Top Ten Tuesday: Fictional Thanksgivings I Want To Attend

A weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish 

The Families

1.) The Weasleys from the Harry Potter Series by J.K. Rowling
Obvious choice. Who wouldn't want to spend every holiday with the Weasleys. I mean for one thing you would get Mrs. Weasley's delicious cooking and a knit sweater, but you could also spend hours discussing rubber ducks with Mr. Weasley and planning pranks on Percy with the twins.

2.) The Marchs from little Women by Louisa May Alcott
I just adore the March family. They know how to have a good time. Maybe we would have a delicious home-cooked meal or maybe we would work at a soup kitchen. Either way there would be lots of laughs, Beth would play the piano, and we would preform a play Jo wrote.

3.) The Plums from the Stephanie Plum series by Janet Evanovich
Dinners at the Plum household are never dull. Not with Grandma Mazur around. The family is so ridiculous it would be so entertaining to attend a holiday there to watch all the hijinx unfold. Also maybe Lula will be there and it will be all the more ridiculous!

4.) The Starks from A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin
Maybe because then they could finally all get back together. (*weeps*). I have so much love for the Stark family and find each member so interesting. Think about the feast at Winterfell in book one and imagine that is your Thanksgiving. But maybe I would wear some chain mail.

Friendsgivings

5.) The Sisterhood from The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants by Ann Brashares
Ignore the final book in this series because it's stupid and I don't like certain things about it, mostly that they didn't stay in touch. I think they would get together at least once a year. Maybe for a Friendsgiving. I'd like to be there for it.

6.) Team Aelin from The Throne of Glass series by Sarah J. Maas
Imagine the crew in Queen of Shadows getting together for a big Thanksgiving feast. You would want to be there for it wouldn't you? I know I would. There would be so much needling and joking. It would be amazing.

7.) The Rampion Crew from The Lunar Chronicles by Marissa Meyer
I feel like this series has some serious squad goals, Cinder's crew is just so amazing. I'd love to be a part of the crew so maybe I can settle for attending a Friendsgiving with them all. But like everyone has to be there, especially Iko.

8.) The Raven Boys from The Raven Cycle by Maggie Steifvater
Maybe Blue would cook. Or maybe Gansey would pay for us to all go to a fancy restaurant. I don't care, I just want to be in a room with Blue and the boys. I would pay particular interest to Ronan and Adam.

9.) The Reckoners from The Reckoners trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
I'll probably wait with baited breathe for David to make a really terrible metaphor and for Megan to give him crap about. In general though, I just think this crew is just so fun to hang out with all of these guys. Prof, Abraham, and Cody in addition to David and Megan.

10.) The Crew of The Black Betty from The Darkest Minds trilogy by Alexandra Bracken
But specifically the one from the last book. They're such a fun group, especially the characters that come in (back) during the final book. Plus Chubs and Vida together in that book are my absolute favorite.

Those are the Thanksgivings I would want to attend? How about you? Leave me a comment with your thoughts. Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY READING!

Book Review: The Scorpio Races by Maggie Steifvater

Title: The Scorpio Races Author: Maggie Steifvater Published: September, 2011 by Scholastic (Amazon / Goodreads) Synopsis: It happens at the start of every November: the Scorpio Races. Riders attempt to keep hold of their water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.  Some riders live.  Others die.  At age nineteen, Sean Kendrick is the returning champion. He is a young man of few words, and if he has any fears, he keeps them buried deep, where no one else can see them.  Puck Connolly is different. She never meant to ride in the Scorpio Races. But fate hasn't given her much of a choice. So she enters the competition — the first girl ever to do so. She is in no way prepared for what is going to happen.

This book is so beloved and after reading it I can understand why. It's the kind of book that works it's way into your heart and before you even realize how much it has effected you, you're crying tears of sadness and joy. I haven't read all of Maggie's books but the ones I have read, I've really enjoyed. She has a very particular style and I love the way she builds worlds and creates characters. The Scorpio Races was no exception.

This Thestral is supposed to represent the capaill uisce

I think my favorite thing about it was probably the setting. What and amazing place, Thisby. It was a place that felt so familiar but so unique at the same time. It's like the kind of place that could be anywhere but seems like something you have never experience before. On the one hand it had this gritty realism that made everything seem so bleak and atmospheric but on the other hand it had this beauty and fantasy to it. Maggie has always done a great job walking that line. But everything was so descriptive that you could perfectly visualize the waves crashing along the beach, the white cliffs, the fishing village, and of course the capaill uisce. The vicious and powerful water horses were such an amazing part of the world and this book. The world of The Scorpio Races was absolutely brilliant and it made for the perfect setting for this book that was just as bleak and atmospheric.

