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Today’s Top Ten Tuesday was an audio freebie, meaning it could be anything related to audio. I tried to make it relate to books, but the truth is I don’t listen to audiobooks (though I really should). So then I tried to make a top 10 of bands or songs. But that proved rather impossible as well…
So why not give you a little bit of everything and give you 10 music-related facts about me? Because other than books, I also really, REALLY love talking about music!
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Today’s Top Ten Tuesday is all about a subject I have no doubt you’re all waiting to hear about… me!
To change it up a bit for this post, I thought I’d mix up a few bookish facts (this is a book blog after all) with some more personal facts. From the basic dry facts to the more personal and slightly embarassing facts, I lay it all out here! Well maybe not all, but let’s start with ten…
Seeing as I’m still a bit new to the world of book blogging, I thought it would be a good idea to do the 25 Bookish Facts About Me Tag for this week’s Tag Thursday. Because for a list-lover like myself it is super fun to write and because it’s a good way to introduce myself a bit more 🙂
Title: Me Before You
Author: Jojo Moyes
Publisher: Michael Joseph (UK)
Release Date: January 5th, 2012
Standalone/Series: First book in a duology. Book 2 is After You.
Genre: Contemporary – Romance – Adult Fiction
Goodreads link
My rating in stars: 5 stars
My rating in words: New all-time favorite!
Summary:
Lou Clark knows lots of things. She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.
What Lou doesn’t know is she’s about to lose her job or that knowing what’s coming is what keeps her sane.
Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now and he knows exactly how he’s going to put a stop to that.
What Will doesn’t know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they’re going to change the other for all time.
(From Goodreads)
My thoughts:
This book will destroy you. It will tear your heart right out of your chest while at the same time holding you, stroking your hair, feeding you chocolate and telling you it will all be okay.
Even though I have serious questions about my sanity because I like this book that left me a sobbing mess, I can’t help but give it 5 stars.
Because it’s not a traditional romance, but it still makes your stomach fluttery and puts a silly smile on your face.
Because it poses questions about important matters of life, death and choice and it makes you reflect on that and wonder how you would cope if it happened to you.
Because the main characters are so real and precious. You feel everything Lou feels: her embarrassments, her fears, her growing affections, her hopes and her heartbreak.
So I would recommend this book to anyone. Because of all these things and because it’s just a good book.