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Срам ме е, но Л. Смит. Като бях на 12, бях голям фен на ,,Дневниците на вампира''. Все още смятам, че има някои интересни мотиви, вплетени в някои от книгите, но омръзата ми към персонажите е безкрайна. На второ място се нарежда Сара Шепард. Все още си обичкам книгите й, колкото и шантави и глупави да са главните герои. Тази жена знае как да плете интриги, да насища романите си с мистериозност и да създава толкова много обрати, че човек съвсем да се обърква. B като Best: Най-доброто продължение някога: Определено ,,Индигова магия'' на Ришел Мийд. C като Currently reading: Коя книга четеш в момента: ,,Аз преди теб'' на Джоджо Мойс. Да си призная, никога не бих посегнала към тази книга, ако не предстоеше излизането на екранизацията. Колебая се дали да пиша ревю, но може би ще се навия, защото определено имам какво да кажа за романа - и лошо, и добро. D като Drink of Choice While Reading: Коя е любимата ти напитка докато четеш: E като E-reader or Physical Book?: Предпочиташ да четеш книги на хартиен носител или електронни книги: Както многократно съм споменавала, предпочитам книги на хартиен носител, въпреки че преди бях много запалена и по електронните. Камерън от трилогията за братята Улф на Маркъс Зюсак. Макар че като се замисля, с него бих излизала абсолютно винаги. G като Glad you gave this book a chance: На коя книга си доволен/а, че си дал/а шанс: ,,Делириум'' на Лорън Оливър. H като Hidden Jem Book: Коя книга за теб е като истинско бижу: ,,Сянката на вятъра'' на Карлос Руис Сафон и ,,Тайната история'' на Дона Тарт. 9.I като Important: Важен момент в живота ти на читател: Първият път, когато нашите ме заведоха в кафе-книжарница Orange. Никога нямаше да заобичам книгите толкова, ако не беше това. J като Just finished: Книга, която току-що си приключил/а: ,,Булото'' на Мартин Маринов. K като Kinds of Books You Won’t Read: Какви литературни жанрове не четеш: Знам ли, по-научните книги може би.. L като Longest Book You’ve Read: Коя е най-дългата книга, която си чела: По-скоро недочела... ,,Стъклените книги на крадците на сънища'' на Гордън Далкуист. Не авторът е виновен, а редактора. Тази книга можеше да е толкова по-интригуваща, ако беше посъкратена. M като Major Book Hangover Because Of: Коя книга ти е дала усещане за свръх доза: Чувствам се надрусана всеки път, когато чета, така че всяка книга би могла да попадне в тази категория. N като Number of Bookcase You Own: Колко библиотеки за книги имаш: Две, но вече не са достатъчно.. O като One Book You Might Have Read Multiple Times: Има ли книга, която си чел/а повече от веднъж: ,,Ще те чакам'' на Джей Лин и ,,Пленница на смъртта'' на Мег Кабът частично съм ги препрочитела и никога няма да си го простя.. P като Preferred Place To Read: Къде обичаш да четеш: В леглото. Q като Quote that inspires you/give you all the feels from a book you’ve read: Цитат от книга, който те вдъхновява: Сега аз гледам към улицата. И заговарям. Казвам го. – Не губи сърцето си, Руб. Брат ми отговаря много ясно, без да помръдне. – Не се опитвам да го изгубя, Кам. Опитвам се да го намеря. R като Reading Regret: За какво съжаляваш като читател: За всички истории, които бих обикнала, но за чието съществуване нито предполагам, нито ще науча. S като Series You Started And Need To Finish (all books are out in series): Коя завършена поредица искаш да прочетеш до края: ,,Вампирите от Морганвил'' на Рейчъл Кейн и ''Vampire Kisses'' на Ellen Schreiber заради доброто старо време и това, че ме направиха истински читател. T като Three of Your All-Time Favorite Books: Кажи твоите три най-любими книги: Хайде, стига.. Само три? 21.U като Unapologetic Fangirl for: Непростим фен на... Поредицата за братята Улф на Маркъс Зюсак. V като Very Excited For This Release More Than All The Others: Коя е книгата, чието излизане очакваш с нетърпение: ''Run'' на Kody Keplinger. W като Worst Bookish Habit: Кой е най-лошият ти книжен навик: Непостоянността ми към книгите. Любовта ми към една определена от тях бързо избледнява и книгата бива заместена от друга в сърцето ми. Ако това може да бъде определено като навик.. X като X Marks The Spot: Start at the top left of your shelf and pick the 27th book: Посочи 27 книга на най-горния ти рафт започвайки от ляво надясно: ,,Птиците умират сами'' на Колийн Макълоу. Мразя. Тази. Книга. Y като Your Latest Book Purchase: Коя е последната книга, която си купи: ,,Камък от любов'' на Юлиян Попов. 26.Z като ZZZ-snatcher book (Last Book That Take You WAY Late): Коя е последната книга, която те е държала буден/а до късно: Обичам и съня си, и четенето и добре умея да ги съчетавам така, че да не ми се налага по цели нощи да стоя будна.
