Top Ten Tuesday: My reading journey

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by the sweet girls at The Broke and the Bookish. Every Tuesday we list our top ten of a certain theme, genre or anything else - basically a top ten of you name it! This Tuesday is all about our reading journies, whether it's authors who got us into reading, author's who got us into reading a different genre, authors that brought us back into reading. I will list particular books!

Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling | The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

I absolutely loved the Harry Potter series when I first read it, and it was probably the first book ever that made me WANT to read and keep going. 

TFiOS was the first contemporary book (and my first ebook) that I ever read I think. I really enjoyed it and to this day it's still one of my favorites. 

Hunger Games (Hunger Games #1) by Suzanne Collins | Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

I was actually "forced" to read Hunger Games, we had to read it for a book club and my best friend made me promise to read it... So I read it - and I loved it. I've read it 3 times and I still want to re-read it. 

Aaah Austen. P&P was my first classics and my first book about love. I've read it a couple of times and I love it more and more. I still have yet to read any of her other books, but P&P will probably remain a favorite forever!

The Final Empire (Mistborn #1) by Brandon Sanderson (review) | The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

I have read fantasy a bunch of times (a lot when I was younger) but I've never actually read a high fantasy or adult fantasy book before I read The Final Empire. I loved everything about it and I highly recommend it!

I always though nonfiction books had to be boring - but this book! I couldn't put it down. I really enjoy reading happy books and 

Torch (Take it Off #1) by Cambria Hebert (review)| Apocalypse Scenario #683: The Box by Mira Grant

I recently read my first new adult novel - which was Torch - and I really really enjoyed it. If my first experience with NA had been awful, I probably wouldn't have continued with it. 

I don't enjoy reading short stories, I hate them. I have tried reading some anthologies but I can't get through them. This story is the first ever to catch my interest and I have even recommended it to people. I also really love Somnia by Isaac Marion

Across the Universe (Across the Universe #1) by Beth Revis (series review)| The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon #2) by Dan Brown

I haven't read much "actual" sci-fi. I've read a bunch of dystopia, but never pure sci-fi - until I read Across the Universe, and now I'm hooked! 

I know this is tecnically the second book in a series, but I didn't know that 4 or 5 years ago. Since then I've read every book I've come across that says "for fans of The Da Vinci Code" or "similar to The Da Vinci Code" and so on. The prequel (Angels and Demons) is just as good!

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Little Miss #2: Tiny

Little Miss is a mini-series I've created because I wanted to do something different, but still something that has something to do with books and my blog. So I came up with "Little Miss Something". Last time I made Little Miss Shy, which was a list with underrated and under-read books (shy - unknown... get it?). This time I choose Little Miss Tiny, which is gonna be short books (under 200 pages) and short characters (well, character... I have 1)

This book is a bit over 200 pages BUT it consists of notes between a mother and a daughter and it's a really quick read since the notes are 10 lines long and takes up and entire page. I read the whole thing within an hour I think and I seriously loved it. I thought it was going to be a light read, but turned out to be deep and meaningful - I highly recommend it!

Goodreads | Review

I love the movie, and I love the book as well. It's about 50 pages but since it is a childrens book, there isn't that much writing on the pages - maybe 5 lines. I love how this teaches a kid to take care of the environment within those 50 pages and I love the Lorax and all the rhyming. It is a wonderful little book. 

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This is a classic that consist of about a 100 pages I believe. This again is a childrens book and I really enjoy it. It goes on and on about how grown ups are strange and I totally loved it. It's about this Little Prince that goes on and adventure - he visits the other planets and meets strange grown-ups. I think it's sweet and I think it may be time for a re-read. 

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I actually read this quite recently, and I enjoyed it! It is an autobiography about Susanna's life inside this mental hospital. I enjoyed reading about how things actually functioned inside an asylum and I loved getting to know Susanna's friends. At times it was a bit dense and boring, but it's still a really interesting read - especially for nonfiction.

