Lindea Yven

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Day 30: Favorite coffee table book

I have too many books to choose from for this, lately I have accumulated a great amount of special edition books. Though I think my favorites right now might be the design of the Plated Prisoner series by Raven Kennedy, it is just something about the white and gold mixing together that makes the books so pretty to look at, plus the spine design match.

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Day 29: Book you’re currently reading

Right now I am reading two books, and I’m trying to finish them before the end of the month as I have a challenge to do in October. Witch King by Martha Wells, is one of the books I am reading. But I don’t think I will make enough headway to finish it before 1st of October, so I might have to pause it until November. The other book I’m reading is “The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig, This book…

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Day 28: Last book you read

September has been a slow reading month for me, I needed a bit of a breather after reading a lot of books in August and preparing to read 13 books for a challenge in October. The last book I read I finished a few days ago, and the book is Powerless by Lauren Roberts. What was nice about this book is that I found it very enjoyable, since September has been a bit of a reading slump for me. Most of…

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Day 27: Favorite fiction book

This prompt seem a little bit too wide, I wonder if the person who initially made this intended for this for be a literary fiction prompt? So I decided to limit the prompt to that and went on to Storygraph to see what books I have read that are tagged as literary fiction. To my surprise I don’t read a lot of books with that tag, which is odd because I thought I’d read quite a few. Maybe my…

Day 27: Favorite fiction book

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Day 26: Favorite nonfiction book

I’ve read quite a few non-fiction books this year, but it is kind of hard to pick a favorite. It is hard because I read nonfiction books differently, I read them to learn something rather than for “enjoyment.” But I think if I have to pick one I’ll pick “The Comfort book” by Matt Haig. The Comfort Book really is a comforting book pondering the meaning of life in a very approachable way. It is…

Day 26: Favorite nonfiction book

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Day 25: Favorite book you read in school

(I’m sorry I thought I scheduled this, but I didn’t.) The favorite book I had to red in school is a difficult question because it has been a while since I have been in school and I don’t remember a lot of the books we read. I do remember a book (technically a play but we read it from a book) that I had a great time reading and playing around with was “Waiting for Godot” by Samuel Beckett. The…

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Day 24: Book that contains your favorite scene

For this one I think I will go with Mockinjay (Hunger Games 3), and needless to say this will be a major spoiler. My favorite scene from this book is at the end when Katniss realises that Coin will be no better than Snow, that she might be just as bad as Snow. And then she shoots her. The book slow walks the reader to this conclusion, for me it was a “soft” twist because I saw the signs of it…

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Day 23: Book you tell people you’ve read, but haven’t (or haven’t actually finished)

It is not really a book I tell people I have read, but it is a book I really wish I could finish. Over the years I have tried to read this book multiple time, because all it’s themes and elements suggests that I should absolutely love this book. It is considered a classic and I know a lot of people love it. The books touches closely on mental health which is another topic very close to my…

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Day 22: Book you plan to read next

I have quite a few books on my TBR list, by now the list is never-ending. Since I am a mood reader most of my “read next” plans end up being scrapped. Right now I hope to start reading The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon next because I have heard great things about it. In 2059, Scion has taken over most of the world’s cities, promising safety for all the citizens it deems worthy and wiping out…

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Day 21: Favorite picture book from childhood

Again, I don’t really remember any picture books. But a book I really liked when I was a child is Ronja Røverdatter (Ronia, The Robber’s daughter) by Astrid Lindgren. It follows Ronia, a girl, growing up among a clan of robbers living in a castle in the woodlands of early-Medieval Scandinavia. It probably started my spiral into loving fantasy because it has a lot of fantastical creatures in…

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Day 20: Book you’ve read the most number of times

I am going to break the rules here and not use the book I have read the most number of times, but the series I have read the most times. It is actually quite a fun story about how I came across these books. They were recommended to me by one of my coworkers back in 2017 or 18. I started reading the first book and I really disliked the first 7 chapters, so much so that I let my co-worker know and…

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Day 19: Favorite spicy book

This ended up being very late, since I worked night shift yesterday. It is kind of hard to pick a favourite here, because a lot of these books tend to be very similar to each other. For years my favorite go to used to be Kitty Thomas, but since she wrote Blue Sky I have kind of fallen off her wagon. Recently I have really enjoyed reading The L.O.R.D series by Shantel Tessier. At least if you…

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Day 18: Book you’re most embarrassed to say you like

I have no shame when it comes to books, most of the time I just like what I like and I don’t beat around the bush about it. The only time I struggle to admit to liking a book would be if it is an author I have previously “written off” because I didn’t like a book or two. This happened to me recently as when I picked up “The Cruel Prince” by Holly Black. It is an author I never picked up books…

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Day 17: Shortest book you’ve read

I don’t know if this count as a book, since it is part of a short story collection, but they are published as individual books in a series on Kindle. So I will use this one. The Long Game by Ann Leckie, this story is a 31-page long story about an inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed. On a far-off colony, humans tower over the local species who grow the…

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Day 16: Longest book you’ve read

I will change this slightly and say the longest book I have recently read. The longest book I have recently read is “It” by Stephen King. It was a very difficult read, because it dealt with very dark topics and had some very disturbing depictions (especially in regards to animals). But I managed to get through the whole books and in the end it was a very interesting read. The book is 1120 pages…

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Day 15: First “chapter book” you can remember reading as a child

I don’t really remember any picture book, but I think the first book I read on my own was norwegian book called Ingen Gråter i Himmelen “Nobody Cries in Heaven.” While doing this post I looked up the book and from the blurb I think I had no business reading that on my own. It was a book about a girl who had an alcoholic father, and what difficult time she had dealing with it and understanding…

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Day 14: Book whose main character you want to marry

There are book characters who I absolutely love, but whether or not I would want to marry any of them is more questionable. So this is another difficult one for me, because I simply can’t think in these terms. I think maybe I would like to marry Addie from the Invisible life of Addie LaRue because I find her character very compelling and liked the ending very much.