Justice: Kira vs L.

Death Note (black edition vol. 1)

By Tsugumi Ohba

When i first picked up death note i had a slight idea about what i was getting into but i had NO idea how much I would fall in love with everything about it.

The story itself is so exciting, fast-paced, interesting, wonderful, basically every good adjective you have ever heard in relation to a book. I was absolutely captivated from the first page until the last. As soon as I finished volume 1 I jumped straight onto amazon to order volume 2. I can't remember the last time I fell in love with a story as fast as I did with death note. 

Every single character is so wonderfully written that with every page you just can't help but fall more and more in love with all of them. Even Ryuk.

Light is by far one of my favourite characters from anything ever. He is so intelligent, witty, dedicated, he's just all round wonderful really. And when he is first pitted against L, well everything just gets that little bit more amazing.

After starting this series I can totally understand why everyone has been raving about it all this time. Part of me wishes I had caved earlier and read it before now, but I'm just really glad I finally decided to get in on the greatness that is Death Note. 

Meghan x 

Book Identity.

Anyone who loves to read knows that every time you start reading a new series you just become part of a whole new world. Now as soon as you start to fall in love you start to imagine yourself in that world; where you would live, who you'd be friends with, basically everything that you would do if you were to actually live in this world. 

So when I was watching YouTube earlier i saw a new tag over on LittleBookOwl's channel that seemed like a fun thing to do. (I've changed some of the questions slightly to fit the books and series's I've read because I hadn't read 2 of the ones they chose.)

What dystopian/fantastical work would you live in? 

My automatic answer would be the world of Harry Potter, but I think I'm going to go for the world in The Mortal Instruments. 

Who would be you boyfriend?

I'm torn between choosing a long time favourite and a recent one...Draco or Jace....hmmm....I'm going to go for Draco Malfoy. 

Who would be your godly mother/father? (Percy Jackson series) 

I'm going to go for Hades. That could be fun. 

Would you be a downworlder or nephilim? (The Mortal Instruments series)

Nephilim. I want to be a shadowhunter more than pretty much anything.  

Would you be a part of a 'vegetarian' family or a regular nomad? (Twilight series) 

Regular, blood drinking nomad vampire. Unless I could be married to Jasper, then I choose that.

What district would you live in? (The Hunger Games trilogy)

Either district 4 with Finnick, or the Capitol, pre-uprising.

What house would you be in? (Harry Potter series)

SLYTHERIN. Easiest decision ever. 

Meghan x 

(Tag made by LittleBookOwl, Katytastic and Benjaminoftomes) 

Uncle Monty forever.

The Reptile Room

By Lemony Snicket

So as I've said before A Series of Unfortunate Events are some of my favourite ever books, and The Reptile Room is definitely one of the best books in the series. 

It shows Violet, Klaus, and Sunny move into a new house to live with their Uncle Monty, who is a world expert in reptiles. It's brilliant. They start to feel at home, begin to feel happy again and then, obviously, Count Olaf comes along and ruin it. 

I always feel so happy that they've finally found a nice relative to live with and they're feeling happy and a part of me just wants that to be it for the series. They just stay with Uncle Monty and everything's fine, but then I carry on reading and the sadness sets in. Stupid Count Olaf ruining everything. 

I really am enjoying re-reading this series (even if it has been slightly put off so that I can re-read City of Bones before the movie comes out). 

Meghan x 

Bowties are cool.

As any fan of doctor who knows, today was the day that the 12th doctor was announced, and lets just say I was left slightly disappointed.

I'm not saying that Peter Capaldi isn't going to be a good doctor or that I hate him or anything because we haven't seen him be the doctor yet. I'm also not disappointed with the choice because "he's not young an attractive" because that's just a silly reason to not like the choice. However as I said I am disappointed.

Partly because when Matt Smith was announced I could see him as the doctor, without him having to be the doctor for even a second, and then when Peter Capaldi walke out it just didn't feel right to me. Also party because he's been a character in both Doctor Who and Torchwood and now him being the doctor will never really feel right for me. 

