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[phoebelilymay]

10 Books/Series that had an impact on you

I was tagged by agaispusreads, so thanks!!

The rules are to list (in no particular order) 10 books/series that impacted your life somehow, then tag 10 people to do the tag!

1. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell  I picked up a copy of this at a carboot for 50p when I was about 4 on a holiday with my grandparents. It remained my favourite childhood book, and I read it COUNTLESS times whilst at boarding school! Weirdly, I still hate horses.

2. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl  I watched the (old) version of this film as a child and became fascinated with all of Roald Dahl’s books, specifically Matilda and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It was so different from any other book I had read as a child, I loved the craziness!

3. Harry Potter series by J.K.Rowling   RAVENCLAW PRIDE FOREVER. I will always (as basically everyone else) have massive love for the Harry Potter series. This wasn’t the series that got me into reading, but I have such fond memories of reading these books for the first time and that’ll always stay with me. My strongest memory of reading a book as a child in fact, was reading the graveyard scene in The Goblet of Fire (my favourite Harry Potter book by the way...) on the ferry back from a holiday in France at 11pm with all my family asleep. I was so scared!

4. The Hunger Games Trilogy by Suzanne Collins  THIS was the series that got me back into reading. The summer of my last year at school my parents went on holiday for a week and left me at home with my nan. I was REALLY bored, and decided on a whim to buy some books as I hadn’t read anything in 2 years since the Twilight series died off. I found the Hunger Games, liked the premise, and bought the trilogy. I was absolutely hooked, to the extent I don’t think I will ever enjoy reading a book as much as I enjoyed reading ‘Catching Fire’ for the first time! So thanks Suzanne Collins, you caused this madness... Mainly due to Peeta Mellark who I may never fully get over.

5. Ready Player One by Ernest Cline  I only read this book a month ago but I became OBSESSED with it. This is probably my ideal book, I love the quest-like aspects, dystopian atmosphere, the 80′s pop culture references (especially from video games) and I love the strong female characters. READ THIS BOOK.

6. The Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices series by Cassandra Clare  This was the series that possibly cemented my love of YA literature. I couldn’t even explain my all consuming love for these books, but it might have something to do with Alec Lightwood, Gabriel Lightwood or Jem Carstairs...

7. The Shatter Me Series by Tahereh Mafi  This just proves books can be poetic, and an art form. But mostly, it proves that Aaron Warner is possibly my favourite book character of all time.

8. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han  To be honest, this also includes ‘P.S. I Still Love You’ and ‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ series. Jenny Han was the author that showed me I could get just as blown away with YA contemporaries as I could with YA high fantasy.

9. Wild Swans by Jung Chang  The best autobiographical novel I have ever read. Hands Down. 

10. Wonder by R.J. Palacio   Showing that middle-grade books can have just as deeper meanings and questions as adult fiction. Just thinking about this book again makes me want to re-read it immediatly.

 I tag ANYONE that wants to do this (obviously!) but I do tag: paigeinbooks, oswinsleaf, lukehotmancarpenter and lily-eve-blog

[aarontvaeit]

Awh hun im sure your friends will eventually remember! Happy birthday lovely, have an awesome day <33

Thank youuu darling, have a great day you too <33 (and it's almost 6pm here and they haven't said anything yet, so I think they definitely forgot about it)

[imnotherehonest]

