My books of 2014

What? It’s a little too late to be talking about the books I read last year? Just because the month is almost over?

Meeeeeh.

I know my updates are somehow like eclipses or comets, but I’m trying to change that this year. I already failed by not updating until the end of January? Maaaaaybe. But I swear it’s usually for reasons I can’t control.

So, here’s the list month by month, with the stars rating I gave them on Goodreads.

JANUARY

Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman – 5 stars

(I really LOVED Neverwhere and I’m a fan of Neil ever since. I’m planning on reading everything)

FEBRUARY

Mythical Detective Loki Ragnarok, vol. 1, by Sakura Kinoshita (manga) – 5 stars

Ghostgirl, by Tonya Hurley – 4 stars

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them, by JK Rowling – 4 stars

(Loki was a rereading, but I truly enjoyed it again. Ghostgirl would have been more relevant when I was at a certain age I guess, but I laughed a lot and the cultural references were awesome. Fanstastic Beasts was…weird, but entertaining.)

MARCH

Marmalade Boy Little 1, by Wataru Yoshizumi – no rating

Yamato Nadeshiko Sichihenge/The Wallflower, vols. 25 to 31, by Tomoko Hayakawa – 5 stars (all)

(I guess it was the manga month. I remember I barely had the time or the disposition to read anything else. Marmalade Boy is a hit of my preteen years, so when I knew Wataru was writing a ‘sequel’ I had to take a look. It’s not bad. The Wallflower has become one of my favourite manga ever. It’s hilarious and far from typical.)

APRIL

Donde los árboles cantan, by Laura Gallego – 3 stars

Yamato Nadeshiko Sichihenge/The Wallflower vol 32 – 4 stars

Isolation by Bex-chan (fanfiction) – 4 stars

(I don’t know if Laura’s book is translated to English, so there. Isolation is a Dramione (Draco/Hermione, from Harry Potter) fanfiction that is so well written I’m actually a little jealous.)

JUNE

Over The Tracks (The Heart Rate Of A Mouse #1), by Anna Green – 4 stars

A Dance With Dragons (A Song Of Ice And Fire #5) by George RR Martin – 3 stars

El joven Lennon, by Jordi Sierra i Fabra – 5 stars

Dead Until Dark (Sookie Stackhouse #1), by Charlaine Harris – 2 stars

Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack on Titan, vol 13, by Hajime Isayama – 3 stars

City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments #1), by Cassandra Clare – 3 stars

(THROAM is a piece of fanfiction too, but you can read it as a whole new thing apart from that. I’d recommend it to anyone who is not afraid of a little gay porn. Dance was a little disappointing and a LOT boring. But it has some pretty good parts too. I hate Sookie and Bill . SnK/AoT started to get boring too. City of Bones was good enough to keep me hooked so I read the whole series in a few days.)

JULY

City of Ashes (The Mortal Instruments #2), by Cassandra Clare – 3 stars

City of Glass (The Mortal Instruments #3), by Cassandra Clare – 3 stars

City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments #4), by Cassandra Clare – 4 stars

City of Lost Souls (The Mortal Instruments #5), by Cassandra Clare – 4 stars

City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments #6), by Cassandra Clare – 5 stars

The Fault In Our Stars, by John Green – 2 stars

The Man In The Iron Mask, by Alexandre Dumas – 2 stars

Homecoming (Ghostgirl #2), by Tonya Hurley – 2 stars

(Apart from the TMI series, July was a pretty bad month, as you can see)

AUGUST

Divergent (Divergent #1) & Insurgent (Divergent #2), by Veronica Roth – 3 stars

Wolves vs Hearts (The Heart Rate Of A Mouse #2) & A Kingdom By The Sea (The Heart Rate Of A Mouse #3), by Anna Green – 5 stars (both)

(Divergent is a series which I think has a pretty good general basis & imaginary distopian world but with a main character I don’t really like and several flaws in its development. I still want to read Allegiant though –just to see how it all ends. WvH & AKbtS were magnificent though, I was heartbroken because it ended.)

OCTOBER

A Midsummer Night’s Dream, by William Shakespeare – 2 stars

Game of Thrones (A Song Of Ice And Fire #1), by George RR Martin (rereading) – 5 stars

Foxfire: Confessions of a girl gang, by Joyce Carol Oates – 5 stars

(I was disappointed by Shakespeare’s comedy, enjoyed a lot Winterfell again, fell in love with Legs and wanted to join the gang)

NOVEMBER

Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles #1), by Marissa Meyer – 4 stars

The Outsiders, by E.S. Hinton – 3 stars

Scarlet (The Lunar Chronicles #2), by Marissa Meyer – 4 stars

A Wise Man’s Fear (The Kingkiller Chronicle), by Patrick Rothfuss – 3 stars

(I loved Cinder & Scarlet although there was something missing for me hence the 4 stars. The Outsiders wasn’t so amazing after reading Foxfire though it’s a great piece. The plot twist was Kvothe’s second book, where I wanted to punch him in the face so many times that I couldn’t love this book as much as the first.)

