Friday Memes: Follow Friday (17) and Book Blogger Hop (2)

Follow Friday is hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View, meant to spotlight two blogs and allows bloggers to link up and meet other fabulous bookish friends and share the Following love!

This week's spotlight blogs are: Books With Bite & Fantasy Book Chick

And the question of the week is:

What are you reading right now? How do you like it?

I JUST finished Meant To Be by Lauren Morrill, and you guys...I AM IN LOVE. I know it doesn't come out until November, but I want it NOW. I finished it and immediately wanted to reread. It is so, so good.

Currently, I'm reading three books:
The Other Normals by Ned Vizzini.
We all know I love him, and this book follows through on my love so far. I'm a little over halfway through, and I think it's creative and funny and a bit awkward and wholey endearing. It's also quite original and a bit unlike what I was expecting - in a good way.

Temptation by Karen Ann Hopkins.
I'm only ~50 pages in so I can't judge it yet, but definitely a case of insta-love and a lot more "tell" in the writing than "show." Normally those are two things that I can't take, but I'm so curious what will happen and about the Amish culture in general that I will power through.

Every Day by David Levithan.
Again, I'm only about ~30 pages in, but I love love love David Levithan, and so far, this is looking to be my favourite of his. Which definitely means something.

What are you reading right now?

Leave me your link and I'll hop by!

And of course I'd love to return a follow if you are kind enough to follow me :)

Book Blogger Hop is hosted by Crazy For Books

Q: What book series do you never want to see end?

This is a funny question for me, because I continually say that I rarely start series until they are completely finished since I'm too impatient.

That said! I am loathe to see the Across the Universe trilogy end, simply because I love Amy and Elder together so much that I want them to continue forever. I'm also...well, I do want to see it end so I can finally find out what the hell happens, but I will be sad when both The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare come to an end. I know the Shadowhunters will continue, but those books are the start of it all, you know? It will be sad.

What series do you want to continue forever?

Tell me in the comments or leave a link!

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Friday Memes: TGIF (18), FF (16) + Book Blogger Hop (1)

TGIF is hosted by Ginger at GReads!

Throwback TGIF

Pick a previous question you posted on your blog in the past and revisit your answer. Has it changed since then?

I'm kind of twisting the question - I've only done TGIF 17 times, and most of those are recent and/or I still agree with everything. Which would be quite a boring answer! So instead, I'm going to revisit the first TGIF I ever did, which was the first of the new year since my blog was born on January 1: Book Blog Resolutions! What better time to check in on New Year's resolutions than just over halfway through the year?!

For the original post, click here; though in summary, my resolutions were:
     1) Track my reading.
     2) Read 100 books.
     3) Give vampires another chance.
     4) Open up discussions on books.
     5) Blog.

SUCCESSES: I'm surprised that I've actually kept up with these pretty well! Normally resolutions are lost on me by February. But I've tracked my books consistently, and that this blog still exists is testament to number five. I am still on track to read 100 books in the year (3 books ahead!), though I've been slacking lately. It was going swimmingly, I was over 8 books ahead at one point...and then life got in the way and now I'm only on track. Hopefully in the coming summer months I can pick it back up.

EHHH MAYBE: I've tried with the discussion, and I feel I've had some successes. But I'm still crap at responding to comments, and I don't engage on Twitter as often as I could or would like to. I'm working on it, I swear!

NOPE: The vampire thing. Still haven't gone there. I really, really should - I just can't yet. Vampires are a very non-summer weather thing for me, and obviously that's not been happening for most of this year.  Can I just blame it on the world and its weird weather?! (But really, I know, I know; I will get to vampire books! I have The Immortal Rules waiting, and I'm certain I'll check out the Vampire Academy series before the year is out.)

Which TGIF post did you revisit?

Leave your link in the comments and I'll hop by!

Follow Friday is hosted by Alison Can Read and Parajunkee's View, meant to spotlight two blogs and allows bloggers to link up and meet other fabulous bookish friends and share the Following love!

This week's spotlight blogs are: A Glass of Wine & Booktastic Reviews

And the question of the week is:

Christmas in July: Someone gives you a gift card for two books (whatever that costs). What two books will you buy?

Crap. Only two?! Way to make it difficult! My TBR stack is too huge to even attempt to narrowing it down to two, so I'm going to go with books I read, loved, but don't own a finished copy of yet.

Something Like Normal by Trish Doller (read my review here!)

Will Grayson, Will Grayson by John Green

What two books would you buy?

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And of course I'd love to return a follow if you are kind enough to follow me :)

Book Blogger Hop is hosted by Crazy For Books

Q: What's the ONE super-hyped book you'll NEVER read?

I don't like saying I'll never read a book, just because I always find myself picking up strange, random or completely unexpected books at the oddest times. Maybe I end up enjoying them, a few times I've questioned why I kept going...regardless, I've definitely read ones I swore I wouldn't. (Such as the Twilight series.) I'd like to say Fifty Shades of Grey - and I assume that'll be the popular answer because there are very polar responses to that series - but the truth is that I've totally read random passages as I stand in a store killing time. I don't think I'll ever read all of it, but...stranger things have happened!

Though I will say it'd be hard pressed to get me to read the Sookie Stackhouse series. I don't know if that counts as a 'super-hyped' book (kinda? True Blood is pretty huge...) but I've tried to read Charlaine Harris books before and the writing was just...not for me. I had to put it down, and I very, very rarely DNF books. Maybe the SS series is better, maybe the one I tried was just a fluke, but it was so bad for me I can't go back.

What hyped book will you ignore?

Tell me in the comments or leave a link!