On my blog I started a tradition of doing an end of year book survey last year. The last questions are about blogging but it would be fun if we all answered them about our favorite books!
Honestly, I hate myself for asking this question. HOW do you pick a favorite!? So I'm cheating and picking more than one!
YA contemporary- Sloppy Firsts (although it's in the bookstores in the adult section), Lola and the Boy Next Door, Where She Went Dystopian- FEVER!!!!! YA paranormal/supernatural: Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready Adult Fiction: The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen, The Lover's Dictionary
2. Most Disappointing Book/Book You Wish You Loved More Than You Did?
I was SO excited for the sequel to Vixen by Jillian Larkin. Don't get me wrong, Ingenue was GOOD, but I was a bit disappointed because I expected to LOVE IT WAY MORE. I'll still be reading the next one but yeah..just wasn't as IN LOVE as I thought I'd be.
3. Most surprising (in a good way!) book of 2011?
Raw Blue by Kirsty Eager! I really didn't know what to expect with this one. I wanted to help out a fellow blogger who was setting up a tour and WOW...this was quite the little gem!
4. Book you recommended to people most in 2011?
I gushed and pushed the following books like nobody's biz...Sloppy Firsts, Anna/Lola and If I Stay/Where She Went.
5. Best series you discovered in 2011?
The Jessica Darling series obviously (I still need to finish!) but I was really really happy with A Need So Beautiful and Shade as I'm not a HUGE paranormal/supernatural fangirl. I am picky but these really stood out!
6. Favorite new authors you discovered in 2011?
Megan McCafferty ( I had heard SO much about her and FINALLY read her with Sloppy Firsts and Bumped...AND MET HER!!), Beth Kephart, Rebecca Rasmussen and Stephanie Perkins. I read Anna in the first week of January 2011 because Steph Su made me buy it despite how much I didn't want to...and I FELL IN LOVE.
7. Best book that was out of your comfort zone or was a new genre for you?
I've never really read much fantasy that wasn't paranormal/supernaturally kind of stuff. I read Silver Phoenix and I LOVED it! I will be trying to read more fantasy in 2012! Any recs??
8. Most thrilling, unputdownable book in 2011?
While Mara and I have a complicated relationship...I COULD NOT PUT THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER DOWN!! Also, Fever by Lauren DeStefano!!
9. Book you most anticipated in 2011?
WHERE SHE WENT!! I was dying for this one after If I Stay and my dear friend Kristi sent me the extra ARC she had and I was SOOO happy!
10. Favorite cover of a book you read in 2011?
11. Most memorable character in 2011?
Hands down Jessica Darling. Let's be honest here.
12. Most beautifully written book read in 2011?
The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan Fever by Lauren DeStefano
13. Book that had the greatest impact on you in 2011?
In terms of emotionally (as this year I didn't seem to read anything that was extremely provocative for some reason), I think Moonglass by Jessi Kirby or Where She Went by Gayle Forman. Obviously the grief issue resonates deeply.
14. Book you can't believe you waited UNTIL 2011 to finally read?
Sloppy Firsts. I've had people telling me to read this book since before I started blogging. I even made my sister buy it because so many people recommended it...but I never picked it up. STUPID MOVE, Jamie. Jessica Darling = Teen Jamie
15. Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2011?
From The Lover's Dictionary:
these words will ultimately end up being the barest of reflections, devoid of the sensations words cannot convoy. Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough." From Where She Went by Gayle Forman “I look at her there in the shadows of the shut-down city, her hair falling onto her face, and I can see her trying to figure out if I’ve lost it. And I have to fight the urge to take her by the shoulders and slam her against a shuttered building until we feel the vibrations ringing through both of us. Because I suddenly want to hear her bones rattle. I want to feel the softness of her flesh give, to hear her gasp as my hip bone jams into her. I want to yank her head back until her neck is exposed. I want to rip my hands through her hair until her breath is labored. I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears. And then I want to take my mouth to hers, to devour her alive, to transmit all the things she can’t understand.” From Delirium by Lauren Oliver "Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.”
16. Book That You Read In 2011 That Would Be Most Likely To Reread In 2012?
The Lover's Dictionary (I feel like there is still more beauty to glean from this one!) or Anna & The French Kiss (it makes me uber happy)
17. Book That Had A Scene In It That Had You Reeling And Dying To Talk To Somebody About It? (a WTF moment, an epic revelation, a steamy kiss, etc. etc.) Be careful of spoilers!
Delirium ( THE END!!), Fever (OMG SO MANY PARTS!), Mara Dyer (THE END!) and Shade (SO MANY PARTS! And I totally blew up Jen from Makeshift Bookmark's phone!)
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1. Best Book You Read In 2011?
