Top 5 Wednesday l February

February 7th & 14 : M/M Couples &  F/F Couples

I don't like romanced focused novels of any kind, and as I have moved away from Contemporary and YA. You find less and less information about your characters sexual preference. 
For people who are calling BS. Every detective ever is broody with a poor romantic history or a platonic romantic history (sometimes we get any info, more often not really..)

I can only think of one couple for each.. 
1. Magnus and Alec, The Mortal Instruments, Cassandra Clare 
2. Pippa and Felicity, Gemma Doyle Trilogy, Libba Bray

February 21st: Favorite Romance Novels (Authors)

1. Mary Janice Davidson
2. Dark Hunter Novels, Sherrilyn Kenyon
3. Sisters of the Moon, Yasmine Galenorm
4. Katie McAlister
5. Immortals After Dark, Kresley Kole 

February 28th: Favorite Urban Fantasy Books *Book Babble Crossover Topic*

To stay in the Valentines spirit I am not really going with my favourite, but with the ones that learn and rotate heavily around only LOVE

1. The Daughter of Smoke and Bones Trilogy, Lani Taylor
2. Fallen, Lauren Kate
3. The Nightside Series, Simon R Green. * This is actually one of my favourite series and it has very different and interesting romances. 
4. Night Huntress, Jeaniene Frost
5. Spiders Bite, Jennifer Estep

Wrap Up l January + TBR l February

Welcome to the New Year

Happy 2018

I focused on some of my favourite reads from last year, to reread for the beginning of this year. 

Hp Lovecraft has been my go to guy for the past 6 months or so. Looking into getting a nice copy of the Necronomicon (or another one of his complete works) as my older secondhand copy is falling to pieces (I have taken to listing the stories I read because I often don't read them all) 

Favourite Book Of The Month : 

1. HP Lovecraft Novellas and Short Stories *Papercopies & Audiobooks *50% are rereads
1. The Tomb
2. Dagon
3. The Outsiders
4. The Fisherman of Falcon Point
5. The Nameless City
6. The Doom That Came to Sarnath
7. The Music of Erich Zann
8. From Beyond
9. The Evil Clergyman
10. The Other Gods
11. The Cats of Ulthar
12. The Dunwhich Horror, HP Lovecraft *reread *audiobook
13. The Call of Cthulhu, HP Lovecraft *Audiobook
14. Witches Hollow
15. The Shadow Over Innsmouth
2. The Tale of the Body Thief, Anne Rice (Vampire Chronicles book #4) * Audiobook
3. Memnoch the Devil, Anne Rice (Vampire Chronicles book #5) *Audiobook
4. The Trophy Taker, Lee Weeks
5. The Hatching, Ezekiel Boone *Reread
6. The Skittering Ezekiel Boone *reread
7. The Cellar, Minette Walters *reread
8. Innocent Victims : Novella Bindup, Minette Walters
1. Chickenfeed
2. Tinderbox
9. The Vampire Armand, Anne Rice (The Vampire Chronicles Book #6)
10. Hope : A Memoire of Surviving in Cleveland, Gina DeJesus and Amanda Berry *non-fiction
11. Lovely Bones, Alice Sebold *Reread
12. Dark Graphic Tales by Edgar Allen Poe, Denise Despeyroux
13. Inuyasha #20 

Started

• Deadline, Mira Grant (Newsflesh Book #2)
• Merrick, Anne Rice (The Vampire Chronicles #7) *audiobook
• A Mothers Reckoning, Living in the Aftermath of tragedy, Sue Klebold *non-fiction

Wrap Up - February

This is my month of audiobooks, I haven't been doing much "reading reading" lately for no particular reason finished two series this month!

1. Wizard and Glass, Stephen King
2. The Golden Compass, Philip Pullman
3. The Subtle Knife, Philip Pullman
4. The Amber Spyglass, Philip Pullman
5. The City of Glass, Cassandra Clare
6. The City of Fallen Angels, Cassandra Clare
7. The Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King
8. The Song of Susannah, Stephen King
9. The Dark Tower, Stephen King

Top 5 Wednesday - February

February 1st: Current Favorites that Aren't Books
 TV shows , makeup, foods etc.?? 

