Book Tag: Life in Books Tag.

I have never done a Book Tag before, so here I am giving it a go. I wasn’t tagged by anyone I just fancied trying this tag out. I got this tag from reading Boston book Reader.

So the Tag I’m going to do is the Life in Books Tag. I haven’t read all the books I mention in this tag, but they are on my TBR shelf on Goodreads.

1. Find a book for each of your initials.

K- The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan

J- Jemima J by Jane Green

L- Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fford.

2. Count your age along your bookshelf, what book is it?

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

3. A book set in your city/country.

Ghosted by Colin R Parsons

4. A book that represents a destination you’d love to travel to.

City of Ghosts by V.E. Schwab – Scotland

5. A book that’s your favourite colour.

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch

6. Which book do you have the fondest memories of?

Pawn of Prophecy by David Eddings

7. Which book did you have the most difficulty reading?

These Rebel Waves by Sara Raasch. I did a full review of this book in a earlier post.

8. Which book in your TBR pile will give you the biggest accomplishment?

The Stand by Stephen King, over 1000 pages.

So there you have the Life in Books tag. If you want to do this tag, then consider yourself tagged.

Happy Reading.

Thanks Bookworms

Book review: Happier Thinking

Happiness; in life we all strive to be happy, but for most people this is a hard thing to achieve.

Lana Grace Riva the author of Happier Thinking got in touch with me to see if I would like to read and review her book, I am always happy to review books so I jumped at the chance. Happier Thinking is a short nonfiction book about trying to change your negative thoughts into positive. Lana talks about some of the coping mechanisms that helped her change her way of thinking.

Straight away from the start she states that she is not a professional, but these mechanisms are some of the things that have helped her. Its a very short book as its only just over 50 pages long.

One of the main things I liked about the book, was the conversational tone that the book was written in, the writing came off the page as if she was talking to you. Also as I am someone who suffers from mental health issues and have read some books to help, I loved how this book wasn’t highly scientific, and just got straight to the point.

Each chapter starts as a suggestion to follow, to help turn the negative into a positive, she gives you a scene, and then gives you some ideas on how to change your thought process. As I have been to therapy courses, some of these things I already knew about, but it was interesting to have scenes to help give you some ideas on what to do.

One of the main quotes that stuck out to me was:

“Happier thinking involves opening your awareness up to noticing good things at all times.”

This really stuck with me because people, myself included, tend to just focus on the negative (Waitress the musical feels), and all the good moments in our life will just pass us by if we don’t stop to take notice. The other thing that I took from this book is that you should question your thoughts, you should ask, why am I feeling this?, why do I think this?.

I honestly think that this is an easy read and good if you need to have a new outlook on how to change your thought process. Her writing was easy to understand and she didn’t make the book boring, because we all know that some self help books can just ramble on and be so boring that, it just makes reading them a chore. On Goodreads I gave this 3.75 stars, I am interested to see what else the author will write.

Goodreads link to the book.

If you would like to get a copy here is the link to Amazon.

Happy Reading.

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Book Review: The Tiger and The Acrobat.

I finished this book this afternoon. The book was The Tiger and The Acrobat by Susanna Tamaro. The book is told from the point of view of a Siberian Tiger, from birth to death.

The Synopsis:

“Little tiger is not like other tigers. Not content to spend her days alone, roaming the snow forests of Siberia hunting prey, she prefers to ponder the ways of the world. One day, eager to discover her own place within it, she sets out on a remarkable journey to discover the secret of life, and to meet the creatures she has heard most about: humans.”

I found this book to be a beautifully written and moving story about a life of the tiger, it actually almost made me cry. The writing was almost poetic, it also hits on a deeply human level with it having a philosophical view, like the dealing with grief, loss, happiness, pleasure, uncertainty and loneliness.

The book also had some beautiful illustrations.

The character of Little Tiger was so beautiful, while I have only read one other book told from the point of view of an animal, I found this one to be more believable that its an animal as the main character. She continually asks questions and ponders her and other characters reactions and feelings, and why we feel these things, and why do these things happen.

I liked this book much more than I thought that I would, that shows that some times you should pick up some books that are not in your comfort zone. This book made me think, feel and question life in a new way, and also look at how an animal goes through life.

This particular part in the book really made me feel all the feelings:

I highly recommend this book, if you are looking for a quick, beautiful written book to read. If you want to know more about the book, feel free to write a comment and I will get back to you.

Thanks bookworms.

Introduction

Hello bookworms.

Wow this is so scary, this is my first blog post. I’ve never written a blog or anything like this before, so please go easy on me, I promise not to be too boring. Also please be nice about my grammar skills (they are not the best).

Anyway on to the bit about me, well my name is Kim and I live in a little town in Wales. I’m almost 30 years old (in total denial about it) and I have been with my partner for nearly 14 years and have been engaged for 2.

I have a 3 year old Springer Spaniel called Rolo, he is my life, I love that little doggo so much.

This blog is going to be dedicated to books. I love books, I love slipping into another world and interacting with all the different characters and places. I find reading to be a relaxing and enjoyable hobby, that makes my world seem a bigger place.

I read anything from Fantasy to Fiction, both YA and adult. I read the classics, the new, the obscure, I read thrillers and SCI-Fi, Historical fiction, Graphic novels and everything in between.

Here are some of my favourite books at the moment.

This is not all of them, but its a few to show you what I like.

I got into reading at a very young age, my dad would always tell me a story at bedtime, but it wasn’t until I was in Primary School that my love for reading took off. A supply teacher came in one day and instead of teaching us, he just told us the story of The Hobbit. I think this is when my love for fantasy stories started, I then went home and borrowed the book from my dad and read it by myself. I was so proud because I read a book by myself, from then it has been non stop.

So on this blog I will be talking about books, reviews, book news and just general thoughts of the written word in general.

thanks for reading!