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My parents visited this week to bring a bookcase over for Arthur’s bedroom. Which meant lots of funtastic book sorting FOR ME, wheeee! And dusting, boo. My parents have always had the store bought halva, which is the grey variety made with tahini and sugar. It’s popular around Lent as it is free of animal products. A special treat when I was young was ‘halva sandwich’, which is as you may guess, a piece of halva between slices of bread. ‘Naturally Sweet and Gluten Free’ by Ricki Heller contains a much better halva recipe so I made it for my parents. By the way, have you ever eaten halva followed by a mouthful of soft drink (fizzy drink like Coke)? Do it and tell me if the sensation in your mouth is completely weird. I’ve only tried this with the grey store bought halva. DO IT DO IT. So in case you can’t tell, I am really in to this cookbook and marbled halva was one of the top three recipes I just had to try. It’s very simple to make (food processor, woo!) though the really difficult part is two fold: 1) not eating the mixture from the bowl and 2) not going to the fridge to ‘trim the edges’ when you know you will be serving it to guests the next day. My parents really liked it even though they never buy the chocolate swirl halva. I want to make this as part of Christmas gifts for people but I have to be able to keep it cool, which might not be easy in an Australian Christmas! Looks like some people will be getting ice bricks and miniature cooler bags for Christmas too: Now truthfully, I’ve made this twice. The halva above was made with the runny tahini. It was runny because I didn’t realise that at the bottom of this big tub was a solid ball of tahini. Whoops. So I made it a second time using the Tahini Blob, to see how it would go. The first batch with the runny tahini came together in a ball in the food processor, as the recipe states. The second recipe, made with the big solid blob of tahini, did not come together in a ball. It was still okay enough to pat in to a rectangle shape for chilling, but it would crumble more than the runny tahini version when I picked it up. No difference in the super taste though! And now for something fun, thanks to Johanna of Green Gourmet Giraffe who dobbed me in on her blog for the A-Z Bookish Survey (of course I don’t mind as this was fun thinking about and I got to take photos of books so it’s all super). Oh, ‘dob’ is Australian slang isn’t it? To dob on someone is to tattle. You know how Cindy Brady was called a tattle tale? In Australia she’d be called a dobber. If you want to tell your parents that your big brother has made a face at you (heaven forbid) you’d say to him “I’m dobbing on you”. Okay cool, now you’re all Aussies. Survey time! Author you’ve read the most books from: Enid Blyton, both as a child and to my children. And I know this isn’t one author but as a kid I read all the Choose Your Own Adventure books and the Trixie Beldens. Does that count? Is this where I admit to having read all those Sweet Dreams books and trying to work out which cover was the most insipid? Jeepers! That honour goes to Laurie’s Song: Best Sequel Ever: The Harry Potters! Currently Reading: Nothing apart from cookbooks, which I like to read cover to cover when I first get them. A new cookbook means I find some quiet time and lie on the couch. Though I’ve just been sorting out all the bookcases today and found stuff I want to read. Drink of Choice While Reading: Nothing, I don’t want to risk spilling something on my book. E-reader or Physical Book? Physical. Fictional Character You Probably Would Have Actually Dated In High School: I don’t know about high school but boy that Julian from ‘The Naughtiest Girl is a Monitor’ books sure made an impression when I was a youngster. I wonder if he’s the reason I always ended up attracted to the brainiacs? Glad You Gave This Book A Chance: ‘American Gods’ by Neil Gaiman. A long time ago it seemed everyone I knew was telling me to read Neil Gaiman and I was all yeahhh whateverrr your hero worshipness is FREAKING ME OUT. So I never bothered. Then one day I picked up American Gods cheap and really enjoyed it and other Neil titles since. See, we’re on a first name basis now. Hidden Gem Book: ‘The Potato’ by Larry Zuckerman. Yay for potatoes! Important Moment in your Reading Life: Reading ‘The Snow Queen’ when I was a child. It made me wonder how many people had slivers of glass in their eyes and hearts. When I was older, I read ‘The Bell Jar’ and it really affected me. Negatively, ha ha… Just Finished: I recently finished ‘The Year of Magical Thinking’ by Joan Didion. I found this so moving and was astounded at reviews saying Joan Didion writes in a cold, clinical way and doesn’t show emotion. I was shocked that these reviewers couldn’t see and feel the emotion, particularly grief, flying off the pages and smacking the reader in the face. I’ve read a little of