TwoGirlsThatRead

Hello, everyone! We're going to be doing the For The Book Lover Tag today! It's where you get a characteristic or trait of the book lover, and you pair it up with a book. We remember watching this on Bookables's channel at this time last year and loving it (you can watch her video  here ). So now, since it's the holiday season, we have a blog to do it on, let's get started! Photo Source Link 1. A book for the old soul. Ashvini: I'm going to go with The Railway Children, by E. Nesbit. (BTW Emma, it's one of the only classics I have read. So ha! :) Emma: Well, I am very short on reading classics, but a fairy tale is a classic right? Then I choose Alice in Wonderland. 2. A book for the young at heart. Ashvini: Usually, I say Percy Jackson, but today I'm going to go with Harry Potter. Whenever, it's Winter and I'm really feeling the holidays I crave Harry Potter. Emma: Well, well, well, Ashvini. I choose The 39 Clues

Oh man, it's been forever since we've done a review. Is it too late now to say sorry? Photo Source Link Emma's Rating: 4/5 Ashvini's Rating: 4/5 Ashvini: M-MAG-NUS-CHASE! I just had to turn it into a song… My biggest worry with Magnus Chase was that it would turn into a cheap remake of Percy Jackson. After reading it though, I can safely say that is not at all the case. Our main character Magnus is dead (not a spoiler), apparently looks like Kurt Cobain, hates the colour blue, and is very sassy and sarcastic - in a not cute way. So Magnus dies, and finds himself at a magical Norse hotel afterlife… Not too much like Percy Jackson right? Norse mythology isn’t generally as well-known as Greek mythology, but the timing of the world building and plot development was extremely well done. At times, the switch between the nine worlds (Yup, there are nine Norse worlds) could be a lot, but you’re never too disoriented to continue. ( I was able to keep m

As we all know, the holiday season is rapidly approaching. With the holiday season, comes many gift buying opportunities. With gift buying opportunities, comes the pressure to live up to gifting expectations. We can all relate to that... Especially when the person you're gifting is a booklion. That's why we've comprised a gift guide of five hot bookish presents. BTW, to any relatives reading: this is also our Holiday Wish List. Photo Source Link Photo Source Link 1. Graphic Novels A great breather from novels. National Book Award Finalist, Nimona's a really good one! Photo Source Link 2. Giant Picture Books Great companions and all the rage right now! Other great ones include the Philosopher's Stone , Greek Gods , and Greek Heroes . Photo Source Link 3. Fandom Merch This is a cute bookish t-shirt design I found on Red Bubble . There are really cute bookish designs almost everywhere, so be sure to explore a few c

Photo Source Link Over the course of the past few months, TwoGirlsThatRead has been working on a really special surprise.  When we started this blog nine months ago, we'd hoped that one day we'd be able to do cool stuff like this. However, we'd never in our wildest dreams (T Swizzle reference) thought we'd be able to do something like this so soon and with someone so kind and talented. This has been an amazing opportunity that we'd seriously like to thank Ms. Nielsen for. About a month ago, Jennifer A. Nielsen released her new book " A Night Divided."  It's a historical fiction based around the Berlin Wall. Us, being the fangirls we are, were curious. about how Jennifer A. Nielsen wrote her books, and why she wrote her books, and just her writing books in general. So, after pulling a few strings we got the opportunity of doing an interview with her and POOF! Here we are now! For those of you that don't know, Ms. Nielsen is a New

Photo Source Link Emma's Review: 4.5/5 Ashvini's Review: 5/5 Emma:  When Vicki Grant came to our school I was thrilled to be asked to introduce her (with Ashvini) and intrigued to read her latest book "Small Bones". I had already read the book  ID and really enjoyed it.  The book is about an orphan named Dot. In the book the orphanage burns down. The seven oldest girls are not able to be put into orphanage homes. They have to go out on their own. Each of the seven are given one item from their past. They each use that one item to try and find their parents.  Dot I find is the opposite of me she is small, prone to daydreams, good at sewing (lets not even talk about my sewing abilities) and umm let me see she lives in another era !  I had a really fun time reading this book. There were a few big twists at the end which I found made the book more interesting. I really recommended this book to you if you are 12+ I think that you will really enjoy i

