Princess and the Fangirl : review

Princess and the Fangirl by Ashley Poston

SUMMARY
The Prince and the Pauper gets a modern makeover in this adorable, witty, and  heartwarming young adult novel set in the Geekerella universe by national bestselling author Ashley Poston.

Goodreads' link to the book!
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Stars: ✦✦✦✦✧

So as usual, I'll tell 4.0 things I liked about the book and 1.0 things I didn't like.

So what did I think?

+1 | The fairytale and retelling aspect is well done. I love retellings and the Prince and the Pauper is one I've loved.

+1 | Entertainment value. It went by quickly and it kept me interested

+1 | The writing and how the plot was done were both things I enjoyed

+/-1 | The characters and romance both had parts I liked and parts I didn't, and I don't know how to really explain my feelings on those.

Read on lovelies,

S

Update: Did I Read Them?

I decided to do an update looking back at my old posts about books I hadn't read yet - and see if I have years later!
So without further ado, onto the list:

I'll cross over the ones I have read

Books I Haven't Read Yet (2014 link)

1. The Lord of the Rings
2. Narnia by C.S. Lewis
3. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
4. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi
5. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
6. Legend by Marie Lu
7. Enclave by Ann Aguirre
8. The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making by Catherynne M. Valente
9. Half Bad by Sally Green
10. The Princess Bride by William Goldman

Series I Haven't Finished (2014 link)

Are out but I don’t have them:

1. Defiance

2. Fables, graphic novel (I'm at number 9)
3. Manners and Mutiny4. Sealed with a Lie

Are out and I have them, but I haven't read them...:

1. Days of Blood and Starlight
2. False Memory 2-3

3. Poison Study 2-3
4. Goose Girl 3-4
5. Heir of Fire

6. Oz 2-37. Miss Mayhem

1st ones I own but have yet to read...:
1. Uglies
2. Geek Girl
3. Ember in the Ashes
4. The Knife of Never Letting Go
5. Sisters Red
6. Snow Like Ashes7. A Court of Thorns and Roses
8. Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

With this latter list, the ones in red are the ones I want to get to. And from the last list of series I hadn't even started, I ended up reading all of the first ones, finishing only one series and waiting for the completion of one series.

Read on lovelies,

S

The Vinyl Frontier : Review

The Vinyl Frontier by Jonathan Scott

*ARC kindly provided by Bloomsbury through NetGalley in exchange for an honest review!*

Publication May 21st 2019


SUMMARY
The fascinating story behind the mission, music, and message of NASA's Voyager Golden Record-humanity's message to the stars.

Goodreads' link to the book!

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Stars: ✦✦✦.5✧

So as usual, I'll tell 3.5 things I liked about the book and 1.5 things I didn't like.

So what did I think?

+1 | The idea is different and fascinating to me, but definitely not something for everyone.

+1 | A blend of facts with also the authors voice and stories mixed in.

+1 | The order was well thought out, it made sense as a whole.

+/-0.5 | Content. It covered so man genres of content. Not all interested me and sometimes slowed it down, but there's something for anyone vaguely interested.

-1 | Not everything included was needed.

Read on lovelies,

S

How Many Have I Read?

There are plenty of lists and quizzes online to see if you've read a majority of books on a list, and I decided to take a longer one with you guys.

This list is from here: link, you're free to join me!
I'll check off the ones I have read and tally them up in the end to see how many I have read

