summer book tag

Hi everyone!
Since summer is approaching (or actually, it's not approaching because it's already all around us) I thought it would be fun to do more summery posts, starting with the summer book tag!
I don't know who created it in the first place but I got the questions from readrantrockandroll.
I tag everyone who wants to do this!

1. What book cover makes you think of summer?
I'm currently reading Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and the version I have reminds me a lot of summer with all the flowers and the bright colours.

2. What book has brightened your day?

The first one that came to mind is definitely Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda. I love this book to pieces and whenever I am having a bad day and reading it or even just skimming through it, it makes me feel better in an instant. There's just something about the characters and especially Simon that isn't just comforting but also makes me smile and be happy☺

3. Find a book cover with yellow on it.

That's not hard. My version of Carry On has a lot of yellow on it. This, again, is a very happy book for me. I absolutely love Rainbow Rowell's books and I was so excited when she announced there was going to be a sequel to Carry On, Wayward Son! I can't wait for that!

4. What is your favourite summer beach read?

I don't have a specific favourite summer beach read but I remember reading one particular book on the beach a few years ago and it still feels salty when I touch it, oops.

I read All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven three years ago but I remember absolutely loving it!

5. What action book had you running for the ice cream man?

Well... I don't read action, tbh. I think the book that comes closest to action that I've read is Renegades by Marissa Meyer because there are a lot of super heroes and such. Don't kill me for saying that, I know super hero books aren't action books, but there is a lot of action going on. Also, I read that book in a day although it's HUGE so it's incredibly fast paced which kind of reminds me of running which is a part of the question...? 

6. (Sunburn) What book has left you with a bad and/ or painful ending?

The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan. Like, seriously? In the beginning of the next book, he even apologised for leaving us with such a DEVASTATING cliffhanger. 

7. (Sunset) What book gave you the happiest feeling when it ended?

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz has such a cute ending! I LOVED it and I'm still feeling all fuzzy and warm when I think about it.

8. What book cover reminds you of a sunset?

The colours look like the sun and I think the orange on the cover is exactly the shade of orange the sun sometimes has while setting.

9. What is one book or series you hope to read this summer?

I really, finally want to read The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with summer but I still want to get to it asap.

summerscaries book tag

Hi!
I saw Emma from emmmabooks do this tag on booktube and it seemed to be fun so I thought I'd like to try it too.
I tag everyone who feels like doing this!♥

1. Specter: A book that still haunts you after reading it.
This would definitely be A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. It's my favourite book of all time and it made me think a lot and the reason why it still haunts me is that I (still!) start tearing up whenever I think about it although I read it months ago.

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2. Don't split up: A book you would want to read around a campfire with friends.
I would want to read something cozy and warm and something that feels like home - so naturally, I choose Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone for this one. Sitting around a campfire, you could easily imagine being in the Gryffindor common room chatting with your Hogwarts friends.

3. A book you would like to ghost.
... meaning, a book you would like to forget that you read it. I had to think really hard about that, but I think I'm gonna go with Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake for this one. I DNFed it and since everyone's raving about it I would like to forget what I read so far and go into it with an open mind.

4. Frankenstein: A book that mixes genres well.
The first book that came to mind was Carry On by Rainbow Rowell. Technically, it's a fantasy and an LGBTQ+ romance but it's also kind of a satire and well, it's just perfection. I loved how it's able to stand on its own feet as a novel and be completely independent on its own, but at the same time, how it's such a cute Harry Potter satire that you can't help but fall in love with.

5. Murder: A book with a twist you didn't see coming.
I choose Scythe by Neal Shusterman for this question because there wasn't only one twist I didn't see coming but so, so many! This book was absolutely unpredictable for me and the plot twists were so good! I can't wait to see what's going to happen in the next one!

6. A book or series you would like to revive from the BookTube graveyard.
For me, that would be Heartless by Marissa Meyer. There was so much hype around this book when it first came out and now, nobody really talks about it anymore. That's why I don't really feel motivated picking it up anymore and it's been sitting on my tbr for forever.

