Bump in the Night Book TAG!

BUMP IN THE NIGHT TAG

Ok, I know this tag went around last Halloween, so it’s kind of old news now, but I wasn’t blogging last Halloween, so I’m doing it now. 

1) Which are your favorite supernatural/horror/scary characters to read about? (e.g. vampires, werewolves, witches, monsters, serial killers, murderers etc).

Gotta go with vampires. Most of my favorite books have vampires in them. I love the fact that everybody has a different idea of who they are and what they’re like.

I also really enjoy Greek Mythology in general, I love all of Rick Riordan’s Greek Mythology books, and I really enjoyed Jennifer Armentrout’s Covenant series. The subject fascinates me for some reason. However, you could argue that despite all the monsters, it’s not really supernatural.

2) Which scene from any book would be your ultimate nightmare to have been part of?

Re-education from Silver Shadows by Richelle Mead. The primary problem with it isn’t the physical toll, though there certainly is one. It’s the fact that it’s built to screw with your mind. It’s basically a brain-washing facility, and I don’t think I would do very well there. Although I highly doubt it could make me stop loving the Moroi 🙂

3) If you could visit and explore any one scary or evil setting which would you pick and why?

I’m not really one for scary places. And a lot of the books I read don’t have very terrifying places in them. But, since I have to choose, I’m going to go with the Underworld. Not the Percy Jackson Underworld either, because except or Tartarus, I don’t think that Underworld is particularly scary. And even then, it’s not Tartarus itself necessarily that’s scary there. It’s how twisted the monsters there are. No, I want to go to the Underworld from Jennifer Armentrout’s Lux series. Even though it’s super freaky, the description of it fascinated me.

4) Which book was so frighteningly terrible that you almost fell asleep for eternity trying to finish it?

I’ve actually “almost fell asleep” with multiple books, but that’s probably because I read a lot at night. Normally for a book that I couldn’t get through I would say Origin, but I’m realizing that my TAGS are getting kind of repetitive in that aspect, so I decided to choose something new. Unfortunately, that’s a lot harder than it sounds. So I’m going to kind of twist the question a little. One book that took me forever  to finish is the first Vampire Academy. Not that I don’t love the series. It is actually one of my absolute favorite series. Ever. But I put down the book multiple times before I actually read it through. And then I picked it up multiple time to re-read it.

5) Name one book you wish you could pull certain pages out of and swap for others to make it better?

Beautiful Darkness by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. I really think more people would’ve read this series if it wasn’t for this book. It was so hard to get into. I mean, Lena was just awful, and it was so slow. The only reason I got through it was because I read it for a book group I was in. I enjoyed the other books, and I really liked the end of this book, but I would definitely swap out the first half of it.

6) If you could turn any ‘bad or evil’ character into a good character, who would you pick and why?

Luke Castellan from Percy Jackson. I wish I could have saved him before Kronos gained control. Because I totally get how he turned out the way he did, and I can’t find it in myself to hate him for it. I mean, I’d want to wait to save him until Percabeth happened, because I do not think it would be awesome if Luke ended up with Annabeth. I probably would’ve put him with Thalia. But it doesn’t really matter because he  gets possessed by Kronos and ends up sacrificing himself to save Olympus.

Quick fire round:

1) Favorite vampire character?

Adrian Ivashkov. I have so many to choose from, because I read a lot of vampire books, but it will always be Adrian from Vampire Academy and Bloodlines.

2) Favorite werewolf character?

THIS QUESTION IS PURE EVIL! How the heck am I supposed to pick a favorite? I’m just going to have to cheat on this one and do a top five. In case you’re wondering, these are not in order of favorites.

Remus Lupin from Harry Potter

 Asil from Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs

Walter from Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs

Isaac from Fair Game by Patricia Briggs (Maybe my number one?)

Sam from the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs (Note I said Sam, not Samuel)

3) Favorite witch character?

I have read the Harry Potter series, but for me, it’s a toss-up between Yeva from Vampire Academy and Moira from Hunting Ground by Patricia Briggs. (Sorry, Hermione 😦 )

4) Favorite monster character? 

I would say Bob or Tyson from the Percy Jackson series, but I hate to consider them monsters, so I’m going to go with Xemerius from the Ruby Red trilogy because he’s so funny. He’s a gargoyle demon and I love him. (But I can think of him as a monster, because I think he’d be offended if I didn’t.) He’s my favorite character in the series, except for maybe Gwenyth’s little brother.

5) Favorite ghost character?

I’ve only read one book where ghosts were the main focus, so *SPOILER ALERT FOR VAMPIRE ACADEMY* Mason, as a ghost, because I loved him when he was alive, and he was so helpful as a ghost, and I felt so bad for him.

6) Favorite serial killer/murderer character?

