Tag #48: Justice League Book Tag

Justice League Book Tag

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Thrice Read did it again!

Here’s the link to their post:


The Rules:

  • Copy these rules onto your post
  • Mention creators of the tag: Angelica and Rosie @TheBookCoverGirls and link to the original post
  • Mention and thank the person who tagged you and link to their post
  • Answer all the questions
  • Since there were originally seven members in the Justice League, tag seven people
  • Also, you can use the images provided, but don’t have to if you don’t want to
  • Have fun with it!

Batman: Your favorite antihero

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Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald.

One of my all-time favorite books. Also, one that I re-read every year.

Aquaman: A book or character that turned out to be better than you expected (Because let’s be real, we did not expect Khal Drogo to make Aquaman cool)

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Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neal Hurston.

This was another assigned reading book, during our senior year in the International Baccalaureate (IB) program. We were getting ready for our crucial exams, and everyone was super stressed out. I found this book to be especially pleasant to read during this difficult time, although my classmates likely disagree with me.

Wonder Woman: Most bad-ass female character (Not necessarily in a physical sense)

 

Hermione Granger, Harry Potter.

Easiest choice ever.

Cyborg: Favorite science fiction novel

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Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card.

I was not a big science fiction fan for a long time, especially in high school. So, I initially dreaded having to read this for summer reading. I think it was ninth or tenth grade?

I don’t know why I was worried. Ender’s Game is one of my favorite books now. I want to eventually read the whole series.

The Flash: A book you sped through

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The Last Song, Nicholas Sparks.

I know, I know. Cue the eye roll. But, I did my senior thesis in college on Nicholas Sparks’ books and the perceptions of love and romance. So, naturally, I’d read all the books published to that point!

I remember waiting what felt like forever for this book to be available through the library. It was the summer of 2009 (or maybe 2010), and I finally got my hands on a copy right before we trekked to Florida in the car. I remember burying my nose in it almost immediately, and hardly looking up while my parents were driving. It was good stuff.

Superman: Saddest character death (Although we all know there’s no way Superman is going to stay dead)

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SPOILER ALERT!

Alaska, from Looking for Alaska, John Green.

Looking for Alaska was the first John Green novel I ever read. It was for my Young Adult Literature class during the spring of 2011, my final semester of college. It gutted me, but it also made me want to read all of Green’s books after that.

I’ve done that, although I need to get my hands on Turtles All The Way Down, stat.


That’s it! I loved this tag!

Who’s your favorite member of the Justice League?


Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂

Tag #47: Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime

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I found this post through someone else’s post (Cannot remember who, however!). But, I wanted to share my list!

Here are other bloggers’ takes on the list:

Thrice Read also did this tag recently!


How many of Amazon’s recommended books have you read?

  1. Include the link to Amazon’s List
  2. Tag the creator of the meme (Perfectly Tolerable)

*The names of book titles U.S. versions, rather than U.K.

Title Author Read?
1984 George Orwell Yes
A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking No
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius Dave Eggers No
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier Ishmael Beah No
The Bad Beginning Lemony Snicket No
A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine L’Engle Yes
Selected Stories, 1968-1994 Alice Munro No
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll Yes
All the President’s Men Bob Woodward Yes
Angela’s Ashes: A Memoir Frank McCourt Yes
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. Judy Blume Yes
Bel Canto Ann Patchett No
Beloved Toni Morrison Yes
Born to Run Christopher McDougall No
Breath, Eyes, Memory Edwidge Danticat No
Catch-22 Joseph Heller Yes
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl Yes
Charlotte’s Web E. B White Yes
Cutting for Stone Abraham Verghese No
Daring Greatly Brené Brown No
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney Yes
Dune Frank Herbert No
Fahrenheit 451 Ray Bradbury Yes
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson No
Gone Girl Gillian Flynn No
Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brow Yes
Great Expectations Charles Dickens Yes
Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond Ph.D. No
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone J.K. Rowling Yes
In Cold Blood Truman Capote Yes
Interpreter of Maladies Jhumpa Lahiri No
Invisible Man Ralph Ellison Yes
Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth Chris Ware No
Kitchen Confidential Anthony Bourdain No
Life After Life Kate Atkinson No
Little House on the Prairie Laura Ingalls Wilder Yes
Lolita Vladimir Nabokov Yes
Love in the Time of Cholera Gabriel Garcia Marquez Yes
Love Medicine Louise Erdrich No
Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor E. Frankl No
Me Talk Pretty One Day David Sedaris No
Middlesex Jeffrey Eugenides Yes
Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie No
Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game Michael Lewis No
Of Human Bondage W. Somerset Maugham No
On the Road Jack Kerouac Yes
Out of Africa Isak Dinesen Yes
Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood Marjane Satrapi No
Portnoy’s Complaint Philip Roth No
Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen Yes
Silent Spring Rachel Carson Yes
Slaughterhouse-Five Kurt Vonnegut Yes
Team of Rivals Doris Kearns Goodwin No
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton Yes
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon No
The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X Yes
The Book Thief Markus Zusak No
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Díaz No
The Catcher in the Rye J. D. Salinger Yes
The Color of Water James McBride No
The Corrections Jonathan Franzen No
The Devil in the White City Erik Larson Yes
The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank Yes
The Fault in Our Stars John Green Yes
The Giver Lois Lowry Yes
The Golden Compass Philip Pullman No
The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Yes
The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood No
The House at Pooh Corner A. A. Milne Yes
The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins Yes
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Rebecca Skloot No
The Liars’ Club Mary Karr No
The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan No
The Little Prince Antoine de Saint-Exupéry No
The Long Goodbye Raymond Chandler No
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Lawrence Wright No
The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien No
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat Oliver Sacks No
The Omnivore’s Dilemma Michael Pollan No
The Phantom Tollbooth Norton Juster Yes
The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver No
The Power Broker Robert A. Caro No
The Right Stuff Tom Wolfe Yes
The Road Cormac McCarthy Yes
The Secret History Donna Tartt No
The Shining Stephen King Yes
The Stranger Albert Camus Yes
The Sun Also Rises Ernest Hemingway Yes
The Things They Carried Tim O’Brien Yes
The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle Yes
The Wind in the Willows Kenneth Grahame Yes
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle Haruki Murakami No
The World According to Garp John Irving Yes
The Year of Magical Thinking Joan Didion No
Things Fall Apart Chinua Achebe Yes
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee Yes
Unbroken Laura Hillenbrand No
Valley of the Dolls Jacqueline Susann No
Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein Yes
Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak

