It’s Top 5 Wednesday, a meme hosted by booktuber Lainey aka gingereadslainey for which you can join on the Goodreads page here. Today is all about books that someone suggest to us and that we ended up loving. It seems like an easy enough topic, but with so many recommendations coming at me left and right from the awesome book blogging community that we are in, it’s a little tough to remember who said what. I’ll try my best though.
Red Rising by Pierce Brown
Yes, I will never shy away from using a chance to mention this book. I was already pretty interested in reading it, but then I saw CW @Read, Think, Ponder mention it in her fantastic post about why dystopians matter (click here to read it) and Cátia @The Girl Who Read Too Much had great things to say as well. It was inevitable that I would get around to it and NOW I AM IN LOVE!
Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
So, I was going to read that book anyway, but Cristina @My Tiny Obsessions actually sent me her copy of the book to lend it to me because she needed me to read it right away. I’d call that a very insistent recommendation!
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
A friend of mine from uni told me about this one and I was very reluctant. Cancer stories are just SO sad and I didn’t want to be down after reading the book. She kept insisting, I heard about them making it into a movie and finally gave in. Am I glad that I read this book! It started my whole John Green book collection!
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Another topic I am not too fond of is WWII. I had to deal with that in school every single year, over and over again. Austrians are really keen on the younger generations not to forget what the older ones messed up. I know they don’t want history to repeat itself, but it made the topic kind of dreadful. However, Catriona from Little Book Owl kept going on about it and it turned into one of my favourite books out there.
Dark Reflections Series by Kai Meyer
My cousin let me borrow her books and that was years ago, yet I am still not over it! It had flying lions made of stone, a mirror version of Venice, people who travelled through mirrors and general magical awesomeness and despair. So glad she recommended me those books! My cousin and I have a very similar taste in books and I can always count on her!
What are some books you ended up loving because someone else recommended them? Tell me in the comments below!
Yay The Fault In our Stars! ❤ ❤ I have to say, the book blogging community is amazing at recommending books 😀 I think the last one I was recommended was I'll Give You The Sun and I fell in love ❤
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It’s true! The book blogger community suggests so much, that’s why I was struggling with the post. I didn’t remember who said what hahaha
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Hahaha, I’m having a hard time remembering, too, sometimes, we should start making lists :p
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That would probably be smart. Or Goodreads should have the option of adding notes to the to-read list.
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if I did this list, most books on it would be recommendations by you and Cátia :D. I really need to get to Red Rising…
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😀 It was surprisingly difficult to remember if and when and who recommended what.
You do! You do! You do!
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I know :P, I need to find the book cheap though
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Is it still that expensive? Or are you trying to buy all three at once?
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i want all three, to make sure they match- I need to try to find them though
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My Morning Star edition should fit, but I am not sure. I dreamt about it yesterday though. I hugged the book and cried – I need to read that – soon!
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you hugged it and cried? in your dream? DAMN! when does it get there?
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I don’t know. It was sent last Friday so maybe tomorrow or next week.
I sure did dream that … there was more to the dream than that, but I won’t go into detail.
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LOL, now I’m going to think that Pierce was in the dream 😛
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He was … *blushes* but he was my best friend and I loved him unconditionally, but in a platonic way. Still, I don’t want to go into detail about the other stuff. I was weirdly emotional in the past 24 hours. And I feel like I have a massive hangover.
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oh, I won’t ask then ;). I love the idea of your very platonic best-friendship with Pierce 🙂
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We had a bookshop together but then he had to leave for a book tour and generally was too busy for the store. I was devastated.
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omg, that sounds awful. it would be a good movie though
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He came back (not just for me, but kind of) and I was SO relieved.
Good thing I keep a dream journal. This is gonna be hilarious in a couple weeks or months time.
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oh my gosh… Pierce is the stuff of dreams… *sigh* 😛
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Quite literally in this case.
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YES! :D, well, there are definitly worse things to dream about
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I am recommending Carry On to everyone I can talk to, but I won’t let anyone borrow it, not even my best friend! lol I also recommended TFiOS to everyone when it came out.
I haven’t read Red Rising yet but it’s been on my list for some time. I have a friend who’s obsessed with it. I also own The Book Thief and it’s on my tbr list.
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Cristina is the best! She didn’t just let me borrow the book – we live in different countries! She sent it to me via express mail 😀 I still have to return it though.
YOU HAVE TO READ RED RISING! I am obsessed with it. To think that it was a little difficult to get in at first, I love it all the more now. Morning Star is on it’s way to me.
And I cried like a baby during the Book Thief …
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My friend recommended Stephen King’s “The Dark Tower” series a few years back, so when I visited a book store during my visit to London I picked up the first two (of seven) in the series. And since then I have finished all of them and absolutely loved the experience.
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I just love it when that happens. Sometimes you just need someone else to point you in the right direction.
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I plan on reading Red Rising in a couple of books because you recommended it.
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YES! EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ RED RISING!
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Please, tell us how you really feel. Should people read Red Rising?
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I just dreamt that I finally got Morning Star last night and I hugged the book and started crying. That is how much the books mean to me. They are in my dreams.
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The other night I dreamed my dad took me and my sisters to a theme park and we got in line for a ride that was a cross between a water slide and a giant Rube Goldberg machine. Before the fun could start though, I woke up.
We have such different dreams, don’t we?
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We do have very different dreams. Mine are mostly very odd … lately I’ve been having a ton with reappearances of people from my past. Quite a lot of them are of people I haven’t seen in years and I don’t even like. It confuses me to no end.
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Maybe you’re dealing with some sort of inner guilt? I don’t know, the only dreams I really understand are nightmares.
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Guilt? I never did anything wrong to those people! They were the ones that didn’t stay in contact with me.
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I could go on with that line, but I don’t want to at the moment. Besides, does it matter in the end? As long as we remember the difference between dream and reality, it’ll be fine.
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My dreams are always very vivid, so when I dream stuff like that, I sometimes wake up more exhausted than rested. So, while I can distinguish between dream and reality , I sure don’t have to like it.
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My dreams are always strange, and my nightmares terrifying. Enough said.
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I get it … I once dreamt a week straight about getting killed a 100 different ways … it wasn’t fun.
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I’d press for more details, but I don’t want to make you uncomfortable.
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It was a while back, I can’t remember all the details. I just know I got shot, strangeled, stabbed, electrocuted but never drowned! Drowning doesn’t work in my dreams. Never has.
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I don’t think I’ve ever had a drowning death in my dreams either. Weird.
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I always end up being able to breathe under water. However, I have been suffocated in a dream before.
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This is getting very dark. I like it.
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Well, I don’t like being killed in my sleep! Worst thing was probably the one where my apartment exploded.
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Would you rather be killed while wide awake?
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Of course not! But as I said, I also don’t like waking up more tired than when I went to bed.
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For that, I recommend hypnosis. It works for me.
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Interesting.
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Happy to recommend some videos if you’d like to try it.
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Hmm, I’m okay for now. But I know who to go to if I change my mind! Thanks!
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Anytime.
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I keep telling everyone that’ll I’ll read the books they love but I never manage to get to them. My goal is to get through books people recommended me last year though. But books I loved and were recommended have been Unbroken, The Glass Castle, Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, and, more recently, A Little Life. And I’m currently reading Me Before You, which everyone said was a must read back in 2015!
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I know it’s difficult to read EVERYTHING the others suggest and recommend. I still need to read Me Before You as well. And I want to get to Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda as well. I even promised to people that I would
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Also the Book Thief for me. And The Night Circus.
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I magically found the Night Circus on my own! But aren’t you glad someone suggested it to you?
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So glad!
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