Ash Reads Stuff

I'm super excited about this Top Ten Tuesday , a weekly feature brought to you by T he Broke and the Bookish . 2016 has been a great year for book releases, so let's get started! Forget everything you know about Captain Hook (except if you watch Once Upon a Time ) and read this book. You won't be sorry.  While we're talking about pirates...check this out too.  Do you have a best friend? If so, read this book. Oh, hell, read it even if you don't have a best friend.  A fluffy-but-not-fluffy about friendship and love. And there's a kitten.  One of my favorite adult novels, ever. I cried. You will too.  Seriously amazing story-telling. (Okay, this one doesn't come until next week but it's SO GOOD make sure you read it.)  Perfect ending to a dark and gritty series. You've got me, Pierce.  It'd be great if there were sequels to this, like, tomorrow.  Rick and I have a strange relationship. He write...

This week's Top Ten Tuesday , a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish is all about the beach. Kind of. Okay, technically the topic is beach reads, books you'd read on the beach, books about the beach? This list is a bit of a mash-up, so hold on tight. Some of these are great to read at the beach and some of them might be about the beach. Who really knows? We Were Liars About the beach, but also a good beach read.  And it's mysterious. (Also creepy.) The Lightning Thief Percy is the son of Poseidon and Poseidon is the god of the sea.  What more could you want?  This Sky Just take all of Autumn's books to the beach.  Unhooked Swoonworthy Pirates. Do it.  Graffiti Moon  This one! These kids. Sigh. To All the Boys I've Loved Before Much love.  Anna and the French Kiss I still smile when I think about St. Clair. My Life Next Door The book has so many delicious laye...

ⓡⓔⓐⓓⓘⓝⓖ ⓡⓔⓒⓐⓟ  I'm trying to expand and try new things, so I thought I might do a monthly recap to talk about my favorite books of each month. It's a new year and a new time, so, why not? This year I set my Goodreads Reading Challenge to 200 books. Now, that's a lot for me because I get pretty busy during the school year, but I figured I'd give it a try. So far I've read 24 books of the month of January! I have some comics as well as one or two DNF (Did Not Finish) because one of my reading resolutions was to not force myself to read a book I didn't like. I'm pretty proud that I've held up that resolution so far.  Okay, so here are the highlights (my faves!) from my January reads.       There you have it: my favorites from January. These are mostly my Four Star ratings (Torn Away was a Five Star) and I loved them all a lot a lot. If you're interested in what I'm reading you can friend me on Goodreads or follow ...

Yay, another time I remembered to do Top Ten Tuesday , a weekly feature from The Broke and the Bookish . Here's a list of New-To-Me Favorite Authors I Read in 2015. (Links to author's Goodreads profiles are on the books.) Jessi Kirby Wow. I loved this one a lot a lot a lot.  Nicole Yoon Diverse characters and a plot twist? Yes, please! Robin Benway So. Many. Swoons. Matt Fraction I seriously love this Hawkeye comic. And Pizza Dog. Pierce Brown I went on a dystopian binge a couple of summers ago and vowed to never read another. Then I did. Now I'm impatiently waiting for the third book.  Jenny Han Oh, my sweetness.  Sarah J. Maas This book. Wow. Yes. OKAY. Lauren Gibaldi This was so sweet and cute. I love that in a book.  Ann Aguirre I loved this book something fierce. Reading about Sage overcoming her past was so special.  Elizabeth Wein Congrats on being the firs...

It's time for another Top Ten Tuesday , a weekly feature brought to you by The Broke and the Bookish ! This week's topic is:  Ten Characters Who Are Fellow Book Nerds .   Hermione Granger is not only a fierce reader, but she's also a badass witch. Who else can keep Harry and Ron in line?  Liesel Meminger  loves books so much she steals them.  I'm not very far through this one, but I identify the most with Jo March .  Colin Singleton  reads the phone book for fun.  Madeline   loves to read. But she's also stuck in her room because of a rare disease that makes her allergic to the world.  As a demigod Annabeth Chase   suffers from dyslexia, but she's a daughter of Athena so the more knowledge the better.  Atticus Finch. (I've yet to open my copy of Go Set a Watchman. ) Okay, technically Rory Gilmore   isn't a book character but her love for reading inspires us al...