Honestly, I hate myself for asking this question. HOW do you pick a favorite!? So I'm cheating and picking more than one!
YA contemporary- Sloppy Firsts (although it's in the bookstores in the adult section), Lola and the Boy Next Door, Where She Went
Dystopian- FEVER!!!!!
YA paranormal/supernatural: Shade by Jeri Smith-Ready
Adult Fiction: The Bird Sisters by Rebecca Rasmussen, The Lover's Dictionary
2. Most Disappointing Book/Book You Wish You Loved More Than You Did?
I was SO excited for the sequel to Vixen by Jillian Larkin. Don't get me wrong, Ingenue was GOOD, but I was a bit disappointed because I expected to LOVE IT WAY MORE. I'll still be reading the next one but yeah..just wasn't as IN LOVE as I thought I'd be.
3. Most surprising (in a good way!) book of 2011?
Raw Blue by Kirsty Eager! I really didn't know what to expect with this one. I wanted to help out a fellow blogger who was setting up a tour and WOW...this was quite the little gem!
4. Book you recommended to people most in 2011?
I gushed and pushed the following books like nobody's biz...Sloppy Firsts, Anna/Lola and If I Stay/Where She Went.
5. Best series you discovered in 2011?
The Jessica Darling series obviously (I still need to finish!) but I was really really happy with A Need So Beautiful and Shade as I'm not a HUGE paranormal/supernatural fangirl. I am picky but these really stood out!
6. Favorite new authors you discovered in 2011?
Megan McCafferty ( I had heard SO much about her and FINALLY read her with Sloppy Firsts and Bumped...AND MET HER!!), Beth Kephart, Rebecca Rasmussen and Stephanie Perkins. I read Anna in the first week of January 2011 because Steph Su made me buy it despite how much I didn't want to...and I FELL IN LOVE.
7. Best book that was out of your comfort zone or was a new genre for you?
I've never really read much fantasy that wasn't paranormal/supernaturally kind of stuff. I read Silver Phoenix and I LOVED it! I will be trying to read more fantasy in 2012! Any recs??
8. Most thrilling, unputdownable book in 2011?
While Mara and I have a complicated relationship...I COULD NOT PUT THE UNBECOMING OF MARA DYER DOWN!! Also, Fever by Lauren DeStefano!!
9. Book you most anticipated in 2011?
WHERE SHE WENT!! I was dying for this one after If I Stay and my dear friend Kristi sent me the extra ARC she had and I was SOOO happy!
10. Favorite cover of a book you read in 2011?
11. Most memorable character in 2011?
Hands down Jessica Darling. Let's be honest here.
12. Most beautifully written book read in 2011?
The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
Fever by Lauren DeStefano
13. Book that had the greatest impact on you in 2011?
In terms of emotionally (as this year I didn't seem to read anything that was extremely provocative for some reason), I think Moonglass by Jessi Kirby or Where She Went by Gayle Forman. Obviously the grief issue resonates deeply.
14. Book you can't believe you waited UNTIL 2011 to finally read?
Sloppy Firsts. I've had people telling me to read this book since before I started blogging. I even made my sister buy it because so many people recommended it...but I never picked it up. STUPID MOVE, Jamie. Jessica Darling = Teen Jamie
15. Favorite Passage/Quote From A Book You Read In 2011?
From The Lover's Dictionary:
these words will ultimately end up being the barest of reflections, devoid of the sensations words cannot convoy. Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough."
From Where She Went by Gayle Forman
“I look at her there in the shadows of the shut-down city, her hair falling onto her face, and I can see her trying to figure out if I’ve lost it. And I have to fight the urge to take her by the shoulders and slam her against a shuttered building until we feel the vibrations ringing through both of us. Because I suddenly want to hear her bones rattle. I want to feel the softness of her flesh give, to hear her gasp as my hip bone jams into her. I want to yank her head back until her neck is exposed. I want to rip my hands through her hair until her breath is labored. I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears. And then I want to take my mouth to hers, to devour her alive, to transmit all the things she can’t understand.”
From Delirium by Lauren Oliver
"Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.”
16. Book That You Read In 2011 That Would Be Most Likely To Reread In 2012?
The Lover's Dictionary (I feel like there is still more beauty to glean from this one!) or Anna & The French Kiss (it makes me uber happy)
17. Book That Had A Scene In It That Had You Reeling And Dying To Talk To Somebody About It? (a WTF moment, an epic revelation, a steamy kiss, etc. etc.) Be careful of spoilers!
Delirium ( THE END!!), Fever (OMG SO MANY PARTS!), Mara Dyer (THE END!) and Shade (SO MANY PARTS! And I totally blew up Jen from Makeshift Bookmark's phone!)