BookTubeAThon TBR

Hi everyone!!! :)

I hope you are well. 

Today I want to share with you my BookTubeAThon TBR. I don't think I'm going to be able to read all these books, but I want to give it a try. I hope you can participate. I think it's going to be fun!

People I mention:

Patty @I smell books : https://www.youtube.com/user/smellybooks

Books I mention:

Mariella Mystery Investigates The Ghostly Guinea Pig (Mariella Mystery #1) by Kate Pankhurst https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Kafka and the travelling doll by Jordi Sierra i Fabra https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Edgar Allan Poe https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Las astrónomas (Women astronomer) by Sara Gil Casanova

La niña italiana (The Italian child)

Catch of the Day (Gideon's Cove #1) by Kristan Higgins https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...

Mrs. Dalloway's Party: A Short Story Sequence by Virginia Woolf https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...

Feel free to share with me your tbr pile :) 

Ten Characters Who Are Fellow Book Nerds

hosted by: The Broke and The Bookish

Hi everyone!!! :)

Today I want to share with you ten character who are fellow nerds. I have to say that I thought this list was going to be very easy to make since I really enjoy reading books that  have characters who read or have a bookstore, but when I started making the list, it was hard to find characters and the ones I've found, they are not very original.

 

Helene Hanff. I know she is not a character, she was real, but I think she is the perfect fellow nerds, She read, she wrote and she asked for books in a bookstore.

 

Hermione Granger. When I read Harry Potter, I really liked when Hermione appears. You could see that she was going to come up with an idea or a spell. She was great, very intelligent and great company :)

 

Elizabeth Bennet. Another woman that she was very clever and she liked to read a lot. Apart from that I really liked her because she was different from the rest of the women in the novel.

 

Jo March. I really liked her. She was brave and she cared about her sisters. She read and wrote.

Jane Eyre. I really like Jane Eyre because she is a very intelligent woman.

 

Matilda. I really like this character because she can't stop reading :)

 

Budgeron. This one is a ferret that he likes reading and writing. I like him because he has struggles when he tries to write.

  

Danielle. She really enjoys writing, She is really good at it.

So, these are my 7 fellow book nerds. Feel free to share yours :)

7 in 7 Readathon TBR Pile

Hi everyone!!! :)

I hope you are well.

Today I want to tell you that I'm going to participate in the 7 in 7 readathon. This readathon consist of reading one book every day during a week.  I hope you want to join us, I think it's going to be fun! 

The readathong goes from 27th of July to the 2nd of August and it's hosted by Frankie @inteadofgoldand. There are going to be Twitter Sprints ( I think how they are called) on the 7 in 7 books twitter account. 

In this video I show you the books that I picked up for this readathon. I hope you enjoy it :)

Books I mention:

I Know What You Did Last Wednesday (Diamond Brothers #6)by Anthony Horowitz https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Notebooks I. At the end of the winter...by Mary Ann Clark Bremer https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Book, a meeting by Lygia Bojunga https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

It came from Ohio! My life as a writer by R.L.Stine https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

The world of the gnomes by Wil Huygen https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9...

Las meninas by Santiago García and Javier Olivares https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Lightning Scratch by Christophe Cazenove https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...

Review: Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops by Jen Campbell

 

Hi everyone!!! :)

Today I want to talk about this book: Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops 

by Jen Campbell

What is this book about?: Exactly about that, weird things customers say to booksellers (and what the booksellers reply)

I liked this book, but I didn't enjoy it as much as I expected and I'm going to tell you why.

In my opinion this book could be divided in two parts: the dialogues that happen between the customer and the bookseller that they are very funny (because the customer don't say the title right, the customer think a book was written by another author, etc.) They were really funny and every time I came across with one of these dialogues I couldn't help, but laughing. Really funny, sad in cases, but really funny.

But there is another part in which the dialogues are not funny, they are annoying. For instance, at least in two cases the customer thought that the bookseller could take care of customer's child while the customer did some errands or that the bookseller could go to another shop to queue for "the customer" and when the bookseller said no, "the customer" got angry. In this cases, I was so annoyed that I didn't enjoy the book because I remembered times in which people behaved in a very selfish way in my daily life.