I’m going to go with Katsa from Graceling by Kristin Cashore. She starts out as, for lack of better word, a hit man for her uncle, the king. She obviously has some serious character development, which is one of my favorite things about Kristin Cashore’s writing: she writes strong female narrators who develop without losing their strength. As far as I remember, Katsa only kills one person in the book, but she probably killed a lot more for her uncle. This book is kind of underrated, but I would recommend it to just about everybody.

Quote of the Day 10/31

“Will: Kate, do you like me at all? Say, enough not to run me over if I was lying mostly dead in the middle of the road
Kate: Please. If you were mostly dead in the middle of the road I’d obviously stop. And then I’d watch you die.”

–Perfect you by Elizabeth Scott

Quote of Day 10/30

“Stupid rock gods!” Leo yelled from the helm. “That’s the third time I’ve had to replace that mast! You think they grow on trees?”
Nico frowned. “Masts are from trees.”
“That’s not the point!”

— House of Hades by Rick Riordan

Quote of the Day 10/29

“Don’t order any of the faerie food,” said Jace, looking at her over the top of his menu. “It tends to make humans a little crazy. One minute you’re munching a faerie plum, the next minute you’re running naked down Madison Avenue with antlers on your head. Not,” he added hastily, “that this has ever happened to me.”
― City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Quote of the Day 10/28

“Is Jase already gonna marry you?”
I start coughing again. “Uh, No. No, George. I’m only seventeen.” As if that’s the only reason we’re not engaged.
“I’m this many.” George holds up four, slightly grubby fingers. “But Jase is seventeen and a half. You could. Then you could live in here with him. And have a big family.”
Jase strides back into the room, of course, midway through this proposition. “George. Beat it. Discovery Channel is on.”

. . .

“Did you know that in space it’s very, very cold? And there’s no oxygen? And if an astronaut fell out of a shuttle without his suit he’d die right away?”
I’m a fast learner. “But that would never happen. Because astronauts are really, really careful.”
George gives me a smile, the same dazzling sweet smile as his big brother, although, at this point, with green teeth. “I might marry you,” he allows. “Do you want a big family?”
I start to cough and feel a hand pat my back.
“George, it’s usually better to discuss this kind of thing with your pants on.” Jase drops boxer shorts at George’s feet, then sets Patsy on the ground next to him.
― My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Quote of the Day 10/27

“I hope this means you’ll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.”

– Cry Wolf by Patricia Briggs

Making Up For Monday 10/27

I’ve been telling myself I’m going to start this soon for a while now, and now seemed like a good time to start. ( I’m writing this at four thirty in the morning because I can’t go back to sleep.) I originally saw Making up for Monday on Down The Book Hole. It’s a weekly meme hosted by An Avid Reader, A Wannabe Writer (basically describes me.)

This week’s question is no doubt for Halloween, What is the scariest book you have ever read?

The first book that comes to mind is the Diviners by Libba Bray. I don’t know if scary is the right word for it, but it did creep me out. Divining was kind of cool, but Naughty John was the creepiest villain in any book that I remember reading. Weirdly enough, I actually really love the book, despite my usual aversion to the creepy, gross and/or scary. Now if the second book would come out . . .  That would be great. Just saying.

P.S. Sorry everybody, that I didn’t put links in this to the original sites, but for some reason, linking isn’t working on my device, so I’m going to try to do it on the computer. (I can’t shrink pictures on this either, so that’s why the cover is so big.)

Quote of the Day 10/26

“I’m here to take you on a date.”
I blinked. “A date?” I repeated as if it was a foreign word I’d never heard before.
“You know, where we go out, hold hands, cast longing glances at each other? It’s tradition. You might have heard of it.”
“But I have class.”
“Class?” Now he was looking at me as if I was speaking a different language. “But it’s ten o’clock at night.”
“We have classes until midnight.” I smiled pointedly. “The thing about vampires is that they kind of like the night. It’s tradition. You might have heard of it?”
“Oh, smart mouth.” He grinned back. “Sexy.”
― Out for Blood by Alyxandra Harvey

Quote of the Day 10/25

“I feel like, like pudding,” Iggy groaned. “Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.”
― The Angel Experiment by James Patterson

New Feature: Snippet Saturday

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! (I don’t know why, but for some reason, I really wanted to write that, and it amuses me, so I’m going to keep it there.)

Anyways, about this new feature. Often I will find myself having thoughts that amuse me, but are only one or two sentences, so not really enough for an entire post. To solve this problem, I’ve come up with a way to share these thoughts with you in a way you might actually enjoy. Hence, the creation of Snippet Saturday. The thoughts I share will be short bookish thoughts I thought during the week. It’s not something there will be a set of questions for, so it’s not really something I expect you all to participate in, but if you would like to have your own version of Snippet Saturday, or even do exactly the same thing as me, I definitely don’t have a problem with that. Eventually, I will come up with a picture for this feature, but at the moment (as I’m writing this), it’s almost midnight, which means I don’t really have access to the app/program I use to make all of my pictures :(. The picture should, however, be included with my first “snippet”, which will appear next week. (Which, by the way is awesome, because it’s the first day of November.)