The Bookshelf

Book Tag

This tag was created by Natalie and can be found here.
I moved recently and had to organize my books again, since I changed bookshelves, and decided to do this.
          Some "rules":
              The book (s) you answer with must be from your bookshelf.
              And include a picture of your bookshelf if you'd like to and if possible

Your bookshelf

1) Describe your bookshelf & where you got it from?

>My father actually built it :)

2) How do you organize it?

>I'm currently doing a separate post for this, since it has a lot of sections, so look out for that! I'll post it next week :)

3) Thickest book? (pages)

>My William Shakespeare collection (link here). 1200 pages
>For the ones I've read it would be Winter with 824 pages.

4) Thinnest book? (pages)
>How to be an Alien, 48 pages

5) Birthday gift
>Latest was the Roald Dahl box set

6) Smallest book? (Hight & Width)
>I've got lots of mass market paperbacks,
but my copy of Peter Pan suprised me when it came (it is the height of a mmp but wider, and adorable) :) link
and my copy of Lord of the Flies suprised me as well (the width of a mmp but taller) link

7) Biggest book? (Hight & Width)
>The hard cover of A Court of Thorns and Roses really suprised me! It's taller than my Barnes&Noble 
leather bound editions!
>For paperbacks it's Thorn, which is taller than most of my hardbacks!

8) From a friend?
>Latest one was probably Sapphire Blue

9) Most expensive book?
>I'd say around 20euros maybe?

10) Last book you read?
>A Mad Zombie Party & currently I'm reading An Ember in the Ashes

11) First one you read?
>Actually read by myself probably one of the Ella books by Timo Parvela, a Finnish author

12) More than one copy
>For around 10 books I have the same book in both Finnish and English, e.g. Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

13) Complete series
>Well lots, but the one with the biggest amount of books in the series would be Serenity, the graphic novels (it has 10)

14) Newest addition
>Dreams of Gods and Monsters

15) Has been on your shelf FOREVER
>Elli norsutyttö, a childrens book that my Grandmother used to read to me

16) Most recently published
>Half Lost

17) Oldest book (as in the copy)
>The Advventures of Tom Sawyer, 1944, Finnish edition

18) Book you won
>Half Lost, GoodReads giveaway

19) Hate to let out of your sight (aka wouldn't let someone borrow)
>I actually don't mind lending my books, I like them to look worn and well read :)

20) Most beat up
>The Tom Sawyer book (as in question 17), it is literally together only by duct tape

21) Most pristine book
>See How They Run, it is quite new and I have yet to open it

22) Book from your childhood
>Babe by Dick King-Smith, when I was young I actually read it every summer for around 7 years in a row

23) Book that's not actually your book
>School Spirits, it's my sisters


24) Special cover (e.g. leather bound, soft, fuzzy, etc.)?
>Hans Christian Andersen, Barnes&Nobel leather bound edition

25) Favourite cover

>I really LOVE my Harry Potter editions! I chose to go with the signature editions when I bought them.
>Also I really LOVE my Hunger Games foil editions






26) Has been on your shelf the longest and you STILL haven't read?
>Well actually since I'm doing the TBR thing I've talked about (you can read about it from here)
So the answer is Forest Born, which I got last summer

27) Any signed books?
>Nope

And I had to add some

28) Any trinkets on your shelves?
>I have some pictures on them

29) Any book related trinkets somewhere else than your shelves?
>The time turner from Harry Potter and a potions glass bottle

30) Do you own any books you hated/part of a series you won't continue?
>I used to keep even the ones I hated but I've gotten rid of them recently, though I do own some first books in series which I won't continue (but in most cases I liked the book and thought it ended well and works as a stand-alone) like e.g. Boy Nobody and Every Day

Read, read, read,

Sally

Bookish Buzzwords

& Auto-Buy Authors

Bookish buzzwords? >If you hear a book discribed with a particular word you immediately want to read it
Auto-buy authors? >If a certain author publishes a new book you want to read it
                                    (even if you don't know a thing about it)


Bookish buzzwords:
Fairytale retelling (mythology not really)
        e.g. The Lunar Chronicles
Goose-Girl retelling
        e.g. The Books of Bayern book 1: Goose-Girl, Thorn...
Royal in hiding/royal marriage for power
        e.g. Kiss of Deception, Book of Ivy
Agent boarding-school
        e.g. Etiquette & Espioange, Gallagher Girls
Team of genius agents
        e.g. The Naturals
Assassin/thieves (with this, since there are so many books with them, I usually want some other aspect to be in it as well)
        e.g. Assassins Curse, Graceling, Throne of Glass, Poison Study...
Heists
        e.g. Heist Society, Six of Crows

Auto-buy authors (and how many I've read by them):
Katie West (contemp. ones) 3
Ally Carter 10
Veronica Roth 3 (only one series is published so we'll see if it remains as one)
Kerstin Gier 4
Stephanie Perkins 3 (same as Roth so we'll see)