The plot and pacing of this book really built to something thrilling and fantastic. It took me a little while to get into the book and get used to Maggie's writing style but when I did I was hooked on the book. It took me three days to read the first 120 pages but after that I couldn't put it down. I often complain about the beginning of the book being slow and the ending going to quickly but here it totally worked. It slowly built to a huge climax that had me enthralled. I read the last 120 pages in about two hours because I couldn't put the book down, I was so invested. Similarly I'm surprised that I didn't miss the horse racing even though it was a much smaller part than I expected. There were a lot of different elements to the story and each part of it was interesting and complex.

I think that is because so much of the book is about the characters and their relationships. I have always loved Maggie's characters. She can write a whole book full of complex and unique characters and In The Scorpio Races she once again made me fall in love with every single one of them, especially the main characters. The book alternates perspectives between Puck and Sean who are both so similar and different at the same time. For one thing, they're adorably perfect in their brooding. It's easy to empathize with them because neither one has had an easy life. They're both Thisby orphans, trying to make their way in a place that they love but it's hard to make it there. It's made Puck sassy and surly while Sean is brooding and stoic. Like the island itself they have been hardened by their experiences but they're still sweet and caring. What I love about Puck is that she's not trying to be this feminist hero in the races because of the political stance. She's just being herself, which is as much a statement as anything. Sean also is just trying to be himself and do what he loves, which is working with and racing capaill uisce. He's really good at it, and could have been cocky and conceited but he isn't. I was invested in both of their success, which was really hard because for one to succeed the other one would not be able to. But that just added to the drama and investment in the book.

But while the characters were great in their characterization I loved the relationships between them. Puck and Sean had a great relationship for one thing. They understand each other so deeply that things grow throughout the book. Their romance was such a small part of the book that for someone like me who is romancephobic, it was perfect. They were both so dismissive of it despite the feelings that seemed pretty obvious to everyone around them and ultimately them. It was a great slowburn. But the non-romantic relationships. Puck's relationship with her brothers was so realistic making it both heartbreaking and sweet. Sean's relationship with his boss' son and his boss was so interesting. But then there is the amazing connection between Sean and Corr, his horse. That to me is the real love story.

I absolutely loved this book in the end. It took me a while to get into it but once I did, I was taken on a roller coaster ride of emotions that has me wanting more from the characters and the world. I can absolutely see why this book is so popular, it's beautiful and atmospheric with characters you cannot help but love.

I give The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater 9.5 out of 10 stars

Buy/Borrow/Bypass: Buy. If you are one of the people like me who hasn't read this book then I would absolutely recommend it. It has a bit of a slow start but keep reading and let the bleak and atmospheric island of Thisby take you through the lives of Puck and Sean on the back of capaill uisce. In the end you will become attached.

Have you read The Scorpio Races? What did you think? Leave me a comment with your thoughts. Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY READING!

Book Review: Winter by Marissa Meyer

Title: Winter Series: The Lunar Chronicles #4 Author: Marissa Meyer Published: November 10, 2015 by Feiwel and Friends (Macmillan) (Amazon / Goodreads) Synopsis: Princess Winter is admired by the Lunar people for her grace and kindness, and despite the scars that mar her face, her beauty is said to be even more breathtaking than that of her stepmother, Queen Levana.  Winter despises her stepmother, and knows Levana won’t approve of her feelings for her childhood friend—the handsome palace guard, Jacin. But Winter isn’t as weak as Levana believes her to be and she’s been undermining her stepmother’s wishes for years. Together with the cyborg mechanic, Cinder, and her allies, Winter might even have the power to launch a revolution and win a war that’s been raging for far too long.  Can Cinder, Scarlet, Cress, and Winter defeat Levana and find their happily ever afters?

**** This is the final book in a series and there may be spoilers so proceed with caution. Read the rest of The Lunar Chronicles series first and come back. Here's my review of book one, Cinder to encourage you. ****

What a fantastic ending for a fantastic series. I feel so satisfied. Well done Marissa Meyer. Last winter (February 2014) I read the first three books in this series back to back and since then the wait for Winter has been slow and painful. I of course needed to know what would happen to these characters but I didn't want it to end. But this book was everything I had hoped it would be and more.