And it’s a “Yes” for Where the Wild Things Are.

Yes: 50
No: 50

An even split!

I have a lot more reading to do, apparently. But, I’m happy that I’ve read half this list. It’s inspiring me to re-read a few of these, too.


What do you think? How many of these books have you read?


Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂

Tag #46: The Harry Potter Tag

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Let’s keep the Harry Potter theme going, shall we?

I found this awesome tag on Perfectly Tolerable.

Here’s the link to her post:


Guidelines: 

Do the quizzes and answer the questions! All of the quizzes can be found on Pottermore.

Questions:

  1. What is your Patronus? (Pottermore quiz)
  2. What is your wand? (Pottermore quiz)
  3. What would your Boggart be?
  4. What position would you play in Quidditch?
  5. Would you be pure-blood, half-blood, or Muggle-born?
  6. What job would you want once you left Hogwarts?
  7. Which of the Deathly Hallows would you choose?
  8. Favorite book?
  9. Least favoritee book?
  10. Favorite film?
  11. Least favorite film?
  12. Favorite character?
  13. Least favorite character?
  14. Favorite teacher?
  15. Least favorite teacher?
  16. Do you have an unpopular opinion about the series?

Answers:

What is your Patronus? (Pottermore quiz)

What is your wand? (Pottermore quiz)

What would your Boggart be?

Hmmmm. Tough question.

Losing all hope.

What position would you play in Quidditch?

Keeper!

Would you be pure-blood, half-blood, or Muggle-born?

Half-blood.

What job would you want once you left Hogwarts?

An Auror.

Which of the Deathly Hallows would you choose?

The Invisibility Cloak.

Favorite book?

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Least favorite book?

None.

Favorite film?

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix.

Least favorite film?

None.

Favorite character?

Hermione Granger.

Least favorite character?

Dolores Umbridge (shudders at even writing her name).

Favorite teacher?

Minerva McGonagall.

Least favorite teacher?

Tie between Gilderoy Lockhart, and Dolores Umbridge (shudders again).

Do you have an unpopular opinion about the series?

Nope. I love it all.


That’s it for this tag! I had a lot of fun with the questions.

What about you? Do you like Harry Potter?


Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂

Tag #45: “3 Quotes in 3 Days” (Round 2 – Day 3)

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The Rules

  • Thank the person who nominated you
  • Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote each day)
  • Nominate 3 new bloggers each day

Here’s my quote for Day 3!

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu

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Tag – You’re It!


That’s it for this tag!

Thanks again to Thrice Read for tagging me. It was fun to do it again.


Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂

Tag #44: “3 Quotes in 3 Days” (Round 2 – Day 2)

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The Rules

  • Thank the person who nominated you
  • Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote each day)
  • Nominate 3 new bloggers each day

Here’s my quote for Day 2!

We have all the light we need, we just need to put it in practice. - Albert Pike

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Tag – You’re It!


Come back tomorrow for Day 3!


Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂

Tag #43: “3 Quotes in 3 Days” (Round 2 – Day 1)

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This is the second time I’ve been tagged for the “3 Quotes in 3 Days” tag.

Here are the links to my first round, from August 2016:


This time, I was tagged by Thrice Read!

Here’s the post where I was tagged:


The Rules

  • Thank the person who nominated you
  • Post a quote for 3 consecutive days (1 quote each day)
  • Nominate 3 new bloggers each day

Here’s my quote for Day 1!

Love yourself. It is important to stay positive because beauty comes from the inside out. - Jenn Proske

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Tag – You’re It!


Come back tomorrow for Day 2!


Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂

Tag #42: The Rainbow Book Tag

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Thrice Read did this awesome tag!

Here’s the link to their post:


The Rules:

  • Thank the lovely person that tagged you!
  • It must be the dominant color of the cover, not the spine!
  • It has to be a book you own or the exact copy that you read. (Ex: There are two copies of The Hate U Give, choose the cover of the copy you read)
  • If you do not own a book of the certain cover, choose one that has the color somewhere on it.
  • Tag some people do it! Whether they are bloggers, bookstagrammers, or booktubers. Spread the love!
  • Make it a game or do the tag as originally intended.

Red

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Orange

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Yellow

The Help

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Green

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Blue

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Turquoise

The Vacationers

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Purple

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Pink

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Brown

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White

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Black

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Tag – You’re It!


This was a fun tag! I love color, and I love the different covers that books have!


Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂

Tag #41: The Listicle Tag

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Thrice Read came up with an intriguing tag post!

Here’s the link to their post:


What is the Listicle Tag?

Listicle means a piece of writing or other content presented wholly or partly in the form of a list.

In this case, it’s a prompt for a particular top five related to books.


The Rules:

  • Create your own listicle tag, using the prompt from the person who tagged you.
  • Tag the creator of the post (not-so-modern-girl!) so that she can read all your brilliant posts and see how the joy of listicles is being spread.
  • Nominate as many people as you want!
  • Set those five people the subject/prompt of their listicle post!

The prompt I was given: Top Five Favorite Fantasy Novels


Laura Beth’s Top Five Favorite Fantasy Novels (in no particular order)

  • A Wrinkle In Time, Madeline L’Engle
  • Harry Potter series, J.K. Rowling
  • The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, C.S. Lewis
  • The Green Mile, Stephen King
  • The Princess Bride, William Goldman

I have a much greater appreciation for Madeline L’Engle now – I want to read all of her books!

At this point, most people know my love for / obsession with Harry Potter! I love re-reading them every so often. It’s a great kick of nostalgia. And the movies are awesome, too. Can’t wait to see the new Fantastic Beasts movie!

I don’t talk about C.S. Lewis very often, but I loved all his works. Like L’Engle, I’ve gained a greater appreciation for him over the last several years. And the movies based on some of his books are well done, at least in my opinion. If you haven’t checked them out, I recommend doing both.

Stephen King is one of my favorite authors. I want to watch the The Green Mile movie adaptation again soon – Tom Hanks and Michael Clarke Duncan. What a combo!

The Princess Bride is best known for the movie adaptation, but the book is really good, too.


Tag – You’re It!

Your listicle prompt: Top Five Favorite Books Published in the 21st Century


This was so fun, and challenging! I need to read more fantasy, apparently. It was hard to come up with five!


Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂

Tag #40: The Cheesy Goodness Tag

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This looked like a really interesting tag – I saw it on Jenna’s blog, Bookmark Your Thoughts.

Here’s the link to Jenna’s post:


The Rules:

  1. Pingback the original creator (Sydney @ Fire and Rain Books) so she can see all your cheesy goodness answers.
  2. Pingback the person who tagged you (as per usual).
  3. Have fun!

Cheddar

The traditional cheese: Name your favorite classic novel.

Although I’m very tempted to pick The Great Gatsby, I’m actually going to choose Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. I’ve loved everything Austen has written, although I haven’t read everything (See my TBR!). I first fell in love with her books when I was watching Wishbone as a kid!

Swiss

The hole-y cheese: Name an emotional roller coaster.

Looking for Alaska by John Green. This was the first of Green’s books I read, in 2011, and I had no idea how much emotion he packs into every book he writes!

Blue Cheese

The controversial cheese: Name an unpopular book opinion you have.

I despise dog-earing pages. I will use any scrap of paper as a bookmark before I fold a corner of a page. Also, I really don’t like love triangles!

Brie

The favorite cheese: Name an author you always want more of.

Tie between Suzanne Collins and J.K. Rowling! These two women, between Harry Potter and The Hunger Games, have shaped so many years of my life!

Gouda

The Dutch cheese: Name a book that makes you want to travel.

The Vacationers by Emma Straub. Take me away!

American

The fake cheese: Name your least favorite book / a book you love to hate on.

