I figured that I should get this tag out of the way before it isn’t mid-year anymore!! I was nominated for this tag by Maddie at Munch Reviews please check out her fun and wonderful Book reviews, tags and discussions!
1. BEST BOOK YOU’VE READ THIS YEAR?
I don’t give a 5 out of 5 stars out too often, but every once in a while a book comes along the TRULY deserves it!! THIS WAS ONE OF THEM!! Am I beating a dead horse bring this book up AGAIN?? Probably. So I CARE??? Hell’s no!! . LOVED. THIS.BOOK. That’s right, Nina. Break down!! Read the book!! Although, if you hate it? …don’t tell me. I don’t think my heart could take it. Check out my review HERE.
2. BEST SEQUEL YOU’VE READ IN 2018?
I honestly think this may have been the ONLY Sequel that’s read thus far this year! I feel that it would have won regardless though. It was great at a solid 4.5 out of 5 stars! Check our my REVIEW!
3. NEW RELEASE YOU HAVEN’T READ YET BUT WANT TO?
I know that this was published last year…. that’s how behind I am!! It even has a SEQUEL already!! I REALLY need to find some time to get to this, I’ve literally heard nothing but good things. Check it out at GOODREADS!
4. MOST ANTICIPATED RELEASE FOR THE SECOND HALF OF THE YEAR?
I honestly CAN’T WAIT for the rest of the Afton series by Brent Jones to come out! I’m so excited to see where it all leads!!
See you Soon, Afton– Aug 7th
Nice Try, Afton– Sept 17th
Time’s Up, Afton-Oct 29th
6. BIGGEST SURPRISE?
I honestly couldn’t even remember requesting this book when I was accepted for the blog tour. I remembered, after reading the synopsis that it was only based on the fact that the MCs name was Kali… which is my nickname. Then, I wound up really enjoying it! Dumb decisions FOR THE WIN!! Check out my review HERE.
7. FAVORITE NEW TO YOU OR DEBUT AUTHOR?
I’m going to have to go with my man Rafael Chandler! The Mask Beneath her Face was on of my favourite reads so far this year, and I can’t wait to check out his other novel The Astounding Antagonists!
8. NEWEST FICTIONAL CRUSH?
I don’t think that I’ve acquired a new fictional crush!! …That is so SAD! Now this really IS a mid-year freak out.
At least I’ve been fanning my love for my OLD fictional crushes, by reading variations on how crush worthy he is.
9. NEWEST FAVORITE CHARACTER?
Did is make the list TWICE??? Why yes, IT TOTALLY DID!! Afton is my new spirit animal.
10. BOOK THAT MADE YOU CRY?
I’m going to have to pass on this one because I don’t really read books that make me cry!! The last one I read that brought the waterworks would be
Check out my review HERE
11. BOOK THAT MADE YOU HAPPY?
This book was another pleasant happy surprise. A Humorous read with a great message! Check out my REVIEW!
12. FAVORITE BOOK-TO-FILM ADAPTATION?
I don’t actually watch a huge amount of films! I don’t think that I’ve seen a book to film adaptation that really stood out for me this year, so far…. I am looking forward to
Although, I don’t have much hope…..
13. FAVORITE POST YOU HAVE DONE THIS YEAR?
Probably most of the posts I’ve already put links to, since they involved books that have been my favourite! Although I would say that my Game On! Crazy Eights Drinking Game was pretty fun, as well as my Game On! Unicorn Magic Ring Toss!
14. MOST BEAUTIFUL BOOK YOU’VE BOUGHT THIS YEAR?
I’d have to give that to my hard cover, embossed copy of Pride & Prejudice! But, I’ve read so many books with amazing covers this year, it’s hard to choose!!!
15. WHAT BOOKS DO YOU NEED TO READ BY THE END OF THE YEAR?
TOO MANY!! Feel free to check out my GOODREADS if you’d like to see the list!!