Goodreads | Review

I didn't give this book a high rating (I think I gave it 1 or 2 hearts) but that was because I read the book at a bad time. If I had read it any other moment, I probably would have given it 4.. I think the theme is gruesome but I still thought it was interesting. I don't recommend everyone reading it - especially not delicate souls. 

Goodreads | Review

I adore this book! It took me a while to get into, but once I was, I couldn't put it down. I love that the story is written from a zombies perspective and that it's basically Romeo and Juliette in zombie version! I even think the movie was great! I know this book is a bit over 200 pages but it is so good that it feels small. 

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I love Isaac Marion and all his little stories - and I think this one is his best work yet. You can probably read it in under 5 minutes - so why not just read it? 

It's set in the future where sleep is "cured"

Goodreads | The Story

This is an actual short story that I gave 4 hearts! I've not of those who love short stories, I just don't enjoy them as much as books. This is about a group of friends that have made this game called "apocalypse scenario" 

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I recently read this novel and quite thoroughly enjoyed it. It's not the shortest novel, nor the longest - but at 250 pages with a tiny female character (everybody calls her small) I will count this book as a "Little Miss Tiny". 

This book was also my very first NA novel and it was great!

Goodreads | Review

I love the Harry Potter series and when I found out that she had written 3 extra books for the series I seriously sqealed! I adore the books and I think they are a magnificent topping for the sundae that is the Harry Potter world!

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Again, I have to include this book - and I will keep doing it until somebody writes a biography of her! Or she chooses to write an autobiography - I can totally live with that. 

But I adore J.K. Rowling and every book she will ever write! 

Goodreads | Review

Which Little Miss shall I do next?

Alice in Tumblr-land by Tim Manley

Series: N/A, Standalone
Publication date: November 5, 2013

Publisher: Penguin Books 

Genres: Adult, Fairytales, Humor

Format: Hardcover

Source: Book Depository

Book Depository | Amazon| Goodreads 

Disney meets Lena Dunham in this illustrated humor book featuring your favorite fairy-tale characters dating and finding their way in 21st-century America.

The Ugly Duckling still feels gross compared to everyone else, but now she’s got Instagram, and there’s this one filter that makes her look awesome. Cinderella swaps her glass slippers for Crocs. The Tortoise and the Hare Facebook stalk each other. Goldilocks goes gluten free. And Peter Pan finally has to grow up and get a job, or at least start paying rent.



Here are more than one hundred fairy tales, illustrated and re-imagined for today. Instead of fairy godmothers, there’s Siri. And rather than big bad wolves, there are creepy dudes on OkCupid. In our brave new world of social networking, YouTube, and texting, fairy tales can once again lead us to "happily ever after”—and have us laughing all the way.

I really enjoyed Alice in Tumblr-land, it is a quick, light and fun read. 

I love the modern twist, and how easy it is to picture it! Manley has taken some of my favorite fairytales and changed them into ordinary people, and I enjoyed that. Peter Pan having a hard time because all he thinks about is the internet, Rapunzel thinking that the people liking her new profile picture hated her old hair, and just never told her. 

Some of the stories was more on the adult side of the scale with stories about Lancelot being gay and the beast (from Beauty and the Beast) having some weird fetiches. 

This book also has some great quotes, which is actually also some lessons on life, and just some that are great to keep in the back of your head. Here is an example;

I love how this book was an actual page-turner, because every page was a new story, you never got that feeling that you needed a break. And you know how you keep saying "just one more chapter" and keeps on reading 20 more, that is what happens with this book, it keeps you reading because you want to read the next story, and then the next and so on. Basically, that "just one more story", is never actually just one more story. 

But I think it would be amazing to read the original stories as a child or have them read aloud, and then as a teenager or adult to read this! Because, this is a great book!

This book actually originated from Tim Manley's blog: Fairytales for twenty-somethings, if you either want to read this book or already have read it - then check out his blog, because there is some new stories and some older stories that is not included in the book. Oh, and if you think about buying this book, check this page to see how it looks in real life! 

Challenges: Full House: re-read / TBR pile

Resolutions: re-read some books / Read the books I already own