My Life in Books

The My Life in Books email/blog trend has been going around for a bit now, and since I was tagged by my friend the lovely Haniah Avery in her newsletter, I figured I would join in. It’s essentially a creative way to do a giant list of book recommendations. So without further ado, my life in books. 

Find a book for each of your initials

C. Catching fire, Suzanne Collins. This is the second book in the Hunger Games series, and my favorite out of the whole trilogy. One of my favorite characters comes into it, the writing is compelling, and I always come back to it when I want some solid dystopia.

J. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte. Fun fact, my middle name is Jane. No, not after this book, after Jane Austen, but still. I read Jane Eyre a few months ago and I absolutely devoured it. I don’t know if I can find words strong enough to describe it. I finished it on an afternoon when my mom wasn’t home and I was waiting by the door for her to walk in so I could rant to her about it 😂 Any neighbor who was outside got to hear a lengthy discussion about the second half of that book. 

F. Fridays with the Wizards, Jessica Day George. I actually read this whole series when I was ten or eleven, before this book had even come out. I firmly stand by Jessica Day George –she’s one of the only author’s I’ve encountered where I’ve read almost everything she’s written and loved all of it. There’s only one book of hers that I haven’t read. Three different series! Three series that are not at all connected to each other, and I’ve loved them all. Fridays with the Wizards just happens to involve griffins and a magic castle. nected to each other, and I’ve loved them all. Fridays with the Wizards just happens to involve griffins and a magic castle. nected to each other, and I’ve loved them all. Fridays with the Wizards just happens to involve griffins and a magic castle. 

Count your age along a bookshelf: What book is it? 

Artemis Fowl: The Atlantis Complex, Eion Colfer. I binged all of these books during COVID. They were entertaining, funny, and well-written. They aren’t high-level reading or anything like that, but they have great plots and plot twists. I love the character evolution of Artemis, and the way the author portrays fairies is so different from everything I’ve usually seen. 

Pick a book set in your country or city

I recently have been reading the Fablehaven series by Brandon Mull, and the third book has a good chunk set in Arizona. Can’t say I was flattered, it was mainly a barren desert, but neither can I say he was wrong. It’s pretty rare to find fiction books set in Arizona, so I was surprised by this book.

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

Um, any fantasy book ever 😂. No, not really. I would travel to Araluen in The Ranger’s Apprentice series (John Flanagan). It’s almost the same as Medieval England, but cooler and more adventurous, with lots of archery, horses, and generally cool Ranger-type fighting and planning. 

A book that is your favorite color

Well, I don’t have any books that are mint green, but I have some that are turquoise. Till We Have Faces, C.S. Lewis. This book was crazy. Amazing, but still crazy. I didn’t rush through it because it wasn’t necessarily an easy read, but it was worth it. King of Scars (Leigh Baradugo) is another teal book. Loved it, it’s an add on to the Shadow and Bone series, following my favorite character

. 

A book you have fond memories of

Percy Jackson, Rick Riordan. These books just always make me feel comfortable and happy. They make me laugh and they feel like old friends. They are well-worn, but not destroyed. You know when a book has just enough dog-eared pages that it’s not atrocious literature abuse, but it shows that you’ve read it a lot? Or when the pages are well-thumbed and there are a few (I stress a FEW) creases on the back? That’s the perfect amount of worn my Percy Jackson books are. 

A book that was hard to read

Wildwood 😅. I don’t know why, but this book took me absolutely forever to get through. Over a month. I just… the style wasn’t interesting to me, and it felt like the book took an outrageously long time to get to the point. It was an interesting concept, but not written in a way that appealed to me. 

A book on your TBR pile that will give you a huge sense of accomplishment when you finish it.

The Count of Monte Cristo. All I know about this book is it’s big, it’s a classic, and it sounds really cool to say that you’ve read it. It also happens to have been sitting on my bookshelf for an inordinate amount of time 🤦

That is my life in books, or at least the My Life in Books trend! I hope you enjoyed –I surprised myself with some of my answers. I definitely scoured my bookshelves to find some of the books, but I had fun!