Let’s talk about that book you know, the one you discovered only because you read about it on a book blog and then you realized you couldn’t live without it! And then you read it and you loved it so hard! Tell us about it and about the blogger (or bloggers!) that introduced the book to you!
First of all, I just want to say that there are so, so many books that I never would have read it I hadn’t discovered them on another book blog. And many of these books have been great books.
That being said there are two books in particular that stick out the most for me. The first is The Hunger Games. I read tons of reviews of this book before I finally decided to pick it up. The reason I was so reluctant to read it in the first place? The cover really turned me off. Something about that cover made me think that it was not the type of book I would enjoy. Boy was I wrong! This book in definitely one of the best I’ve read so far this year and I am so glad that I finally got over my dislike of the cover and read it. And I’m grateful to all of you that blogged about how amazing it was so that I was finally convinced I needed to read it!
The second book I thought of, I can attribute to one specific blogger. This blogger was one of the first I stumbled across when I made the transition from sometimes blogging about books to starting a whole separate blog to review the books I read. This was Raych at books I done read. Her blog is probably my favourite book blog. I love the way she reviews books and just tells it like it is! She reviewed To Say Nothing of the Dog and I knew that I just had to read it. (Yes, I realize that my review is totally lame, you probably shouldn’t follow that link. But definitely go check out hers. It’s 1000 times better than mine!) Anyway, I loved this book and I haven’t gotten a chance to read anymore books by Connie Willis but I definitely plan on it!
17/09/2009 at 10:33 am Permalink
Never heard of the second book–I’m going to see if Bookswim has it because it looks great.
As for The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, I need to read these. At first, I was put off by them too, but the more I’ve read about them and seen them around, I just know I can trust that I’ll enjoy them.
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17/09/2009 at 10:51 am Permalink
Hunger Games and Catching Fire are my two most recent “blogger recommended” purchases. Can’t attribute it to just one person, though.
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17/09/2009 at 6:09 pm Permalink
The Hunger Games has to be the most mentioned book today!
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17/09/2009 at 7:50 pm Permalink
I see this book everywhere!
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20/09/2009 at 3:12 pm Permalink
Raych made me get To Say Nothing of the Dog too. I haven’t read it yet, but I suspect I’ll love it when I do.
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