The plotting in particular was incredible here. It took things and brought them full circle. Little elements came back in a big way. One of the things that I have loved about this series is the fairy retelling elements. Once again Meyer played with the classic stories that we know and love, giving them a post-modern twist and unique flair. I loved the way that she played with the elements of the Snow White story with Winter. Things like the poisoned apple, the glass coffin, even the dwarfs. Some elements were obvious while other were subtle, it didn't hit me until much later than they should have. But the other characters also got elements from their stories come into play in the conclusion. In general however this was a big picture kind of story though. There is so much drama and action. It is incredibly fast-paced with over 800 pages on non-stop thrills and excitement. So many times throughout the book I was on the edge of my seat incredibly concerned for our fearless heroes.

That may have been because I seriously love those heroes so much. This book, this series, has some serious squad goals. I would love nothing more than to be flying around in the Rampion with everyone going on adventures. I spent a lot of the book wishing they could all be in one place because everyone interacts so well together there is just great banter. Cinder of course is in the center of it all with her sarcastic wit. Here she becomes much more of a leader and she definitely had me on board for her revolution. But my favorite character is still Thorne who is such a flawless loveable rogue. I also adored Cress who I can't help but root for and relate too as a contrast to the other characters who are overly-confident. But speaking of characters unlike any of the others, here we also spent more time getting to know Winter and Jacin who are both fantastic. Winter has such effervescence and is so sweet it's obvious why the people love her. Plus her crazy off-beat comments make her so endearing. Jacin is surly and tough but with a heart of gold. I have only known them for a short period of time but they are really likeable so they made a lasting impression. And of course our villain leveled up her crazy as well. I though after Fairest, I had seen the worst of Levana but nope she proved once again why she is such a fantastic villain. Marissa Meyer's characterization has always been a strength in my opinion and the development of these characters had that on full display.

But Marissa Meyer also does romance so well. I am not one for swooning, in most of my books I could do without the romance. But here despite the fact that every single character has a love interest, it works so well. I ship every last one of them and if I'm not trying to smoosh their faces together (Cress and Thorne, I'm looking at you) I am melting at their romantic moments. But who am I kidding, for most of them I want to smoosh their faces together. There is so much in the way of all these romances that even though so many of them could be thought of as insta-love they become really complex and deeper by the end of this book and series. They're just all so adorable you guys. This book has thawed my cold, romancephobic heart.

My only criticism with Winter is that it's long, like a little too long. I don't mind long. I've loved books that were over 800 pages, over 1,000 pages even but sometimes you just get bogged down when there is a lot of plot development. There is just so much going on here and with it being the last book in a series it all packs so much weight. With final books I usually prefer if they just wrap things up instead of introducing new things and that's what this book did. It took us to a new location, introduced new characters, and had a whole big new storyline. I almost wish there was another book and some things could have been stretched out a little more. I would also say that if you haven't read Fairest, read that first. It gives a lot of context to some important moments in this book. Maybe if Fairest had been full-length that would have helped too.

But on the whole, a fantastic read. It was everything that I would hoped it would be and more with a thrilling plot, amazing characters, and swoony romances. I'm sad for the series to end but when I closed the book I was left so satisfied and happy.

I give Winter by Marissa Meyer 9.5 out of 10 stars

Buy/Borrow/Bypass: BUY! Fans of The Lunar Chronicles will not be disappointed with this last installment.This series is just absolutely brilliant. It's one of the most creative retellings I have ever read and the plot development and characterizations are top notch. If you are a fan of sci-fi definitely check it out but honestly just read it regardless.

Have you read Winter? What did you think? Are you sad to see The Lunar Chronicles be over? Leave me a comment with your thoughts. Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY READING!

Book Review: Manners and Mutiny by Gail Carriger

Title: Manners and Mutiny Series: Finishing School #4 Author: Gail Carriger Published: November 3, 2015 by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers (Amazon / Goodreads) Synopsis: If one must flirt…flirt with danger.  Lessons in the art of espionage aboard Mademoiselle Geraldine’s floating dirigible have become tedious without Sophronia’s sweet sootie Soap nearby. She would much rather be using her skills to thwart the dastardly Picklemen, yet her concerns about their wicked intentions are ignored, and now she’s not sure whom to trust. What does the brusque werewolf dewan know? On whose side is the ever-stylish vampire Lord Akeldama? Only one thing is certain: a large-scale plot is under way, and when it comes to fruition, Sophronia must be ready to save her friends, her school, and all of London from disaster—in decidedly dramatic fashion, of course.  What will become of our proper young heroine when she puts her years of training to the test? Find out in this highly anticipated and thrilling conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Finishing School series!.