Read This Month

April

1. The Wrath and the Dawn
2. The Sign of Fours (CftM)
3. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, short stories
4. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, short stories
5. The Return of Sherlock Holmes, short stories
6. Dreams of Gods and Monsters (Series Finisher)
7. Magic Study (TBR)
8. Safe Haven
9. My Life With the Walter Boys
10. Pennyroyal Academy
11. Picture of Dorian Gray (CftM)
12. Two-way Street
13. Going Solo
14. The Isle of the Lost
15. Fire Study (Series Finisher)

Read This Month

March

16. Grimm Children's Legends (10) short stories
17. Happy Prince and Other Tales (5) short stories
18. House of Pomegranates (4) short stories
19. Lord arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (4) short stories

1. Adventures of Tom Sawyer (CftM)
2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (CftM)
3. Merry Men and other stories and fables (CftM)
4. Prince and the Pauper (CftM)
5. Roger Ackroyding Murha
6. Murder on the Orient Express
7. City of Ember
8. River Secrets
9. Curse Dark as Gold (TBR)
10. Days of Blood and Starlight
11. Teemestarinkirja
12. Fire Spell
13. Heir of Fire
14. All the Bright Places
15. Everything, everything

Keys & Humanity
March 16^th 2016
Something Different, again

There are things that we connect with “power” of some sorts. Now, what do you think when you think the words elevator and rich? See, I imagine a penthouse, like in movies if you will, where you need a key or keycard to access certain areas. And I had never thought that I wanted to access a floor like that, until I got the chance that is.

            So there I was in the elevator, taking the trash out from a café – fancy right - , and they gave me a key and told me what to do. The feeling though, of seeing an ordinary row of buttons and a keyhole in an elevator, knowing I had the key! It made me feel so good, for a reason or another. It’s not like it was a penthouse or anything, it was the garage where I could sort the trash, but still!

            So it got me thinking, what other ordinary things do I associate with power and/or fancy living. And well, I haven’t come up with anything, yet, but I still find it peculiar. I mean a key and lock is quite a simple thing, and yet I found it to be this magnificent thing. So what does this tell about humanity, or maybe it’s just me…

Any ideas or comments? Do tell. My Tumblr

Wishing you the best,

Sally

TBR

Trying to get those TBR piles down :) So these are books I own but haven't read yet...
(This was the list for 2016, and I have a new one for 2017!)

Start of the year: 26+5 + 27 classics + 13 from siblings
                > Classicy/award winner
                 Got before this year (the ones I want to get to zero by the end of the year)

End of the year: 2 + 5 classics + 2 from siblings

TBR:

   29. My True Love Gave to Me
   48. Frost Like Night

1. Fire Spell

(2.   Sisters Red 1-3)

5.    Heir of Fire

6.    Days of Blood and Starlight
7.   Pennyroyal

8.   Teemestarin kirja

9.   A Curse Dark as Gold
10. Magic Study
11.Fire Study

12.  All the Bright Places

13. River Secrets
 14. Forest Born

(15. False)

17.  The Heir
18. Miss Mayhem

19.  Snow Like Ashes
20. An Ember in the Ashes

(21.  The Books of Ember 1-4

25. In the Afterlight

26. The Knife of Never Letting Go

27. Lips Touch

(28. Emma)
30. Zombie Hearts
31. Winter

32.  All In

33.  Manners and Mutiny

34.  The Revolution of Ivy
35. See How They Run
36. My Life with the Walter Boys
37. Heartbreakers
38. Thorn
39. Two Way Street
40. The Isle of the Lost
41. Dreams of Gods & Monsters
42. Half Lost
43. Wanderlost
44. Just Ella
45. Perfect Cover
46. Killer Spirit
47. Ice Like Fire

CLASSICS:

>8. Jane Austen 2-3

>12. Charles Dickens 2-3

>21. Poe - Nantucket

   >23. Wilde 1/9

   >24. Shakespeare 2/37

   >25. Poe 3/71

   >26. Andersen 7/99
>1. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and other stories

>2. Oz 2-3

>4. Going Solo

>5. Catcher in the Rye

>6. Tom Sawyer
>7. Huckleberry Finn
>10. Sense and Sensibility
>11. Oliver Twist

>14. Wuthering Heights

>15. The Prince and the Pauper

>16. Sherlock Holmes 2,3,4,6

>19. Agatha Christie

>20. Agatha Christie

>22. Dorian Grey

>27. Grimm 200/200

>28. Agatha Christie

BROS BOOKS:

>9. Animal Farm

>10. To Kill a Mockingbird

11. Ask and the Answer 2-3

13. Safe Haven

3. Eleanor and Park

5. School Spirits

1. Geek Girl

4. Book Thief

8. Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks

>12. Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

2. Howl's Moving Castle

6. Graveyard Book

7. Stardust

Read This Month

February

1. Confess, audiobook
2. Eleanor and Park, audiobook
3. Marvelous Land of Oz (CftM)
4. Ozma of Oz (CftM)
5. Ms Marvel vol. 1, graphic novel
6. Ms Marvel vol. 2, graphic novel
7. Ms Marvel vol. 3, graphic novel
8. The Revolution of Ivy (TBR)
9. The Distance Between Us
10. Manners & Mutiny
11. Life of Pi
12. Snow Like Ashes
13. Me Before You, audiobook