Bookish Questions: 6,10,25 Also: Do you have a favorite book cover? Do you like or dislike the contents of that book? Is there a cover that you strongly dislike or it makes you feel embarrassed? Do you like or dislike the contents? Is there a book you can't stand by an author you like? Is there a book you enjoyed by an author who you don't like? ā”ā”
6. What book/s can you not live with out?- I donāt think there are any. I feel like I would have just found other books that I would have loved just as much instead. Boring answer, I know!10. What popular book do you just hate?- The first book that comes to mind is one I didnāt necessarily hate, but based on all the hype surrounding it I was just disappointed to a degree where it just really annoys me at this point.Thatād be A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab. I just found every aspect of this book really underwhelming. I didnāt care about any of the characters, the story was really generic, the worldbuilding felt pretty lackluster, the villains were groanworthy levels of Evil for the sake of Evil and I was just really bored throughout most of it. I could also mention The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman as popular books I really, really didnāt like. 25. Pick the 23 book on your bookshelf, open it to the 86 page and find the 13th line. Type it out for us.- I already did this one, but I skipped all Swedish books. So this time I included my Swedish books, and then just picked the first book in English after the one I landed on, leaving me with this line from Love Devours: Tales of Monstrous Adoration by Sarah Diemer: āSomething strange happened then, as if the cave walls moved in closer, or perhaps Mariana herself moved, because everything around me seemed to tilt and spiralā¦āDo you have a favorite book cover? - I canāt say I have one specific favourite cover of all time, there are just too many beautiful covers out there, and theyāre all beautiful in so many different ways! Also, most of them I havenāt read, so I couldnāt possibly answer your follow-up question! Like, for example, I really love this cover for Descendant of the Crane by Joan He (which I havenāt read yet but I really should):
Also basically any cover illustrated by Anna Dittmann is bound to be gorgeous!
What I can do I guess is pick *a* cover I like of a book Iāve read, or at least partially read. Sooo⦠Iām gonna go with The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon:
I think itās a gorgeous cover, all that orange is just absolutely beautiful. Also, the text and dragon, at least on some versions like the paperback I own, are all in this shiny, metallic blue, like so:
Very pretty ā„Do you like or dislike the contents of that book?- Iām only 136 pages into it so far (out of about 800), but so far Iām really enjoying it! Is there a cover that you strongly dislike or it makes you feel embarrassed?- The first thing that comes to mind are those hideous Southern Vampire Mysteries covers which I absolutely hate with a passion! XD
But I havenāt actually read a single one of them, so I canāt really judge their actual content. Looking through my own bookshelves, I found this hideous Swedish cover of The Secret History by Donna Tartt:
Those eyes are going to haunt my nightmares! WHY?!Do you like or dislike the contents?- I had some mixed opinions, but overall I enjoyed it. Kinda fell apart a bit for me toward the end. Is there a book you canāt stand by an author you like?- Hmm⦠Does Harry Potter and the Cursed Child count? Cause that was a complete trainwreck. (I know J.K. Rowling didnāt actually write it, and to be fair, I donāt know if Iād necessarily say I like her as an author, I just like the original Harry Potter series, but itās the best I can think of)But uh. yeah, I have a bit of a hard time answering this, because I donāt necessarily tend to latch onto certain authors and read all of their books. A lot of the time I read a book or two by an author, or thereās a particular series Iām into (see Harry Potter or A Song of Ice and Fire) but I donāt really read all of their other work. I donāt know ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆIs there a book you enjoyed by an author who you donāt like?This is hard to answer for the same reason as stated above (plus I donāt tend to read several books by an author I donāt like) but, hm⦠Iāve never really been able to get into Neil Gaiman as an author, despite trying several times. I did quite enjoy Good Omens, although that feels a bit like cheating since it was a collaboration. I guess I didnāt dislike Coraline? That ended up really long! Sorry! Thank you so much, I really enjoy talking about books, so this gave me a lot to think about, which is definitely a good thing right now ā„