Overall: I liked it and I liked the idea, although I expected to enjoy a little bit more. 

Summer Reads Recommendations :D

Hi everyone!!! :)

Today I want to share with you some books that I think they are perfect to read during the summer.

The first one is the The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants Series by Ann Brashares.

This series is about 4 girls and what happens to them during 4 summers. I like the idea that the 4 girls have different personalities and, for that reason, what happens to them is completely different and also that these books deals with topic such as death, divorce, friendship, love, the first time...

The second book is another series is Scott Pilgrim series

 

 

In this case this series is a graphic novel about a young man? (he is 23 when the story starts) and what happens to him in a year time. He starts dating a girl and he has to fight with her ex-boyfriends to start dating her. It's funny and goofy :)

The third one is Asking for trouble by Elizabeth Young.

 

It's about a woman who has to go to her sister's wedding, but she doesn't want to go alone, so she decides to go with an escort. Rings a bell? This book was made into movie. It's called The wedding date starred by Debra Messing and Dermot Mulroney. There are differences between the book and the movie. but I loved both of them.

Finally, mystery time. I don't know why, but I always like a book by Agatha Christie during the summer. So, if you enjoy her books I highly recommend these two.

The first one is Sleeping murder. 

 

It's about a woman who moves to a new house and, for some reason, she starts remembering things, feeling irrational fears and  she doesn't know why. This one is a Miss Marple's case. i don't usually enjoy Miss Marple cases (although I'd like to) I enjoy more Poirot's cases, but this one I really enjoyed and, actually, I read during the summer.

 

The other one is another Miss Marple case I really enjoyed and it's called The body in the library. This one is about a body who has been found in a library andin many ways it's strange that the body was found in this library in particular. Miss Marple will help to clarify this mystery.

I hope you like my recommendations and you have here your next read :)

Book Blogger Hop!

                                     hosted by: Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer


Hi everyone!!! :)


Today I want to share with you Book Blogger Hop and this week the question is:





           Do you listen to audio books? 


My take:

                Actually, no. Once I heard that Neil Gaiman listened to audio books while he was working out. I tried it, but I couldn't. I really wanted to grab the book and read it because sounds very interesting. i felt that I was listening a preview of the book and not the actual book. 

              I wish I could, but I can't :(

 

Monday Missions #1

Hi everyone!!! :)

Today I want to share with you the books I want to read this week. I hope you enjoy this video. Feel free to share with me what you are going to read this week :)




People I mention:

Monday Missions creator: A Thousand Lives of Daisy https://www.youtube.com/user/AThousandLivesOfDais

Books I mention:

Parnassus on Wheels by Christopher Morley https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1001317.Parnassus_on_Wheels

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1143788.How_to_Talk_About_Books_You_Haven_t_Read

Lapinot and the carrots from Patagonia by Lewis Trondheim https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1626381.Lapinot_et_les_carottes_de_Patagonie

84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368916.84_Charing_Cross_Road

Sundays in bed with... books I need to finish

                                                hosted by: Midnight Book Girl 


Hi everyone!!! :)

Today is the day when the 84 Charing Cross Road read-a-long starts so I'm going to read this book:

Well, not the whole book, just the first 12 letters :)


Also I am going to read today and I hope to finish these books:

 

Gnomes and Gardens by Nigel Suckling.

I like this book, but I don't love it :( I think if you like gnomes, you will enjoy this book: it's funny, interesting, but for some reason it's not for me.

 

Darse a la lectura by Ángel Gabilondo. The tittle (I think) would be translated as Dive in a book or something like that. The book is about reading, read classic, read at night,read by heart. I really enjoy, but I don't like the way the book is told :(

 

July Wrap-Up #1

Hi everyone!!! :)

Today i want to share with you the books I have read so far. I hope you enjoy the video and feel free to share yours. Sorry about the thumbnail, apparently if I want to use another one I have to give my phone number to youtube and I don't like that :(

Books I mention:

How Should One Read a Book by Virginia Woolf https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16124612-how-should-one-read-a-book

Bibliomania by Gustave Flaubert https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3451537-bibliomania
The Bibliotaph by Leon H. Vincent https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15100561-the-bibliotaph
Walks through London (Paseos por Londres) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23582033-paseos-por-londres

