Epic Reads Tag

I am notoriously bad at doing tags. I've been putting this one off for a very long time, and then I forgot about it, then put it off some more, then forgot again, and just found it and decided to finish and post it. As you will see below, I'm not great at tags, and I don't really diversify them for the most part, which is why I rarely follow up on tags in a timely manner, if at all. But here goes nothing.

(Images are not my own!)

This tag was created by Aubry and Margot over at Epic Reads, and I was tagged by the fabulous Kaitlin @ Next Page Please!

Why do you do this to me?! Gahh! Okay, if I had to pick one author, I'd probably go with J.K. Rowling because Harry Potter. One fictional character? Well, now it gets tricky...Maybe Cath (Fangirl)? Atticus Finch (To Kill a Mockingbird)? Luna, Harry, Hermione, basically most of the HP characters? THIS IS TOO HARD. Snacks? I mean, if we're having tea, right? *shrugs* Whatever they'd like, I guess.

 Besides Harry Potter? Maybe Something Strange and Deadly? Perfect Ruin? Bunheads? We Were Liars?

I refuse to answer this because it seems so impossible for me. I'm very bad at taking characters out of their context and all, so this is near impossible.

You probably guessed that it was J.K. Rowling. You'd be right. I'd say, "Thank you so much for Harry Potter; it changed my life and helped shape who I am today, and I will never be able to thank you enough for saving me and for doing all that you do for so many of us Potterheads."

Ooo...this is hard to say. I've been a reader for as long as I can remember. I mean, all the classic picture books were part of what made me a reader: The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear Brown Bear, Doctor Seuss, The Snow Day, Chicka Chicka Boom Boom, Amelia Bedelia, Goodnight Moon, etc. And especially Make Way for Ducklings, which was my favorite picture book as a young child.

*cries* How can I just pick one??? But again, I'm being predictable and saying Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. Did you really think it'd be anything else?

None? I mean, it's a dystopia, right? Okay, I haven't read many dystopian novels, but if I had to choose one, I might have to go with Divergent, pre-Jeanine. I mean, I know, I know. I'm trying to choose the lesser of all evils, okay? Looking through dystopian YA lists, I realize how few I've read. But yeah, I guess I'd go with that if I had to.

The tag is a bit old, and I was tagged ages ago, so I don't know who was and wasn't tagged at some point. So I'm tagging anyone who would like to give it a shot!

*shimmy* Done!

To-Be-Read Tag

This tag was created by Rachel @ A Perfection Called Books and Dana from Dana Square.

Thanks to Isabel @ Tween 2 Teen Book Reviews and Em @ The YA Book Butterfly for tagging me!

How do you keep track of your TBR pile?

So usually, I use Goodreads, but sometimes I'll get lazy and won't. Then depending on the book, I may forget that I wanted to read it. But for the most part, I'm pretty good about keeping track on Goodreads. Then switching books to "read" is a whole other problem...

Is your TBR mostly print or e-book?

Definitely print! I mean, technically, I don't differentiate, but my default is almost always print anyway, with the exception of my large number of eARCs I haven't gotten around to yet...

How do you determine which book from your TBR to read next?

It's different every time depending on the situation, but usually it's a mix of my mood, if it's a blog tour book or not, if it's a Lit Up Review Spotlight book (ahem I need to read Let's Get Lost for this month, and I still haven't started yet), and the release date of my ARCs. In terms of ARCs, I'm much more likely to prioritize paper ARCs than eARCs, unless it's a book I'm really excited for. I'm also the kind of person that starts a million books at once, so....

A Book That's Been on Your TBR List the Longest

In reality, I'm not really sure because the way I added them onto Goodreads doesn't necessarily reflect how long it had been that I wanted to read the book, but according to Goodreads, it's Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (in my mind, it's definitely not that, but!).

OH! I found one that's been on my list for AGES (but isn't first on my Goodreads page). I wanted to read this book since I finished Fairest sometime in elementary school...I still haven't read it. Now, I don't know if I ever will. Maybe just for old time's sake. :)

A Book You Recently Added To Your TBR

According to Goodreads, one of my very latest additions is Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld. I kept hearing about it but didn't know what it was about. Then, the other day, I finally looked it up, and I was like I NEED THIS. ;)

A Book In Your TBR Strictly Because of Its Beautiful Cover

I don't think anything is on my TBR list just because of its cover, but. Okay, so here's one that I originally was interested in because of the cover. And THEN I got super interested because of the blurb.

An Unpublished Book That You're Excited For

Uhhh...you want me to pick JUST ONE??? Fine...this just one of many

A Book On Your TBR That Basically Everyone's Read But You

Probably most of them? ;P

A Book On Your TBR That Everyone Recommends To You

Besides those two up there (^), these two for sure! I really do mean to read them; I just haven't around to them yet.

A Book On Your TBR That You're Dying To Read

How about every single one of them? Okay fine, a snippet then: Echoes of Us, The Book Thief, Afterworlds, The Sky is Everywhere, Lola and the Boy Next Door + Isla and the Happily Ever After, Lies We Tell Ourselves, I'll Give You the Sun, The Start of Me and You, Salt & Stone, Snow Like Ashes, Red Queen, The Orphan Queen, The Broken Hearts' Society of Suite 17C, Under the Lights, Written in the Stars, The Girl at Midnight, A Thousand Pieces of You, Winterspell, Amy and Roger's Epic Detour, The Shadow Cabinet, A Darker Shade of Magic, No Place to Fall, The Hit List, AND MORE. Yup...*slinks away*

How many books are on your Goodreads TBR shelf?

533 on Goodreads, plus the ones I haven't put on Goodreads and the books I want to reread...

Now I'm tagging:

Allison @ Sleepless Reads Reviews

Kayla @ Wonderland of Reading

Klaudia @ The Observant Girl Book Reviews

Emily @ Tea and Fangirling