Top Ten Tuesday #1 | Books I Loved but Will Never Re-Read

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Top Ten Tuesday

Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

Books I Loved but Will Never Re-Read (submitted by Brandyn @Goingforgoldilocks)

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I searched trough my goodreads read list to find ones that I loved but wouldn't re-read and found these books.

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

We Are Still Tornadoes by Michael Kun and Susan Mullen

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Aftercare Instructions by Bonnie Pipkin
The Fortune Teller by Gwendolyn Womack

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American Gods by Neil Gaiman

The Prettiest One by James Hankins

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 Love and First Sight by Josh Sundquist

This is My Brain on Boys by Sarah Strohmeyer

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The Girl in 6E by A.R. Torre

The Steel Kiss by Jeffery Deaver

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Extra

The Body Reader by Anne Frasier

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American Gods by Neil Gaiman | Book Review #95

The Bookish Island's Book Review:
American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Are there spoilers?

I don't really think so.
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This is one of the books I read after the passing of Hurricane Maria here in Puerto Rico. With no water, electricity or internet I took to reading my books.

I decided to not do this for the books I've read on 2018. But it has been 6 months since Hurricane Maria. And I'm happy to announce that now we have water, and electricity.  

Title - American Gods
By - Neil Gaiman 
Publication - March 28th 2017 by William Morrow Paperbacks
Copy -  Paperback, TV Tie-In, 541 pages

Genre - Contemporary, Fantasy

Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.

Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...

This is the author's preferred text, never before published in the UK, and is about 12,000 words longer than the previous UK edition.

The Rating:

My Review:

I started reading on June 3, 2017 but I stopped reading it. Then started again on October 31, 2017 and finished this book on November 6, 2017.

Who is it by?
American Gods is by the author, Neil Gaiman.
I've not read anything by him before so I was doubting whether I would like his writing or not. But I was glad I got to read this book because even though it is amongst the longest books I've read I didn't completely hate everything that was going on.


What is it about?
This book follows the character Shadow who has been recently let out of jail after his wife Laura dies. And how with that he is forever changed. A strange man comes into his life, his wife may not e dead, and he discovers that his world is bigger than he thought. And a lot stranger.


Why did I read it?
I have two reasons why I started reading this book. First of all is the fact that I started watching the series when it came out. It was so cool, with a different than I'm used to, story-wise, and it was beautifully done. So you could say that I loved it and wanted to know more about these characters and this world. 
It also didn't hurt that I had just recently, to the show coming out, won a copy of the book via Goodreads giveaway. I was so happy that I got it but then so intimidated by it because the pages were so thin and it was over 500 words. Becoming one of my biggest books, page-wise.


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Did I like it?

It was a lot more than the show. So I don't know if I like it as much. I just know that I was never bored. And that I managed to read the entire thing so that must mean something. It was wordy and a lot to take in but I didn't hate it.
So now that month have passed since I read it I think I don't completely agree with my original star rating. And that I might be somewhere between 3 stars or 3 and a half stars. Because I didn't hate the ook but I also think the show is better. Don't get me wrong I like Neil Gaiman's writing and how creative this story is. Using real mythology and mixing it with his own way of telling the stories of these gods in modern-day America.
But if I take into account the show and how it brought to life the characters in a really awesome way. Then I don't like the book as much.
Does that make sense?

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Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman | Book Review

Book Review:
Fortunately, the Milk by Neil Gaiman

I am finally reviewing this book after months since I finished it.

Spoilers?

No.

Title - Fortunately, the Milk
Author -  Neil Gaiman

Illustrated by: Chris Riddell 
Publication - September 17th, 2013 by HarperCollins
Format - Hardcover, 113 pages
Genre - Fantasy, Middle Grade, Humor
Source - borrowed Rating - ★★★★★

You know what it’s like when your mum goes away on a business trip and Dad’s in charge. She leaves a really, really long list of what he’s got to do. And the most important thing is DON’T FORGET TO GET THE MILK. Unfortunately, Dad forgets. So the next morning, before breakfast, he has to go to the corner shop, and this is the story of why it takes him a very, very long time to get back. Featuring: Professor Steg (a time-travelling dinosaur), some green globby things, the Queen of the Pirates, the famed jewel that is the Eye of Splod, some wumpires, and a perfectly normal but very important carton of milk. The award-laden, bestselling Neil Gaiman, author of The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Stardust, Neverwhere, The Graveyard Book and Coraline, brings his biggest ever publishing year to a spectacular conclusion with this gloriously entertaining novel about time-travel, dinosaurs, milk and dads..

My Review:

This is one of those books that were given to me for a while to read and enjoy and give back, so borrowing. And I did enjoy it about back in October of last year and I didn't write the review because I didn't own it and felt like I couldn't say that I enjoyed having this as a part of my collection and felt sad but since I did love it I will write the review here on my blog.

Once my friend told me they had this book I just couldn't say no to the offer of letting me borrow it. I've been curious about Neil Gaiman's writing style and of his brilliant stories for a while. So when I started reading this book I could tell that I did in fact like his style. The story was so brilliant and adorable in some places. It would have been grand if I had it as a kid, little me would have loved it.
I actually read it with my mother and she thought it was cute too. So 5 stars from me and my mom.

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