Kaniesha's TTT: Ten Books For Readers Who Like Character Driven Novels

Top Ten Tuesday is a book blog meme created and hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. This week we're choosing the top ten books we believe are character driven.

1. Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge
2. Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
3. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
4. Mind Games by Kiersten White
5. Crash by Lisa McMann

6. The Diviners by Libba Bray
7. The Demon King by Cinda Williams Chima
8. Angelfall by Susan Ee
9. Divergent by Veronica Roth
10. Seraphina by Rachel Hartman

Bonus: All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terril, The Holders by Julianna Scott, Legend by Marie Lu

All of the books mentioned above are in my all time favorites. Each of them would not be anything without the main characters moving the plot forward. If these characters weren't making their every day decisions, the plot would literally go nowhere.

I honestly think the main point about all of these, is that it's less about characters reacting to things happening to and around them, and more of them dealing with their problems and thoughts by taking action and doing the necessary things.

Do you agree or disagree with any of my choices?

Deux Lectrices Talks: Reading Slumps

I'm always proud of this blog for the fact that we're always open to trying new things and new types of posts.  It may not work out sometimes, yeah, but we're always open to finding new ways to talk about books.

Booking Through Thursday: October 2, 2014

Booking Through Thursday is a book blog meme presented by BTT2 at Wordpress. They post a question involving reading every Thursday and you have the whole day to reply back!  Let's look at this week's question:

What do you read when you’re sick and just want something easy and comforting? Or do you watch TV instead?(Assuming you’re not napping, of course.)

Heather says:   I actually play video games (I own a very old PS2 and most of the Final Fantasy series) when I'm sick.  When I was younger and stayed home from school sick, my parents, to be sure I knew that being sick was ~serious business~, made me stay in bed the entire day.  Luckily we had a Sega Genesis in the room my sister and I shared, so I would just play games on that.  Since I've been sick lately, I've been playing Lunar 2:  Eternal Blue Complete and Final Fantasy IV again.

I've also taken to watching Netflix and am re-watching, for the fifth time, Arrested Development.


Kaniesha says:
I don't get sick very often (I don't recall having been sick at all in 2014) but sometimes I get headaches/migraines and when I have those I just nap.

If I were to get sick, I'd probably try to read something with a lot of action or something emotional, anything to really get me immersed into the story and not my sick, achey body.
That or I'd play video games and/or watch cartoons and/or watch videos on YouTube. Probably all three! I have the attention span of a mouse. :D

Monthly Releases: October 2014

As of August 2014, Kaniesha and Heather will be posting their most anticipated to-be-released books of the month instead of individual WoWs every week.

Kaniesha's:


October is a slower month for me, but I'm still very much looking forward to these! I would probably fight someone for a copy of Snow Like Ashes, I've heard nothing but good things about it for most of this year! Plus the last Heroes of Olympus book :( But Marie Lu is staring a new series! I still haven't read Storm (the book before Strike) but I have it checked out from the library so there's that! At the time I'm writing this, I'm reading Never Fade so I'm going to be ready for In the Afterlight! :D

Heather's:


And again, only four!  As promised, there is the Dragons at Crumbling Castle deluxe edition I have my little heart set on!  Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook is a companion novel to Discworld's 40th book, Raising Steam, and will probably be as long as and just like World of Poo and Dodger's Guide to London.  A Long Spoon is a new Johannes Cabal novella, and I'm assuming it'll be set after The Brothers Cabal, so I'm incredibly excited.  I never got posted my review of it here, but I did read (and enjoy!) Cat Winters' In the Shadow of Blackbirds, so of course I'll be on the lookout for The Cure for Dreaming.

Kaniesha's September 2014 Roundup

Finished:

Perfect Lies by Kiersten White Rating: 5 stars

Started:

Never Fade by Alexandra Bracken

Still Reading:

Blood Orange Soda

Acquired:

Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

Edelweiss & Netgalley:

The Knife's Edge by Matthew Wolf

THE VINES by Christopher Rice

The Walls Around Us by Nova Ren Suma

Posts from September:

Combined Post: September 2014 Releases

Heather Reviews: The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg (slight, but not big, spoiler warning)

Heather Reviews: Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Kaniesha's TTT: Top Ten Books On My Fall TBR

Summary:

Spent another month playing video games and watching a boy play video games on Youtube! I'm really sorry to the few readers we have and to Heather for my super giant lack of book interest the past few months :( I really didn't expect my reading slump to last so long! I'll be working on getting myself back into books though, so don't worry! How was everyone else's September? Better than mine, I hope!

Kaniesha's TTT: Top Ten Books On My Fall TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is a book blog meme created and hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. This week we're choosing the top ten books we're looking forward to in fall 2014.

1. Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch
2. The Young Elites by Marie Lu
3. The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

4. Sacrifice by Brigid Kemmerer
5. The Perilous Sea by Sherry Thomas
6. Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

7. Midnight Thief by Livia Blackburne
8. The 57 Lives of Alex Wayfare by M.G. Buehrlen
9. World After by Susan Ee
10. The End Games by T. Michael Martin

I'm not sure if I'll actually get to all 10 of these by the end of the year but I certainly hope I do!

Heather Reviews: Skulduggery Pleasant by Derek Landy

Oh, ho ho!  Two reviews in one month?  I am spoiling you!

Heather Reviews: The Paper Magician by Charlie N. Holmberg (slight, but not big, spoiler warning)

Combined Post: September 2014 Releases

As of August 2014, Kaniesha and Heather will be posting their most anticipated to-be-released books of the month instead of individual WoWs every week.

Kaniesha's:


I'm looking forward to a LOT of September releases! I preordered Heir of Fire, I've read Afterworlds, and I've got arcs for Illusions of Fate, The Perilous Sea and Sacrifice so I'll be getting to those soon as well :D

Heather's:


Once again I only have four!  And two of those nobody is surprised to see!  However, it looks like I'll be waiting a month to get my hands on Dragons at Crumbling Castle since there's a deluxe version coming out next month (so... yeah, it'll probably be in the October post as well XD).  I've been really excited to get my hands on The Brothers Cabal since I heard about it.  That summary?  I'm basically shaking in anticipation!