Musing Monday [4]

MUSING MONDAYS is a weekly event where MizB of Should Be Reading will ask a book/reading-related question, and you can answer with your own thoughts on the topic.

This week's musing asks: 

What book are you currently desperate to get your hands on?

My answer:

The Art of Wishing by Lindsay Ribar. 
Published on March 21st, 2013 by Dial Books for Young Readers.
Premise:
He can grant her wishes, but only she can save his life.
Margo McKenna has a plan for just about everything, from landing the lead in her high school play to getting into a good collage. So when she finds herself in possession of a genie's ring and the chance to make three wishes, she doesn't know what to do. Why should she put her life into someone else's hands?
But Oliver is more than just a genie -he's also a sophomore at Margo's high school, and he's on the run from a murderer. As he and Margo grow closer, she discovers that it will take more than three wishes to save him.
A lot more.

Why do I want this book so bad? Well, I loved the premise, because I'm really into genies since forever and I mean, since I watched Aladdin when I was a kid...   
The thing is... I haven't found so many book with that theme, but the few I've managed to find and read were awesome. Alsom what I really like about this particular book is that, from the premise, you can see that the situation is kind of funny, because the girl doesn't really need the wishes, but the guy/genie does since he's running from a murderer -which I find perfect to inject some mystery to the book- so I think it would be very interesting reading about a genie in need of wishes and a girl being the only one he can trust to ask for help. 

Add this book to your Goodreads shelf!

I would love to hear your thoughts.
Leave me a link with your Musing Monday or your answer on the comment section below. 

Have a nice week!

Musing Mondays [3]

MUSING MONDAYS is a weekly event where MizB of Should Be Reading will ask a book/reading-related question, and you can answer with your own thoughts on the topic.

This week's musing asks: What was the last book you could not finish and why?

My answer:

First of all, I have to say I'm not the kind of reader that give up on a book, like EVER. Even when I'm bored as hell reading a book and I'm not liking it at all, I just keep reading until my eyes bleed. I think it's important to read everything so you can make a good critique based on the entire book and not just the first 50 pages that you didn't like. I know there are a lot of great books out there that could be ten times better than the one you're fighting to finish, but I just don't like unfinished business. 
All that said, there is one book, that I haven't been able to finish YET. I don't think this is a bad book, I don't even feel bored while I'm reading it... It could be it's length  (1200 pages) or just that I always pick it up when I'm kind of in a bad mood. The book I'm talking about is The Witching Hour (Lives of Mayfair Witches #1) by Anne Rice. Like I was saying, I don't think it's the book's fault. I just can't keep my attention in something for that long... This one is always going back and forth from by currently-reading shelf to my to-be-read one on Goodreads. 
I still have every intention of reading this entire thing, I just have to find the right timing for it.

I would love to hear your thoughts, leave me a link with your Musing Monday or your answers on the comment section below. 

Have a nice week!

Musing Mondays [2]

MUSING MONDAYS is a weekly event where MizB of Should Be Reading will ask a book/reading-related question, and you can answer with your own thoughts on the topic.

This week's musing asks several question, but you can pick just one, some of them or answer them all, the questions are:

1.- If you had to choose only 3 books to read forever, which ones would you choose? 

2.- Is there a character that you absolutely love but that you cannot get a good mental picture of? 

3.- Make a plea for your favorite book. Make others wanna read it! 

4.- If you could create a soundtrack for a book you’ve read recently, which songs would you use and why? 

5.- Do you read outside your preferred genre? Has your preferred genre changed?

6.- Do you have a favorite book/movie combination?

7.- Name a book that you thought you wouldn’t like much, but you ended up loving.

8.- If you were Book Czar of the world, is there one book you would like to require every kid to read? 

I'll pick the questions 1 & 5.

1.- If you had to choose only 3 books to read forever, which ones would you choose? 
My answer: This is a hard question, because I love reading new books and I wouldn't want to get tired of my favorites ones just by reading them too much. But I think I'll never stop loving:

Harry Potter & the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling

I think I'll never get tired of the Harry Potter series and since this one is my favorite of all of them, I'd be glad to read it until the end of times.

                                                              The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

I loved this book so much! I've read it five times already and I still enjoy every moment of it, just like the first time, so I think this would be a good choice.

Old Magic by Marianne Curley
If you haven't read this one, you're missing something really great! It has everything I could ask for in a book. It is fast-paced, it has romance, magic, time-travel, adventures, it is well-written. I have read it two times, but I would love to read it over and over again.








5.- Do you read outside your preferred genre? Has your preferred genre changed?Do you read outside your preferred genre? Has your preferred genre changed
My answer: I've read so many genres I don't think I could name them all. I almost everything that comes into my hands (even the back of the cereal box). I love to find new genres and try new things, although I have my all-times preferred genres, such as Paranormal Romance and YA. However, my favorites change from time to time. For example, right now I'm really into Dystopian and Sci-Fi books. And before that I would have read anything with vampires on it. A while ago I was really into thrillers like Dan Brown's books. And before that I was in love with chick-lit like Sophie Kinsella's books. When I was younger I loved books about magic and adventures like Harry Potter and Narnia... So, you can say that I change my preferred genre quite often, but that doesn't mean that I like everything. There are certain type of books I've tried but didn't like such as Non-fiction or Christian books.

I would love to hear your thoughts, leave me a link with your Musing Monday or your answers on the comment section below. 

Have a nice week!

Musing Mondays [1]

MUSING MONDAYS is a weekly event where MizB of Should Be Reading will ask a book/reading-related question, and you can answer with your own thoughts on the topic.

This week's musing asks:

"What is the most recent book you purchased, or brought home from the local library? What made you pick it? Have you stared reading it, right away, or will you wait for a bit?

My answers: The last books I purchased were "Switched", "Torn" & "Ascend" all of them by Amanda Hocking. 

I have like a birthday tradition: when my birthday comes, my mom give me some money and I go on a shopping spree in the bookstore next to my home on the same day of my birthday. So, I was looking at all the amazing books and there was "Torn" (which is the second book of the series) and I saw it was written by Amanda Hocking and I though: "Well, I've heard really good things about this author and I've never given her a try..." and then I decided to buy that series, but I couldn't find "Switched" (the first book of the series) anywhere on the bookstore, so I became obsessed about it. I HAD to find it and buy it. So I went to another bookstore and I asked for the trilogy. They did have it, so without further thinking I bought them. I bought other books too, but I was so obsessed with that series that I couldn't wait any longer, so when I came home, I start the first one and I wasn't able to stop until I was done with the last one. I really loved the series, by the way, so the reviews will be up soon.

I would love to hear your thoughts, leave me a link with your musing Monday or your answer on the comment section below. Have a nice week!