Emo & Jes E-Book Talk Tuesday: Favorite Books

From: Jes
To: Emo
Subject: So what is your very, very favorite book you have read. The one you will re-read until you're, like, 57 years old and can not stand to read it anymore, so you read it again??


Ice by Sarah Beth Durst

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From: Emo
To: Jes
Subject: RE: So what is your very, very favorite book you have read. The one you will re-read until you're, like, 57 years old and can not stand to read it anymore, so you read it again??

Haha! Even more difficult...

I think I'm going to say Ice by Sarah Beth Durst. I loved that one so, so much. And it is my favorite fairy/folk tale- East of the Sun, West of the Moon- so it has that going for it. The author is brilliant. I love all of the characters and the spin on the traditional tale. It was great. And I have re-read it time and time again and will continue to do so.

Sun, Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George

Also Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow by Jessica Day George is a great retelling of the story.

And, you are already aware of my relationship with the novel Scorpio Races. LOVE LOVE LOVE.

But Ice wins... :)

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From: Jessica Ellis
Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2013 1:45 PM
To: Emily Peters
Subject: RE: So what is your very, very favorite book you have read. The one you will re-read until you're, like, 57 years old and can not stand to read it anymore, so you read it again??

The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce

Oh yay! Love Ice it is like the greatest you are right. I think it is thus so far that I have read my favorite re-telling of a fairytale. It’s so good! I think my favorite has got to be, and you may not like this but, The Darkangel by Meredith Ann Pierce. I really, really love this book and that series. It’s so fracking awesome I may re-read soon!!

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From: Emo
To: Jes
Subject: RE: So what is your very, very favorite book you have read. The one you will re-read until you're, like, 57 years old and can not stand to read it anymore, so you read it again??

Really?! I might have to re-read them then. Give them another chance if you loved them so much. Mom was just talking about them too, just the other day. How funny!

 

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From: Jes
To: Emo
Subject: RE: So what is your very, very favorite book you have read. The one you will re-read until you're, like, 57 years old and can not stand to read it anymore, so you read it again??

Oh Em! I love them. They are so good, it’s like at one point I just want her to kick his butt, tear off one of his wings and then the next I’m like ohh but you love him, go marry him!!

Yeah no those are definitely my favorite the author *Meredith Ann Pierce* did a fantastic job!!!

 

 

 

Also Mentioned:

 

Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater

Emo & Jes E-Book Talk Tuesday

From: Jes
To: Emo
Subject: So what is your very least favorite book ever? A book you were, like, "OMG I can't believe I just read that, it was bad"...................

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From: Emo
To: Jes
Subject: RE: So what is your very least favorite book ever? A book you were, like, "OMG I can't believe I just read that, it was bad"...................

 

Oh my. That's a tough question...

The only one that is coming to my mind is that book called Hopeless by Colleen Hoover.... I mean, when I began it, it seemed like it had potential. But too many crazy turns and it left me with a creepy feeling. I would not recommend it for just being a terrible story. Like bad. Even after everything was (somewhat) resolved I was still left thinking "Ew!" So... yeah... But would I say it was the worst? IDK. I'll probably think of a really good one in a little while. Haha!

But I've found that I don't like the new older YA genre... the in-between of YA and Adult fiction (where they are in college and in 'adult situations' but are still incredibly immature)...and this was nearer to that than true YA.

 Also... That Boy by Jillian Dodd... didn't even finish this one. It was just terrible-writing, story, characters. Everything.

 Also, I hate to say that cause she's our Avett fan and her other book 'Slammed' was great.

 

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From: Jes
To: Emo
Subject: RE: So what is your very least favorite book ever? A book you were, like, "OMG I can't believe I just read that, it was bad"...................

 Wow! Not what I was expecting you to say. And yeah, disappointing because I did like “Slammed”.  I don’t know how I feel about the New Adult books (I think that’s what they call them), you are right they seem extremely immature, worse so then some Ya novels. I say some because not all are bad.

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From: Emo
To: Jes
Subject: RE: So what is your very least favorite book ever? A book you were, like, "OMG I can't believe I just read that, it was bad"...................

Very true... Not all are bad.

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From: Jes
To: Emo
Subject: RE: So what is your very least favorite book ever? A book you were, like, "OMG I can't believe I just read that, it was bad"...................

My least favorite is “The Voyage of the Dawn Treader” by CS Lewis because and this may seem silly, but I read the first four books of the Chronicles of Narnia just fine no problem, this book every time I picked it up no matter day or night, I fell asleep. It was like I would read one sentence and then I was just out.  For that alone I am naming it my least favorite book!