**** This is the final book in a series and there may be spoilers so proceed with caution. Read the rest of the Finishing School series first and come back. Here's my review of book one, Etiquette and Espionage to encourage you. ****

Last November I marathoned the Fishing School series and found myself liking it more and more with each passing book. So I was really excited to read the last book in the series, Manners & Mutiny, to see how it would all end. And fans of the series will not be disappointed. This was a really great ending to a series that is both fun and engaging with great characters, a thrilling plot. and interesting steampunk world.

In four books I have become so attached to these characters. They're quirky and interesting. As this is the final book in the series, there is lots of great character development and some arcs that have been building for the whole series come to fruition which is so great to see. There are also tons of big reveals that make so many of the secondary characters more complex than originally thought. Some of them even got these great moments to shine. And a few unexpected characters even return to the story which was great to see. But of course the main focus here is Sophronia whose resourcefulness, determination, and cool head during a crisis is on full display. But despite the fact that she is the hero here, she also has these great vulnerabilities that make her well-rounded and complex. I also adore Dimity and Pillover who have such a great sibling relationship and of course all the teachers at the school who as are so complex.

But the school itself is so complex. Mademoiselle Geraldine's Finishing School for Young Ladies of Quality is one of my all-time favorite boarding schools.  I have always been struck by the interesting combination of steampunk technology and a Victoria boarding school for girls. The school itself is as much a character as anything. It's a huge dirigible so we have all this steampunk stuff happening. In Manner's and Mutiny we get to explore so much more of the school and little nooks and crannies that we may have only gotten to see briefly if at all in the first few books. I was so excited that there was a map in the front but it was totally needed with all the exploring. It's so complex and there are so many unexpected things. As Sophronia puts it "I should have known they were deadly as well as decorative. Everything at this school is both." But that's because this is basically a school for spies. It makes for such an interesting world and Carriger perfectly builds it.

However, while the plot development was something I did love, it also was something I had an issue with. Like most final books in a series, it all really came full-circle and resolved questions and plot points that began in the first couple books. There is so much going on here both at the school and with the larger world. There's so much political context of the world and it became a part of the plot. In each book we spend a little time learning about different groups within society and here it was a lot about the Picklemen which was a component that we hadn't learned much about before. But also because we are finishing a book about finishing there was so much action and adventure going on here. The stakes are really high and every moment was so full of action. I was on the edge of my seat concerned about what was going to happen to my beloved characters. Everything lead up to a thrilling conclusion that had me both entertained and concerned. But I will say, this may have moved a little too fast. The pace was a little harrowing at times. I found a few of the earlier books to be a little slow when it came to the pacing so this being so quick to move from moment to moment was a little surprising. A happy medium between the two would have been good.

On the whole Manners and Mutiny is a great ending to a fun and entertaining series with quirky and complex characters, a unique and interesting world, and a thrilling plot. I am not ready to say goodbye to this world and these characters. I have not yet read the Parasol Protectorate so that may be my next foray into Gail Carriger's steampunk world. I hear some characters from this book even come back!

I give Manner and Mutiny by Gail Carriger 9 out of 10 stars

Buy/Borrow/Bypass: Buy/Borrow. This series is definitely worth a read. It gets better and better with every passing book and I ended up really loving it. If you like steampunk, YA historical fantasy, or books about interesting boarding schools then you should definitely check this series out. Fans of the first three books will love the way this finishes.

Have you read Manners and Mutiny? What did you think? Leave me a comment with your thoughts. Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY READING!

