Week of Love #3 | Re-reading makes you fall out of love

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. Long distance relationships are solid proof of this. So in book terms, is it better to read a book once and love it instead of reading it over and over until you hate it?

Re reading. We’ve all done a lot of it. Personally, I mostly re-read contemporaries because the ease of reading them makes me want to go back to them again and again. I’m also a partial re-reading which means I only go back to certain scenes or quotes but I know a lot of people just do a full re-read. Totally in awe of you if you do 😀

YES! Re-reading! | FOR THE FEELS!!

  • I’m one of those people who sometimes rush through books because I’m always short on time. This means that I miss a lot of things in the first read so going through it again makes everything a bit more clearer.
  • It always makes for a good re-read when the same feels come at you! Reading about your OTP, certain scenes… all the feels come rushing back.
  • Sometimes it makes you like the book a bit more. Maybe you were kind of on the fence about it before but then BAM it’s suddenly just the best thing ever written.

Ugh, re-reading | It just makes the book worse.

  • I’m not going to lie but not many YA books are really well written. I have a simple mind so it doesn’t take much to entertain me! However, when I re-read a book, the flaws pop out more because I’m not under the “first read” glasses.
  • It wastes so much time where you could read a new book. TBR lists just keep getting longer and longer so honestly reading a book you’ve already read is just such a waste of good reading time.
  • You can only read a book so many times before you get bored of it. It’s just like if you watched only one episode of a show everyday for the next 10 years, you would be so sick of it.

Now it’s your turn. What do you think about re-reading? Are you a partial re-reader or a full re-reader? If you do re-read, why do you? 

Hits and Misses: Book Trailers

This is the first of what’s gonna be a short series of posts about book hits and misses. If you have any ideas, feel free to leave a comment 😀

So I was just doing my daily Fiery Heart info search today when I came across this:

Yep, that’s the fifth book trailer for The Fiery Heart. Book trailers just don’t do anything for me. I have no idea why they have made FIVE of these things. I’ve watched the first one and I was just sad. The acting, no, just no. I couldn’t stand to watch it cuz they were making out on the floor and I felt like a third wheel… through a laptop screen. The trailer didn’t make me more hyped about the book. It made me uncomfortable and awkward. The Fiery Heart book trailers are the only ones I’ve watched though. Maybe other books have amazing trailers? Anyone know of any?

So are book trailers a hit or a miss for you?

The Double R Factor

re-readingI’m not a big fan of re-reading. But sometimes, when my new reads aren’t really grabbing me, I just have to revert back to the ones I know and love. And because I love lists, here’s one for my re-reading reasons:

1. Obsessed with Boys

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Last night, I was tried to read a small army of new books before I finally gave up and picked up Ink by Amanda Sun. Ok, I didn’t re-read as much as I fangirled because, as you can probably tell from my review, Tomohiro is awesome. This is usually what happens when I re-read… I fangirl about the main love interest. Other victims of this reason is The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken and

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Why Do We Hate Twilight So Much?

So today, I got onto my laptop, logged into Goodreads and what did I see? My friend marking all the Twilight books into the shelf books-i-cant-be-stuffed-to-read. Kind of sad because she’s missing out on 4 books she could possibly love. That got me wondering, why do we diss Twilight so much? Why is it just the natural reaction to hate it? Here’s some reasons I came up with. Continue reading “Why Do We Hate Twilight So Much?”

Random on Fridays: A-Z Book Survey

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Better late than never, yeah?

Ok, so I usually post something random on Sundays but as I am giving up technology for the 40 Hr Famine, I won’t have time to make one on Saturday. So this week I’ve decide to complete an awesome survey by The Perpetual Page Turner. Maybe you’ve heard of it? (I’ve seen it everywhere on my WordPress reader)

Author you’ve read the most books from: Continue reading “Random on Fridays: A-Z Book Survey”