I’m sorry everyone… but, I’m going to break the chain and not nominate anyone since “Mid-year” is nearing an end. At the same time, I NOMINATE EVERYONE!! If any of you can squeeze it in I’d love to see what you pick! Please link me in, or comment here when you answer, so I can come check it out!
Anyone who doesn’t have time to do a post, but wants to answer any of these, feel free to comment below!
Nicely done. Horrors book was your favorite??
Hahaha you have very eclectic choices.. How did we ever get together? Is it the case of opposites attract?
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I think that I’m pretty opposite from everyone! Ha ha! Going through my list for this I realized that I really haven’t read a “normal” triple A kind of title AT ALL!! Ha ha! Well, people won’t see a lot of duplicate reviews out there for most of the books that I choose, at least!
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I agree… I am seeing that.
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Ha ha! …in a GOOD WAY though, right??
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All good, baby, all good
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😇😇💖💖
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I haven’t read any of these books. How do you remember your books? I read review and forget them
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GOODREADS BABY!! I just went back in my Goodreads “Read” list from the last few months and BAM, DONE!
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Yayyy!!! That didn’t strike me at all… 🤦🏻🤷🏻
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Ha ha! It makes life SO EASY!! Well… except for the books that I forget to put on it when I’m busy! I’m a little behind on there right now.
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Well, get to it on your own sweet time, once life settles
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Ya…. Once life settles…. When I’m dead. 😉😂🍻
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Hahaha… I like the dialog, I use the same hahaha.
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Ooh… I also want to read Gentleman’s Guide. Shalini you at all interested in that one too?
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Are we thinking of a buddy read?? 😄 Someone just told me that Tom Hiddleson narrates the audiobook, so I may try to make some time for that!! 💖🍻
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Nice….
But yeah. If Shalini wants to try it too… may be a good candidate for a buddy read indeed.
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I haven’t heard from her in a couple of days.. Hope everything is okay! 😕🤔
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I noticed that too. Will send her another message. Fingers crossed.
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Am ok. A minor teeny weeny heart break
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Heart break?? What happened?? (you can obviously PM me and not announce whatever happened to my entire comments page… Although, I’m sure everyone wants to know, RIGHT EVERYONE?? 😉) I hope you’re alright now! 💖💖💖💖💖
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Well…
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Oh thank God, it is your comments section Nicole. Nina would have X rated the weeny part… Hehehe I meant teeny tiny
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Ha ha ha!!!! Weeny. 😆😂🤣
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Hehehe… A weeny became whiny and disappeared… Hahahaha
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Mmm… Wine-y? 🤣🍷🍷
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Why-y not
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😂😂💖🍷🍷🍷
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🥂💃
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Great post, great list! Ohhh, that Pride and Prejudice cover! ♥️
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Isn’t it GORGEOUS?!?! I had to get it!
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I love these kinds of tags where there are a whole bunch of books to drool over and dream about. Nicely done and you’re not that late at all. 🙂
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I’m pretty proud of myself for getting to it!! And, drool away! I know that my book choices usually aren’t big popular ones, but they’re AMAZING! I can’t wait for the next half of the year, SO MUCH TO READ!! 😣🤣
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Seems “Afton” is popular lol I never heard of them 😅🧐🤭 afton – means evening in Swedish 🙂
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That’s even BETTER!! Brent would love that. Afton is amazing! You should definitely check them out (only the 1st one is out, so far) it’s a novella, so a nice short read, and it’s about a homicidal librarian… HOW CAN YOU GO WRONG??
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I can’t wait for the rest of the Afton series! And I’m coveting that Pride and Prejudice edition.😊
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I just got the ARC for the 2nd Afton… I’m trying to hold off on diving right in since I have other things to get to right now! … It’s a challenge! 😅
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You’re so lucky!
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I have to get to Fender. That was a recommendation from a long time ago! Awesome list here. Love this tag. hard to believe it’s mid year already thought! Ugh! ❤
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I can’t believe how fast this year has gone!! 😕 You really should get to Fender, it’s so good!! 💖💖 I can’t wait to see what you think!
