Hooked on Books discussion

Would you like someone to choose a book for you to read? This is a monthly challenge where participants get paired up randomly where the partner picks a book for you to read. This challenge goes from August 1st to August 30th. Sign ups end on July 31st (8 PM EST Time), partners will be assigned on the same day.

Rules
1. Sign up below with your to-read shelf (or other shelf you prefer)
2. I will be pairing everyone randomly
3. Partners pick two books from their partners shelf for them to read.
4. You only have to read ONE book to complete this challenge.
5. Once you have finished, post below that you have finished your book so I can know you have completed the challenge.

Participants


1. Trinity (Mod)
2. Christine
✓ 3. Sisi
4. Trinity
5. Martha
✓ 6. Katie
7. I'm Gonna Cry
8. Jessica
✓ 9. Jonel
10. Shantavia
11. Jennifer
12. Samantha

Pairing


Jonel & Katie

Sisi & Christine

I'm gonna cry & Martha

Jessica & Trinity

Shantavia & Samantha

Trinity (Mod) & Jennifer

I'm in!
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im in

Can you give a link to your to read shelf?

im in
to read shelf

Added :)

I'm in! (Please dear god please do not pick Infinite Jest or any Song of Ice and Fire book)
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Added :)

I'm in!
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I'll join :)
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This is such a great idea- I'd love to join in!! :)

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Sorry, I will add everyone as soon as possible!

I'm in!
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Added everyone :)

Is it too late to join?
If yes, then :(

If not: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list...

Not yet. Added you. :)

I'll join
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Trinity wrote: "Not yet. Added you. :)"

Thanks!

Added :)

No problem! :)

I'm in!
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Hi, new here. Would love to join this challenge. I have a hard time choosing what books to read next ;).

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I'm getting all excited for our pairings this evening! I'm dying to know what I'll be reading.

Partners have been assigned in Message #3
If there are any problems with the links, let me know.

Katie, for you I'll pick The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa and The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare.

My partner is Jennifer!


I choose for you:
&

Hope you enjoy!

Hey Christine!

Your first book is Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity! I just finished it a day ago and it is amazingly amazing. It's a non-fiction so it would add to your non-fiction challenge you mentioned in your about but it reads like prose. It's wonderfully heartfelt and extremely sad.

Your second book is Catch-22. A really funny read but still gets you thinking about cool literary stuff like the unreliability of narrators and the world in general.

Happy reading!

Mod Trinity! Your books are:
and

Happy reading!

My partner is Samantha!

I chose for you:
and

Happy reading!

Jennifer wrote: "Mod Trinity! Your books are:
and

Happy reading!"

Thanks! Now I have a reason to get The Hobbit. :D

Jonel wrote: "Katie, for you I'll pick The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa and The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare.
[bookcover:The Bane Chronicl..."

Awesome, they've both been on my TBR for too long haha

The books I've picked for you are:
-The Silver Dream by Neil Gaiman
-The Religion by Tim Willocks.

Hope you enjoy!! :)

Katie wrote: "Jonel wrote: "Katie, for you I'll pick The Immortal Rules by Julie Kagawa and The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare.
[bookcover:The..."

Thanks!

My partner is Trinity! I choose Daughter of Smoke and Bone because I just finished that a few days ago and loved it. It's an amazing book.
The second book I picked was The Night Circus because I've heard nothing but great things about it and I've been dying to read it.

Trinity wrote: "My partner is Jennifer!


I choose for you:
&

Hope you enjoy!"

Lucky me, I've got Cinder check out right now! (In my huge stack of books that I can't decide what to read next, so that's solved!)

My partner is Dont let anyone who hurt you see you cry.
I choose:

(I've read and loved this one!)

And


(Then you can let me know if it's any good :P)

Martha I want you to read

Dont let anyone who hurt you see you cry, wrote: "Martha I want you to read

"

Yey thank you!

poison is a good book

Jennifer wrote: "Mod Trinity! Your books are:
and

Happy reading!"

I will get to The Hobbit very soon! :)

Lol. Finished The Silver Dream by Neil Gaiman on the weekend, but completely forgot to post about it here.

After all the good things I'd heard about the book I was a little disappointed. I still gave it a solid 3 stars, but expected more. Feel free to check out my review.

I'm sorry you didn't like it, but you wrote a great review! :)

I'm sorry you were disappointed is what I meant to say.

Trinity wrote: "I'm sorry you were disappointed is what I meant to say."

Yeah, I did like it. Gaiman is just one of those authors I'd heard so much about that I went in expecting way too much. I kinda set myself up for it. But it was still a great read. (I'm definitely someone who pouts if the book falls below 4 stars, even if I still enjoyed it).

Wow... sorry I'm late. For some reason my notifications were turned off.
Jessica I chose Wintergirls and Crank. I have heard very good things about both :)

Just finished reading The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare!! :)

Completely forgot to mention that I finished one of Christine's picks for me, by Cormac McCarthy last week. It was AMAZING!!