1. 1984

George Orwell

	2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	Mark Twain
	3. The Alchemist	Paulo Coelho
	4. Alice in Wonderland	Lewis Carroll
	5. All the King's Men	Robert Penn Warren
	6. All the Pretty Horses	Cormac McCarthy
	7. The Ambassadors	Henry James
	8. And Then There Were None	Agatha Christie
	9. Anne of Green Gables	L.M. Montgomery
	10. Beloved	Toni Morrison
	11. Brave New World	Aldous Huxley
	12. Brideshead Revisited	Evelyn Waugh
	13. Bridget Jones’s Diary	Helen Fielding
	14. The Call of the Wild	Jack London
	15. The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer
	16. Catch-22	Joseph Heller
	17. The Catcher in the Rye	J.D. Salinger
	18. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory	Roald Dahl
	19. Charlotte’s Web	E.B. White
	20. Cloud Atlas	David Mitchel
	21. The Color Purple	Alice Walker
	22. A Confederacy of Dunces	John Kennedy Toole
	23. Count of Monte Cristo	Alexandre Dumas
	24. Crime and Punishment	Fyodor Dostoyevsky
	25. Darkness at Noon	Arthur Koestler
	26. Don Quixote	Miguel De Cervantes
	27. Dracula	Bram Stoker
	28. Dune	Frank Herbert
	29. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test	Tom Wolfe
	30. Fahrenheit 451	Ray Bradbury
	31. A Fine Balance	Rohinton Mistry
	32. Go Tell It on the Mountain	James Baldwin
	33. The Golden Notebook	Doris Lessing
	34. Gone With The Wind	Margaret Mitchell
	35. The Good Soldier	Ford Madox Ford
	36. The Grapes of Wrath	John Steinbeck
	37. Gravity's Rainbow	Thomas Pynchon
	38. Great Expectations	Charles Dickens
	39. The Great Gatsby	F. Scott Fitzgerald
	40. Gulliver's Travels	Jonathan Swift
	41. Hamlet	William Shakespeare
	42. The Handmaid’s Tale	Margaret Atwood
	43. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone	J.K. Rowling
	44. The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter	Carson McCullers
	45. Heart of Darkness	Joseph Conrad
	46. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy	Douglas Adams
	47. Howard's End	E.M. Forster
	48. In Search of Lost Time	Marcel Proust
	49. Invisible Man	Ralph Ellison
	50. Jane Eyre	Charlotte Brontë
	51. The Kite Runner	Khaled Hosseini
	52. Les Miserables	Victor Hugo
	53. Life of Pi	Yann Martel
	54. The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe	C.S. Lewis
	55. The Little Prince	Antoine De Saint-Exupery
	56. Little Women	Louisa M Alcott
	57. Lolita	Vladimir Nabokov
	58. Lord of the Flies	William Golding
	59. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring	J.R.R. Tolkien
	60. Madame Bovary	Gustave Flaubert
	61. Main Street	Sinclair Lewis
	62. The Maltese Falcon	Dashiell Hammett
	63. Memoirs of a Geisha	Arthur Golden
	64. Middlemarch	George Eliot
	65. Midnight’s Children	Salman Rushdie
	66. Moby Dick	Herman Melville
	67. Naked Lunch	William S. Burroughs
	68. Native Son	Richard Wright
	69. Northern Lights (The Golden Compass)	Philip Pullman
	70. The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway
	71. On The Road	Jack Kerouac
	72. One Hundred Years of Solitude	Gabriel Garcia Marquez
	73. A Prayer for Owen Meaney	John Irving
	74. Pride and Prejudice	Jane Austen
	75. The Remains of the Day	Kazuo Ishiguro
	76. The Scarlet Letter	Nathaniel Hawthorne
	77. The Secret Garden	Frances Hodgson Burnett
	78. The Secret History	Donna Tartt
	79. A Separate Peace	John Knowles
	80. The Shadow of the Wind	Carlos Ruiz Zafon
	81. Sister Carrie	Theodore Dreiser
	82. Slaughterhouse-Five	Kurt Vonnegut
	83. Sons and Lovers	D.H. Lawrence
	84. The Sound and the Fury	William Faulkner
	85. Stranger in a Strange Land	Robert Heinlein
	86. Swallows and Amazons	Arthur Ransom
	87. The Time Traveler’s Wife	Audrey Niffenegger
	88. To Kill a Mockingbird	Harper Lee
	89. To the Lighthouse	Virginia Woolf
	90. A Town Like Alice	Nevil Shute
	91. Tropic of Cancer	Henry Miller
	92. Ulysses	James Joyce
	93. Under the Volcano	Malcolm Lowry
	94. War and Peace	Leo Tolstoy
	95. Watership Down	Richard Adams
	96. The Way of All Flesh	Samuel Butler
	97. The Wind in the Willows	Kenneth Grahame
	98. Winnie the Pooh	A.A. Milne
	99. Wuthering Heights	Emily Bronte Robert M. Pirsig
	100. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance So a whopping 18%. I'm not exactly surprised, but I hoped it would've been higher Read on lovelies, S