Joan Didion’s work and love the way she writes. Kinds of Books You Won’t Read: Romance novels, detective/CSI style books, goth horror type stuff, vampire stuff (I won’t watch those vampire tv shows either, I just got so sick of the whole Twilight vampire cashing in thing), books about war/war experience (too sad) or celebrities who consider themselves experts on parenting and publish a book after having their first child. Longest Book You’ve Read: Not sure, probably the Lord of the Rings books one after the other 🙂 Major book hangover because of: probably Harry Potter. I loved the interviews with JK where she spoke about the feelings of loss she felt when she finally finished and I thought lady, I feel like that as the reader! Number of Bookcases You Own: Quite a few: a bookcase that holds all my educational stuff (photo shows half of it as I’m moving furniture around): One small bookcase in DeeW’s room: I have a book display rack, as I’m moving books and games around this surface is all messy like: Then there are two large ones in Arthur’s room. We started off with one, then my parents decided they didn’t need the matching one dad had made yeeeears ago (hence the colour, grey would not be up there (or down there) in my choice of bookcase colour). So this week we got the matching case and I had to move books around the house to fill it: Arthur’s shelves contain a lot of my books from when I was young. Only a few of the Trixie Beldens are mine, I always borrowed them repeatedly from the library. Years ago I found an almost complete set on eBay. That was a fine day, let me tell you: Then a big wall length lot of book cases we had built. I’ve been going through these books in the last few days working out what to keep and what to move to Arthur’s bedroom. Please forgive the mess, I’m still sorting all these shelves: Then there are the cookbooks in my kitchen dresser. My sister has a few of my vegan cookbooks so I’m missing some: Four mini bundt tins I found for a few bucks at Savers recently. Did I need to buy them? Of course not! One Book You Have Read Multiple Times: Oh this one’s easy, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Years go by and then I’ll read it and laugh all over again. Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’ is another I enjoy. Preferred Place To Read: In bed or on the couch with complete quiet, so I either have to be home alone or the kids have to be asleep. Quote that inspires you/gives you all the feels from a book you’ve read: I don’t often remember the actual quotes but I remember how I felt and for this I don’t think I can go past Anne of Green Gables for so many things but this is the stand out: “Isn’t it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me feel glad to be alive–it’s such an interesting world. It wouldn’t be half so interesting if we know all about everything, would it? There’d be no scope for imagination then, would there? But am I talking too much? People are always telling me I do. Would you rather I didn’t talk? If you say so I’ll stop. I can STOP when I make up my mind to it, although it’s difficult.” I was often told to stop talking so much when I was little, and I do have the kind of name where I have to say “with an E”. So I’m like “Anne with an E” and would have loved a kindred spirit bosom friend like her! Reading Regret: I read the first few pages of ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’. ONLY because some friends were forcing me to see just how bad it was. It was worse than I imagined and I feel robbed of those ten minutes I’ll never get back. Series You Started And Need To Finish: Probably the rest of ‘The Eyre Affair’ by Jasper Fforde. Three of your All-Time Favorite Books: The Hobbit, Stig of the Dump (Arthur loved both of these when I read them to him) and HHGTTG. Unapologetic Fangirl For: Vegan cookbook authors! Very Excited For This Release: MORE HARRY POTTER. Please? Worst Bookish Habit: borrowing stuff I never end up reading. X Marks The Spot: (go to a bookcase and select the 24th book across) My cookbooks shelf is the closest to me right now so I’ve selected ‘Vegan on the Cheap’ by Robin Robertson. From Arthur’s bookcases I randomly chose a starting point then ended up on ‘Thimble Summer’ by Elizabeth Enright. Your latest book purchase: Some sewing and craft books for DeeW’s birthday present. My latest cookbook purchases are Ricki Heller’s ‘Naturally Sweet and Gluten Free’ and ‘Vegan Food Gifts’ by Joni-Marie Newman. I always order from Book Depository. ZZZ-snatcher book (last book that kept you up WAY late): Oh man… that would have to be *cough* ‘The Da Vinci Code’. It was a case of “just one more chapter… just one chapter more…” Thanks again to Johanna, it’s been fun reading other responses too. It seems Harry Potter is a popular response!