Top Ten Authors I Own The Most Books Of

Top Ten Tuesdays is a meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish that features a new topic each week where we have to put down our top ten of it.

Today's Topic:

Authors That I Own The Most Books From

Stephen King: 14 books (and not stopping there)

Now I have to be completely honest. Yes, I own 14 of his books but have I read them all.....No, unfortunately. 
One day though......

Books owned: The Shining, Pet Sematary, Under the Dome, Doctor Sleep, Thinner, Four Past Midnight, and The Dark Towers Series (1-7, including The Wind Through the Keyhole)

Neil Gaiman: 12 books (and never will I stop until I own everything by this amazing man)

Everything I've had the opportunity to read by this brilliant being, I have loved. He is such a creative genius! My goal in life is to own everything this guy puts out. Hands down, my favorite author!!
OMG, and have your heard him narrate is books. Beautiful. I could listen to him read to me, all day, everyday. For the rest of my life. *sigh*

Books Owned: Neverwhere, Anansi Boys, American Gods, The Graveyard Book, Coraline, Stardust, The Ocean At The End of The Lane, MirrorMask, Fortunately The Milk, Stories, Good Omens, The Truth is A Cave in the Mountain, The Sandman: Endless Nights.....Not too mention books written about him ;)

Clive Barker: 12 books 

This author opened up my eyes and mind, showing me how creative writing can be. He definitely stimulated my imagination, introducing me to, which is now my favorite, the Fantasy Genre. And for that, I will forever be grateful!!

Books Owned: The Thief of Always, Weaveworld, Imajica, Mister B. Gone, Galilee, Incarnations, Cabal, The Hellbound Heart, The Great and Secret Show, Everville, Abrat, Abarat: Days of Magic, Nights of War

Chuck Palahniuk: 7 books

Recommended by a friend, this author blew my mind. I fell for his risky, vulgar and straight "I don't give a fuck" writing and for his bizarre plot twists and extremely original creations. 

Plus I always learn some raunchy new words from him, to add to my dictionary of vile language ;)

Books Owned: Fight Club, Invisible Monsters, Lullaby, Snuff, Tell-All, Damned, and Haunted

Brandon Sanderson: 9 books (never gonna stop)

I will continue to get every thing written by this wonderful writer. He is just phenomenal at what he does and what he creates. The worlds he creates, the characters he introduces, OMG! I could go on and on. He is just an amazing storyteller. LOVE HIM!! I don't know who it was that recommended Sanderson to me but, whoever is was...THANK YOU!

Books Owned: Mistborn: The Final Empire (book 1), The Well of Ascension (Mistborn 2), The Hero of Ages (Mistborn 3), The Way of Kings (Stormlight Archives 1), Words of Radiance (Stormlight Archives 2), The Rithmatist, Elantris, The Gathering Storm (Wheel of Times 12), and Towers of Midnight (Wheel of Times 13)

J.K. Rowling: 7 books

We all have this one in common, I imagine!
The only books I own of hers is the 7 books in The Harry Potter Series.

Books Owned: Harry Potter Series (books 1-7) Y'all know what they are, LOL!!

Karen Marie Moning: 6 books

Recommended by friends on Goodreads and we're doing an "end of summer" read-along to Moning's Fever series.

Books Owned: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever and Iced

Rick Riordan: 5 books

Percy Jackson and the Olympians 1-5
Own but haven't read yet :( 
Eeeekkkk....I know! Tsk tsk!!

Books Owned: Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series 1-5



Own 4 of their books:
Garth Nix: Abhorsen Series 1-3 and Across the Wall
Laini Taylor: Daughter of Smoke & Bones 1-3 and Dream Dark
Patrick Ness: Chaos Walking Series 1-3 and A Monster Calls
Christopher Paolini: The Eragon Series 1-4
J.R.R. Tolkien: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Trilogy 1-3

Own 3 of their books:
Veronica Roth: The Divergent Series
Suzanne Collins: The Hunger Games Series
Melina Marchetta: The Lumatere Chronicles
Marissa Meyers: The Lunar Chronicles (this number of books will change, her 4th book comes out in 2015)
Scott Lynch: The Gentleman Bastard Series ( more books coming soon)

I'm sure these numbers will change for some of these authors. More books will be coming out for some of their series and I, of course, will be going out to get them, adding them to the on going amount of books I own.

YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH!

P.S.

I'm baaaaaaaaaaaaaccckkkkkk!!! :)

♥ BIG HUGS and Lots of Love ♥

DON'T YOU EVER INTERRUPT ME WHEN I'M READING A BOOK

Probably the best video I've ever seen on Youtube. This is HILARIOUS people!

Link to this amazeball video: Click Here

Hope y'all laugh as hard as I did when watching this ( about 50 times already )

ENJOY!

XOXO

Top Ten Books In My Beach Bag

Top Ten Tuesdays is a meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish that features a new topic each week where we have to put down our top ten of it.

