Saturday, May 14, 2016

#ArmchairBEA Day 4: Surviving Fictional Worlds and Giveaways

Last real day of #ArmchairBEA! I know the peeps at actual BEA in Chicago are having a blast! So lucky!!! I'm thankful for Armchair BEA letting me live vicariously though!

Today's question: We all know that sometimes, the worlds we love in fiction can be dangerous. Which fictional worlds would you want to live in? Which worlds do you never want to dive into? Which worlds are you content to stay behind the glass, so to speak, rather than wishing to dive through the page? And once you get there, what would you do?

This question is pretty easy for me. And I'm sure the answers for which world to live in will be pretty universal. I mean, who doesn't want to live in Harry Potter world and go to Hogwarts for school?  This is why I took an adult vacation to HP land in Orlando, FL. I've been meaning to do a bigger post on going there, so maybe it's time :-) Anyway, getting to use the interactive wands at the park was super fun and pretty darn amazing since you have to do the spell properly for it to work, and they are hidden all over the park. I recommend any HP fan to go there when they can!

As to which worlds I wouldn't want to go to, that's pretty much most of my reading as I love dystopian YA, my standard fare. So worlds like in Hunger Games, Divergent, Matched, etc, are worlds I'm okay with never setting foot on, but perusing from a distance is totally fine by me! My latest favorite dystopian is The Winner's Curse trilogy, which I highly recommend to everyone, but again, I don't really want to live in. 

Today is also GIVEAWAY DAY, yay!!! So, couple of things: I have a giveaway going on right now that has 2 more days-- signed copy of Girl Against the Universe by Paula Stokes courtesy of Left Bank Books, my local amazing bookstore, US only. 
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I will have a giveaway going up soon that will be featuring the Fierce reads tour and a giveaway of all of the books on tour, US only, so stay tuned for that. 

For this event, I'd like to add my own giveaway. I'm giving away a paperback of The Winner's Curse (or e-copy in any format that's easy for me to gift, whichever you prefer), my favorite recent read that goes along with today's prompt. This giveaway is INT-- INT winners will get a copy from Book Depository (so make sure they ship to your location before you enter!!!, or an e-copy.
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I had a blast at Armchair BEA 2016, I hope you did too!  Can't wait to see people's loot!

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13 comments:

  1. The Hunger Games is one place I would NEVER want to go. I have heard that a few times today. :)

    ENJOY Day 4.

    Elizabeth
    Silver's Reviews
    My DAY 4 BEA ARMCHAIR POST

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  2. Oh I love YA dystopians, picking just one is hard. I loved Terra by Gretchen Powell and need to continue that series. Orleans was fantastic and I wish that had a series. I finished Under The Never Sky series, which kept up the high expectations all the way though.

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  3. To be honest, there is not a dystopian world that I would like to live in. I love reading dystopian books (The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Book of Ivy are my favorites), but the world itself is always depressing, so I'd rather not live there. :)

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  4. Girl Against the Universe sounds really good. I love the premise and it sounds like the main character is really quirky.

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  5. I thought about adding Harry Potter to my list, but while there is so much stuff I love there's a lot of scary stuff there too lol. I don't know if I'm brave enough :P

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  6. I agree, dystopian novels are fun to read, but wouldn't want to be there. I'm giving away some reading swag. Girl Who Reads

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  7. Isn't HP world awesome. It's my favorite place to visit. I'd love to live in Kate Daniels world.

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  8. I love The 5th Wave series because I've always found alien invasions fascinating and the whole wave aspect of it really intrigues me!

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  9. I am so so excited to read GATU, because I've heard that it deals with the issue of anxiety really well. Being a suffer of anxiety, it's really difficult to find good representation. :-)

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  10. I love dystopian books! A couple of my favourite dystopian worlds are Kass Morgan's The 100 and Julie Charbonneau's The Testing...both great! I think it's the post-apocalyptic worlds that I love most...seeing how we manage to come back from such destruction. Although I'm always disappointed with how small the "world" is...it's like I'm sure people in Europe and Australia and Japan survived too. Not just the North East US! Now I really want a dystopian book set in Australia! Is it out there already?

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  11. I have read some of Paula's other books and have really enjoyed them. So far, I have been able to read one a summer and would love to continue the tradition with Girl Against the Universe!
    Emma Andje

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  12. I'm not a huge dystopian reader but if I had to choose a world which I most enjoy reading about it would be that of Unwind by Neal Shusterman because the idea that a child's life is completely in the hands of their parents and what those parents are able to decide for their children really intrigues me. It's such a scary orld but an interesting one to read about.

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  13. My favorite dystopian world setting is The one on the throne of glass series but I would love to live in hogwarts because Harry potter is my favorite series since I was a little girl and it's a much calmer setting

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