#fallintobooks prompt today is  #unforgettable

I guess the most unforgettable books are the ones I've remembered the longest and that would be my childhood books. 

 

#fallintobooks #favoritegenre

My favorite genre is clean romance especially when combined with humor. 

#fallintobooks prompt --- #wishlist

I've had these two books on my wishlist forever it seems.  I find Jen Turano books to be hilarious and have read every one that my library has as well as a couple ebooks but I haven't read these two yet. 


      

And I just saw that she has another one coming out in January so I'll add that to my list too...

Today's #fallintobooks prompt is #series.

Will I be a broken record if I say once again that I love the Jonquil Brothers series?  Cuz  I do. And it is always the first one I think of. 
But here is another series I have enjoyed... 

I love Jane Austen books but there aren't enough of them because Jane died too young.  But there are a whole lot of fan fiction books written based on Austen's book in some way.  One of my favorites is the Cousins series by Jennifer Joy.  You get a good "what if" change in plot for Darcy's story and then a story for each of his cousins, Anne de Bourgh and Colonel Fitzwilliam.  I enjoyed all three of these clean reads.  

#fallintobooks prompt for today is rereads.  I know there are people who read a book only once and never pick it up again and I have done that with many books but there are some that I have reread so many times and will likely continue to do so even though I have a huge TBR pile waiting... I'm the same way with movies.  If I like it, I can watch it over and over.  So here are some of my favorite rereads. 

  I adored this book as a kid and still love it though it has been a while since I read it.

The entire Jonquil brothers series. Every time a new book comes out I read from the first book again all the way through so I get all the continuity for the newest one. So by default I've read the earlier ones the most. The Kiss of a Stranger, Friends & Foes, Drops of Gold, As You Are, A Fine Gentleman, For Love or Honor.  I always look forward to the next in the series but dread it at the same time because I know she is running out of brothers to write about and then the series will be at an end.  Could Eden possibly write books about their children to keep the series going? 

 I loved this as a girl as well as an adult.  I never tire of the book or the movie. 

 I never tire of reading Austen's works either.  P&P is my favorite of all but I love all her novels. Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Emma, Mansfield Park, and Northanger Abbey.  I love all the books and the movies.  I only wish Austen could have lived long enough to write many more.

#fallintobooks #rereads

#Fallintobooks prompt today is favorite bookstore. 

My husband and I both enjoy browsing a bookstore.  When we were young marrieds, in school and had no money we would trade babysitting with friends and go walk around the local bookstore for our date nights.  Rarely bought anything since we were too poor but enjoyed the night anyway.  It was actually a funny date night because he usually ended up in the PoliSci, or History section and I always gravitated to Parenting, Child Development or Fiction.  Every so often one of us would seek the other out to show a find but that part of our date night was often individual.  Ha ha.  But we loved it.  



Nowadays, we usually have money to go do things so we don't often do dates in a bookstore and I have gotten lazy in general so I end up buying most books on Amazon. The other day we were in a bookstore though  and my husband bought a religious book and I bought a children's board book.  So things haven't really changed much in 30 years.  

My husband likes to shop a used book store, Benchmark Books in Salt Lake City when we travel through there so that is probably his favorite.  

#fallintobooks #bookstore  

#fallintobooks prompt for the day is tear jerker.

I suppose I've read any number of tear jerker books.  Think Old Yeller... Or The Hiding Place.

Most recently I cried over one of the Jonquil brothers books For Love or Honor by Sarah M. Eden.  The other books in the series were more light hearted I think but this one was really emotional for me.  This is taken from my Goodreads review of the book.  

While One Fine Gentleman made me laugh through out, For Love or Honor was the emotional opposite. This book is so much harder to read than the others in this series. I had tears in my eyes through most of it and those spilled over more than once. If I had read this book first, I'm not sure that I would have read the rest of the series because this was emotionally so taxing. Stanley was such a broken spirit it was just heart breaking. And even though it was killing him, he still sought to give what he could to others. Because that is what Jonquils do.

I loved the book but it was emotional. So this one was a tear jerker for me...

#Fallintobooks   #tearjerker

#fallintobooks prompt for today is bookmarks.  I find this topic boring as I tend to use whatever scrap of whatever that is closest to me.  I've had a number of bookmarks given to me so if one of those is within arms reach I use it but I don't care enough to get up and go find one.  The one exception was a bookmark given to me by a friend.  It was a wire shaped into a flower.  Super cute.  But I've misplaced it and it hasn't turned up.  So I was sad about that one.  Other than that I just don't care. I do however, own this mug...

#FallintoBooks  #bookmarks

#fallintobooks prompt for today is #TBR.   I can't even begin to share my to be read list.  But the general overview goes like this...

Sitting next to my reading chair - 8 novels
In the office - an entire shelf of tbr
Kindle - I'd estimate 250+ waiting to be read
Written list - No idea.  These are the books or sometimes just an author that I don't have but are what I will read when I get through these books I already have.  hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!   Like I'll ever get through this... I might be able to read a book a day.  Maybe.  But I keep adding books on my kindle.  To get through everything I would need to never look at suggested reads again.... And speed read.  

 and Kindle....

#fallintobooks prompt for the day is happy endings.  I could list books for this all day because I tend to read books with happy endings.  I don't like unhappy endings so I rarely read them.  

