Bookshelf Tour 2023 (Even though I dont have a real bookshelf yet) + MINI REVIEWS

What did you think of the books in my collection?? We can all pretend this is a bookshelf tour even though my current bookshelf is just the floor for now :) I'd love to hear your thoughts on the books in my collection!
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[@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059]

Everyone has that one book that thier favorite author wrote that makes them say "!??!?!?!???!". Fantasy isn't my genre of book, I get nightmares easily (most of what I read is non-fiction or historical fiction) so I haven't read any of those Maas books but it has always been my opinion that whatever sparks a persons interest in reading is a good thing, even if it is Stephen King or Harry Potter. Especially in children. Don't be ashamed of not having a bookshelf at the moment, I have always had more books than shelf space and now my collection of e-books is way larger than I could ever fit in the shelves I do have. So as shelf space in peoples houses gets smaller, they are printing books larger for some reason. In a way I was lucky, when I was a kid, the paperbacks were alot smaller. I still have some from my childhood and they are only 7x5 inches or smaller, not those garden pavers they appear to be printing now. When my parents were kids the paperback books were only like 4x6-ish inches. I have a couple that old, my folks never read them, I just snagged them at used book sales as a kid. And yeah, they are kind of ratty, but hey, when you love them.... I have most of my old favorite kids books on ebook now so when I get stressed I can just spend a couple of hours reading one. You must have loved that book if it is already falling apart, probably one of those that you couldn't put down until your eyes finally forced themselves closed at 3:30 am and you fell asleep on it with it open in the middle. There are a bunch of bent pages too huh? The book "My Ladys Choosing", sounds like the old "Choose Your Own Adventure" novels that my brother and I grew up reading as kids. There were bunches of them and heaven knows how many we checked out from the school and public library when we were like 2nd to 6th grade or so. You read part of the book and it gives you choices and you turn to the page of your choice to keep the story going. They were fun because we could read it again and make different choices, and they could last like a week if we each borrowed two and then traded after we read them a couple of times. I had no idea they were making romances like that though. Regarding e-books and audio books. It is really common for publishers to only release books in a printed format only long before they release them as audio or e-books. That forces consumers to pay for physical copies if they want them sooner because many readers would never pay the same amount for an audio or e-book as they would for an actual paper copy and the companies make more money if actual paper copies are still thier first access point. The reason that people may dismiss Evelyn Hugo as Hispanic/Latina is because Hugo is not a particularly Latin sounding name. When I hear the last name Hugo I think of Victor Hugo a (born in early 1800s) Frenchman who wrote The Hunchback Of Notre Dame and Les Miserables. I had to read both in High School and they are really tough to read, not because they are long, (they are) but because they are really depressing in my opinion. And when HS is already kicking your butt those books aren't good for anyones mental health. I mean everyone but Phoebus dies in The Hunchback Of Notre Dame. I can't understand why Disney ever turned that one into a kids movie. Others may not have heard of Evelyn Hugo because romances may not be what they enjoy reading. Como Agua Para Chocolate by Laura Esquivel is also a novel and movie you might want to check out since you seem to like romances. It is a bit wierd, and I only read it once, (never watched the movie) but I am not into romances so you might feel differently.

[@purmapup]

I didnt know you read too !! I have a couple friends who love the harry potter series and talk about how much better the books are!

[@purmapup]

It still blows my mind that people sort of skipped over Evelyn being Cuban I mean it tied into the story a bit but not a ton which is why i assume ppl dont talk about it. But maybe one day ill get into ebooks! Ngl kindlue unlimited is so tempting. $10 a month? Id get my moneys worth for sure!

[@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059]

@@purmapup Yes, I am a total nerd, my entire family read books like crazy.

[@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059]

@@purmapup I did read the Harry Potter series, but didn't care for them very much. Books do tend to be better, because movies can only be 90 minutes, usually. If it takes you say 8 (people read at different speeds) hours to read the book, they have removed 6 and a half hours of the book to make the movie. Sometimes movies remove so much or change so much they are absolute crap. Like Disney movies, none of those princess movies stay true to the original story. In the original story, the little mermaid is named Marina and she actually dies at the end of the story. Sleeping Beauty stays comatose for a hundred years or something, so prince charming wasnt even born yet when she fell asleep. And in the Hunchback of NotreDame, even Quasimodo and LaEsmeralda (not just Esmeralda) die, and LaEsmeralda had actually been kidnapped from her mother as an infant. She was not born a gypsy, and her mom was so traumatized that she became a nun. Quasimodo actually pushes the bishop off the balcony. I have not seen that one, but I do know that Disney wouldn't have allowed Quasimodo or LaEsmeralda to pass away. They made a movie out of one of my favorite book in 1954, long before I was born, the book was written in the 30s I think. I didn't know it for years after I read it, but I did watch it on RUclips over a decade ago and the movie is like 2 and a half hours and it still sucked. The cast was awesome, top tier 50s actors and actresses (Victor Mature, Jean Simmons, Peter Ustinov) etc, but it is so bad that it isn't available on video here and on RUclips the subtitles are in an Asian language, which indicates it is likely pirated over there. They even used the Hollywood sets from a couple of other popular movies to make it, but it was just crap. They removed sooooo much of the book it is criminal. If you cut the book into 4ths, they did the first quarter of the book, and the last quarter. They literally chopped out the entire middle of the book, more than half, when they made the movie. I was so mad. I don't even watch movies so normally I wouldn't care. I have not even heard why it has not ever been released on video legally in the USA. I hope they never released it because it is so embarrassingly awful it is like a 60% or something on Rotten Tomatoes.

[@rosameryrojas-delcerro1059]

@@purmapup I really don't think avid readers talk about an authors ethnicity at all unless the book has been translated into English from another language or the content of the book makes it obvious. Like DonQuixote De LaMancha (Cervantes) was written in like 1600-ish and was first translated into English barely a decade later, it was translated into French a few years earlier than into English. That is one of the books that has been translated into the most languages. They made a movie or two out of that too, but as far as I know it isn't available on video here either. If a book is just a typical fiction romance or horror story many readers aren't that interested in ethnicity of the author, they just have opinions about how good or crappy the book is. Which is how it needs to be, they should be judged for thier writing talent, not thier DNA. The trouble with the US is that some of the population is against bilingualism. In many other countries across the globe, students leave HS completely fluent in another language. This is especially true in Europe, the majority of Europeans can speak English. In Belgium, Dutch and German are both thier national languages, so they usually speak both, and English. In the US they only do a half-ass job of it, if schools even try, because some affiliate bilingualism with immigrants and immigrants (especially LatinAmericans) are being demonized right now by people whose ancestors were also immigrants, which is textbook hypocrisy, not to mention racist.