The Exchange

Challenge Accepted. Again (« Click for the first 30-Day Book Challenge). What can we say? We like lists :)

Day 01 – Best book you read last year
Day 02 – A book that you’ve read more than 3 times
Day 03 – Your favorite series
Day 04 – Favorite book of your favorite series
Day 05 – A book that makes you happy
Day 06 – A book that makes you sad
Day 07 – Most underrated book
Day 08 – Most overrated book
Day 09 – A book you thought you wouldn’t like but ended up loving
Day 10 – Favorite classic book
Day 11 – A book you hated
Day 12 – A book you used to love but don’t anymore
Day 13 – Your favorite writer
Day 14 – Favorite book from your favorite writer
Day 15 – Favorite male character
Day 16 – Favorite female character
Day 17 – Favorite quote from your favorite book
Day 18 – A book that disappointed you
Day 19 – Favorite book turned into a movie
Day 20 – Favorite romance book
Day 21 – Favorite book from your childhood
Day 22 – Favorite book you own
Day 23 – A book you wanted to read for a long time but still haven’t
Day 24 – A book that you wish more people would’ve read
Day 25 – A character who you can relate to the most
Day 26 – A book that changed your opinion about something
Day 27 – The most surprising plot twist or ending
Day 28 – Favorite title
Day 29 – A book everyone hated but you liked
Day 30 – Your favorite book of all time

Day 30: The book you’re reading right now.

Kubi: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Hanna: The Big Over Easy by Jasper Fforde

Day 29: The first book you remember reading on your own

Kubi: The Twelve Dancing Princesses :)

Hanna: Grimm’s Fairy Tales

Day 28: An author you wish was more well-known.

Christopher Moore

Day 27: Your 5 least favorite books of all time.

Hanna (I feel bad about putting these titles on the list but please note that it says “least favorite” and not “most hated” which means that I do like these books. Just not that much):

• Only Revolutions - Mark Z. Danielewski
• Cupcake - Rachel Cohn
• Five Miles from Outerhope - Nicola Barker
• Breakfast at Tiffany’s - Truman Capote
• Thirteen Reasons Why - Jay Asher

Kubi (Mostly I don’t like when authors mess with characters I love, when the story and characters fizzle out, or when the characters just really get under my skin.):

• Harsh Cry of the Heron by Lian Hearn
• Ender’s Shadow by Orson Scott Card
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• Rise of a Merchant Prince by Raymond E. Feist
• Long Way Down by Nick Hornby

Day 26: The nerdiest book you’ve ever read.

Hanna: The Physics of Christmas by Roger Highfield

Kubi: Mythology by Edith Hamilton

Day 25: The most disturbing book you’ve ever read.

Hanna: Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

Kubi: NP by Banana Yoshimoto (Haha)

Day 24: Your favorite last line.

Hanna: “Max stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye and sailed back over a year and in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him—and it was still hot.” - Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak

Kubi: “But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.” - The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman

Day 23: Your favorite first line.

Hanna: “What about a teakettle?” - Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

Kubi: “To Sherlock Holmes she was always the woman.” - A Scandal in Bohemia by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Day 22: Your favorite non-fiction book.

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain