Thursday, 19 November 2015

The Book Bloggers and Books Tag!


I saw Alexa @ Alexa Loves Books do this tag, originally created by Kaitlin @ Reading is My Treasure, and I thought it looked like too much fun to pass up. The Book Bloggers and Books Tag basically involves talking about some of your bloggers and the books you think they're advocates for, or the books you most associate with them.

So I've selected a handful of my fellow bloggers, and I'm going to do just that!



Natalie is a huge fantasy fan. She loves Terry Pratchett - she's recently been reviewing the Tiffany Aching books on her blog - and Uprooted is one of her favourite books of the year, in fact I ended up reading it myself because she loved it so much. Poor Natalie also has the misfortune of knowing me in real life, which means I'm constantly throwing books at her while screaming 'READ THIS AND THEN TALK TO ME ABOUT IT', which is basically what happened with The Lunar Chronicles. It's one of those series I've been pushing on all of my friends, and luckily for me Natalie will often seek out the books I recommend to her. What a good egg.



Mallory's one of the few people I know who makes me want to give Austen a second chance. For some reason Emma is always the Austen I associate with Mallory, I think purely because I can vividly remember her very enthusiastic review of it. She's also a huge Cat Winters fan, she's really made me want to check out her work, and I've lost count of the amount of times she's told me I should read The Handmaid's Tale. I promise I'll get to it, Mallory! I really recommend checking out her blog, especially if you're a fan of classics.



Is this cheating? Nah. I love The Hunger Games, I think it's an excellent trilogy, but I've never met anyone who loves it as much as Shannon does. I love it when people talk about the books that mean the most to them, and it's very clear that this trilogy is very important to Shannon - she's the blogger I most associate with it. Even if she does like Peeta...

Check out Shannon's blog for even better gif usage!



A very blue-toned selection for Micheline! I really like how those three look together, actually. Like Natalie, Micheline's another blogger I associate with fantasy. She wrote a post all about how much she loves Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban for Harry Potter Month, which she co-hosted with Faith @ GeekyZooGirl, and I know she's a big fan of Brandon Sanderson and Garth Nix, too.



If there's one thing I've learned about Deanna, it's that she loves Meg Cabot. Somehow she's one of those authors who managed to pass me by when I was younger, but Deanna loves her books so much I really want to check one out for myself. She recently wrote a post all about her love for Ready Player One for Sci-Fi Month, hosted by Rinn @ Rinn Reads, which is another book I need to get to. Basically Deanna's responsible for a lot of the books on my TBR...



There are three things I know for certain that Cait loves: Maggie Stiefvater, Derek Landy and dragons. Basically if Stiefvater and Landy teamed up to write a dragon book I think it'd make all of her dreams come true. The Raven Boys is yet another book I still need to get to, but I read Demon Road a few weeks ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Unfortunately I've never been able to get into A Song of Ice and Fire - I've tried reading it and I've tried listening to it - but the books have such a huge fanbase (including Cait!) so I'd like to give it another try in future.

I'm not going to tag anyone because I'm lazy, so if you want to do this tag then do it - I'd love to see which books you associate with other book bloggers!

10 comments:

  1. Oh I love this tag and I love this post!! Thank you so much for featuring me AND for posting such gorgeous BLUE books that you associate with me :D I ADORE that cover of Sabriel and it makes me want to find it and make it mine ♥♥ Of course you know my love of HP but I dig how you got some Sanderson in there too! You know me too well!! I will definitely be doing this tag when I get a chance. I will also be checking out some of the blogs you feaured here^^ GREAT post! xx

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    1. You're very welcome! ^_^ I look forward to seeing your tag. :)

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  2. Ah! So cool Jess! You got your picks for me absolutely right! I'm actually taking a women's history class this semester and I have been recommending The Handmaid's Tale in there left and right! :) And I know you would love Cat Winters! She's great.

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    1. I promise I will definitely check out some Cat Winters, because her books sound right up my street. :) Oo, I bet your women's history class is really interesting!

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  3. Awh thanks Jess! I am glad to know you in real-life and you really do give excellent book recommendations - listen to her people!

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  4. This is a great tag! :D I totally guessed Shannon (easiest one tbh) and Cait. And you're right, the blue books do look good together like that! And I also love those new HP editions; I might buy them sometime.

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    1. Hehe, yes I think pretty much every book blogger associates Shannon with The Hunger Games! I can't decide if I like the new HP covers or not - on the one hand they're very pretty, but on the other they do kind of ruin the books for people who haven't read them yet. I mean the Basilisk is right on the cover of The Chamber of Secrets, so for people new to HP it's no secret what's in the Chamber!

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