I love Sarah M. Eden's Jonquil brothers series.  I'm the first to admit that the plot lines are somewhat formulaic but I just love those brothers so much and wish the series would never end.  In every book one of the brothers meets the woman he should be with, can't be with her for one reason or another but it all ends happily.  Because I love them all so much it is hard to choose a favorite but I have a soft spot for Corbin so I'm going to choose his book.  


 Corbin is kind and good but also so shy he can hardly speak to his family much less someone he doesn't know or in a public setting but he is able to overcome his social anxiety enough to be the hero to Clara and her children and it is so sweet to watch.  I often (yes I've read it multiple times) finish this book with a big satisfying sigh...


#fallintobooks #HappyEndings

Today's #fallintobooks prompt is favorite book characters... I could post any number of them but I think I will go with one I haven't posted about yet.  She came to mind right after Elizabeth Bennett but that one seemed too obvious.  So we'll go with Flavia de Luce.  She is a child sleuth with a love of chemistry.  Poisons in particular.  Her chemistry knowledge helps her solve the mysteries.  She is quite the character on her bike Gladys.  It is a fun series and I particularly like listening to the audio books because the narrator is soooo good and brings the characters to life so well. 

#fallintobooks #FavoriteCharacter

Today's #fallintobooks challenge is to share favorite books that have been made into movies.  Again there are too many to choose just one so here are a few...

The most recent one was The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows
 What a crazy title for a book but I enjoyed it and the movie.

Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery is a favorite of mine. My mother introduced me to the movie which made me want to read the books.  I'm just sad I missed out on them in my youth...
 

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
I loved this book as a youth and have read it so many times.  Also loved the movie.



Another classic I didn't discover until adulthood is The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The movie is a family favorite. Lost count of how many times we've watched it.



For a bit of silliness there is Austenland by Shannon Hale
We are reading this for book group this month and watching the movie together.



And my favorites of all--All of Jane Austen's works
Don't even ask me which version of the movies are my favorites.  I have multiple versions of most of them and like them all.  I keep hoping someone will make a new version of Northanger Abbey to add to my collection.








#fallintobooks  #BookstoMovies

Today's reading challenge is to post a book in a genre that I don't typically read.

I tend to read fiction and rarely pick up non-fiction.  If I do read non-fiction I tend to find it interesting but I still am not drawn to it as a first choice. So here is a book I previously read in a reading challenge as well as my review of it.

Genesis: The Story of Apollo 8: The First Manned Flight to Another World

by 

Robert Zimmerman

four out of five stars  ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I enjoyed reading this book and learning about a part of history that I lived through but was too young to remember now. I loved reading what each astronaut was doing and what their families were doing at any given time. It was all very interesting to me. The part I had a harder time with was the surrounding events. The author is giving the story of Apollo 8 a bigger meaning in the world. That part of the book is about communism verses democracy. We get some of the politics of The Cold War, Viet Nam, turbulence and protests in 1960's USA and so forth. The author definitely has ideas he wants to put forth in addition to telling the story of the space mission. That was all less interesting to me. Still I enjoyed the book. There are a few instances of language when the author is quoting someone. #fallintobooks   #jumpingGenres

Today's book challenge for #FallIntoBooks is Cover Love.  So I'm sharing some favorite covers.  And yes, I totally judge a book by it's cover.  Sometimes I still read books where the cover doesn't appeal to me but I'm much more likely to read one where I'm drawn in by the cover.  So here goes:



I thought this cover was adorable:         And this one is beautiful:

         



Another beauty:                             





This one is compelling but I've seen it used on more than one book: 

And Pippi is just charming:  


Could the Hungry Caterpillar be any cuter?   

I like cutesy covers: 

And chocolate cake? Need I say more? 

And she just looks like she is full of spunk: 

This one looks like it will be hilarious but I didn't much like the book:






So there are a variety of covers I have found compelling...

#fallintobooks  #CoverLove

Today's #FallIntoBooks prompt is to share 5 star reads.  I thought at first to share my all time  favorite book which would be Pride and Prejudice but then realized that if we were talking about what book I read so many times because I loved it so much, it would be a completely different book. That would be either Thursday's Child or Little Women I think.  There are too many books that are favorites.  So here are a few....

Childhood: Trumpet of the Swan and Charlotte's Web by  EB White

Mrs. Piggle Wiggle books by Betty MacDonald

Tween: Thursday's Child by   Noel Streatfeild

Teen: Little Women

Kid books I read to my kids: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst

Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr

The BFG by Dahl Roald

Classics: All Jane Austen books, Anne of Green Gables, Little House on the Prairie, Huckleberry Finn, The Importance of Being Earnest

Mormon Fiction: Trust in Thelma's Way series by Robert Farrell Smith

Romance: Jonquil Brothers series by Sarah M. Eden

Comedic Christian Lit Romance: Jen Turano books

Biographic: The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Bloom

#fallintobooks  #5StarReads

Reading challenge 9/11/18

Reading challenge for Tuesday 9/11/18 : A bookish Quote

“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey

#fallintobooks  #bookishquote

I decided to join this reading challenge because I'm into reading lately. I thought it would be fun to do it in a different way even though I didn't really know what this challenge would be like.  I'm also in a Jane Austen reading group currently reading Northanger Abbey and have been participating in our public library reading challenges over the last year.  So this reading challenge just adds to other opportunities. 

So the challenge for today is to write my goals for this challenge.  I didn't really start the challenge with a goal in mind but I think my goal is simply to put a dent in my To Be Read list.  I have at least one shelf of books waiting to be read along with about 250 books waiting on my Kindle.  So I've got a ways to go.

#fallintobooks  #readinggoals