DECEMBER

Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Seth-Grahame Smith – 2 stars

Shatter Me (Shatter Me #1), by Tahereh Mafi – 4 stars

(P&P&Z, although pretty laughable sometimes, could have been so much better I had to 2 starred it. Shatter Me has become one of my favourite things, although some details refrained me from giving the 5 stars.)

That was all! Have you read any of those books? If so, what did you think about them? What books did you enjoy past year, and what books did you hate?

Don’t be shy 😉

-E.

Kvothe rings

Somebody get me these.

PLEASE.

I haven’t been this sad for my lack of money for ag–no, I’m always sad, terribly sad for my little economy resources. But this. THIS. They’re so beautifully wonderful that actual tears almost poured down my cheeks when I saw on Pat’s blog these rings were for “sale” (yes I call him Pat we are good friends and geek buddies in my mind).

Why did I write “sale”, with the “”? Because these rings aren’t just the usual merchandising. They’re part of a thing that Pat himself calls experimental fundraiser. I don’t remember now what the money was for but you surely can find it, and then maybe donate-purchase something, here (if you don’t find enough info, go check Pat’s blog mentioned above). The name of the fundraiser, Geeks Doing Good, it’s encouraging by itself —in my opinion.

So… Awesome stuff and a good cause. If you can afford it and like something in there, go buy-donate it. Don’t miss the chance.

Unfortunately I won’t be able 😦 I don’t have the money right now. And so I thought at least I should share the info.

You don’t even have to be a fan of The Kingkiller Chronicle or any of Pat’s work. There are rad beauties like this too:

Go! ^^

-E

Currently reading: my crowded shelf

Yeah. It’s true. In my “currently-reading” shelf on Goodreads there’s room for little now. Oh well there’s only six. It’s not so much. I’ve had twelve.

The thing is, sometimes I start reading books and then leave them again because of many reasons: I get bored, I’m not in the mood for that kind of fiction, I start another one that keeps more hooked…

So as of now, here’s some things I’m reading:

City of Heavenly Fire (The Mortal Instruments #6), by Cassandra Clare

The cover says “Prepare to be hooked” and oh I’m SO hooked by this fucking saga I can’t even begin to explain. To sum it up, I’ve read the first five books in barely two weeks. I think that says it all.

Over The Tracks (The Heart Rate of a Mouse #1), by Anna Green

This is serious business. It’s a piece of fanfiction but it’s a hella awesome book too. In fact, there’s three books. An entire saga. You can easily forget it’s fanfiction, and if you don’t even know the band is based on (Panic! At The Disco), you can easily read it as an original and great book of a boy/boy couple involving music and everything that usually comes with rockstars: sex, drugs, perdition.
I didn’t even ship this ship (Ryden) before I started reading it. And now it’s so real to me that it’s confusing to see the real people (Ryan Ross, Brendon Urie) as they really are but as their THROAM characters.

Homecoming (Ghostgirl #2), by Tonya Hurley

The first one, I loved it a lot. Dark topics and cultural references to authors/books and music that made me jumped on the seat fangirling as the crazy thing I am. But this one didn’t hook me. Not that I dislike it, but it was getting me bored. So it’s there and it will probably stay there for a long time.

Marauders!Crack, by Irati

This is another fanfiction. And it’s in Spanish. And I don’t know if there’s an English translation so sorry if you who’s reading this feel the urge to read it.
The ship here is the so-called wolfstar, that is, the couple of Sirius Black and Remus Lupin. As it happened with THROAM mentioned above, I didn’t ship it. I even hated this ship. I couldn’t even think of such a thing, and I found the Remus/Tonks so adorable that nothing else could exist.
But oh. It does.
The story sets in the last years at Hogwarts of the Marauders, and I’ve only read like four chapters, but it’s written so beautifully that I fell for it.

La Mécanique du Coeur, by Mathias Malzieu

This one…we just didn’t connect. I don’t know when or if I’ll get to it again.

The Wise Man’s Fear (The Kingkiller Cronicle #2), by Patrick Rothfuss

I’m love with this saga. In love. I hadn’t been this excited for a fantasy saga, and probably a saga in general, for ages. I mean, I’m quite enjoying The Mortal Instruments but these ones are GOLD. MAGIC. UNICORNS AND ALL THAT PRETTY STUFF. So that’s the reason why finishing this book is taking me so long. Not that I dislike it. Not that it gets boring (for Elodin’s sake, no way!). NOTHING OF THAT. It’s just that the third one isn’t out yet and I will get so sad when this one is finished and I’m not freaking ready for that no no no I want more and more. So I’m tasting it slowly. Every page is a delicatessen piece.

So this is all. And you? What books (or book, I might be the only one crazy enough for this) are you reading right now? Have you read any of the above? Let me read your thoughts.

Until next time! :3

-E