Many of my regular readers know the hate that I give to Allegiant, the third book in the Divergent trilogy. Ugh!

Colby Jack

The mixed cheese: Name your favorite ship.

I can’t pick just one!

  • Katniss and Peeta, The Hunger Games trilogy.
  • The more I think about it, the more I wish Harry and Hermione ended up together!

Mozzarella

The simple cheese: Name an old favorite you’ll never stop loving.

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee.

Pepper Jack

The spicy cheese: Name a book you can’t judge by its cover.

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain.

Muenster

The monster cheese: Name a villain that you wish never had the joy of eating cheese again.

Many people who have done this tag already have agreed with my sentiment. I loathe Dolores Umbridge from Harry Potter. *shudders*


Tag – You’re It!


This was such a fun tag, and really different from the other tags I’ve done (so far). I loved it! Thanks again, Jenna!


Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂

 

Tag #39: 90’s Kid Book Tag

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The ladies at Thrice Read did another awesome book tag that spoke to my nostalgic heart!

Ready to travel back to the 1990s?

Here’s the link to the original post:


The Rules:

  1. Please, please, please steal this tag and spread it around! I only ask that you link it back to The Literary Phoenix so that I can see everyone’s answers!
  2. Freeze tag was all the rage in the 90s. Tag someone (or many) you think would have fun with this!
  3. Have fun!

Pokemon

A GBA game and trading card game where you battled pocket monsters and strived to catch them all. Back in the day, there were only 150 Pokemon.

The author you need every book from.

John Grisham. He’s the author I give credit to for peaking my interest in law, so I want all his books!

AIM

AOL Instant Messaging – how 90s kids communicated with their friends after school before everyone had a cell phone.

Book that connected you with your best friend.

Melissa will laugh when she reads this – Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, by Ellen Emerson White. I had never heard of the Dear America series before the sixth grade. Although we were basically best friends at that point, Melissa noticing that I was checking out the book from the Western Branch Middle School library, and mentioning that she owned all of them, that solidified our friendship for sure.

Furby

Creepy needy robots you could teach to talk and were probably demon possessed. Somehow these made a comeback?

Book that seemed like a good idea but was actually a monster.

Ugh. I didn’t even get more than five pages into Fifty Shades of Grey. No thanks!

N’SYNC

90s quintessential boy band. You may have heard of Justin Timberlake?

A book you hated to say Bye, Bye, Bye to.

The end of the Harry Potter series. I cried!

Slimed!

Getting green slime thrown on you, courtesy of the show Figure it Out. Also apparently still a thing at the Kids’ Choice Awards?

A book everyone loved but you hated.

The Twilight series.

Oregon Trail

90s computer game you could usually play at school, which was great. It taught us people used to die a lot of gruesome, messy deaths.

A book that made you wish you died of dysentery.

Allegiant.

Mixtape / CD

Back before everyone had music on their phones (remember, we didn’t have cell phones!) folks would rip their CDs and make mixes for each other.

Three (3) books you recommend to anyone, anywhere, no matter what.

  1. The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
  2. The Pelican Brief, John Grisham
  3. The Notebook, Nicholas Sparks

Dial-Up Internet

You know how it’s annoying when you aren’t on LTE? IMAGING WAITING 10 MINUTES FOR INTERNET TO START AND ANOTHER 20 MINUTES FOR GOOGLE TO LOAD!

A book that took FOR FREAKING EVER to read.

Mockingjay, by Suzanne Collins. I loved it, but it took me a while to get through it.

Keenan Thompson

He’s that guy who’s been on SNL forever. Also Mighty Ducks. Good Burger. Keenan and Kel. All That. Everything.

That book that you see referenced everywhere and is in everything, but that’s okay because it’s awesome.

The Wizard of Oz.

Thumbs Up, Seven Up

A game where most the class closed their eyes and seven people tapped someone’s thumb and you had to guess who did it without peeking.

Book where you peeked just REAL quick at the ending because you don’t like guessing game.

I don’t remember ever doing this. I like to be surprised!

Dunkaroos

These were basically just Teddy Grahams dipped in frosting, which is still a wonderful snack idea.

Your ideal bookish snack.

Nothing. Not even water.

Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark

Collections of short stories that would scare any sensible kid! Plus, there were illustrations…

A book that kept you up all night.

The Hunger Games.

Bill Nye The Science Guy

Basically the coolest thing you got to do in science class was watch Bill Nye. He has a Netflix show again!

A book that taught you something new.

On My Honor, Marion Dane Bauer. This was one of the first books that taught me how important honesty was.


Tag – You’re It!


This tag filled me with so much nostalgia! I had or experienced nearly everything on this list, except for a Furby. Those things were like creepy Gremlins! Yuck.


Until the next headline, Laura Beth 🙂