Musing Mondays #12 Raved Reads

Musing Mondays is a weekly event hosted by MizB at Should Be Reading. Each week MizB asks a book related question and bloggers answer with their thoughts about the given topic. This week's musings asks:

Are there any “raved reads” – books that everyone seems to be talking about– that you’re hoping to get read this year yourself? What books are they and why are you hoping to read them? Is it because you want to say you’ve read it? Or, would you have chosen to read it, even if you’d discovered it yourself, and no one was raving about it?

This is a really good question, but there as so many books I could list for this. A lot of the YA dystopian novels would fall under this. I am not so sure I really pay attention to what books people are raving about. There are a lot of books that fall under the paranormal romance that I have been seeing people rave about that I haven't jumped to get a copy. Though some after people have been talking about I have started to try to get samples of the book on my Kindle to see if I would enjoy it.

So books that I have to read this year that everyone has been raving about enough to get me to pick them up are Divergent, Enclave, The Forests of Hands and Teeth, and Uglies (which I just finished). I am sure there are more to list if I went through my GoodReads list, but I am not going to do that. All of these books I either was hooked due to reading the synopsis and then all the raves or visa versa. I think on all of these books if I hadn't read everyone raving about them and I just read the synopsis I still would want to read them.

Musing Monday

This event is host by Should Be Reading

What is/are the first book(s) you’re reading for the new year?


I already started and finished The Death Cure by James Dashner. I am now reading Black Mass by Dick Lehr and Gerard O'Neill. 


What are the first books you are reading this new year?

Musing Monday #1

I saw this on a few other blogs and decided that this was the best way to keep posts on my blog. It's a weekly event by MizB over at Should Be Reading. Each Monday she asks a question and fellow readers and bloggers answer it.

This week's question: What's the one book you always recommend to just about everyone?

My answer for this is The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Yes, I have both covers on here because I love the bottom one, because I bought my copy in Ireland and I think that cover is better than the US cover, which is the top one. 


This book is about a young girl growing up in Nazi Germany. Orphaned and raised by strangers the book tells her life with the people around her and how they all deal with the war. The book is told through Death's viewpoint, which is different and amazing. 


This book has just about everything for someone. There's history, adventure, drama and possibly a little romance. It haven't found a person who has hated me for recommending this book to them. 


Well there you have it, if you want to answer this question you may do so in the comments, either a link to your blog if you do this weekly event as well or just comment which book you would choose and why.