Photo Source Link Ashvini''s Rating: 5/5 Emma's Rating: 3.5/5 Ashvini: I’m still so speechless by the ending of this book! In I.D, Vicki Grant gives readers a taste of a very different lifestyle that isn’t typically touched on in books. The tone and just the way the main character talks and thinks really feels authentic to that very southern environment. Although this book is so short it still manages to get a hold of you and fall in rhythm with Chris (the main character)’s thinking, and just when you think something’s really going to work out it’s completely the opposite. Though, now looking back I kind of feel like Chris gxxxx tx xxxl (blocked out due to spoilers) was meant to be because he was so caught up in his own needs, that he never stopped to look at the bigger picture. I kind of wish that there were a few more clues leading up to the conclusion, just to tie it off with a bow.  (I feel like that just made everything so much more intense - Emma)

Photo Source Link Ashvini: January 17th, 2016!!  First off, I absolutely love this movie poster and I think it totally looks 5 th Wave-ish. Now, my thoughts on the trailer… It looks good. I just find that the way this trailer is cut up is very confusing. I showed this trailer to a cousin who hasn’t read the book and his reaction was: “It’s okay.” I feel slightly nervous about this because The 5 th Wave was such a successful book and in turn I feel that the movie should appeal to more than just readers of the book. One thing in the book that Cassie said was “Sometimes in my tent, late at night, I think I can hear the stars scraping against the sky.” That’s a very unique thing to say when you’re about to fight evil and that quote contributed quite a bit to my love for the book in so many ways, so I was a bit disappointed when they changed that up in the trailer to, what I find a very common (in general) thing to say. The cast and characters… I really love Chloe Gr

Photo Source Link Emma's Rating: 4/5 Ashvini's Rating: 5/5 Emma: First of all I loved how this book took place on a train. I cannot think of another book that took place on a moving vehicle for most of the book. There were so many features that made this book unique. But all in all I especially enjoyed the plot and how it was an adventure book mixed with plenty of surprises. I had heard about this book from many people all who had enjoyed it. I was full of sasquatches and circus tricks and a bog woman. I have read books with characters that I felt closer to (I feel like that's more of a thing for series') but the plot made up for it. It was a bit slow paced at the beginning but I still had a fun time reading it.  I felt like as soon as you got past the big event that turns every thing around things started to get faster. I loved how near the end you get a bunch of big surprises and can't really tell whose side is the "good" side. I l

We completely lied to you last review because today we're actually going to be reviewing Ms. Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children which has nothing to do with the clues we gave you on our Loki's Wolves review. For that reason we're not going to be leaving clues on this particular post... Photo Source Link  Emma's Rating: 4.5/5 Ashvini's Rating: 5/5 Emma: I really enjoyed reading this book. It was so fun to read with those pictures. I honestly think that there is no other word to describe them other then peculiar. I enjoyed looking at them as I read the story. But it wasn't just the pictures that made this story unique. As I read about Jacobs adventures and learned more about the children that his grandfather had lived with. There is not very much that I can say without spoiling it because it is so fast paced and almost immediately I was hooked. Anyways if you have not read it and are planning to, (which I highly suggest you to do) th

Photo Source Link (s) Finally what you have all been waiting for:) Emma's Rating: 4/5 Ashvini's Rating: 4/5 Emma: That movie was one of the most relatable movies to the book. Wow. Their were a few small details that were so small that I am not even going to mention them. Like the fact that the maze had windows so you could actually see the grievers were as in the movie they just magically know. While their were smaller things their were also bigger things that were harder to pass by. For instance in the book the characters did not swear. Instead the gladers had their own swear words, (shuck, shank, ... and so on) but in the movie the characters swore 24/7. (Ashvini: Not 24/7...)  Oddly though, about once or twice they said shank and that really struck me as weird because their was no point, they were already swearing. In my opinion the books were more detailed. I knew where every thing was and everything was so organized. I knew that in one corner was