I am the messenger by Markus Zusak 

Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary
Publisher:  Knopf Books for Young Readers 
Release Date:  October 1st 2002

The summary: 

Ed Kennedy, a hapless 19-year-old Australian cab driver, has a life that’s going nowhere until he manages to foil a bank robbery. After this incident he starts to receive mysterious messages, written on playing cards, that send him to addresses where people need help: to a house where a husband comes home drunk every night and rapes his wife; to a home where a sweet if senile old woman is lonely and missing her dead husband; to the aid of a teenage runner who lacks confidence; to a church that needs a congregation. In the end, Ed discovers that the messages are part of a puzzle that he seems to not be able to figure out but the main part is  who is sending these messages to him, and why?

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Monsters of men (chaos walking #3) by Patrick Ness 

Genre: Young Adult, Sci-fi, Dystopian
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Release Date: September 28th 2010

Note: this review may contain spoilers if you’ve not read the previous books in the series. However the review itself is spoiler free for those who have yet to read this final book. 

The summary: 

“War,” says the Mayor. “At last.” Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. As the battles commence, how can they hope to stop the fighting? How can there ever be peace when they’re so hopelessly outnumbered? And if war makes monsters of men, what terrible choices await? But then a third voice breaks into the battle, one bent on revenge – the electrifying finale to the award-winning “Chaos Walking” trilogy, Monsters of Men is a heart-stopping novel about power, survival, and the devastating realities of war.

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Harry Potter:  the prequel (Harry Potter #0.5) by J.K Rowling 

Genre: Fantasy, Shortest short story in the history. 
Publisher: crushable.com
Release Date: June 11th 2008 

The summary:

Handwritten on a card, this is an 800-word story written by J. K. Rowling, which was auctioned off alongside thirteen similar cards from other authors on 11 June 2008 in the “What’s Your Story?” auction at Waterstone’s in Piccadilly. Bought for £25,000 the proceeds went for charity. Set about three years before the birth of Harry Potter, the story recounts an adventure experienced by Sirius Black and James Potter.

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Top ten tuesday: Top Ten Favorite Book Covers Of Books I’ve Read

fictionaladventures:

Book spine poem.

Before I go to sleep everyday,

a monster calls me talk pretty one day. 

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”

—Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Bout of Books is a week-long read-a-thon from Monday, May 13th to Sunday, May 19th. You can find my sing up post here. As I promised back then I would make a conclusion post about how I managed to participate in my very first read-a-thon. Some of you might’ve noticed my updates on twitter or goodreads, and for those who haven’t here are the results.

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fictionaladventures:

Free short stories from Patrick Ness’ chaos walking trilogy. 

I wrote this for you by pleasefindthis 

Genre: Non fiction, poetry, contemporary, short stories 
Publisher:  Central Avenue Publishing
Release Date: December 20th 2011

The summary:

I need you to understand something. I wrote this for you. I wrote this for you and only you. Everyone else who reads it, doesn’t get it. They may think they get it, but they don’t. This is the sign you’ve been looking for. You were meant to read these words.

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READ-A-THON.

The Bout of Books read-a-thon is organized by Amanda @ On a Book Bender and Kelly @ Reading the Paranormal. It is a week long read-a-thon that begins 12:01am Monday, May 13th and runs through Sunday, May 19th in whatever time zone you are in. Bout of Books is low-pressure, and the only reading competition is between you and your usual number of books read in a week. There are challenges, giveaways, and a grand prize, but all of these are completely optional. For all Bout of Books 7.0 information and updates, be sure to visit the Bout of Books blog. - From the Bout of Books team

This is my  first time to participate in a read-a-ton, and it was very recently the concept was introduced to me by Catriona at the little book owl. So as an avid bookworm I thought why not give it a try?

Read more about the challenge & my goals. 

30 days book challenge| Day 30.The book you’re reading right now.|

This is the very end of this book challenge! I hope you had as much fun as I had participating in it. If you want to follow my book posts in the future I’ve created a new book blog for the purpose of simply only the book posts since this blog consists of personal things,arts, music etc.

Let me know if you’re participating of a challenge of some sorts, I would love to follow you!