I Wish I Could Born Again
In that location'southward something uniquely special nigh your first time. Something that tin't be replicated, no matter how many times yous endeavor to capture it again.
I'g talking nigh books, of course. You can re-read a beloved volume as many times as you lot want (and honestly, you should, because why not) but information technology'due south still never quite the same every bit the first fourth dimension you read it. You know the feeling. The starry, curious, naive eyes, not quite sure what to expect when you lot crack the cover open. The first impressions of characters you lot'll come to love or hate over fourth dimension. The banter and sarcasm and exchanges that crack you upward or make you cry. The plot turns that make you gasp out loud or threaten to throw the book. It's something special that you tin can't go back once it's gone.
This week's Top Ten Tuesday is all most books I want to read again for the first time. Sure, these are books that I either take or intend to re-read, only it'due south non quite the aforementioned as the first time.
If you lot oasis't read these books nonetheless, you obviously should. And so bulletin me. Permit me alive vicariously through you. *grabs your coattails and clings to them*
Broken-hearted People
A poignant, charming novel nigh a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and 8 extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined
Looking at real manor isn't ordinarily a life-or-death situation, just an apartment open business firm becomes just that when a failed bank robber bursts in and takes a group of strangers hostage. The captives include a recently retired couple who relentlessly hunt downwards fixer-uppers to avert the painful truth that they can't fix up their own marriage. In that location'southward a wealthy broker who has been too busy making coin to care almost anyone else and a immature couple who are most to have their first child but tin can't seem to agree on anything, from where they want to live to how they met in the first place. Add to the mix an fourscore-7-year-onetime woman who has lived long enough non to be afraid of someone waving a gun in her confront, a flustered but still-ready-to-brand-a-deal real manor agent, and a mystery human who has locked himself in the apartment'south only bathroom, and you've got the worst group of hostages in the earth.
Each of them carries a lifetime of grievances, hurts, secrets, and passions that are set to eddy over. None of them is entirely who they announced to exist. And all of them—the bank robber included—desperately crave some sort of rescue. As the regime and the media surround the premises, these reluctant allies will reveal surprising truths about themselves and set in a motion a chain of events then unexpected that even they tin hardly explain what happens adjacent.
Humorous, compassionate, and wise, Anxious People is an ingeniously constructed story about the enduring power of friendship, forgiveness, and hope—the things that relieve us, even in the almost broken-hearted of times.
If I'm honest, I experience this mode about almost Backman books. Which I take read multiple times. It's just never quite the same as the offset time, though. Backman'south books feel like nesting dolls, where each chapter gets you deeper and deeper and reveals a little more of the overall picture until you observe the treasure at the middle of it.
I really listened to this one on audiobook, and so I plan on my side by side read-through being my hardcover re-create, so the feel may be slightly different. Still, there'south nothing quite like that first feeling when things start clicking into place and you lot kickoff realizing what'due south going on, even before the characters practice.
Mort
Terry Pratchett'due south greatly irreverent novels are consistent number i bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.
In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he tin can't refuse — particularly since being, well, dead isn't compulsory. Every bit Decease's apprentice, he'll take free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won't demand time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he'd ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can exist a killer on his love life.
This commencement was special on several different fronts. Not only was it the outset volume in the Death trilogy and the beginning fourth dimension reading this book in particular, it was also my very start Terry Pratchett. Pratchett hadn't even been on my radar, sadly, until right subsequently his death when anybody was talking nearly him and people were insisting that I give his work a try.
There'due south nothing quite like your first experience of the Discworld, nothing quite similar coming together Expiry for the very first time. I've got plenty of Discworld books left to read, with a ton of firsts, I'k sure, just Mort will always have a special place in my middle.
Illuminae
Kady thought breaking up with Ezra was the worst thing she'd ever been through. That was before her planet was invaded. Now, with enemy fire raining downwardly on them, Kady and Ezra are forced to fight their way onto one of the evacuating craft, with an enemy warship in hot pursuit.
But the warship could be the least of their problems. A deadly plague has broken out and is mutating, with terrifying results; the fleet's AI, which should be protecting them, may actually exist their biggest threat; and nobody in charge will say what's really going on. As Kady plunges into a spider web of data hacking to get to the truth, it's articulate only one person tin help her bring it all to calorie-free: Ezra.
Told through a fascinating dossier of hacked documents—including emails, schematics, military files, IMs, medical reports, interviews, and more—Illuminae is the kickoff book in a heart-stopping, high-octane trilogy almost lives interrupted, the cost of truth, and the courage of everyday heroes.
Accept I already read this one multiple times in multiple formats? Yes, of grade. Nothing is quite similar the first time, though, as I've said! Particularly considering what a unique format the story is written in! It totally took me by surprise, and I loved discovering all the unlike formats and unique ways the story was presented along the style. I practice confess that listening to the full-cast audiobook after was like experiencing it for the outset time again, merely in a completely different manner, and I admittedly loved it. AIDAN yet gives me chills every fourth dimension.
