Verity Townshend

Thursday 30 July 2015

Booktube-a-thon TBR 2015

Dates August 3rd-9th
Booktube-a-thon channel http://youtube.com/booktubeathon

Challenges:

1. Read a book with blue on the cover

2. Read a book by an author who shares the same first letter of your last name

3. Read someone else's favourite book

4. Read the last book you acquired

5. Finish a book without letting go of it

6. Read a book you really want to read

7. Read seven books

TBR:

How To Be Bad by E. Lockhart, Lauren Myracle and Sarah Mlynowski (Challenges 1, 4 & 6)

The Night Parade by Kathryn Tanquary (Challenge 2)

Goth Girl by Chris Riddell (Challenge 3)

Little Mermaids and Ugly Ducklings by Hans Christian Anderson (Challenge 5)

And finally to read a total of seven book I will be attempting to read;

Carrie by Stephen King

Tinder by Sally Gardner

If I Stay by Gayle Foreman

Friday 24 July 2015

Book Review - The Imaginary by A.F Harrold, Illustrated by Emily Gravett

The premise of this book revolves around a girl named Amanda and her imaginary friend Rudger. They play together in Amanda's back garden which is a den for adventures of all varieties. Nobody other than Amanda can see Rudger and nobody else believes he even exists. Amanda and Rudger live very happily together until Mr Bunting knocks on their front door.

Mr Bunting is a mysterious man with his own imginary friend (which is rather strange for adults as they are supposed to forget this sort of thing as they get older). We find out rather quickly just how evil Mr Bunting really is. He eats imaginary friends and he is after Rudger.

I really enjoyed this story which shows in that I read it in one night.

Highlights

The power cut - This scene gave me chills with Amanda's eerie game of hide and seek. Mr Bunting's imaginary friend was a very creepy character with her long dark hair, pale face and soulless dark eyes. The part where she only appeared when the lightening flashed was so scary!
The talking cat = awesome
The library filled with imaginary friends which included gnomes, ragdolls, dinosaurs and teddy bears.

The characters were wonderful in this story. Amanda was a little selfish at times which didn't put Rudger in the best situations when she refused to listen to his warnings about Mr Bunting. Rudger on the other hands was very brave and was able to escape from some pretty scary situations with a little help from an imaginary girl named Emily and a talking cat with two different coloured eyes.

It had heartbreak, adventure and humour.

This book reminded me of a Tim Burton film and Neil Gaiman's book Coraline, which I also love.

I gave this book 5/5 stars.

Monday 20 July 2015

Reading Slump

I never used to understand the term ‘Reading Slump’. In fact I had never actually heard of it until I started watching book reviews on YouTube. But unfortunately a few times this year so far I have found myself in a few slumps.

I need to find that one amazing book that will get me out of it. I need a book cure. But which to choose.

These are some options that I have collected;

-Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (This will be a re-read. But its one of my favourite books)