7. Witch: A horror book with a strong female protagonist.
Honestly, I don't really read horror books so instead, I'm going to pick a thriller series because that's the genre closest to horror that I read.
I'm picking the Rizzoli & Isles series by Tess Gerritsen which revolves around Detective Jane Rizzoli who is an absolute bad-ass. She's smart and fierce and gains acceptance in the police's patriarchic pecking order which is why she's quite a strong female protagonist.

8. Mind Control: A spooky book you would recommend to everyone.
I don't really read spooky books because I freak out quite easily so the spookiest book I can't think of might not be that spooky to you: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. It's such a classic though and for some reasons, while I read it, it really reminded me of the books I read when I was younger and I don't know, but it felt like it could be enjoyed by many different people.

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intimidating tbr tag

Hello!
Nobody actually tagged me to do this but I still really wanted to so here I am. This tag has been going around booktube a while ago so I am quite late to the game. Bear with me, I'm not up to date with many things.
Anyway, here we go with the questions:

1. A book on your tbr pile that you haven't finished
Well... there are none. Usually, when I dnf a book, I really dnf it. I don't just put it aside for later, I really unhaul it and most of the time, books don't get second chances with me (though maybe I'll try to change that in the future). So all of the books on my tbr pile are completely and utterly unread.

2. A book you just haven't had the time to read for
For this one I'm going to go with Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I'm not the biggest classics fan and it always takes a lot of time for me to read them. It's not really that I didn't have time to read it yet (I am a strong believer of the theory you don't need to have time, you just got to make time) but I didn't want to make the effort and really invest my time in reading it. But I really want to this year!

3. A book you haven't read because it's a sequel
I don't have any sequels on my tbr because usually I pick sequels up quite quickly after I got them, but there are a lot of sequels that I still want to get so even though technically, it's not on my tbr pile (yet), I'm going to go with Darkness Follows by L.A. Weatherly. I read Broken Sky, the first book in this trilogy, last month and although I really do want to finish the trilogy, I haven't acccumulated the other two books. I will in the near future though. At least I hope I will.

that's the first book... obviously

4. A book you haven't read because it's brand new
The latest addition to my tbr pile would be They Both Die At the End by Adam Silvera and I do plan on picking this up next month. The book itself is not brand new (I think it came out last year) but it's brand new on my tbr, I only got it last week. And I'm dying to read it, I just love Adam Silvera so much!

5. A book by an author you read previously and didn't really like
Again, I have no book for this one. I try to pick up only one book per author at a time (at least for the authors I don't know yet) so I can still decide whether I want to read more books by that author after having read one book. I still want to talk about one particular book for this question: Carnal Innocence by Nora Roberts. It's not that I didn't like the books by her I read before but I guess I kind of outgrew my Nora Roberts phase so I am a bit hesitant to pick this up.

6. A book on your tbr pile that you're just not in the mood to read
I guess that would be The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. I have heard so many amazing things about this book and I know I would probably love it but I haven't been in the mood for historical fiction lately at all so I assume it's still gonna sit on my tbr pile for some time in the future. But I do want to read it eventually!

7. A book on your tbr pile that you haven't read because it's enormous
That's definitely A Secret History by Donna Tartt. I loved The Goldfinch by her but it took me a long time to read that one so I guess I will need quite some time to finish A Secret History too which is exactly why I haven't picked it up yet.

this is the German cover btw

8. A book on your tbr you bought because of the cover
For this I'm going to go with The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I will probably still like the book though so I didn't solely buy it because of the cover but still... I have absolutely no idea when I'll get to it. So many books, so little time.

9. The book on your tbr you find the most intimidating
I'm gonna go with 1984 by George Orwell for that one. Not only because the font of my copy is tiny but also because it's quite old (it was published in 1949) and a lot of the time, I'm struggling with older books because I don't like the writing style. But still, I know I will read this eventually - not in the nearest future, but some day I will.

So those were the most intimidating books on my tbr pile... maybe I'll do the tag again in a year or two to see how my tbr changed till then. If it changes at all. Which I hope it will, haha.
What is your most intimidating book on your tbr? I would really like to know, leave me your answer in the comments!
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