Category: Reading

Reading my Favorite BookTubers Favorite 2021 Books!

On By PixieIn Reading, TBRLeave a comment

So I decided to do a challenge, reading my favorite booktubers favorite books from last year. My issue – I came across a lot of sequels, and I’m not about that life. I did manage to find 3 books that aren’t sequels, and I haven’t read yet, so I went with those. Funny thing is, is that they are ALL sci-fi. Now, sci-fi is my least read genre. In fact, one of my reading goals this year is reading more of it, so this actually works out for me! This is just the announcement post, the reviews will be up February 11th. So here are the three books I’ll be reading for the next couple weeks.

1. Project Hail Mary, By: Andy Weir

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission—and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will perish.

Except that right now, he doesn’t know that. He can’t even remember his own name, let alone the nature of his assignment or how to complete it.

All he knows is that he’s been asleep for a very, very long time. And he’s just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realizes that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it’s up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery—and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he’s got to do it all alone.

Or does he?

An irresistible interstellar adventure as only Andy Weir could deliver, Project Hail Mary is a tale of discovery, speculation, and survival to rival The Martian—while taking us to places it never dreamed of going.

BookTuber – GabbyReads

2. Dune, By: Frank Herbert

Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family tasked with ruling an inhospitable world where the only thing of value is the “spice” melange, a drug capable of extending life and enhancing consciousness. Coveted across the known universe, melange is a prize worth killing for….

When House Atreides is betrayed, the destruction of Paul’s family will set the boy on a journey toward a destiny greater than he could ever have imagined. And as he evolves into the mysterious man known as Muad’Dib, he will bring to fruition humankind’s most ancient and unattainable dream.

A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.

BookTuber – BooksandLala

3. To Be Taught If Fortunate, By: Becky Chambers

At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological supplementations. They can produce antifreeze in subzero temperatures, absorb radiation and convert it for food, and conveniently adjust to the pull of different gravitational forces. With the fragility of the body no longer a limiting factor, human beings are at last able to journey to neighboring exoplanets long known to harbor life.

A team of these explorers, Ariadne O’Neill and her three crewmates, are hard at work in a planetary system fifteen light-years from Sol, on a mission to ecologically survey four habitable worlds. But as Ariadne shifts through both form and time, the culture back on Earth has also been transformed. Faced with the possibility of returning to a planet that has forgotten those who have left, Ariadne begins to chronicle the story of the wonders and dangers of her mission, in the hope that someone back home might still be listening.

BookTuber – Book Roast

I am extremely excited to go on these epic adventures. I have heard nothing but great things about these books. Reviews up on February 11th! Until then 🧚🏼‍♀️

With Love

Pixie

Fun Reading Challenges

On By PixieIn Reading4 Comments
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Do you have trouble picking a book to read? We’ve all been there. With so many amazing books in the world, it can get difficult to pick just one. When the struggle is real over here, we find a reading challenge.

What is a reading Challenge? Well that’s simple, it’s a challenge you set up for yourself, or with others, and it creates a sort of list of books for you to read. There are many different challenges out in the world, but I will discuss a few of my personal favorites here. You can also find multiple Book/Reading Groups on Goodreads that participate in such Challenges.

1. My first favorite and one of the more easy is the “Initial” Challenge. What you do is a pick a word, make this word significant to something. For instance it’s the month of August, depending where you are of course this will have different meanings. For me when I think of August I think of Harvest. So take that world Harvest and write it down like so.

H

A

R

V

E

S

T

Then you can choose either author names or book titles that start with the letters in the word. Example, for H you can read Harry Potter, or something from Hemingway.

There are so many ways you can do this. You could do your name, favorite color, or favorite flower. You don’t have to use the Authors name or title either, you could try the main Characters name or the Villains name. Either way, it makes selecting books a little easier when you are limited to a letter.

2. Another Challenge people seem to enjoy is more of a role playing type challenge. You create a point system, a quest system, and a character, then gain a certain amount of points, by reading books, to complete those quests.

For instance, a book with 50-100 pages will be 1 point, a book with 100-150 2 points, 150-200 pages 3 points, so on. Say you create a quest that your character needs to find a hidden object. (your character being you.) In order to find that item you need 3 points. You go back to your point system and find a book within range. You find a book with 150-200 pages, read it, then complete your “quest”. Then it’s on to the next quest.

This one is fun because you are creating your own story while your reading. We find that people who play DnD really excel at this type of challenge. You can make it as difficult or easy as you want. I have personally known people to spend months on this type of Reading Challenge and finishing it is a massive accomplishment.

3. Lastly, and one of my favorites is the traveling challenge. Now I am from the US so I will use that as reference, but there are so many different ways to do this challenge it doesn’t matter where you’re from.

I have always wanted to travel. A long peaceful road trip across the states, seeing all this country has to offer. Unfortunately that’s a little harder then it sounds. With kids, bills, and well, life it probably won’t happen for a long time.

This challenge can help you see the world. What I would do to start is write down all the states in the US. You can specify certain cities also, but that will make this much more difficult. Then you find a book that is based in those states.

Example

– Maine – It, by Stephen King

Because that book is based in that State, you have now visited it. So on and so forth.

You can travel the world this way doing countries instead of states. You can do planets, or made up worlds. There are many ways to twist this challenge to your liking.

Hope you guys enjoyed reading my first blog on here! Thanks so much for all the support. I will have my first review up at the beginning of next week, (unless I finish it earlier). I also have a few more books planned including an early review before release, and an author interview. Until then, Read On!

–Pixie