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Love it! Love it!! You’re so against the grain it’s soooo freaking refreshing. I must excitedly research all these books!!
Thanks for the shoutout and doing the tag!
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Thanks for tagging me! This was fun. I didn’t realize how different my choices were, until I started this tag!! Ha ha! It was funny to look at my list of read books and think “… I don’t think I’ve seen anyone else review 98% of these!” 😅😂😂
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And that in itself makes you a gem! ❤️❤️
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Ha ha! Thank you. 😳😅🍻
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Thanks for nominating me! Can I have a golden star sticker please?
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🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
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Great answers! And you need to read The Gentleman’s Guide, It’s such a great book!! Oh and your new copy of Pride and Prejudice is EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL😍
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Thank you!! I love it! 💖💖 I can’t wait to get to The Gentleman’s Guide! I’ve waited far too long. I’m hoping I’ll find some time in the next week or so to get to it! I’ve got 3 days off next week because of Canada Day so, fingers crossed!! 🇨🇦🤞🍁
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I want to read that book and find out about more vices… hahaha… No one can have too many.
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Damn straight!! Wow. This is so off-topic but I just finished THE WEIRDEST book ever… I just had to share that with someone… My brain is broken. Stay tuned this Sunday if you want to hear about it! Ha ha!! Oh my bejeesus…. I just can’t keep this one to myself. Oh Canada, is all I can say.. 🇨🇦😂😂🤔😳
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I’m now on my 7th Chris Moore book, 😳 I’m an addict. Can’t even think of reading anything else til I’m done with him, then I’ve promised myself to Brent Jones and his Afton series, and then I’ll be up for something new!
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Ha ha!! So, I’ll hit you up next year then! I bet my review on Sunday will make you want to take a break and read something else!! (I am totally kidding… But you HAVE to read this review… Oh sweet bejeesus… My brain hurts…) 🇨🇦🐻👩
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I’m going out Sunday. 😀
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Well, I guess you can never see it then, because after Sunday I’m deleting it. 😉😂
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You are SO fibbing!
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… Am I though?? Honestly though, some people may WANT ME to delete this one!! 😂😂🇨🇦🇨🇦
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Ah but you are not ‘some people’! You are the glorious you who posts and be damned! To hell with ‘some people’! Be brave, be bold, be undeleting! 🤣 I might have had a little too much vino delecto.
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Not ENOUGH vino delecto I say! You didn’t have the spelling mistakes yet!! Oooo…. Neither did I. Maybe it’s just smart phones… They think they’re so smart… 🤓😂📱
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The cover for Tracing Shadows is pretty awfull, haha I am glad it was able to surprise you! ❤ Darcy!!!! And the covers for the Afton series are awesome!!
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Isn’t it terrible?? When I got my accept and date for the tour I was thinking “why the hell would I have requested this??” 😂 it was definitely worth the read though!! 💖
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Oh! And I am super jealous of your P&P copy! I need to get a nice pretty copy of it! Most of the ones I own are cheap used book store finds, nothing special.
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I have like 5 copies at least of P&P. So I figured one of them should be super special!! 💖💖 I love it (although, my favourite copy is still my mom’s from school that has all of her notes written in the margins😊)
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That would be my favorite too! That sounds super special!
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You’re so lucky three of the Afton series books are coming out so close together! That’s insane that they’re just pumping them out like that. I hope you enjoy everything the rest of 2018 brings to you! 🙂
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He wrote them all first and is releasing them one at a time. I love that I don’t have to wait long for them!! 💖💖 They are novella’s as well, so not a full novel. 😊
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That’s so smart, he’s honestly a hero.
