Posted August 6, 2013 by Michael @ Knowledge Lost in Top Ten Tuesday / 0 Comments
I think I might be addicted to Top Ten Tuesday, I like joining in and having a set topic to work with. Top Ten Tuesday is a book blogger meme that is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish and this week the theme is: Top Ten Books I Wish Could Have Had Sequels. This was a little tough but decided to divide the list and tell you five worlds I’d like to return to and then five stories I would like see been continued; these are normally characters I really enjoy reading about and wonder what happened to them after the book (I know, I know they ceased to exist).
Five worlds I would love to return to;
- Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
- The City & the City by China Miéville
- The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
- The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
Five stories that I’d like to see continue;
- Gentlemen & Players by Joanne Harris
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
- The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
- Looking for Alaska by John Green
- The People of Forever Are Not Afraid by Shani Boianjiu
Posted May 29, 2012 by Michael @ Knowledge Lost in Top 5 / 0 Comments
I just did a post which answered the question ‘Have you read a book that has insisted you keep turning over the page?’ and I thought it would be nice to add a Top 5 post to accompany this post with my favourite page turners. So here they are (in no particular order)
- Talulla Rising by Glen Duncan – This was the most recent page turner that I’ve read. I was lucky enough to get this book as an ARC and I was so excited about reading this book because I considered The Last Werewolf as one of my favourites of 2011.
- Angelmaker by Nick Harkaway – This is easily my favourite book of 2012 so far. This book may feel much like a plot for a Bond movie, but the writing feels more like Charles Dickens wrote it. The Victorian writing style mixed with the existing adventure makes this book well worth a mention.
- Ready Player One by Ernest Cline – If you are a nerd like me that grew up in the 1980’s, you will know why this book has made this list. The novel is a nostalgic nerdfest jammed packed with 80’s pop culture references.
- Into the Darkest Corner by Elizabeth Haynes – The book is dark and chilling; as a reader I want things to be dark and disturbing, but this even left me feeling uneasy at times. It was this darkness and the desire to know what will happen that made this book so great.
- Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón – I would recommend this book to everyone and I get disappointed when people don’t like this book as much as I do. This book has something for everyone in this novel and, for a bibliophile like me, the extra bonus of being about books.
