I have a new hobby!! But need some suggestions!

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March 17th, 2011, 07:37 PM
*LittleMissSummer*

I have a new hobby!! But need some suggestions!

I have taken up reading again and have recently bought about 8 books. I am currently reading Fallen by Lauren Kate.

Today i bought the second book Torment and 5 other titles:

Evernight - Claudia Gray

Hourglass - Claudia Gray

The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove - Lauren Kate

Ink exchange - Melissa Marr

Blood Feud - Alexandra Harvey

They are all teenage fantasy books so about vampires, faeries and angels

So i'm looking for similar type titles or books that are on your MUST READ list.

I am also reading the Tomorrow when the war began series books so that style of writing is a favourite of mine too.
March 17th, 2011, 08:18 PM
Shanti

Good on you! I too, have been reading ALOT lately and really enjoying my books.... (I go through phases with reading!)..... and can't get enough of them lately! Although I prefer more real life stuff, so non-fiction. (is that what it's called? :lol:)....
March 17th, 2011, 08:21 PM
BrightSparkles

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I have taken up reading again and have recently bought about 8 books. I am currently reading Fallen by Lauren Kate.

Today i bought the second book Torment and 5 other titles:

Evernight - Claudia Gray

Hourglass - Claudia Gray

The Betrayal of Natalie Hargrove - Lauren Kate

Ink exchange - Melissa Marr

Blood Feud - Alexandra Harvey

They are all teenage fantasy books so about vampires, faeries and angels

So i'm looking for similar type titles or books that are on your MUST READ list.

I am also reading the Tomorrow when the war began series books so that style of writing is a favourite of mine too.

I loved tomorrow when the war began series!

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Good on you! I too, have been reading ALOT lately and really enjoying my books.... (I go through phases with reading!)..... and can't get enough of them lately! Although I prefer more real life stuff, so non-fiction. (is that what it's called? :lol:)....

If you enjoy real like stuff - I really liked: so tell me i'm here - Anne Deveson and Life at the top - Heath Ducker.
March 17th, 2011, 08:27 PM
~ Zarava Flutterby ~

You MIGHT like the David Eddings books, they are fantasy.
They are currently in my roof :redface: and i should get them down and read them again, i think i had 'The Elenium' series :)
I loved them.
March 17th, 2011, 08:28 PM
Miss.September

Have a look in here too for some suggestions --

https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...ell-us-153829/

Love reading as a hobby. Takes your mind far away from your worries :)
March 17th, 2011, 09:02 PM
*LittleMissSummer*

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Love reading as a hobby. Takes your mind far away from your worries :)

Funny you say that, i read ALOT growing up. For a short period of time i could zone out of my life and be in a happy place and forget all my troubles and worries. I now use it as a stress reliever and i read before bed and it helps me sleep better.

I will check out that link and those books you suggested ZF!
March 17th, 2011, 09:04 PM
Miss.September

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I now use it as a stress reliever and i read before bed and it helps me sleep better.

Yep, totally get you there. If I don't read before I go to sleep, no matter how late it is, my mind just churns over everything. The late night reading drives DH nuts, but my billion questions after a night time of brain churning makes him more crazy so he puts up with the reading :lol:
March 17th, 2011, 09:11 PM
Pandora

I nearly bought the new Raymond Feist book today. Ooh and Terry Brooks must be due for another one soon...
March 18th, 2011, 12:04 AM
Laranna

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I nearly bought the new Raymond Feist book today. Ooh and Terry Brooks must be due for another one soon...

Oh, I'm hanging out to get that one Pandora! I've got a lot of other books to read first though. Currently, reading Daughter of the Empire, which you might like LMS! There's three in the series. If you do end up liking those sorts of books, Robert Jordan is quite good but be warned, he is very detailed in his writing and his books take forever to read!

Other books I've enjoyed reading are the Jodi Picoult books and I also really enjoyed reading The Time Traveler's Wife.
March 18th, 2011, 03:04 AM
Ca Plane Pour Moi

Laranna, NO! Come on, friends don't let friends read Jordan.

Sure, it starts off OK, you think you can handle it - then a minor character gets half a book to themselves, there's no plot progression, characters turn into charactatures and then he (Jordan) dies. OK, I know the series is being finished now but don't go there if you can help it. Says the girl with a bookshelf full of Jordan.

Have you tried Discworld? Love those - they keep the pace, humour and real characters still after five books. After 30+ for that matter. The Bookworld series by Jasper Fford (starting with The Eyre Affair) is great for book-lovers who also enjoy humour and parallel-world fantasy.

Twilight is the obvious teeny vampire book: it is very silly but also very readable.
March 18th, 2011, 06:42 AM
*LittleMissSummer*

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Twilight is the obvious teeny vampire book: it is very silly but also very readable.

I had considered it. I should have gotten them yesterday as they were all 75% off but i might borrow them from my niece.

Thanks ladies. I have written down all your suggestions and i will check them all out.

I will have to buy a bookcase now! :)
March 18th, 2011, 06:52 AM
Freya

Ive got a list of Urban Fantasy (thats what the twilight et al genre is called these days apparently) authors if your interested.
March 18th, 2011, 07:29 AM
*LittleMissSummer*

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Ive got a list of Urban Fantasy (thats what the twilight et al genre is called these days apparently) authors if your interested.

YES! very interested!
March 18th, 2011, 10:36 AM
Freya

I have created a post specifically to chronical Urban/Paranormal fantasy authors here:
https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...r-list-158674/