#omgreading

I checked both of these out before the library closed, I will have to read them soon!

@omgreading let me know when you’ve read them!! I hope you like them :)

1. birthday: Feb 3, just passed :)

2. zodiac: I’m told Aquarius, but I don’t know what that says about me.

3. height: 5′2″ TECHNICALLY. By which I mean, if I’ve recently been to the chiropractor I’m just barely 5′2″, but otherwise I’m around 5′ or 5′1″ lol

4. hobbies: READING! I do occasionally splash some paint around or play skyrim, but really my main hobby is reading.

5. last song i listened to: FML // Arizona Zervas

6. last movie i watched: Birds of Prey, yesterday with the boyf

7. favorite books: The Tales of the Kingdom series by Cynthia Voigt are my all time favorite books I recommend them to EVERYONE CONSTANTLY!!

8. dream job: Librarian :)

9. favorite color: Yellow

10. meaning behind url: It’s from a song a friend of mine wrote and I’ve been using it for a long time so I have a sentimental attachment to it now lol

First of all if you are one of those people (like me) who love tag games, but rarely get tagged, consider yourself tagged right now!

I got tagged my @omgreading and it was an amazing surprise!!

Here are the rules:

❀ This tag is for those books that came to you in an unusual, interesting, funny, or sweet way. Pick 5 (or more if you want) books from your shelf and tell us the story of how you came to own that book. If you’re a public library user and don’t really own any books, you can still participate. Just tell us the most interesting/funny/sweet ways you came to find a particular library book.

Tag your posts #ShelfHistory so I can see them all!

When you’re finished, tag 5 (or more) readers whose Shelf-History you’d like to know about! This one can easily be done on any blogging/vlogging platform so feel free to tag cross-platform if you really want to. ❀

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Now, I get a lot of my books because they are mentioned in other books, and if I like the character who is reading them, or they sound interesting, I will give them a shot. Here we go ...

Charles Darwin: The Voyage of the Beagle. This got mentioned in one of Donna Leon’s Commissario Brunetti novels - Brunetti’s mother in law reads it (and he is very surprised about this, because, as he later tells his wife, “he never pictured her [his MiL] as a serious reader” (she doesn’t show her intellectual side a lot). She said she loved the animal descriptions, and so I put it on my wishlist for Christmas. I still have to get past the first entries - Darwin’s style is a little hard for me - but it’s nice! :)

Kathryn Stockett: The Help. This was mentioned by a blogger I was following years ago - she read it for her book club. The story sounded interesting, so I looked up the book and then bought it for me - it’s one of my favourites. Definitely recommend it!!

Henry D. Thoreau: Walden. Same old, same old ... My mother has been collecting Lilian Jackson Braun’s The Cat Who ... crime novels, and the protagonist reads Walden in one of the books. The crime novel series is light reading and very nice, I still have to get past the first few pages, but also looking forward to this. :)

Jiro Taniguchi (any of his graphic novels). These are mentioned in Muriel Barbery’s The Elegance of the Hedgehog; Paloma, the second protagonist, reads these a lot (in French, because she is still learning Japanese). The comics are very, very beautiful, The Gourmet being my faovurite. ;)

Carson McCullers: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. This is my favourite book story, because ... it’s a little long-winded. ;) So, my favourite band is Electric Six, right? I was listening to their song Greener Pastures one day (for the umpteenth time), and noticed the line: “And my heart ... yeah, my heart is a lonely hunter”. I raise my eyebrows approvingly. “WOAH!”, I think, “NICE!!” A few days later, during my lunch break, I’m in a book shop and browse the English section and TA-DAAA!!! This is an actual title of an actual book! Woah. I read the summary on the back and then but it back on the shelf, because I have enough books as it is. Fast forward a bit, and I get Susan Hill’s Howard’s End is on the Landing for Christmas (a collection of essays from a year during which she was only reading books she already owned. It was on my wishlist). In one of the first chapters, Hill gives you a list of great titles. Guess what - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is on that list as well. The next time I was in the book shop, I took the book from the shelf (it’s still there), read half a page, and fell in love. Carson McCullers is one of my favourite writers, thanks to my favourite band.

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This week’s bookish blog: @omgreading​

Name: Hailey.

Age: 30.

Lives in: USA.

Favorite books: Anna Karenina ; A Song of Ice and Fire ; Lullaby ; Gone With the Wind ; The Wicked Years ; The Book Thief ; The Three Musketeers ; The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America.

Unique blog features: Book Photography ; Original Posts ; #Words I Like.

Also found on: Goodreads ; Instagram.

Oof, I know that feeling. It really sucks.

I love Harry Potter so much!! Is it your first time reading them?? 

I have The Goldfinch but I haven’t read it yet...

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