Book Advice of the Month - September

Hi guys! Today is the last day of September and I don't know about you but for me it means that it's time for the September Book Advice of the Month!
Before I get into the book advice part I just want to clarify one thing. A friend from school asked me why do I do the book advice at the end of the month instead in the beginning.
In my head it makes more sense to make a book advice when it's time for people to get paid so they can have money to buy it, if they want it.
So with this solved I'm going to announce the book advice of this month!
I wanted to do something different this month so I picked a book from my most wanted list and that book is Across the Universe by Beth Revis.
 
«Seventeen-year-old Amy joins her parents as frozen cargo aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed and expects to awaken on a new planet, three hundred years in the future. Never could she have known that her frozen slumber would come to an end fifty years too soon and that she would be thrust into the brave new world of a spaceship that lives by its own rules.

Amy quickly realizes that her awakening was no mere computer malfunction. Someone - one of the few thousand inhabitants of the spaceship - tried to kill her. And if Amy doesn't do something soon, her parents will be next.

Now Amy must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets. But out of her list of murder suspects, there's only one who matters: Elder, the future leader of the ship and the love she could never have seen coming.»
from Goodreads
 
So what do you think? Space, murder, frozen people and a spaceship! The moment I read this I thought "I got to read this right away". Unfortunately I still have a big pile of school books to study and that kind of got in the way.
I don't have much to say about this book but I hope you all like it!
Love, Ana
 
 

Books I Would Like To Get On My Birthday

Hi guys! Today I'm doing kind of a personal post and I just want to share with you the books that I would like to get on my birthday!
My birthday is just on the 21st October but I'm a birthday obsessed girl because is my day and I'm doing this post early because I have not one but three tests on my birthday week.
I'm going to leave a link to where I saw the books online for you in case you're interested on buying some of them!
  1. The first book I really want is the third book on the Outlander series, that's called Voyager. I started reading this series a few years ago but in my country the third book just came out and each of the books costs around 22 euros. I could have read the other books in English but I like to read a series on the same language and very luckily my parents might be giving it to me, the Portuguese edition of course. Link: Voyager (The Book Depository)
  2. So in this section I want a series! I want the Infernal Devices Series by Cassandra Clare. I already read the books but I love them so much that I just want them in my shelf. You might not get this but I really love smelling my books, it's a book nerd problem what can I do?! Link:The Infernal Devices Series Box Set (The Book Depository)
  3. I also want to get the Shadowhunter's Codex (and I really want it in hardcover because I'm just weird and I never had a hardcover) by Cassandra Clare and Joshua Lewis. I'm a very good money spender as you can see it's a shame that I don't have any money to spend (irony).  Link:The Shadowhunter's Codex (The Book Depository)
  4. Will Grayson, Will Grayson seems to be a good next step on my John Green novels and I can't wait to get it. The cover is so perfect and cute! Link: Will Grayson, Will Grayson (The Book Depository)
  5. And how could I be bored if someone got me a Sarah Dessen gift set which includes Just Listen, This Lullaby and The Truth About Forever. If by now you didn't see that I have a book problem by the end you'll probably know for shure. Link:Sarah Dessen Gift Set (The Book Depository)
  6. I'm really interested in reading A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens so I can understand better Tess's language in The Infernal Devices series (C. Clare). Link: A Tale Of Two Cities (The Book Depository)
  7. I never read a Thomas Hardy book but I wanted since forever to read Tess Of The D'Ubervilles and I hope I can get to it soon enough. Link: Tess Of The D'Ubervilles (The Book Depository)
  8. This one is one that I want since I was six years old. In Portugal the fourth book on The Princess Diaries Series, Project Princess by Meg Cabot, was never translated and now it's the only book that's missing in my Princess Diaries collection. I know it's kind of a children's book but it helped me grow a lot and I read it from six until know with the new adult book of Princess Mia coming out in 2015. Link: Project Princess (The Book Depository)
  9. And last but not the least I really really would love to get the Anna and The French Kiss series by Stephanie Perkins. I'm just cray cray about those books! Link:Anna and the French Kiss ; Lola and the Boy Next Door ; Isla and the Happily Ever After
I think that it's enough books to wish for now, but of course I want all the books I can get. I hope you liked to know my wishes and if you have some advice on books to read please comment below.
Love, Ana
 