 

BOOKS MENTIONED IN THIS POST (and links to Amazon.com) :

That Boy by Jillian Dodd 

Slammed by Colleen Hoover

Hopeless by Colleen Hoover 

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Emo & Jes E-Book Talk Tuesday

From: Jes
To: Emo
Subject: So how goes North of Beautiful?

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From: Emo
To: Jes
Subject: RE: So how goes North of Beautiful?

 

Well... It went smoothly for a while... then sputtered to a stop when I picked up Scorpio Races again.
 
I really liked it. It had its moments of greatness, humor-wise. And it's poetic, y'know? But I feel like it tries a bit too hard. Too many metaphors. Too many references to maps. And there were inconsistencies with the characters.
 
I might be being a little nit-picky.
 
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed what I've read of it so far, and plan to finish it soon. But it wasn't my favorite. And I now know why you had a hard time remembering if you read it.  I do wanna finish it though.

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From: Jes
To: Emo
Subject: RE: So how goes North of Beautiful?

Yeah, it is hard to get around the map stuff, but I liked it enough to finish it. But it definitely went through one ear and out the other so to speak, because I read it not listened to it, you know what I mean?

 

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From: Emo
To: Jes
Subject: RE: So how goes North of Beautiful?

 

Haha! In one eye and out the other just doesn't make much sense either. And I wanna finish it, but distractions. I've got less than 50 pages left of Scorpio Races then I am definitely picking it back up.

 

Check it out @:
North of Beautiful be Justina Chen @ Amazon.com

 

Emo & Jes E-Book Talk Tuesday: The Sweetest Spell by Suzanne Selfors

From: Emo
To: Jes
Subject: So... I finished The Sweetest Spell book...

 

It was really funny. Kinda cheesy, but not in a bad way. Haha! Now to begin North to Beautiful.

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From: Jes
To: Emo
Subject: RE: So... I finished The Sweetest Spell book...

What was it about again??

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From: Emo
To: Jes
Subject: RE: So... I finished The Sweetest Spell book...

 

Hmm... It's historical; in the kingdom of Anglund (I know! Ha!), where chocolate is only a legend, the daughter of a poor dirt-scratcher must journey to free her father from captivity.
 
Because of her deformed foot, she was cast aside after she was born and left at the edge of the forest to be eaten or stolen by wood spirits. But, 4 cows wondered up and protected her. She was found the next morning and given back to her family. From then on she's been viewed as unnatural. And cows follow her around.
 
The men of the town were called to a draft and she was left alone, then a flood washed away her village, and she was washed down river. Then, another cow saves her (sort of).... it's hysterical.
 
Along the way she meets a lot of wonderful characters, that you can't help but love, not to mention the handsome son of a dairyman.
 
It was hilarious. If anything, it made me laugh.

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From: Jes
To: Emo
Subject: RE: So... I finished The Sweetest Spell book...

 

LOL that sounds hilarious 4 cows follow her around ha J

 

 

 

You can check out The Sweetest Spell by Suzanne Selfors by clicking the link below:

The Sweetest Spell @ Amazon.com

Emo & Jes E-Book Talk Tuesday: Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion

From: Emo
To: Jes
Subject: Warm Bodies is actually a really funny book......


If you skip the throat ripping, brain eating and body crushing parts, it really is very eloquent and has hilarious, dry humor.

I like to think R is noble. Even if he does eat brains.
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From: Jes
To: Emo
Subject: RE: Warm Bodies is actually a really funny book......

Great now I'll have to read it, maybe I wasn't in a reading mood when I read the sample. But a girl falling in love with a zombie is kind of strange?
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From: Emo
To: Jes
Subject: RE: Warm Bodies is actually a really funny book......

Girl I don't know. But reading from the perspective of a zombie as he falls in love with the girl is sooo much stranger. Considering he is married to another zombie with zombie children even stranger.

And no I didn't give anything away....You learn that by, like, page 15. I just wanted to share the strangeness. ;)
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From: Jes
To: Emo
Subject: RE: Warm Bodies is actually a really funny book......

Woah what? I hate cheaters dead or alive
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From: Emo
To: Jes
Subject: RE: Warm Bodies is actually a really funny book......

Hahaha!! Yeah... I have no idea what happened. I'm not sure he meant to marry the zombie chick. It all happened so fast, ya know? Or at least that's his story. Hehehe!

Check it out Warm Bodies @ Amazon.com