Today's Topic:

Top Ten Books That Will Be In My Beach Bag This Summer

It started to warm up and I started to spend more time outside basking in the sun, bringing my books with me while I did so. Here are some books you'll find in my bag, either now or sometime in the future, this summer.

Bittersweet 

by: Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

"Suspenseful and cinematic, Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of  an American dynasty, and an outsider's hunger to belong."( Read More )

This book was mentioned in People magazine, saying..."Bittersweet is worth savoring--it unfolds like a long summer day, leisurely revealing the dark."

Looks like it's been getting great reviews so I figured it'd be perfect for a summer read!! (I just started reading it today actually)

Quote from Bittersweet: " Before she loathed me, before she loved me, Genevra Katherine Winslow didn't know that I existed."

The Skin Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel #11)

by: Jeffery Deaver

"A new type of serial killer is stalking the streets of New York – one more devious and disturbing than ever before. They call this butcher The Skin Collector:" (Read More)

This is another one of Jeffery Deaver's haunting and suspenseful mysteries involving detective Lincoln Rhyme and his associate Amelia Sachs. It's never a dull ride with these two investigators.

The Bone Collector (A Lincoln Rhyme Novel #1)

by: Jeffery Deaver

"A diabolical killer whose brutal slayings leave a trail of cryptic messages hidden at the scene of the crime is loose on the streets of Manhattan. As the city lies in fear, a gifted but disabled detective (Washington) teams with a rookie street cop (Jolie) to go inside the mind of thisterrifying madman and defeat him at his own game." 

Since I'll be reading Deaver's, The Skin Collector, I figured I go back to where it all began with Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sach's very first case together.

Quote from The Bone Collector: " Sometimes you just can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have. And life changes. Maybe just a little, maybe a lot. And at some point it just isn't worth the fight to try to fix what went wrong."

The Way of Kings (Book #1 The Stormlight Archives)

by: Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson, widely acclaimed for his work completing Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Times saga, begins a grand cycle of his own, with The Way of Kings, Book one in The Stormlight Archives.

I will be doing a group read for this massive book. It will be taking up all of my beach bag's space leaving no space for towels or sunblock, lol!

Geek Love

by: Katherine Dunn

"Geek Love throws its sulfurous light on our notions of the freakish and the normal, the beautiful and the ugly, the holy and the obscene. Family values will never be the same." (Read More)

I heard good and bad about this book, making me even more curious! Dark and mysterious, shocking and twisted. I always intrigued by the bizarre and this one seems fit. I eager to learn more about this book and this carni family it follows.

Quote from Geek Love: “They thought to use and shame me but I win out by nature, because a true freak cannot be made. A true freak must be born.” 

Horns

by: Joe Hill

" Being good and praying for the best got him nowhere. It's time for a little revenge. . . . It's time the devil had his due. . . "

I just discovered Joe Hill a couple weeks ago when I read his mesmerizing and thrilling novel, NOS4A2. I feel in love with how original and imaginative his writing is and how he made me feel so close and sympathetic towards the characters he wrote about. I can not wait to dive into this devilishly twisted tale.

Heart-Shaped Box

by: Joe Hill

"Judas Coyne (known simply as Jude to most) collects macabre objects, even snuff films (and yes, this is a sign that his soul is a bit awry and aching). But when he buys a dead man's suit he isn't prepared for what is coming to haunt him." (Read More)

I'm on a Joe Hill kick and I'm determined to read all of his books this summer, lol. This one is a ghost story dun... dun... dun......let's see if I get scared!!

We Were Liars

by: E. Lockhart

"A beautiful and distinguished family • A private island • A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy • A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive • A revolution. An accident. A secret • Lies upon lies • True love • The truth."

 E. Lockhart’s novel, We Were Liars, is clever, alluring, and wildly addictive. Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island and We Were Liars is the story of what happened there...(Read More)

The Sandman: Endless Nights (The Sandman #12)

by: Neil Gaiman

"Born at the beginning of time, Destiny, Death, Dream, Desire, Despair, Delirium, and Destruction are seven brothers and sisters who each lord over their respective realms. In this highly imaginative book that boasts a diverse styles of breathtaking art, these seven peculiar and powerful siblings each reveal more about their true being as they star in their own tales of curiosity and wonder." (Read More)

What can I say, anything that involves Neil Gaiman, I have to own & read!

The Fever Series By Karen Marie Moning

Darkfever (book #1), Bloodfever (book #2), Faefever (book #3), Dreamfever (book #4), Shadowfever (book #5)

"A darkly erotic and paranormal world, torn apart by the struggle between humans and Fae. 

I already own this series but I've only read book #1, Darkfever. Luckily I'll have the chance to finish the series this summer. There is a group of us, from Goodreads, doing a summer read/re-read of this series. I'm so excited to catch up with the quirky MacKayla Lane and mysterious bookstore owner, Jericho.