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💗💗🍻
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… Or am I??? Although, people may WANT me to delete this one!! 😂😂😂🇨🇦🇨🇦🍻
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That book with the very interesting title The Gentleman’s Guide To Vice and Virtue looks well worth reading. 😀
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So I’ve heard! I can’t wait to get to it. Maybe I can give my man some pointers from it. 😉😂
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Omg that 100 Words Horrors is all kinds of hilarious and awesome (though I’m not sure if that was the intent :P) And hell yeah, you should totally read Gentleman’s Guide! Or listen to it! Because I heard the audiobook is narrated by the Tom Riddle guy from Harry Potter and does a fabulous job! 😀
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OMG!!! AUDIOBOOK VERSION!!!! This is why I love your blog. YOU ARE SO SMART!!!! 🤓 I love you right now (and always!), I never even thought of that and I could have been through it by now, because I have so much more time to listen to audiobooks. 💖💖🍻😄
And 100 Word horrors is AMAZING!! If you didn’t check out my review; it’s so many different KINDS of horror, and it’s amazing what they can get across in 100 words.. Some of them will have you sitting there after just saying… Wow.
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AHAHAHA you’re welcome!! 😂😂😂 I should try the audiobook myself–I’ve just heard so many people praising it lately.
And oh man, 100 Word sounds awesome! And holy crap, it’s only $1.72 on kindle? And only $7.72 on paperback?? And in CANADA no less?? Oh, I’m DEFINITELY picking this up. 😀
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Let me know what you think!!
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I know we have talked about it already -but I am also looking forward to that book to movie adaptation. Fingers crossed. 🙂
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I’m.hopimg for good things, but I’ll go in with an open mind!
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I love every part of this post. Lady you are wearing me down on the Horror book! Maybe I’ll have to give in by October. Just so I can say I actually read a horror during the Halloween horror book blog fest that will inevitably happen! 😂
That Jane Austen hard copy is GORGEOUS!
Did you have to use the scene with Darcy going up to Pemberley?! Still waiting for my embossed invitation for my house visit 🤔😙😉
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Ha ha! Of COURSE I had to use the wet shirt scene! What other scene IS THERE?! 😍💖🤣
I will TOTALLY Wear you down! I’m not giving up on this!! 👻☠️😈
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Hahahahaha. I’m liking the short story aspect…. Will at least add to my Amazon list… 🙈
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I believe in you, Nina. 💖💖
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Very cool. I can’t believe it’s midyear already. There were some very new to me books on there. Love that!
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I couldn’t believe it either! And, I’m nothing if not original! 😉💖🍻
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I think Colin Firth as Darcy will always be my book crush:)
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Damn straight!! My staff make fun of me all the time for my love for him. I don’t care. I’m proud of my love for Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy! (or pretty much anything.)
I still absolutely love a quote from him about playing the role of Mr. Darcy,
“I’m fully aware,” Firth told a reporter for the English magazine Now, “that if I were to change professions tomorrow, become an astronaut and be the first man to land on Mars, the headlines in the newspapers would read: `Mr. Darcy Lands on Mars.”
He’s not wrong!! 😂😂💖💖🍻
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He is so right!! I loved him in a lot of other things, but he will always be Mr. Darcy to me! That’s a great quote! And now I think I need to go watch P&P!
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DO IT!!! 💖💖💖💖🍻
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Already am:)
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Well, I don’t have time to watch any of it… But, I’ll dream about it. It’s 1am here and I should go to sleep! Ha ha! 😅
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I so t know how you stay up so late! I skipped to the good parts!
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I never do. Usually I’m in bed at about 10 because I’m old. 😉😂👵 But, my man got a weird 12 to 12 shift so it threw off my whole schedule. 😕
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Lol I need a nap in the afternoon if I’m going to make it past 10!
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And by “skipped to the good parts” you mean that you watched “the look” Darcy gives Lizzie across the room and the “wet shirt” scene over and over?? 😂😍
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Lol maybe but add in the look from the buggy too and the ending:)
It’s amazing, but I never watch the first proposal- too painful!
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Way too painful!! 😖
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holy moly lady, you do have a very unique reading selection there! i’m not one for horror. i loved Ray and the Meaning of Life and Go Home Afton. gotten into a few humor novels lately, and some very quirky authors. hey, variety is the spice, so they say!
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I honestly don’t think there’s a genre I would turn down! I like to keep my options open. If it’s a book, I’ll read it! 👍
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