As many, many, many people have already said on various social medias we can't judge how good he'll be as the doctor until we see it, but I for one am not holding out that much hope....

Meghan x

(Book related posts are back tomorrow.)

The Best Beginning...

A Series of Unfortunate Events is easily one of my favourite book series, so the other day I figured I would start reading them again. 

As soon as I opened The Bad Beginning I remembered how it felt when I first read and fell in love with the series. The writing, imagery, characters are all just so brilliant that I never want to stop reading.

I can't believe I waited so long before starting to re-read such an amazing series. 

So if you have a series that you love that you haven't read in a while, please GO BACK AND READ IT. 

It's like going back to your childhood all over again. :) 

Meghan x

(I know this is long but I'm ridiculously tired and kick ass is on...better post tomorrow!) 

Hunting Books

Hello there, nice to see you :)

So you might have seen a tag going around the BookTube community for a while called the Bookshelf Scavenger Hunt and I thought that might be a fun thing to do over here on my blog. So here it is my bookshelf scavenger hunt...

1 - Find an authors name, or a book title, with the letter Z in it.

Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz

2 - Find a classic.

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

3 - Find a book with a key on it.

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (the robin is standing on it)

4 - Find something that is not a book.

My nightmare before Christmas calendar/bookmark holder.

5 - Find the oldest book on your shelf.

Roman by Roman Polanski (1984 edition, pretty sure that's the oldest)

6 - Find a book with a girl on the cover.

Torn by Cat Clarke

7 - Find a book with a boy on the cover.

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

8 - Find a book with an animal in it. 

The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

9 - Find a book with a male protagonist.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

10 - Find a book with a female protagonist. 

Girls Under Pressure by Jacqueline Wilson

11 - Find a book with only words on the cover. 

The Catcher in the Rye by J D Salinger

12 - Find a book with illustrations in it. 

Death Note by Tsugumi Ohba 

13 - Find a book with Gold lettering. 

The Hobbit by J R R Tolkien

14 - Find a diary, true or false.

Diary of a Wimpy Vampire by Tim Collins

15 - Find a book by someone with a common name, like Smith. 

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith

16 - Find a book with a close up of something on the cover.

Only the Good Spy Young by Ally Carter

17 - Find the book set in the earliest time period. 

Othello by William Shakespeare (I'm assuming my Shakespeare's the earliest time period and I just chose one out of all of his works..)

18 - Find a hardcover without a dust jacket.

The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket

19 - Find a teal/turquoise coloured book. 

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

20 - Find a book with stars on the cover.

All American Girl : Ready or Not by Meg Cabot

21 - Find a non YA book.

The Complete Poetry of Edgar Allan Poe

22 - Find the longest book on your shelf.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J K Rowling (I assume...)

23 - Now find the shortest book.

Fantastic beasts and where to find them by J K Rowling

24 - Find a book with multiple PoVs.

Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan 

25 - Find a shiny book.

Girl 15 by Sue Limb

26 - Find a book with flowers on the cover. 

New Moon by Stephenie Meyer (this is as close to flowers as I could find)

And that's it! Some were a LOT harder than others but this was a really fun tag to do. If you've done it either on a blog or on YouTube let me know because I love watching/reading these!

See you tomorrow! Meghan x 

Blog Everyday in August

Hey there!

So the title of this post kind of gives everything away that I was going to say in the post, but we'll carry on regardless :) 

So you might be familiar with the idea of VEDA over on YouTube where people vlog everyday in August (or April...) and that's what I want to do over here on this blog. Everyday I'm going to write a new blog post, and it would be lovely if some of you would follow the posts throughout the month. Obviously 99% of the posts will be related to books and reading, however it's also my birthday this month and I'm going to spend a couple of days in Oxford so a post or two about that might appear around my birthday.

That's basically all for today. On a book related note, Death Note black edition volume 2 turned up today and I'm already over half way through. It's just so good! Okay so now that's all for today, hopefully see you around tomorrow :)

Meghan x

(ps. If anyone has any blog recommendations for me to read this month, let me know :] see you later!)