No Favourite Author?!?

Yes, it is true.

I, Eve Burch, do not have a favourite author.

I know, I'm an abomination.

I mean, I have favourite series, and a couple of favourite stand alone books, but I do not have a favourite author, why you ask? Because I do not like to limit myself to one style of writing, to one author. I like to explore, I want to read a mixture of books, I want to experience different styles and stories and characters.

I feel like if I pick a favourite author I will only stick to that person, or read books that are written in a similar styles to their's. I would feel limited and trapped, and I don't want that - I want the freedom to choose.

The Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness

Yes, I may love certain works, eg. The Chaos Walking Trilogy by Patrick Ness (which is phenomenal by the way), but he is not my favourite author even though this may be my favourite trilogy (by far, if you haven't read it, what the hell have you been reading?). Also, I love The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (who doesn't?) and I've read Paper Towns, but that doesn't make him my favourite author.

The Fault In Our Stars by John Green

 
And then there are other authors who played a significant role in my upbringing like J.K.Rowling, Cornelia Funke and Michelle Paver but none of them could be called my favourite, even though I loved their works as a child and still do to this day, and probably will for the rest of my life.

Ghost Hunter (#6 Chronicles of Ancient Darkness) by Michelle Paver 

After reading certain blogs and watching certain booktubers I feel pressured into acquiring a favourite author, why? Why must I have a favourite author? I don't understand. It's like limiting myself to one type of candy or cookie, I just can't do it, how can I pick a favourite when there's so many amazing ones left to taste; I've really got to stop comparing books to food...

I am quite happy staying unattached, thank you very much. I like not feeling pressurised into loving all of an author's work, buying every single book they're involved in, or loving what they love. It's too much of a hassle to do all of that. I like to be independent in my book buying.

So, do any of you have a favourite author? Or are you like me, unattached and alone? Let me know!

P.S I have entered a slight reading slump if you haven't already guessed, so if you don't hear from me for a while, that's why.

March Book Haul

Here we are again...

With me trying to figure out how I managed to get so many books.

I really don't know how I do it.

I hate this part... when I have type out all the names... SO MUCH WORK UGH. Well, we have: Sherlock Holmes The Compete Illustrated Novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Urban Dog: The Adventures of Parker by Will Chou; Missing Me and Sister, Missing both by Sophie McKenzie; Gone by Michael Grant; The Luxe by Anna Godbersen; The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold; The Tent, The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy; A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly; Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? By Jeanette Winterson; A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan; Holes By Louis Sachar; Mansfield Park and Persuasion by Jane Austen; and finally (thank god) And Then There Were None by Agathe Christie. 

Sherlock Holmes The Compete Illustrated Novels by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mansfield Park and Persuasion by Jane Austen, And Then There Were None by Agathe Christie. 

Now I don't read many classics and I should start to really (I've always been put off them because of school, they do ruin classics and Shakespeare.. I can't pick up a Shakespeare sonnet or play now). So naturally, I picked up The Sherlock Holmes book thing from the book swap along with two little Jane Austen novels, and my brother threw out his brand new Agathe Christie novel so I saved it... just.

The Tent, The Bucket and Me by Emma Kennedy, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? By Jeanette Winterson, A Visit From The Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan

I also picked these three up from the book swap and they all looked like cute, fluffy, quick reads so I managed to struggle these home with my other books. And one of them is an old World Book Night Book for 2013 so I'm quite excited about that (I've heard these are usually great reads). I'm afraid I have no idea what any of these are about because I can't remember and I'm too lazy to check for you (sorry).

 Missing Me and Sister, Missing both by Sophie McKenzie, Gone by Michael Grant,  Holes By Louis Sachar.

These are the books I got from Amazon this month, and I probably won't be buying from there again this month due to shipping costs (it's getting ridiculous Amazon, pull yourself together.) I read the Sister, Missing and Missing Me so you can find the reviews there and here (they were okay). I decideD to pick Gone up due to the talk I've heard about it, and because I really wanted to try something new; I then picked up Holes because I remembering covering it at school once and loving it, so here we are I guess.

A Gathering Light by Jennifer Donnelly, Urban Dog: The Adventures of Parker by Will Chou, The Luxe by Anna Godbersen, The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. 

So yes again, I picked up three of these from my local book swap (I am naughty... I may have to ban myself); I will admit, I purely picked up The Lovely Bones due to all the hype, but can you really blame me? And then I found The Luxe in a charity shop, because honestly they are probably the best place for good quality but cheap books, and I picked that up because I wanted to pay for something (I feel guilty if I leave empty handed). 

So yeah, that was my not so big (maybe) book haul. I hope you like seeing what I got and I will try reading some of these soon, and I hope you may have some good book recommendations for me? 

Till next time!

February Book Haul!

So you know how I thought collecting 11 books in January was bad?

Well...

This time I have 17 books.

I was able to get 17 books in the space of 28 days.

How did I even manage that?

So I guess I should name everything now *distant sobbing*: A Study in Scarlet; The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four, His Last Bow, and The Hounds of The Baskervilles all by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern; Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie; One Day by David Nicholls; A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen; My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher; Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews; Attatchements by Rainbow Rowell; Thirteen by Tom Hoyle; Double Cross by Malorie Blackman; You Had Me at Hello by Mhairi Mcfarlane; Stravaganze: City of Masks by Mary Hoffman; and finally, Switched by Amanda Hocking *phew*

A Study in Scarlet, The Return of Sherlock Holmes, The Sign of Four, His Last Bow, and The Hounds of the Baskervilles all by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

So being the Sherlockian I am I figured it was time to start buying these: I found two of my lovely novels at HMV for £2.99 and couldn't resist (especially with their gorgeous faces on it); and then the others I received from The Radio Times, I ordered these back in January for free when Sherlock returned to our screens (and they finally arrived, I can not possibly tell you how excited I was).

The Book of Tomorrow by Cecelia Ahern, Girl, Missing by Sophie McKenzie, One Day by David Nicholls, and Stravaganze: City of Masks by Mary Hoffman.

I actually received these for free from our village book swap when I took up a few old books, I think I may have taken more than appropriate, but it was becoming crowded in that Telephone Box so I can justify it (just). I have actually read my mother's copy of One Day but I wanted my own so I got the free one, but I haven't read the others so I'm extremely excited to.

Thirteen by Tom Hoyle, Double Cross by Malorie Blackman, You Had Me at Hello by Mhairi Mcfarlane, and lastly, Switched by Amanda Hocking.

I recieved Switched and You had Me at Hello as gifts as the previous owners didn't want them anymore, I really want to read You Had Me at Hello because I have heard good things, and you can read my review on Switched here. I bought both Double Cross (which completes my Noughts and Crosses series - which I haven't read yet but will soon) and Thirteen at a standard book store at their standard price.

 A Street Cat Named Bob by James Bowen, My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece by Annabel Pitcher, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews, Attatchements by Rainbow Rowell.

I bought all these on offer on Amazon and was very frustrated when I waited for them because I honestly really love Contemporary Novels like these at the moment. I have already read My Sister Lives on the Mantlepiece and Me and Earl and the Dying Girl; that was a lot of 'and's wasn't it? You can read my reviews here and here please. I have started Attatchements and I'm a few chapters in and laughing already, I can tell this is going to be a good book, and my sister is reading A Street Cat Named Bob at the moment so I'll have to wait a while for that.

So, that's everything I got, too much right? I thought so. Well I hope you enjoy seeing what I got, and let me know what you think I should buy and review next!

I need to go rest my typing hands now, before they fall off (they really hurt from that).