Waiting on Wednesday: The Girl from Everywhere by Heidi Heilig

A weekly meme hosted by Breaking the Spine

Title: The Girl from Everywhere Author: Heidi Heilig Published: February 16, 2016 by Greenwillow (HarperCollins) (Amazon / Goodreads) Synopsis: Heidi Heilig’s debut teen fantasy sweeps from modern-day New York City to nineteenth-century Hawaii to places of myth and legend. Sixteen-year-old Nix has sailed across the globe and through centuries aboard her time-traveling father’s ship. But when he gambles with her very existence, it all may be about to end. The Girl from Everywhere, the first of two books, will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir, Rae Carson, and Rachel Hartman. Nix’s life began in Honolulu in 1868. Since then she has traveled to mythic Scandinavia, a land from the tales of One Thousand and One Nights, modern-day New York City, and many more places both real and imagined. As long as he has a map, Nix’s father can sail his ship, The Temptation, to any place, any time. But now he’s uncovered the one map he’s always sought—1868 Honolulu, before Nix’s mother died in childbirth. Nix’s life—her entire existence—is at stake. No one knows what will happen if her father changes the past. It could erase Nix’s future, her dreams, her adventures . . . her connection with the charming Persian thief, Kash, who’s been part of their crew for two years. If Nix helps her father reunite with the love of his life, it will cost her her own. In The Girl from Everywhere, Heidi Heilig blends fantasy, history, and a modern sensibility with witty, fast-paced dialogue, breathless adventure, and enchanting romance

Why I'm Waiting 

This book is without a doubt one of my top three most anticipated debuts. It sounds absolutely amazing and right up my alley. For one thing, I am a total sucker for books about time travel as a fan of both historical fiction and fantasy/science fiction (let's not get into a discussion of which genre time travel falls into). And you all probably know my love for maps so the fact that this book has that as an element is amazing. But I also think the idea of the main character having to save herself from no longer existing. Such interesting, much drama.

I also really like that it is also taking the reader to places throughout history that you don't see very often. Hawai'i in 1868, so cool. I'm really excited to explore that location and if there is a dashing thief there too, I'm even more interested. Time travel + thieves/pirates = happy Cassi

The few early reviews I have seen for this book have been really good. I know people have really liked it, and I am expecting to do the same when I get my grabby hands on a copy.

What about you? What are you waiting for this Wednesday? Are you waiting on The Girl from Everywhere along with me? Leave me a comment with your thoughts. Thanks for stopping by and HAPPY READING!

Top Ten Tuesday - Quotes from Books

A weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

I'm not one for quoting books. I sometimes use post-it notes to write some quotes I love within a book and highlight things on my kindle. So here are some from books I read in 2015 that I pulled because they strike me as interesting or thought-provoking still.

"If I seem to wander, if I seem to stray, remember that true stories seldom take the straightest way."
- Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
(Goodreads / My Review)

"I'd rather die on an adventure then live standing still."
- V.E. Schwab, A Darker Shade of Magic
(Goodreads / My Review)

"Real friends are the ones you can count on no matter what. The ones who go into the forest to find you and bring you home. And real friends never have to tell you that they're your friends."
- Morgan Matson, Since You've Been Gone
(Goodreads / My Review)

"Some people think not knowing is the best part. It's in our nature to want to be fooled. We put up blinders all the time. Illusion is a way to hold on to our innocence. Do you really want to give that up?"
-Kim Liggett, Blood and Salt

(Goodreads / My Review)

"Like the way you can memorize someone's gestures but never know their thoughts. And the feeling that people are like houses with vast rooms and tiny windows."

- Becky Albertalli, Simon Vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda
(Goodreads / My Review)

"I know love is fragile. And loving someone like you is near impossible. Like holding something shattered through a raging sandstorm. If you want her to love you, shelter her from that storm."

- Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn
(Goodreads / My Review)

"All of us are lonely at some point or another, no matter how many people surround us. And then, we meet someone who seems to understand. She smiles, and for a moment the loneliness disappears."
- Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni
(Goodreads / My Review)

“I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.” 

- Benjamin Alire Saenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of he Universe
(Goodreads / My Review)

"Usually we walk around constantly believing ourselves. "I'm okay," we say. "I'm alright." But sometimes the truth arrives on you and you can't get it off. That's when we realize that sometimes it isn't even an answer - it's a question."
- Marcus Zusak, The Book Thief
(Goodreads / My Review)

"Mistakes. Trial and error. Same thing. Mistakes are how we learned to walk and run and that hot things burn when you touch them. You've made mistakes all your life and you're going to keep making them."
- Tamara Ireland Stone, Every Last Word
(Goodreads / My Review)

"But it is not bravery; I have no choice. I wake up and live my life. Don't you do the same?"
Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See
(Goodreads / My Review)

“Fear motivates, more than love or ambition or joy. Fear is more powerful than anything else in the world. I have spent so long yearning for things—for love, for acceptance—that I do not really need. I need nothing except the submission that comes with fear. I do not know why it took me so long to learn this.”
- Marie Lu, The Rose Society
(Goodreads / My Review)

The Shelfie Hop and Giveaway

Hi Everyone,
I'm taking part in the Shelfie Hop hosted by Crystal of Bookiemoji and Kristen of My Friends are Fiction. I think this is such and amazing idea. I love seeing other people's shelves and seeing how they organize their books. Everyone does things a little bit different and I love seeing the way everyone organizes their shelves. Here's how I organize mine.