1. Starbucks White Chocolate Mochas
2. Shop Heroes App
3. Dim Sum, Silver Dragon Calgary
4. Country Music *I tend to like Rock, Metal, Country but in cycles not all at once. 
5. Bath Bombs

February 8th: Book Trends You're Tired Of 
There are obviously exceptions to each one of these as well so don't loose your mind

1. Extending a series or adding to what was supposed to be a stand alone. Occasionally you get something good normally you get something that drags and feels forced. 
2. Retellings that aren't even retellings its just a publicity push 
3. Character flaws that are again just a publicity push. LGTBQ ect. is awesome, racial problem are real some books portray this well others are just using real issues and buzz words to sell copies. 
4. Adding in an extra point of view when you don't have to (this doubles when its only for one book in a series)
5. Changing the original art covers for pictures of "real people' 

February 15th: Favorite Non-Written Novels
Im pretty much stuck on graphic novels with this I can't think of any other formats really (I mean an audiobook is just a spoken written novel right?)

1. Overwatch, various authors
2. Garfield, Jim Davis 
3. Boris Karloff : Tales of Mystery
4. Tales from the Crypt, Al Fieldstien 
5. DC Comics (couldn't pick just one) 

February 22nd: Books to Get You Out of a Reading Slump 
Younger YA reads in general, light fluff you don't really have to focus on or my go to fav's :

1. Redwall, Brian Jaques 
2. Beast House Novel, Richard Laymon
3. Jane Austen or another semi funny classic.
4. A non-fiction audiobook : Fast Food Nation, 
5. Comics

TBR - Febrauary

1. The Wolves of the Calla, Stephen King
2. The Song of Susannah, Stephen King
3. The Dark Tower, Stephen King
4. The Golden Compass, Stephen King

Top 5 Wednesday - February 2016

February 3 - Biggest Badasses

1. Shot Gun Suzie, Nightside Series, Simon R Green
2. Archeron, Dark Hunter Universe, Sherrilyn Kenyon
3. Bekka Cooper, Diana, Alanna, and Kel, Tortal, Tamora Pierce
4. Jack Sawyer, The Talisman
5. Jason Bourne, Robert Ludlum

February 10 - Books You Were Spoiled For *what spoiled them

1. Divergent (only book 1), Veronica Roth *movie trailer
2. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald *people
3. Twilight, Stephanie Meyer *people
4. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien *films
5. Immortals Tamora Pierce & DarkHunters, Sherrilyn Kenyon

The first four books where (as I am sure you know) super popular and then they where all made into movies. The final books where spoiled but they weren't at the same time, both are book collections that have multiple series within themselves, in reading other novels I acquired information that revealed the outcomes of other books

February 17 - Best Suggested Books You Loved (books recommended to you)

1. The Lunar Chronicles. Marissa Meyer 
2. The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini
3. Bloody Jack Series, LA Meyer
4. The Shinning, Stephen King
5. Warriors, Erin Hunter

February 24 - Worst Love Interests (male or female) 

1. Liam Stewart, The Darkest Minds, Alexandra Bracken
2. Ana Steele and Christain Grey, 50 Shades of Grey, EL James
3. Aiden, Blood and Chocolate, Annette Curtis Klause
4. Rafe, The Darkness Rising, Kelly Armstrong
5. Gwen, The Precious Stone Trilogy, Kerstine Gier

Wrap Up - January to April 2016

Sorry that my 2016 has been sadly lacking thus far. Despite not having a chance to update my blog I have done quite a bit of reading in the past four months. I got through 45 novels which includes; rereading 3 old favorites, completing the Lunar Chronicles, reading The Strain Trilogy start to finish, reading an 8 book box set, reading 18 books out of the 50+ novels in the Dark-Hunterverse and starting the Odd Thomas Series.

My top 4 are:

The complete list of books I read is down below.
*I have done complete reviews for many of the books but will not be doing reviews for all of them