84 Charing Cross Road Read-a-long

Hi everyone!!! :)

Today I want to share with you a video in which I talk about 84 Charing Cross Road read-a-long. If you want to participate please join us. It goes from 12th to 18th of July. I have already read the book and I really enjoyed it. I think you will enjoy it too :D

84 Charing Cross Road Read-a-long

Hosted by:

Greg @ Greg Reads  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic6C4SxHAwE

Maisie @ Maisie Reads  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6bnVmHgxD0

It goes from 12th to 18th of July

#CCRreadalong in Instagram and Twitter

Book I mention:

84 Charing Cross Road

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/368916.84_Charing_Cross_Road

Top Ten Hyped Books I've Never Read

 

hosted by: The Broke and The Bookish

Hi everyone!!! :)

Today I want to share with you my top ten hyped books I've never read. Some of them I'm not interested in and some of them I am not in the mood of reading them right now, but I want to read them in the future.

Here they are:

 

July TBR Pile

Hi everyone!!! :)

Today I want to share with you the books I want to read during the month of July. I hope you enjoy this video and have a good reading month ;)

Books i mention:

Books vs cigarrettes by George Orwell https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4064936-books-v-cigarettes

Underfoot In Show Business by Helene Hanff https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2477042.Underfoot_In_Show_Business

The good son (El buen hijo) by Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18826938-el-buen-hijo

How Should One Read a Book by Virginia Woolf https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16124612-how-should-one-read-a-book

Walks through London by Virginia Woolf https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23582033-paseos-por-londres

The Bibliotaph by Leon H. Vincent https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15100561-the-bibliotaph

Bibliomanía by Gustave Flaubert https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20895983-biblioman-a

Sundays in bed with... gnomes

                                                hosted by: Midnight Book Girl 

Hi everyone!!! :)

Today I want to share with you the book I'm reading today.

What is this books about?: A look at all aspects of gnome life, their origins and fashions, their pastimes, opinions and culinary tastes. It examines urban gnomes, suburban, bucolic and wild ones. Source: goodreads

What I think about it?: So far I really enjoy this book. I didn't expect that. It's entertaining and you laugh with the stories and the jokes you  find in the book. Plus, you learn about the daily life of the gnomes, their legends their hobbies .  

So, this is me. Feel free to share with me what you're reading today :)

June wrap-up (second part)

Hi everyone!!! :)

Today I want to share with you the books I have read the last two weeks in June. I hope you like and sorry for the length, I cut as much as I could. ( I don't know why the thumbnail is not working :(  )





June Wrap-up (First part): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cix7PSZk21M

People I mention: Rachael @ Taylor & Kensington https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbuLOFL7Ki7P1FAEX1egWJQ

Watch out!  with the little Nicholas ( ¡Ojo! con el pequeño Nicolás by  René Goscinny, Jean-Jacques Sempé https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17827829-ojo-con-el-peque-o-nicol-s

In Real Life by Cory Doctorow, Jen Wang https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20575446-in-real-life

Scott Pilgrim's Finest Hour (Scott Pilgrim #6)by Bryan Lee O'Malley https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7904429-scott-pilgrim-s-finest-hour

Silly Novels by Lady Novelists by George Eliot https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9248688-silly-novels-by-lady-novelists

The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #1)by Rick Riordan https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28187.The_Lightning_Thief

Tomb of Terror: Egyptians by Timothy Knapman https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20578751-tomb-of-terror

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18521.A_Room_of_One_s_Own

The Hundred-Mile-An-Hour Dog (The Hundred Mile-An-Hour Dog #1) by Jeremy Strong https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/344458.The_Hundred_Mile_An_Hour_Dog

The Sea of Monsters (Percy Jackson and the Olympians #2) by Rick Riordan https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28186.The_Sea_of_Monsters

The French Confection (Diamond Brothers #5) by Anthony Horowitz https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/920352.The_French_Confection

Lunch Lady and the Cyborg Substitute (Lunch Lady #1) by Jarrett J. Krosoczka https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6277757-lunch-lady-and-the-cyborg-substitute