My Adult Shelf:

My main shelf is my "adult books." I used to not read a lot of YA. In fact that was one of the results of the things that happened when I started blogging, I learned about so many YA books I wanted to read and now I read mostly those. But I still have a ton of non-YAreads. This shelf I organize by size. The very top shelf has a few coffee table books, some family photos, figurines, and the cat toys I am trying to keep away from my cat.

Then next shelf is my mass market paperbacks. These are mostly fantasies and classics but some of my favorite books live here. Because my A Song of Ice and Fire books are on this shelf, so is my Sansa Funko Pop and my Winterfell candle. There are also a few other random things like my bookworm.

The next shelf is standard paperbacks. This shelf is usually the messiest because I tend to put stuff on hear like my mail and my keys. It is also where my bookmarks live. And my Pittsburgh Pirates stuff. Trying to rep the home team, you know how that goes.

After that is some larger paperbacks. On this third shelf I also always stack my TBR for that month. I'm so busy this month that my TBR isn't huge but sometimes it gets all the way to the top of the other shelf.

The fourth shelf is my hardcovers. I'm a paperback fan, if you couldn't tell, so there aren't many hardcovers. Usually however the hardcovers are books I was really excited about and I can't wait to read them so there are definitely a few favorites here.  This is also where more A Song of Ice and Fire stuff is, like my gorgeous A World of Ice and Fire book and The Ice Dragon.

The final shelf is my ARC shelf. This is double stacked but I'm not going to show you the books in the back because it would be such a hastle to take them out. I picked up almost all of these books at BEA, a few were sent from the publishers and from giveaways. About half of them I haven't read because my first year at BEA I just picked up any book I could. The ones you see however are books from BEA this year and books I have read, mostly. I'm actually kind of proud of the fact that I read 75% of the books I got at BEA this year. I got so many books I was excited about and I read so many more of them than I had last year.

My YA Shelf:

My second shelf is my YA shelf. This one I have organized by genre. The very top has my Harry Potter books which now has the gorgeous illustrated edition of Sorcerer's Stone. Most of the other shelves are double stacked. I really do need a new shelf. When I got this one I should have gotten a tall one like my other shelf but it was much harder to put it together.

The first shelf is my fantasy books which is my kryptonite and the most books I own. If you notice for most of my books I don't have all the same format with my books, except for my YA fantasies. It's like I said before, books I own in hardcover are the ones I can't wait to read. So yeah, I have a lot of fantasy books in hardcover. In front of the the fantasy is my historical fantasy books.

The middle shelf is my Science Fiction shelf. It's mostly dystopia but there is some hard sci-fi. And because of that, I have my Lunar Chronicles books which used to be here because they are science fiction but then I decided to add the rest of my retellings which you will see in front. This shelf is also a good place to point that I typically don't have many matching series. Typically the first book in the series is a paperback and the last book is a hardcover. The middle book can be either. For example,Never Fade is a paperback and Catching Fire is a hardcover.

The botom shelf is a bit eclectic. It has mostly contemporary with mysteries in the the front and I gues you could say romances behind that. The right side has historical fiction in the back and what I like to think of as supernatural books in the front. That pile is also a little but of, "it doesn't fit anywhere else" books.

Now, tell me about your shelves. How do you organize them? Do you do it by size? By color? Alphabetical order? Tell me about it in the comment section. And to celebrate the hop I am giving away a book I have two copies of. I don't really have many duplicates. I am on a book buying ban and one of the things that is part of it is not buying books I have already read. So I want to share the love. Plus, in a few weeks the final book in this series comes out and I can't wait for this book because the first two were amazing!

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All right, friends. That's all I have for you today. But be sure to check out Crystal of Bookiemoji and Kristen of My Friends are Fiction for the full list of blogs taking part in The Shelfie Hop. Thanks for hopping by and HAPPY READING!