Top Ten Tuesday - Favourite Books

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. It looks really fun so I thought why not give it a go. This week is Top Ten Tuesday was "favourite books in X genere" but since I'm not really a genere reader I just modified it into "Favourite Books". So, here you go, in no particular order:

1. "The Goldfinch" by Donna Tartt
I'm going to see Donna Tartt next week wheeee!! I'm so excited! This book is ~800 pages thick and spans about 15? years of Theo Deckers life which is filled with tragedy that returns back to Theo every few years.


2. "The Time Traveller's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger
Another pretty thick one. It's alternatingly written from the standpoint of Claire and Henry DeTamble so that you can get two points of view of one event. Anyway, when I finished I started crying outrageously in the middle of the classroom and my teacher even came to ask me if everything is alright.

They named an actual street after that book

3. The Ocean at the End of the Lane" by Neil Gaiman
 This one is pretty thin but nonetheless filled with magic and wonder. I loved "Neverwhere" too but I wanted to limit it to one book per author.


4. "A Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle
Who doesn't love the brilliant genius Sherlock Holmes who solves seemingly inexplicable crimes? And in this book, everything is still fresh, and you can feel the beautiful feeling of starting a great series. 

5. "Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell
If you've read this epic novel spanning from the 1800s to a far, far away future and telling the stories of 5 heroes still entagled despite of time and the distance between them you know what I'm talking about.

6. "Wuthering Heights" by Emily Brontë
No I don't love this book because it's Bella's favourite. The setting is nice, the moors of England, and it's so well written that you can actually see the landscape before you, smell the grass in the spring. I generally like books set in the 1700-1800s in England and this book has just the right faint air of mystery about it.

7. "Angels and Demons" by Dan Brown
Fat, fast paced and incredibly excited, a great mix of science and religion that is so suspensefull that I sometimes just wanted to throw the book away but couldn't even cose it.

8. "The Garden of Evening Mists" by Tan Twan Eng
This book is set in the Malayan highland, partly during the Japanese occupation of Malaya and in independant Malaysia. It's a great story in a great setting, it tells about gardening and stories of the war. I don't know, I somehow like reading war stories, they're really thrilling.

9. "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami
Strangely surreal and yet enchanting. I just can't figure this book out. It's really really weird but it has something to it. Especially the 3rd part is written in more unconventional style (newspaper, storytelling, chats, letters...) I should read it again. And it also has a part war story (a really grusome one too) so yeah.

Also, there's a beautiful JE movie with Michael Fassbender

10. "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
 I said no particular order but I left the best for last. I love this book, I've read it multiple times in multiple languages and it just doesn't get boring for me. I love how Jane is a strong, independent woman who thinks about what is best for her and what she wants rather than what people want of her. I just love everything about it.


I really love fat books.

What's your favourite book of all time?

Top Ten Tuesday- Fictional Crushes

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and the Bookish. It looks really fun so I thought why not give it a go. This week is Top Ten Tuesday REWIND and you can pick any previous topic you wanted - Perfect for me to start with!

I chose "Fictional Crushes" because I'm just really a sucker for fictional characters and probably have/had dozens of book crushes over the last few years. So, here are the ten I picked out (in no particular order):

1. Harry Potter from the "Harry Potter" series by J.K. Rowling 
Admit it. You had a little crush on him too when you were a kid. 

2. Peeta Mellark from the "Hunger Games" series by Suzanne Collins 
Yes I am team Peeta. He's nice and considerate and trusting and he can bake. I like Gale too but Peeta just does it for me. True. 

3. Jacob Black from the "Twilight" series by Stephenie Meyer 
I hope I don't get hated on because I read Twilight or because I like Jacob more. I read it because everyone read it and I fairly liked it. It wasn't great, it was okay.
And I'd just rather live a normal live with a hot guy than live forever with a stone. Okay that's exaggerating. Edward is pretty and sophisticated and everything but I don't want someone with whom I couldn't get old with.

Okay now that I'm through with those three obligatory statements for a 16 year old girl I can continue with the fun stuff:

(Edit: As of 24th of February I'm actually 17. Damn. But I was 16 when I wrote this.)

4. Edward Rochester from "Jane Eyre" 

Michael Fassbender as hottie Mr. Rochester

 Mr. Rochester is a sort of mixed character. Sometimes he's rude, sometimes he ignores Jane, he played games with her and that whole story with Bertha...
But he's good at heart and really lovely when he wants to be. Also, my favourite heroine chose him so how could I resist?
Even though he is desribed as ugly in the books, I first saw the movie and he's played by Michael Fassbender who -in my opinion- is quite the opposite of bad looking. 

5. Henry DeTamble from "The Time Traveller's Wife" 
Henry is romantic, loves reading and -I bet- sexy from runnig everyday. Also, he can travel through time so Clare, his wife, already knew adult him since she was six. Isn't that sweet? 

6. Sherlock Holmes from "Sherlock Holmes" 

Benedict Cumberbatch as cutie Mr. Holmes

I'm going to quote Irene Adler from BBC Sherlock on this: "Brainy is the new sexy." Who coudn't resist a hunky genius who hasn't only an IQ of about 180 but also knows how to knock another man unconscious? I love him even though he's a weird sociopath. I'm a huge Sherlock Holmes fan and I annoy my friends with amateur deductions and Sherlock Holmes references. Actually Sherlock is the reason for my blog title. And as if his intelligence wasn't enough, look at Benedict Cumberbatch as BBC's Sherlock.

7. Shinichi Kudo from "Case Closed / Detective Conan"
He's a character from a manga and pretty much the same as Sherlock Holmes only 17 years old and from Japan. And with more murder. He temporarily got turned into a kid and then goes with the name Conan but Shinichi holds a part of my heart.

8. Richard Mayhew from "Neverwhere"
Richard is just completely clueless and clumsy throughout the whole book - understandable since he got thrown into a whole new world. And that's what makes him amiable. But being so lloyal and nice to a girl he barely knows and being brave when he had to just did it for me.

9. Dale Barbara from "Under the Dome"
I haven't completely finished "Under the Dome" yet but Barbie is my current literary crush. Clever, brave, knows how to fight, how to cook, has medical skills etc. etc. etc. He's a great allrounder and a pretty much perfect guy who just had a lot of bad luck.

10. Castiel from "Supernatural" 

Look at Mr. Squinty Eyes oh god

I knooooow this should be about book crushes but Cas is my number one fictional crush and... you know since Carver Edlund wrote about the Winchesters and -later on- Cas, so thoretically in the SPNverse he also is a book character. He's just beautiful, clueless, clever, manipulative, amiable, weird.... And he's an angel. A litteral angel. 

Good that's it for this tuesday, till next week!

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