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Quizzes & Tags |
Don’t we all love some memes? I know I know. They are things that everyone hate or love and there is no in between and you can’t escape them, right? Okay so I was looking around for a tag that I have not done and saw this fun tag so I thought why not. right?
Types of Memes – a book tag
The goal is trying to come up with books that match the most common memes. So let us get it done shall we?
Rules
- Pingback to creator (Icebreaker694) ALWAYS!
- Link back to the person who tagged you and thank them. – (ME!)
- Answer the questions.
- Provide a meme for each question.
- Tag 7+ people, don’t kill the tag!
Let us get started
“Grumpy Cat” A book you have negative feelings about
I rarely read books that I completely hate or dislike. So this one is a toughie but I am still gonna do it.
But I have a thing against John Green and his books. While a lot of my blogger friends have loved it, I utterly disliked Turtles All the Way Down.
“What If I Told You” A book you spoiled for yourself
I don’t even read the blurb before I start a book. No, I don’t mind the spoilers but I like jumping into the story without any expectations. But still, there have been ones that I got ahead of myself and I spoiled it myself.
So I read Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon with a lot of expectations. But it didn’t live up to my expectations, and it didn’t help matters that I read some of the reviews before I finished the book.
“I Don’t Always” A book you don’t always like, but when you’re reading it you do
Okay so there are some books that I don’t like at all and hate that I even spent time on them, but when I did read them I just couldn’t stop. So I am gonna name my so-called ‘guilty pleasures’ Susan Elizabeth Phillips.
I even wrote a rant review about this Nobody’s baby but mine by Susan Elizabeth Phillips one a while ago. Man did that make me stop reading the series? Absolutely, not!
“60’s Spiderman” A good classic or retro book that’ll never get old
The only book I have read more than thrice and still loved is Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. Okay, Pride and Prejudice comes second, but not close at all.
“Just Little Things” A book that’s very relatable
I am have to say Lord Henry from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. Okay I know that sounds diabolic. But listen me out okay? I loved his thoughts, ideas and philosophy and I have not read anyone more relatable than him in the recent past.
“Demotivational” A book that you’ve seen almost everywhere
Oh, there are quite a few of them. But I think My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite should be it. But not in a negative way. It is on my TBR, that says it all right? (update: I finally did.)
“You Don’t Say” A predictable book
I just wrote a review on this Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp quite recently. It was damn predictable and I couldn’t wait for the end.
“One Does Not Simply” A book you binge read
The last book I binge read was A Thousand perfect notes by C G Drew. It is our Cait from Paperfury y’all.
“Chemistry Cat” A book that taught you something new I read
The Zookeeper’s wife by Diane Ackerman for my A-Z Reading challenge 2018 and I ended up learning so much about animals and World War II. I am a WW II junkie, if you didn’t know already.
“Pet Memes” A book that’s just really adorable
I loved A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard and it was quite adorable to say the least.
I Tag:
So I am gonna tag
- Sahi @ My World of Books
- Charvi @ Not Just Fiction
- Dany @ Ambivert Words
- Nandini @ Unputdownable Books
- Charlotte from Wonderfully Bookish
- Carrie from Cat on the Bookshelf
- Kristina @ Books And Dachshunds
And even if you aren’t tagged but you wanna do this – consider yourself tagged.
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Have you done this tag? Do you love meme or have a love/hate relationship with them like I do? Let us talk.
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Authors, Book Lists |
You remember a while ago we shared a good laugh at some of the weirdest book covers, don’t you? I thought it would be more fun to share a similar post but with a twist. Yes here are a few ridiculous book titles that make me reconsider the amount of time I am spending on the internet.
It is not a big secret that I obsess over books and bookish websites. I guess this is the prize for all that.
Ten book ridiculous book titles
But I am not letting you guys off without sharing these gems with you all. Shall we get started?
Disclaimer: This post is intended for fun and not intended to hurt anyone. If it did, I am sorry and it was purely unintentional.
Why are we even fighting when we can all have our own countries?
RIGHT? I demand an answer.
I wonder how that works. If you wanted to learn a bit of Italian (with words though) you might want to read Camilla’s post here.
I cannot fathom why would anyone need this.
There is frugal living. And then, there is THIS.
Because how else would you learn?
Of all the things that you wanna Do-It-Yourself, you would wanna learn this. Of course.
Let us begin our violent prayer for the world peace, shall we?
Well, you need to learn that somewhere.
Now I have more things to be scared of in the woods.
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Do you get fascinated about such ridiculous book titles? Is there a book that you have read in this list? What is the weirdest book title you read? Let us talk.
