I have been slacking on publishing content on this blog. I have had a lot of personal stuff to deal with lately and just wasn't feeling like posting. That is one thing that I will never do. I will never force myself to publish content because I won't be happy with it. Anyway, I am getting myself back on track and I plan to be publishing a lot more now. I will be scheduling my book reviews for Mondays at noon and I want to start posting other posts here and there throughout the week, so keep your eyes open.
I got this idea from one of my favorite book tubers, Reagan or PeruseProject. Basically, you take each of the categories from the Oscars and change them into bookish categories.
Best Male Protagonist: Jacob Portman from the Miss Perengrine's Home for Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs. He starts out as this confused and scared boy but he turns into this brave man who is willing to risk everything to save his friends and honor his grandfather.
Best Female Protagonist: Mare Barrow from the Red Queen series by debut author, Victoria Aveyard. The story may be generic to YA fantasy readers, which isn't my most read genre (possibly why I love it so much), but Mare is such a bad ass. She isn't afraid to stand up for what she believes in but she also has all of the demons inside of her that Aveyard allows her to feel with vivid rhetoric.
Best Plot Twist: Ashes to Ashes by Jenny Han. It's the third book in the Burn for Burn series and I would never have been able to predict this ending. I had so many theories and none of them were even miles from close to this!! It was incredible and confusing!
Best Book Cover: It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini. The cover just describes mental illness in a profound way. It's an image of a drawn map inside of a man's brain. That's exactly what the story tries to portray. Mental illness is just as complicated as the inner workings of a city.
Best Side Character: Elliot in the Girl Online series is such an incredible best friend. He reminds of my best friend, Ash. He's always there for Penny, even when she isn't for him. He understands her more than she understands herself. He is also the epitome of the best gay best friend, just like Ash.
Best Movie Adaptation: I haven't seen any movie adaptions, other than Paper Towns and that movie butchered the book!!! So I am most looking forward to the adaption of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs. I am so excited that Tim Burton is directing it. He is the only director that I would trust with this series because I know that his tendency for weirdness is just perfect for this series because of how weird the books are!! I am sooooo excited!!!!! If you haven't watched the trailer yet... DO IT!!!!!!
Book You Would Love To See Animated: I haven't read many books that I feel would be good animated but Joe Sugg's graphic novel Username Evie would be a really good animated short film.
Best Writer That You Read For The First Time: Rainbow Rowell. I read Fangirl over the summer and I really resonated with that book.
Best Short Story/Novella: The two novellas in the Shatter Me trilogy by Tahereh Mafi. 1.5 is Fracture Me and 2.5 is Destroy Me. They were the only novellas that I have read. Recently I have been reading a collection of short stories for my English class but I don't feel like anyone would enjoy them, that reads this blog, if it weren't part of a class discussion; whereas, the Shatter Me novellas were incredible. I especially liked the first one because it wasn't the perspective that the rest of the series was in. I liked having Warner's perspective on the same events that we learned of through Juliette.
Best Action in a Book: American Sniper is Chris Kyle's memoir written by himself with the help of Jim DeFelice. It was quite eye opening, and for me, it hit close to home since a lot of my family has spent time in the military and many over in the places that Kyle mentions. The action was very spot on. I could feel the dust in my lungs and covering my eyes, I felt like I couldn't see what he was describing when he couldn't see, I felt my heart race every time he was trying to protect his fellow brothers and sisters in combat, I felt restless when he wasn't out there. It was all very real.
Best Historical Fiction/Nonfiction/Memoir: I haven't read much on the basis of Historical Fiction or Nonfiction this year, but I have read many memoirs. The one that I found most compelling though, was El Deafo by Cece Bell. It's her graphic novel memoir about her childhood as the only deaf kid in her elementary school. I just found the entire story to be really eye opening and beautiful.
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