Tagged by whyaretherethings Rules: Make a text post of 10 books that touched you in some way. Don't spend too long and don't worry about whether they are "great literary works" or anything, just think about what touched you. 1) The Yellow Wolf becomes Big - No one will have heard of this because my dad wrote it for me for my 18th birthday based on a set of bedtime stories from when I was a kid. Basically it was part of a spinoff from stories with the Big Bad Wolf about his family. The Medium Yellow Wolf was the daughter of the Big Bad Wolf's identical twin brother, the Big Good Wolf... 2) The Rockingdown Mystery - Actually pretty much any Enid Blyton book about kids having adventures, although this one is from my favourite series. I used to lose myself completely in these stories and I loved it. 3) Stormbreaker - I lived in the Alex Rider universe in my head for years. I guess I related to feeling like I had no choice and not fitting in and having secrets I felt I had to keep. 4) Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - I couldn't pick which to put on this list but this is the one that started the Harry Potter obsession so it seemed fitting. I asked to be in red house at school because of this book and considering I became House Captain that had quite a big impact. Still not over my lettet not appearing yet... 5) The Shell House - Probably the first book I ever read with canonically queer characters. Good book. 6) To kill a Mockingbird - We studied this at school but I remember reading it for the first time on a plane and getting so angry at all the ignorance and prejudice and injustice and not being able to stop crying. 7) Water Babies - I read this when I was about 9 and I can't really remember the story very well but the imagery and ideas stuck with me: of escaping a bad situation, of being freed and finding happiness by doing the right thing. 8) The Subtle Knife - My imagination ran away with me for the His Dark Materials trilogy; the idea of daemons - of another being who knew you completely, of never being alone - was so fantastic, but this was my favourite. The self sacrifice of Lyra and Will made me cry. 9) Animal Farm - I had no clue of any historical reference with this when it was read to me by my dad. I must've been about 6 or 7 but I got really caught up in the injustice of the situation. The end where the pigs are acting like the humans they claimed to so hate was really poignant to me and never let me go. 10) Old Bear and Friends - I used to love this series as a really little kid. I used to act bits out as my dad read to me. But I remember for my 4th birthday my parents set up the ladder and let me climb into the attic and there in a cardboard box - like in the books - was Old Bear. Finding 10 from different series is hard... I really need to start reading more again. And need to re read some of these. I tag fawkesofalbion and oswinsleaf and any one who bothered to read thus far :p

[claraoswinoswald]

cryin g because you guys wrote such nice things in the tags

[timelord]

oswinsleaf replied to your post: Alright so I study in a small town in ...

If i could i would send you pumpkin spiced lattes <3

thats so sweet <3 I wish they just sold the pumpkin spice powder so I could buy it and put it in my coffee at home...

[aarontvaeit]

DUDE YOU ARE TOO KIND AND I THINK YOU ARE AWESOME OKAY <3

NO NO WHAAAT I'M NOT AWESOME YOU ARE AWESOME <33

[noblehouseoftargaryen]

I was tagged by miakispus!! <3

Rules: In a text post, list ten books that have stayed with you in some way. Don’t take but a few minutes, and don’t think too hard — they don’t have to be the “right” or “great” works, just the ones that have touched you. Tag [ten] friends, including me, so I’ll see your list. Make sure you let your friends know you’ve tagged them.

The entire Harry Potter series

Looking for Alaska

The Fault in Our Stars

Jane Eyre

The Hunger Games

Pride and Prejudice

The Devil on Horseback

Eragon

The Diamond Throne

Alice in Wonderland

Rule 1. Always post the rules Rule 2. Answer the questions the person who tagged you ask then write 10 new ones. Rule 3. Tag ten new people then link them to this post. Rule 4. Let them know you tagged them.

1. Where is your favourite place in the world?

My favourite place in the world... probably Pompeii, I went over to Italy on a school trip for two weeks and nothing ever touched me as much as Pompeii did, I could have spent 3 days in there and still not been satisfied. Either that or Forster, I've been going up there ever since I was a baby and I've never missed a trip :) 

2. What is your favourite animal?

Any kind of big cat, Tigers, Lions, Panthers, anything like that. I'm not even sure why, they're just absolutely amazing

3. What is your dreamjob?

Either to be a published author, or work with game studios to write Video Games, scripts and storylines, everything like that! :D 

4. Are you religious?

I'm not, I'm an agnostic atheist, I don't believe in God persay, but I don't accept the fact that there's not something out there at all

5. Do you have/want any tattoos? (if you have, what is it?)

I do! I've been saving up for my first one, which is written in my mums handwriting, from the spoken word poem 'The Future' by Neil Hillborne, "I saw the future, I did, and in it I was alive" and then I really really want (if I was ever in a stable job I know I'd never lose and I love) tattoo sleeves like Griffon Ramsey, I fucking love tattoo sleeves.