I never did listen to the 2nd or third books on audiobook, though, and then I suppose at that place are at least a few more first experiences to exist had with this series!
Thunderhead
Rowan has gone rogue, and has taken it upon himself to put the Scythedom through a trial by fire. Literally. In the year since Winter Conclave, he has gone off-grid, and has been hitting out confronting decadent scythes—not simply in MidMerica, just across the entire continent. He is a nighttime folk hero at present—"Scythe Match"—a vigilante taking downwards corrupt scythes in flames.
Citra, now a junior scythe under Scythe Curie, sees the corruption and wants to assistance change information technology from the inside out, only is thwarted at every plough, and threatened by the "new order" scythes. Realizing she cannot do this alone—or even with the help of Scythe Curie and Faraday, she does the unthinkable, and risks being "deadish" so she can communicate with the Thunderhead—the only being on earth wise plenty to solve the dire bug of a perfect earth. But will it assist solve those issues, or simply lookout man every bit perfection goes into decline?
I realize this is technically the second volume in the Arc of a Scythe series, just it'south my favorite. Faster-paced than the showtime book and without the disappointing catastrophe of the 3rd. Perfect! Sure, the fashion this concluded absolutely obliterated my soul . . . but it's the sort of spirit-shattering ache that you can't deny was masterfully delivered. I tin read the volume again, but it'll never have that sort of visceral shock once more!
The Firm in the Cerulean Sea
A magical isle. A unsafe job. A called-for cloak-and-dagger.
Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives in a tiny house with a devious cat and his old records. As a Case Worker at the Department in Charge Of Magical Youth, he spends his days overseeing the well-beingness of children in government-sanctioned orphanages.
When Linus is unexpectedly summoned by Extremely Upper Direction he'south given a curious and highly classified consignment: travel to Marsyas Island Orphanage, where half dozen dangerous children reside: a gnome, a sprite, a wyvern, an unidentifiable green hulk, a were-Pomeranian, and the Antichrist. Linus must set up aside his fears and determine whether or not they're likely to bring about the end of days.
Simply the children aren't the only clandestine the isle keeps. Their caretaker is the charming and enigmatic Arthur Parnassus, who will practice anything to keep his wards safe. As Arthur and Linus abound closer, long-held secrets are exposed, and Linus must brand a choice: destroy a dwelling house or picket the world burn.
An enchanting story, masterfully told, The House in the Cerulean Sea is almost the profound experience of discovering an unlikely family unit in an unexpected place—and realizing that family is yours.
Nothing quite like discovering a new favorite writer! From the moment I fix this book downward, I knew I had to read everything T.J. Klune had ever written and would ever write. It'south such an exciting moment, getting so deep into an author'southward words that you lot never want to leave. I fell into this world from page one and was so sad to hit the end (even though it had such a wonderful ending). I definitely intend to read this ane over again (probably multiple times), simply there's nothing like having no thought what to expect and falling for its charm anyhow.
Tristan Stiff Punches a Hole in the Sky
Seventh-grader Tristan Strong feels anything but strong always since he failed to salve his all-time friend when they were in a passenger vehicle accident together. All he has left of Eddie is the periodical his friend wrote stories in. Tristan is dreading the month he's going to spend on his grandparents' subcontract in Alabama, where he's being sent to heal from the tragedy. Only on his first night there, a sticky creature shows up in his bedroom and steals Eddie's periodical. Tristan chases after it — is that a doll? — and a tug-of-war ensues between them underneath a Canteen Tree. In a terminal attempt to wrestle the journal out of the creature's hands, Tristan punches the tree, accidentally ripping open a chasm into the MidPass, a volatile place with a burning bounding main, haunted os ships, and iron monsters that are hunting the inhabitants of this earth. Tristan finds himself in the middle of a battle that has left blackness American gods John Henry and Brer Rabbit wearied. In lodge to become back home, Tristan and these new allies will demand to entice the god Anansi, the Weaver, to come out of hiding and seal the hole in the sky. But bartering with the trickster Anansi always comes at a price. Tin Tristan save this world before he loses more of the things he loves?
Surprise! Bet you didn't expect this to be here, correct? I'm sure y'all're just gobsmacked. I waited so long for a book similar this. It would've changed the game for younger me, and I'm so glad the youth these days have it (you know, because I'm and then one-time now). I'd honey to take the feel of discovering this world again and watching all the folk heroes I grew up with come to life!
Warbreaker
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Warbreaker is the story of two sisters, who happen to be princesses, the God King one of them has to marry, the lesser god who doesn't like his job, and the immortal who'southward notwithstanding trying to disengage the mistakes he fabricated hundreds of years agone.
Their world is one in which those who dice in glory return as gods to alive confined to a pantheon in Hallandren's capital urban center and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can but be collected 1 unit at a time from private people.