Book Quote Of The Day






Sex & Books

Hi guys! Today my writing theme is a little different than usual and it might be a little controversial.
I'm going to talk about sex in books! Yes, it is kind of a taboo theme but needs to be discussed, it needs to be explained and it needs to be clarified.
Isn't sex present on our everyday life? Isn't sex part of human nature? Isn't sex kind of the reason why we exist?
I think we all know the answers to these simple questions! Everyday children, teenagers and adults are bombarded by sex, whether is in condoms adds, paper announcements, pornography adds, biology class, relationships... So why do we think it's strange for books to talk about sex?!
So imagine this: there's this book that talks how a girl got into an abusive relation where she was persuaded to have sex whit this handsome dangerous boy and how she got out of that relationship and how she learned the real meaning of love.
Do you think that that educates young people or that it hurts them and is a bad thing for them?
In my opinion to expose young people to sex is a good thing because it's a part of everyone's life, we all are sexual beings, it's part of human nature.
If young people know about sex and know how to protect themselves and if it's a good idea or not to make it then things like DST's and teen pregnancy may decrease! Education is the base of every action! Educated people have all the facts they need to make their own choice.
Parents advice: your children aren't going to tell you "I read a book about sex" or "I had sex today mommy" and maybe they're to embarrassed to ask "what is sex".
When young people or even adults read a book that has sex in it they are being indirectly educated about it! People don't even notice but it contributes to education in general!
Who doesn't enjoy to read some good sexy stuff? I know I enjoy it, I kind of read Fifty Shades of Grey when I was 13 years old, and I read all three books, and look at me: I'm not a pervert, I'm a normal girl who enjoys her sexy stuff and her Jane Austen classics and every other book that's readable.
Sexy stuff is awesome and sexy book stuff is even more awesome! So let people read they're Fifty Shades of Grey, Outlander and Game of Thrones copies without labeling them as perverts, everyone has the right to their sexy relaxing reads.
Just a reminder: just because a book has sex in it, it doesn't mean that it doesn't have a love story behind it! In the majority of the bookish world sex comes after love, before of love, because of love and sometimes is the trigger of weird situations that lead the characters to love (and even sometimes to show that the characters are complete asshats).
I hope you liked to "hear" my thoughts about this sensible topic and that I helped you a little bit in case you were wondering about it.
Love, Ana


I Turned My Plane Planner Into A Bookish Inspired Planner

 
Hi guys! Today I just came here to share my new accomplishment: I Turned My Plane Planner Into A Bookish Inspired Planner (and this is exactly what I wrote in the title, fangirl much?).
So I bought his Oxford plain planner (A5 size) and I decided that I didn't like the way it looked and so I spiced it up just a little bit.

 

 I just printed small quotes and manga drawings of my favorite books and glued them to the planner and in the end I put adhesive plastic to protect the whole thing and that's it, simple as always.

 
List of books that I used: Anna and The French Kiss, Isla and The Happily Ever After (Stephanie Perkins), The Lux Series (Jennifer L. Armentrout); The Fault In Our Stars (John Green); Sweet Evil Trilogy (Wendy Higgins); The Selection (Kiera Cass); The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices (Cassandra Clare)( drawings by Cassandra Jean).
Love, Ana  

August Book Advice Of The Month

Hi guys! I know that I'm not posting as much as I used to but school is almost starting and I have scout's business that I need to deal with and it's taking very much of my free time.
Today I bring you a new book advice for this month, you'll see that's not a new series but I think that you'll appreciate it.
The book advice of the month of August is: The Selection Series by Kiera Cass.

 
 
 
 
The series has five books, three main books : The Selection, The Elite and The One; and two novellas: The Prince and The Guard; and there's a new novella coming out in December called The Queen.
 
 
The three main books tell us America Singer's story as she is confronted with the selection, a national tradition where the prince chooses, in a national television contest, his future bride.
America just wants to be with Aspen but after a heartbreak she's going to try...


  I leave you a little quote from the first book so you can have a little taste of his sweetness...
  
Love, Ana