Tag: book tag
Book Scavenger Hunt
And even more book tags! I originally saw this one on polandbananasBOOKS as well. This tag was created by TheLibraryOfSarah.
1.Find an author’s name or title with the letter Z in it.
The Spiderwick Chronicles by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black. I haven’t read this series, so I can’t say anything about it.
2.Find a classic.
(Because it’s not like I have a special corner of my bookshelf for classics or anything.) I chose Emma, because I think that’s the classic I’m going to read this summer.
3. Find a book with a key on it.
My first thought was Bitterblue by Kristin Cashore. I love her books and wish she wrote more than three. But more importantly, Bitterblue has a beautiful cover with three stylized keys. Unfortunately, I don’t have this book, so I chose Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay, which I’ve never read, and don’t have any immediate plans to read. I do love the cover though, because I love books with keys on the cover. (P.S. I didn’t even think of it, but Jeremy Fink and the meaning of life has an awesome cover with a bunch of keys hanging on it. I really hope to read this book soon.)
4. Find something on your bookshelf that’s not a book.
A rose lollipop. I got it for Valentine’s Day and it was to pretty to eat.
5. Find the oldest book on your shelf
Publication-wise, probably one of my Nancy Drew books. I had a bit of a Nancy Drew obsession for a little while when I was younger. Otherwise though, probably one of my classics.
6. Find a book with a girl on the cover
Probably at least half of my books have a girl on the cover. At the very least. I chose Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell because I love it and it has both the word girl and a picture of Cath, the main character. So there.
7. Find a book that has an animal in it
UMMMMM. Do humans count? We’re animals right? I don’t think so. Um. Um. UMMMMMM. It seriously took me like ten minutes to give up and choose a book with a dragon on the cover, and now, typing this up, it takes me three seconds to think of this and realize that at least three of my books have pegasi, or at least a pegasus on them, and that’s basically a horse. Funny how that works. Kind of sad really.
8. Find a book with a male protagonist
Beautiful Chaos by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl. The whole series is in Ethan’s perspective, as he’s the protagonist. I only chose the third one because it’s the only one I currently own.
9. Find a book with only words on it
Fair Game by Patricia Briggs. At one point, it had a picture of Charles and Anna on it, but I lost the dust jacket, so now all it has is the title and author’s name on the side and the author’s initials on the cover.
10. Find a book with illustrations in it
The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket. It has a picture at the beginning of every chapter.
11. Find a book with gold lettering
Fire by Kristin Cashore. Like Bitterblue and Graceling, it has a beautiful cover with gold lettering for the title.
12. Find a diary (true or fictional)
Maggie by Ann M. Martin. As a little kid (third/fourth grade) I loved her Main Street series, but she actually writes a lot of teen/YA books. Maggie is the journal/diary of a thirteen year old, although when I read it, I though she was a couple years older.
13.Find a book written by someone with a common name (like Smith)
Took me forever, but mission accomplished. I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith. I’ve heard nothing but glowing reviews, but when I tried to read it, I got a couple chapters in and that was the end of it. I hope to pick it up again sometime, but I don’t really have any immediate plans to do it, so there’s no telling when it will get done.
14. Find a book that has a closeup of something on it.
North of Beautiful by Justina Chen Headley has a close-up of Terra’s face, with her hair covering her port-wine Stain, and a close-up of a compass kind of faded on top of it.
15. Find a book on your shelf that takes place in the earliest time period
If medievil time periods count, Steal the Dragon or Fire. Otherwise, one of my classics.
16. Find a hardcover book without a jacket
My copy of The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner doesn’t have a dust jacket because I got rid of it. However, none of my hardcover Lemony Snicket books even came with dust jackets. The cover image is printed on the book itself, and it looks super awesome. The book on the right is the eleventh in the series. I just got the hardcover for my birthday.
17. Find a teal/turquoise colored book
The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan. I love the color on this. A lot of people when they think teal or turquoise think of what I see as sea foam, so I’m not sure if it exactly fits the description, but I think it does and that’s what matters. On this copy of the book, the color is a little more blue, but mine is more teal.
18. Find a book with stars on it
I don’t have a book with stars on the cover, so I settled for The End, which is the thirteenth and final book in Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events, because it has stars/asterisk things on the spine.
19. A Non-YA book. (I don’t know if this was on the original, but it was on all the videos I watched)
Children’s: The entire PJO series. I love it so so SO much, and I’m almost positive it’s classified as a children’s book series.
My Life in Books Tag
More book tags! I got my braces yesterday, so today I’m staying home feeling miserable, and I thought it might lift my spirits to do another book tag, because I really enjoy them. Also, all but one of my siblings are elsewhere, and the one that is here is reading a really good book, so it’s pretty quiet. I decided to do the My Life in Books tag. I don’t know who created it, but I saw it on polandbananasBOOKS, my favorite booktube channel ever.
1. Pick a book that starts with each of your initials.
B (Brooke): Bloodlines by Richelle Mead. The first book in the Sydney/Adrian spin-off of Vampire Academy.
L (Lynn): Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins. My current favorite contemporary.
M (May): Moon Called by Patricia Briggs. First book in the Mercy Thompson series.
H: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Probably my favorite of the Harry Potter books I’ve read.
2. Count your age starting at the top of your bookshelf. What book do you get?
When I did this (my bookshelf has been rearranged since then) it was Sunshine by Robin McKinley on my standalone shelf. I got this book as a gift forever ago, and I really want to read it, but it’s still sitting there on my TBR list. On my series shelf, I got Twilight.
3. Find a book that takes place in your city/state country.
A lot of the books I read take place in the U.S. I would say at least a good 90% of them, so I decided to find one that takes place in my state, and for that I got Love and Blueberries by Casey Clark Kelley, which isn’t a really popular book, but I really enjoyed it, and it takes place in the state I live in so. . .
4. Pick a book that represents a place you’d love to travel.
I chose Rick Riordan’s Heroes of Olympus series. I don’t want to go to Hades or Tartarus, but I would love to go to Camp Half-Blood if it was a real place. Also, if I wasn’t afraid of flying or traveling across the ocean, I would love to go to Greece or Rome. Or Anna and the French Kiss. I would love to go to SOAP/Paris.
5. Pick a book that has your favorite color on it.
I, like a lot of other people, do not have a favorite color. So I chose Mark of Athena or House of Hades for this answer, because ithas a lot of colors on it, and I just think that the covers to the Heroes of Olympus series are amazing. I know, I chose this series for
the last answer, but it’s amazing and the covers are amazing, and I love them.
6. Which book do you have the fondest memories of?
So many people say Harry Potter for this, but for me, it’s definitely the Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket. I loved them so much when I was younger, and I still love them. Not that I noticed much as a little kid, but Lemony Snicket is a genius, and there are so many lessons in his books, and great writing techniques, and I just think they’re awesome, even if they are children’s books. (Because to be honest, I still love a lot of children’s books.)
7. What book did you have the most difficulty reading?
The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima. I’ve heard so many good things about this series, but I still haven’t even gotten through the first one, especially because of all the other books on my TBR.
8. Which book on your TBR list will give you the most satisfaction when you read it?
This is a toss-up between a classic and the Harry Potter series. It’ll be awesome that I’ve read a classic, and that I’ll be able to say that, but it’s kind of sad to me that I still haven’t read more than the first four books in the Harry Potter series, and I’ve had them for so long.