Bout of Books Scavenger Hunt Entry

Hi everyone! Hope that you are all doing well today. This morning I have my entry for one of the first challenges of Bout of Books Day 1 and that is for the Scavenger Hunt which is taking place over at The Book Monsters!

The instructions are simple.. find the following books:

1. A Book that begins with “B”  (for Bout of Books!)

2. A book that has been made into a movie/tv show

3. A series you love

4. An anthology of poems or short stories

5. A book on your TBR shelf, or your full TBR shelves

Here is my entry!

1. Burn for Burn by Jenny Han and Siobhan Vivian for A Book that begins with "B" and I also posted a review for this yesterday, so you can read that here! 

2. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde for a book that has been made into a movie! Not exactly a great adaptation, but there is Colin Firth and Ben Barnes so it is worth the watch! 

3. Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling for a series you love. I mean if you haven't read HP by now, what are you waiting for? It is my all time favorite series. 

4. The Complete Shorter Fiction of Virginia Woolf by Virginia Woolf for an anthology of poems or short stories. This has got to be my favorite edition of her short fiction, the notes are fantastic! 

5. Elijah's Mermaid by Essie Fox for a book that is on my TBR shelf. I can't wait to get to this one! 

That is all from me for this challenge. Let me know in the comments below if you participated as well and please link me to yours, I would love to see!

Bout of Books 10 | Rainbow of Books Challenge

Today's challenge is the Rainbow of Books Challenge hosted by Neon Yeti Reads :) It is simply create a book spine with books from your shelf that form a rainbow effect. I had a lot of fun creating this! Here is my entry:

The books that I used were:

• Vicious by V.E. Schwab (black)
• The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan (violet) 
• Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins (purple)
• Unravel Me by Tahereh Mafi (blue)
• Matched by Ally Condie (green) 
• The Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick (yellow) 
• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway (orange)
• Allegiant by Veronica Roth (red) 
• Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell (white) 

If you participated in this challenge, let me know in the comments below! 

Bout of Books 10 | Spell It Out Challenge

The challenge for today is hosted over at KimberlyFaye Reads and it is the Spell It Out Challenge. I decided to use my name, Christine, and pick books that I have read overall. Here is my challenge entry:

I decided to incorporate books that I read recently and loved, and some old favourites which I loved from childhood such as the Harry Potter series and Stargirl. 

If you participated in this challenge, let me know in the comments below! :)

Bout of Books 10 | Bookish Battle Royal Challenge

Here is my challenge entry for the Bookish Battle Royal Challenge which is hosted over at My Life in Books! The rules and details are located here :) I am going to post one entry here, but I am coming up with a bunch, so I may post some more over on twitter using the hashtag, so be sure to follow me over there @fleurdylys ;)

So for my Bookish Battle Royal, I decided to pick female characters from YA novels. Here are my picks!

The Combatants 

Tris Prior 

Divergent series by Veronica Roth

Strengths	Weaknesses
Resourceful	Tobias "Four" Eaton
Trained at Dauntless	Forgiving
Strong	Independent

Clary Fray 

The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare

Strengths	Weaknesses
Shadowhunter	Careless
Create new runes	Indecisive
Brave	Jace Lightwood

Rose Hathaway

Vampire Academy series by Richelle Mead

Strengths	Weaknesses
Dhampir Guardian	A bit reckless
Strong	Indecisive
Unpredictable	Loyal

The Victor

Why Did Rose Hathaway win the Battle? 

First of all, in the gif above, she flips Dimitri with one hand out of commission. She has been trained since birth for battle and she is a dhampir which makes her part human and part vampire. She basically has the strength and agility of a vampire but does not suffer the weaknesses a regular vampire would suffer from. She is loyal to the bone to her best friend Lissa Dragomir and has protected her at every time. She is a bit reckless and unpredictable, refusing to conform to authorities at time. She also has that tricky love interest of hers Dimitri Belikov who can sometimes complicate things. Ultimately, she is one bad ass character and sadly, Tris and Clary would not stand a chance with her strength and wit. 

That is it for my challenge entry. I hope you all enjoyed it! Let me know in the comments what you thought of this battle. Do you agree or disagree? 

Bout of Books 10 | Books You're Looking Forward to Challenge

So for one of today's challenges, it is Books You've Been Looking Forward To hosted over at River City Reading and you can read all the details for it here! :) It is simply make a list of whatever books you are looking forward to reading and you can include a theme.. so I am going to come talk about books that are not yet released and that I am looking forward to reading (and buying!) Here is my list:

10 UPCOMING YA RELEASES I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO READING:

1. Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

Release Date: May 20, 2014

2. Mortal Heart by Robin LaFevers

Release Date: November 4, 2014

3. The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Release Date: November 20, 2014

4. Isla and the Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

Release Date: August 19, 2014

5. City of Heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare 

Release Date: May 27, 2014

6. The Silkworm by Robert Galbraith 

(I know this is technically considered adult, but I really wanted to include it!)

Release Date: June 19, 2014

7. Silver Shadows by Richelle Mead

Release Date: July 29, 2014

8. Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo

Release Date: June 17, 2014

9. The Blood of Olympus by Rick Riordan

Release Date: October 7, 2014

10. P.S I Still Love You by Jenny Han

Release Date: Expected Publication 2015

Well that is it for my list. What upcoming YA releases are you looking forward to? Are there any books here that I didn't include and you think I should be keeping a look out for? Let me know in the comments below! 

Bout of Books 9.0: Book Buying Spree Challenge!

And.. we're off! Bout of books has begun and I am nearing the end of the first day. I thought I would take the time to participate in one of the challenges because this one looked like a lot of fun. It is taking place over at Bookish Comforts and it is a Book Buying Spree Challenge! It is to imagine that you won $100 and to make a wishlist of what books you would get with it! Here is my wishlist:

Almost all of these books have been raved about in the land of book blogging and book tube and have been on my wishlist for a while. Also, I own one of the Valente books, I believe the second one so I really want to get the first one of course to start that series. Most of these are raved about so I really want to get my hands on them and the Longbourn one sounds magnificent and is reminiscent of Downton Abbey possibly? :)

What would you do with $100 shopping spree, what books would you get?