I picked up The One Memory of Flora Banks quite a while ago in the hope it was a contemporary that i would enjoy. I knew very little about it before i picked it up. And surprise surprise, it was YALC that pushed me in to reading it.
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When We Were Liars was first released I had very little interest in it unlike everyone else. I’d seen so many people saying that it was an absolutely incredible book, however the cover just didn’t say the same thing to me! After I’d heard a few more people recommend it who I trusted, I decided to pick myself up a copy and decide for myself if I liked it or not.
I had heard a lot about The Martian before I decided to buy a copy and read it for myself. After hearing about the film adaptation, I was eager to start as the film had many of my favourite actors in it and looked like it would be amazing (which it is).
Big Fish was on the list of books I had to read for my adaptation module at university and I was quite excited to start as I had heard so many good things about it and it sounded really different and interesting. However, I was very disappointed.
Gayle Forman is one of my absolute favourite YA contemporary authors, she manages to make her simple stories so captivating with her characters. I had the chance to meet her and listen to her talk about her books for about an hour and she herself is a very interesting lady with some incredible ideas. When I dived in to her latest release of I Was Here I was more than excited, having just read If I Stay and Where She Went and adored them!
Halloween happened almost a week ago, so that means that the Halloween read-along is officially over! What’s even sadder is the fact that October is now officially over! Onwards and upwards to Christmas though! For our 2015 Halloween read-along we decided that Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children would be quite fitting.
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It’s officially the last day of the Halloween read-along tomorrow! That means I’ve got left just a mere twenty-four hours to finish Miss Peregrines Home for Peculiar Children! Am I going to do it? To be honest I’m not entirely sure. I’ve had a lot of Uni work in the last week and a lot of other things going on that I’ve not had much time to read! I need a full afternoon free so I can just lay in my bed and get my head stuck in the book! But I will definitely do my best to get it finished up before tomorrow night!
The Little Contemporary Corner 