I tried to step outside the box this summer, going from reading nothing but Fantasy, to spreading it out, trying out some Suspense, Thrillers, Romances and even a Grapic Novel. I've come to realize also that I have entirely way too many "TBR" books, just sitting there in my bookcase, not being read. So until I read a good amount of those books, I WILL NOT be buying anymore new books.

YEA RIGHT!! Who am I kiddin'

LOL!

Seriously though, I really need to read the books I have already. So I will limit the amount of books I buy and do the whole library thing instead.

What's in y'alls "beach bag" this summer??

♥ BIG HUGS and Lots of Love ♥

Waiting on Wednesday: A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab & BOOK HAUL Y'ALL

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly bookish meme, 

hosted by Breaking the Spine,

that showcase upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating. 

Today's Book:

A Darker Shade of Magic

by: V.E. Schwab

Release Date: February 24th 2015

From V.E. Schwab, the critically acclaimed author of Vicious, comes a new universe of daring adventure, thrilling power, and parallel Londons, beginning with A Darker Shade of Magic.

Kell is one of the last Travelers—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes—as such, he can choose where he lands.

There’s Grey London, dirty and boring, without any magic, ruled by a mad King George. Then there’s Red London, where life and magic are revered, and the Maresh Dynasty presides over a flourishing empire. White London, ruled by whoever has murdered their way to the throne—a place where people fight to control magic, and the magic fights back, draining the city to its very bones. And once upon a time, there was Black London...but no one speaks of that now.

Officially, Kell is the Red Traveler, personal ambassador and adopted Prince of Red London, carrying the monthly correspondences between the royals of each London. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they’ll never see—a dangerous hobby, and one that has set him up for accidental treason. Fleeing into Grey London, Kell runs afoul of Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations, who first robs him, then saves him from a dangerous enemy, and then forces him to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure.

But perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, Kell and Lila will first need to stay alive—and that is proving trickier than they hoped.

I didn't have that much luck with V.E. (Victoria) Schwab's The Archived but I really enjoyed her action packed, super-natural world in Vicious.

A Darker Shade of Magic seems to have a lot of elements that I LOVE to read about. Magic, royalty, adventure and danger. I'm so ready!!

...OMG! and look at that cover! Frame it and hang it up. I dig it!

The only thing that sucks..... THE WAITING!!! Release date is not til February of 2015...UGGGHHH!

Anticipation is such an aggravation 

Hopefully A Darker Shade of Magic will make your "TBR" list.

Can't wait to see what y'all are waiting for

**Before I go I just wanted to share with y'all my BOOK HAUL**
Short list this weekend:

The Art of Neil Gaiman by Hayley Campbell~ Neil Gaiman is one of my top three favorite authors, so when I saw this, YEA! I had to have it.

Mistborn: The Final Empire by Brandon Sanderson~ I already own a copy but when I because they came out with this one and it's new cover I just had to have it. Got it, currently reading it and enjoying it, immensely! i ♥ brandon sanderson

Thanks for stopping by y'all!

♥ BIG HUGS and Lots of Love ♥

Top Ten Complete Series Sitting in my Bookcase...waiting to be read

Top Ten Tuesdays is a meme hosted by The Broke and Bookish that features a new topic each week where we have to put down our top ten of it.

Today's Topic is a Freebie:

(choose any topic you like)

Top Ten Complete Series That I have not yet started but have hanging out in my bookcase

1.) The Inheritance Cycle Series by Christopher Paolini

2.) The Seven Realms Series by China Willams Chima

3.) His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phillip Pullman

4.) Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness

5.) Lord of the Rings Trilogy by J R R Tolkien

6.)  The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud

7.) Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson

8.) The Gentleman Bastard Series by Scott Lynch

9.) Fever Series by Karen Marie Moning

10.) The Dark Towers Series by Stephen King

When it comes to books and if they're in a series, I am an absolute sucker and will buy the complete series. There is an amazing new/used bookstore in my town that has the best prices on books. If I see a book that I've been interested in for a while AND the complete series is there too, I'll go ahead and buy it.

Not only because I want to read it but also because it'll make my library look super nice with the complete set.

The series that I have listed above are series that are already complete, with no more books coming out.

Don't even get me started on the series I have but are still waiting for their sequel's to be release (or written)

I'll give you a glimpse... 

Splintered Series by A.G. Howard

Splintered (#1) & Unhinged (#2)

The Kingkiller Chronicles by Patrick Rothfuss

Name of the Wind (#1) & The Wise Mans Fear (#2)

The Stormlight Archives by Brandon Sanderson

They Way of the King (#1) & Words of Radiance (#2)

...remember, that's just a glimpse!!

It's hard to keep me away from a series!

I just love em so.....

♥♥♥♥

♥ BIG HUGS and Lots of Love ♥