy on the cover (I judge books by cover sometimes too.)
3. The plot is nice—sisters, fangirling? Sounds familiar!

The Girl of Nightmares

"Instead I kiss her, one time, and try to tell her in that single gesture everything that she'll forget as soon as she turns away. I tell her I love her. I tell her I'll miss her. And then I let her go." -Girl of Nightmares, Kendare Blake

     I love the cover just as how I loved ADiB's cover. And the love for the cover has nothing to do with the review below. 

Sa limang umiibig, isa lang ang magiging matagumpay.

[INFORMAL FILIPINO POST. Basta parang bagay yung ganitong wika para sa review na ito.]

Totoo nga! 

    "Maski naman sa tunay na buhay, sagot ng Writer, ilang love stories ba ang nagwawakas nang masaya?

   Pero iba't iba naman ang ibig sabihin ng masaya, sagot ni Sandra." -Para kay B, Ricky Lee

Noong kinuha ko yung nobela ni Ricky Lee na Para kay B sa shelf ng Filipiniana section ng National Bookstore, dalawa lang yung rason. Una, yun yung nobelang binabasa ng karamihan sa mga blockmates ko ngayon. Nakakacurious kung bakit pare-pareho silang nasasawi pag naririnig nila yung pamagat ng nobelang yan. Pangalawa, yun lang yung filipino book na hindi wattpad novel na hindi duduguin yung ilong ko pag binasa ko. Naghahanap lang naman ako ng chill na babasahin. Karamihan kasi ng mga librong nandun, mga klasikong akda na malamang sa malamang, nabasa ko na para sa klase noong high school ako.

Wild Ride

“Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary the Devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.” -Jennifer Crusie + Bob Mayer, Wild Ride

(aren't my sheets adorable?)

I feel very bad for neglecting this book review as I enjoyed this book in some way and I wanted to tell things about it. It was one heck of a roller coaster ride but I wouldn't say it's going to be one of my all time favorites.

Every Day

"In my experience, desire is desire, love is love. I have never fallen in love with a gender. I have fallen for individuals. I know this is hard for people to do, but I don't understand why it's so hard, when it's so obvious."- Every Day, David Levithan

A is not a boy, not a girl, not even someone in-between. He just exists. He goes from one person's body and takes over for a day. One day, he took over Justin's body and fell in love with Rhiannon, Justin's girlfriend.

Why We Broke Up

I have finished another book that has been piling up dust in my shelves for 2 years! Yes, this heavy, hard cover edition of Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler was too heavy for me to carry around to places, especially in school. I attempted a few times (few is an understatement) to finish this book in the last two years and its just now that I am able to finish it.

But anyway, I'm done with it and I liked it.

Billy and Me

It’s been a while since the first time I heard about this book from itswaypastmybedtime (aka Carrie Hope Fletcher) in youtube. Seeing that she liked it, I decided that maybe I should give reading this book a shot. Apparently, since they don’t sell it here in this side of the world, I resulted to downloading it on an ebook despite the fact ebooks and me aren’t really a good mix. 

This isn’t the first book review in this blog. I had reviewed Anna Dressed in Blood here last time and that was ages ago. I don’t usually blog about the books I read but it seems like this is a good place to start. 

Billy and Me is by Giovanna Fletcher (yes, the wife of Tom Fletcher, McFly’s guitarist)

Anna Dressed in Blood

I decided to spend the first half of Christmas Vacation watching Disney’s Frozen, buying gifts for my parents and reading this horror-gore-romance book called Anna Dressed in Blood. It’s not something that will keep you squealing because of some unbalance between the romance and the action of the story, but it would haunt you with the horror it has to offer.


I found this book about a year ago and even if I was so eager to buy it, budget was always against the odds so when my kris kringle gift came, I literally hugged my partner upon opening the wrapped gift and squealed.

It almost kept me up at night just like how 13RW kept me up when I read it. It’s horror and that genre isn’t really the type you want to be reading during the Christmas season. The images it could let you form in your head will send you to thinking what the book actually contains: a haunted mansion, a girl dressed in a white dress dripping red in blood, and other things that could send you nightmares.

I hate horror stuff (especially movies lol) but I loved this book! The story was able to touch and tackle the things you would ask as the story begins, and it ends with a good cliffhanger.

I think what made me read this book is that it has an odd pairing. Ghost killer and Ghost isn’t really the kind of pairing we usually see. I was curious on how it would turn out that made me read this book.

It doesn’t bring me nightmares, so don’t hesitate to read this book :)