6. Have you ever broken any bones?

I'm probably jinxing this but nope! I feel like I've missed out on something in my childhood by not ahah! But I can't say that I'm scared of the pain that comes with breaking one

7. Which languages can you speak?

Just English, I used to be really good at Italian and Japanese, but I never followed through with them :/

8. Who is your biggest inspiration?

I would have to say either the cliched option of my Mum, or a historical figure like Boudica, just an absolutely badass, resolute woman, and I hope that I can have that kind of courage one day 

9. Who is in your opinion the most beautiful actress in the world?

Natalie Dormer or Emma Watson, I would let either of them do anything they wanted, I bow down to them

10. What are 3 movies that you have watched more than 5 times?

Pride and Prejudice, Frozen and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

My Questions! 

1. Pick three movies right now, your favourites, ones you haven't watched doesn't matter... these are now the only three movies you can watch for the rest of your life, how do you cope?

2. Top 5 TV shows of all time? Why?

3. What's one thing your parents don't know?

4. Would you take the choice to live forever if it was given to you?

5. Play, Pause, Rewind or Fastforward, which one of these would you pick in relation to your life (Like skip forward etc)

6. Favourite Marvel and DC characters!

7. Are you closer to your Dad or your Mum?

8. Whats your craziest drunk story?

9. Pick a few books you could read for the rest of your life?

10. Your favourite band/artist

I'm Tagging: laterovaries , assbuttin-the-garrison, thetwelfthdoctor, oswinsleaf, whydontweevergoanywherenice, ofcoltsandcrossbows, elrondd, colinodonorgasm, janesfoster, hermionegrangerandarocketship and miakispus

[staroz]

question meme!! tagged by watsssson :)

Rule one: Always post the rules.

Rule two: Answer the questions the person who tagged you asked and write 11 new ones.

Rule three: Tag 11 people and link them to the post.

Rule four: Actually tell them you tagged them.

also these questions are kinda hard... or maybe I'm just realising now how boring i am aw

1. any current obsessions? A certain person is my obsession atm, i love her //// 2. a movie/tv show/book you want to watch/read but don’t have the time to? yeeeah i started reading Cloud Atlas earlier this year and went through it real fast until i got close to the end... i slowed down for some reason and haven't picked it up in weeks even tho it's great and i wanna finish it, i just don't have the patience to read rn i think........ 3. favorite childhood tv show? oh man, a lot. power rangers is one. i also loved watching gundam and stuff but i can hardly even remember the plots lol 4. fandoms that you’re in that you don’t really post about? errrr idk there are lots of things i like. i barely have any hannibal or criminal minds on my blog these days even tho they're two shows i watch dedicatedly, does that count? i used to blog more abt them sooOoOOOoo 5. favorite place (city/state/region) you’ve been to? probably seaworld and dreamworld :3 6. trope/cliche that you can’t stand? when they start out hating each other but then end up in love 7. trope/cliche that you absolutely love? omg lots. i really can't single out a certain one rn hahaha 8. favorite fictional ginger character? omg I really don't know. can i just be generic and say ron weasley? i always seem to fall for redheaded characters so a lot are going through my mind lol 9. animated movie that you think doesn’t get the attention it deserves? tales from earthsea. i actually rly liked that one. 10. what’s an outdoors activity you enjoy? searching for indoors. nah, kidding, i enjoy simply walking :) 11. do you think the contents of your tumblr accurately reflect what you’re like irl? a bit maybe??

here are my questionsssss

1. if you had to get song lyrics tattooed on your body what would you choose? 2. what is the most recent book you have re-read? 3. do you keep a diary/journal? 4. which actor would play you in a biographical movie? 5. do you like wearing hats? 6. would you rather live by the mountains or by the sea? 7. what is the last video game you played? 8. when was the last time you sent someone a letter or postcard? 9. what is your favourite type of bread? 10. have you ever had yakult? 11. complete the following sentence: in spite of my regular interests, I ha

okayyyyy um i suck at tagging, so i won't choose 11 people, but the following peeps can do this if they want: oswinsleaf & westendkarkat! :) Just two again, i guess that's becoming my thing.

okay, thanks for tagging me!

thanks for reading!

thanks!