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Quizzes & Tags |
It has been a while since we did some quizzes here right? So here we are to change things a bit.
I love doing anagrams as much as every other crossword junkie here. And I am here to mix two of my obsessions – books and rearranging letters. So let us find out if you can rearrange the letters to find out the book title hidden in there.
So shall we get started?
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Tell me how did you fare? Which was the hardest title to solve? Do you like doing these quizzes? Let us talk.
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Quizzes & Tags |
I love doing tags on my blog. Not just answering the tag questions through a post, but I really love reading them on others blogs as well. It is a great way to get to know the bloggers up and close as they reveal personal little details about them. (It didn’t sound as creepy until I typed it out).
But you wouldn’t believe me if you see my posts, because it has been months since I did a tag on my blog. And when Kaleena from Reader Voracious tagged me to play this little game called ‘Two truths and a lie’, I marked a spot for it right then on my blog calendar. (Yes I have one, these days and I am being extremely organized. Please don’t question me).
She even handed out this awesome little guideline, so that even people like me, (the ones who ask ‘what?’ just after you finish explaining something) can follow it easily. I am just going to copy paste it, so that I don’t mess it up.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE
- Create a post with your two bookish truths and one bookish lie – but be sure to keep it a secret so your readers can guess!
- Reveal the lie in a spoiler at the bottom of your post (you can use this HTML code!)<details><Summary>Reveal the Lie</Summary>Lie Revealed</details>
- Tag 8 friends to play along.
- Link back to the original post so I can see all your secrets!
I would love it if you tag me in your post, so that I can see them as well!
Two truths and a lie
So here I go. Try finding out which is which.
- I have gone without reading for years.
- hate DNF-ing books and I almost never do that.
- I am an introvert who hides behind books to avoid talking to people.
Tags
I tag my entire gang from Book Dragon’s India
- Fanna @ Fannatility
- Nandini @ Unputdownable Books
- Simant @ Flipping Through the Pages
- Sahi @ My World of Books
- Charvi @ Not Just Fiction
- Mathangi @ The Word Glutton
- Shruti @ This is Lit
- Dany @ Ambivert Words
Any of you want to do it anyway please consider yourself tagged.
And the secret is revealed
Reveal the Lie
#2 I am not an introvert. I love hanging out with people and being the center of attraction. While I love reading and books, I don’t choose them over people.
Okay, I kinda do that, but not always. Who am I kidding? I would do that any day. All I am saying is I AM NOT AN INTROVERT. Sigh!
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Let me know how you fared in trying to outwit my lies. And if you try this out give me a tag so that I will be able to read about you. Let us chat.
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Bloggers, Bookish talks |
Happy New Year everyone!
New year, New day and hopefully a new beginning. I know time is just a man made construct and the ‘new year’ doesn’t change anything. But for me, and many of others, this is big deal. And if you are anything like me, you probably have great plans and schedules that are ready and have just begun to be put to use.
I don’t call them resolutions, because we all know how quick I am at failing them. But they are typically long to do lists and new ideas to be tried out. So what is on store for this year? Let me show you my GRAND plans for the new year.
Reading Plans
Here is a list of reading challenges that I will be participating this year.
Goodreads Reading Challenge 2019
I think this is the most basic of all the reading challenges. I am increasing my target from 35 to 45. I know it might seem very less compared to other prolific readers/ bloggers around here. But I hate having to stress about reaching the target and not enjoying the book.
Target: 45
A – Z reading challenge 2019
Hosted by the Ginger Mom and company, I did great last year and that motivated me to join this year’s challenge as well. But this year I will plan to participate more and be more social.
Target: Reading books with the titles starting with all the letters of the alphabets
Reading more classics
One of the major goals I have is to read more classics during the year. And I will following these two challenges for my reading choices.
Reading more Indies
I love reading indies and promoting indie authors. I am making it a point to read more indie books anyway, so why not make a big deal of it and join a challenge for that, hosted by As told by Tina.
Psst,if you are an indie author, consider writing a guest post for Elgee Writes.
Nancy Drew Challenge
It has been years since I read a Nancy Drew and I found a stash of those books a while ago. So I am going to take a go at it. I will be following this Goodreads group as a guide.
Blogging Plans and actions
We come to the interesting part of the post – the blog plan.
I participated in the Tidyathon hosted by Clo and Sam of Book Dragon247 and Fictionally Sam and I totally loved it. And all the colorfulness you see on my blog are just a result of that. It is still a work in progress, let us just face it, editing about 200+ posts and graphics is not a small deal. At least that is what I tell myself.