By using breath and cartoon upon the color in everyday objects, all fashion of miracles and mischief can be achieved. It volition have considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris; Susebron the God King; Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker.
I but loved this volume so freaking much. The adventure to detect Lightsong again? To fall in dear with him all over? To encounter Nightblood and get to gush over him again? Okay, to be fair, I haven't stopped gushing about Nightblood since I read the book, merely still. Fresh optics and all that.
The Trials of Morrigan Crow
A cursed daughter escapes death and finds herself in a magical world – merely is and so tested beyond her wildest imagination
Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for whatever child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to middle attacks–and, worst of all, the expletive means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday.
Only as Morrigan awaits her fate, a foreign and remarkable human being named Jupiter North appears. Chased by blackness-fume hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the prophylactic of a secret, magical city chosen Nevermoor.
Information technology'south then that Morrigan discovers Jupiter has chosen her to contend for a identify in the city's most prestigious arrangement: the Wundrous Lodge. In order to join, she must compete in four difficult and dangerous trials against hundreds of other children, each boasting an extraordinary talent that sets them apart – an extraordinary talent that Morrigan insists she does not take. To stay in the safety of Nevermoor for good, Morrigan volition demand to find a way to pass the tests – or she'll accept to get out the urban center to confront her deadly fate.
This series is ongoing, and then there are plenty of firsts still to be had with it. Still, there'south goose egg quite like the sensation of discovering a new globe that you love so wholeheartedly that information technology transports you back to that whimsical, magical time of babyhood. I try to convince pretty much anybody I see to read this serial, particularly if they are/were a fan of Harry Potter. The waiting for more than books is always difficult, only I'k excited for a fun, long-lasting series that always keeps me wanting more.
Wicked
When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in Fifty. Frank Baum's archetype tale we heard only her side of the story. Only what nigh her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come up from? How did she become and so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil?
Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy earth so rich and bright that nosotros will never wait at Oz the aforementioned style again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to exist treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And and so there is the niggling green-skinned daughter named Elphaba, who will abound up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil.
An astonishingly rich re-creation of the country of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Taking readers by the yellowish brick route and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Gregory Maguire but might change the reputation of one of the near sinister characters in literature.
Confession: I take always hated The Sorcerer of Oz with a passion. Why? I don't know. Merely practise. Never understood why people enjoy information technology so much. I ever thought it was ridiculously shallow and left me wanting more and wholly unsatisfied. So imagine my surprise when one of my friends forced this book into my easily during high school and told me I absolutely had to read it. She wouldn't take no for an answer (believe me, I tried).
Y'all know what? I loved it. Shocked me too. I loved the idea that there was this whole gritty, dark world behind the scenes, that characters were deeper and more than than they seemed, that the world took a toll on each and every one of them, for meliorate or worse. Almost of all, I loved that villains could be heroes and heroes could be villains. (Uh-oh. Talk about hindsight!). My love of this book really sparked me to start writing fanfiction during my high schoolhouse years, in a mode that really boosted my writing ability!
A People'due south History of the United States
Library Periodical calls Howard Zinn's iconic A People'southward History of the U.s.a. "a vivid and moving history of the American people from the point of view of those…whose plight has been largely omitted from most histories." Packed with vivid details and telling quotations, Zinn'southward award-winning classic continues to revolutionize the manner American history is taught and remembered. Frequent appearances in popular media such as The Sopranos, The Simpsons, Skillful Will Hunting, and the History Channel documentary The People Speak testify to Zinn'southward ability to span the generation gap with enduring insights into the birth, development, and destiny of the nation.
I experience like this needs to exist said upfront: I Do NOT desire to read this volume once again. I took AP Usa History and this book was the bane of my being for an entire year. I've served my fourth dimension, okay? In fact, I actually just got rid of my re-create (which I actually didn't want to part with) a couple months ago when I was cleaning out my dwelling library because I really never intend to read it again (or if I do, I can always borrow it).
Still, it'd be remiss of me to say that this book didn't leave an impression on me. My AP US History instructor loved Howard Zinn, so this book was basically akin to her Bible. Don't become me wrong, it'south a skillful book. Not the sort I'd ordinarily read on my own, though, and history has always been kind of meh to me. More that, it's an important volume, one that I think everyone should take a crack at one-time. I learned so many things from this book and have so many addicted memories of it.
Our course really got to do a tele-interview with Howard Zinn! You lot know, waaaay back when these things were really novel and it was cutting-edge that our schoolhouse had those facilities. Zinn has unfortunately passed on, but I would love to be able to go back and recapture those feelings of sharing in something my teacher loved so much and was so passionate about, equally well every bit all the things I saw for the get-go fourth dimension without ever knowing they were a thing!
(Oh no. Now that I type this, I almost regret giving away my copy of the book. xD But really, I am Non going to read information technology again, sentimentality aside, LOL.)
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