For 2019, I decided I will blog better, like every other blogger here. But knowing me I won’t do well without an action plan. So here are my plans.
Blog content
When I started Elgee Writes I used to post lots of book reviews and a little bit of personal updates. I have come a long way from that and currently I post four times a month with a variety of content like quotes, quizzes and tags and lot of discussion posts with a weekly review.
And joining Nicole’s Book Blog Discussion Challenge last year made the switch more easier. So I will be joining the challenge for 2019 as well. As I was saying earlier, I will be more vocal and participative in this link up as well.
I am also planning to include more fun and non bookish posts in the coming months but not to worry, it will stay a book blog.
Action
Blog Engagement:
We all know how important blog engagement is to a blog’s success. Don’t we all hate shouting into the void and no one hearing it?
One of the measure I am taking to increase my blog’s engagement is participating in the Comment 4 Comment Challenge 2019 #C4CC2019!
You can read all about it here and it is not too late to sign up.
Join us to leave no comment un-replied and un-returned!
I am proud of myself with my last year’s blog hopping and I plan it to keep up.
Action:
- Visit blogs I follow at least weekly once.
- Reply to all the comments on my blog
- Return the comments by visiting their blogs
- Learn to follow and use blog statistics.
- And to care about the follower counts.
Blogging Schedule
This is a more obvious one – more consistent blogging.
I already post 4 times a week and I more or less am consistent in doing that. I plan to continue that but I am trying to make it more streamlined. I am putting to use of all the time I have spent on ‘pretending to be organized’ into becoming actually organized.
So what I am going to do differently?
Action:
- Planning the topics ahead of time.
- Working in batches
- Scheduling posts at least two days before the publishing date
- Taking planned holidays off the blog
Make more blogging friends
Yes you heard it right!
Blogging has got me so many new virtual friends this year, especially ones with similar interests. Isn’t that really great?
I am part of a few Discord, Facebook and Twitter groups. But being the introverted booknerds that we are, it is understandable that I didn’t take part in the conversations as much as I wanted. So this year I will be doing exactly that.
I am looking forward to following lots of new bloggers this year. So if there are any blogs that I should be following, let me know! I will give them a follow right away.
Action:
- Post more original tweets on Twitter
- Plan and schedule posts on Instagram
- Talk to people online
Personal goals
I don’t usually talk about my personal life and goals online but I am making an exception. I will explain why in a bit.
- Take more photos of the places I visit. (Bonus if I post on Instagram)
- Learn to knit
- Take initiative to talk to more people
- Create and follow routines in general life (See I am being more organized!)
- Self care and self love, for obvious reasons and I am not breaking that down
I guess that is it for now! I am not going to be trying too hard or be stressing myself with these plans, but using these action plans as guidelines and take it as they come.
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What are your goals for the year? Do you have New Year resolutions? Share your favorite blog that I should be following already. Let us talk.
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Book Lists |
I never seem to catch up with the hyped books train and when I do, I seldom like them. I think it is bane of my existence and I can’t get out of it. And the list of books that I have missed out is too long to even add in a list. But here I am attempting to do that.
So here are my top ten hyped books that I have never read. Some of them I may or not read in the future and some I would never read and I have divided them accordingly.
Hyped books I am never gonna read
10) Twilight Series
This is one I may never even touch with a ten foot pole. I have read a few excerpts and that is good enough for me to make this decision.
9) Hunger Games
Well, the whole internet world had spoiled this for me, I know the story and I don’t want to spend an eternity reading books after books in the series.
8) Vampire Academy
Same goes for this one too.
7) Wonder
I saw the movie already. While I liked it, I have no intention to go through the same set of emotions with the book.
6) Fifty Shades of Grey
Oh I am definitely staying off this one!
5) My sister’s keeper
Again, the movie was pretty much good and I have no desire to read the book.
Hyped Books I may or not read
4) Ready Player One
I started reading this and most of the references flew over my head. I might give it a chance some day again.
3) Girl with the dragon Tattoo (Millennium) series
I have a thing against series, but this is one I have had my eyes on for a long time now. I might read it I think.
2) Me before you
I have been putting this tear jerker for a long time, mainly because I am so afraid it would let me down, after all the hypes I have heard for years now.
1)Harry Potter series
I know. I know. Everyone has read this but I have not. I don’t read many series and I definitely do not wanna read seven books. Still, I may or not read this some day in the future.
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So what are the hyped books that you have not read yet? Are they in my list? And why have you not read them yet? Let us talk.
