Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl.
This week's Top Ten Tuesday topic:
First Books I Reviewed
I first joined GoodReads in 2007 and immediately started tracking and rating my books. But it wasn't until 2011 or so that I really started reviewing what I read. And even then it was rarely a well thought out review with any kind of form or real content. It was more... stream of consciousness. (Because that sounds so much better than hot mess.) If nothing else, I had a good laugh while searching through them. So here are the first books I reviewed.
The Hunger Games * Suzanne Collins
The Truth About Melody Browne * Lisa Jewell
City of Bones * Cassandra Clare
The Brightest Star in the Sky * Marian Keyes
One Day * David Nichols
A Stolen Life * Jaycee Dugard
Fifty Shades of Grey * E.L. James
Clockwork Angel * Cassandra Clare
Night Road * Kristin Hannah
Mary Ann in Autumn * Armistead Maupin
Have you read any of these?
What was your first review?
Oh man, lots of books on this list that I have had on my TBR pile for years and haven't touched yet. I should get on that. I loved Hunger Games back when I read it. I wonder if I'd enjoy it if I read it now. Hmm. Great list, Tanya!
ReplyDeleteEver once in a while I consider rereading The Hunger Games trilogy but by now the movies are so ingrained that I wouldn't be able to read the books without thinking about the movie the whole time. Ha!
DeleteThe cringey ones lol. But seriously mine were too. I think that should have been the title of this week instead!
ReplyDeleteThat would sum it up! LOL
DeleteIt's fun to look back at our old reviews and see how much our reading tastes and review styles have evolved, don't you think? Here's to improving every day and not giving up, not matter how cringe-worthy our first attempts were!
ReplyDeleteHappy TTT!
It's funny to see how far my reviews have come. Not necessarily better, just different. :) And some of those early ones were definitely cringey. LOL
DeleteAt what point do you think your reviewing style became more organized?
ReplyDeleteMy TTT.
Oh gosh, I'm not really sure. I guess they just evolved over time into something a little more thought-out and coherent. :)
DeleteGreat list! It's been so nostalgic seeing how much YA dystopian fiction is on everyone's lists this week.
ReplyDeleteI've noticed that, too, Jess!
DeleteI chuckled a bit at some of my early ones too. and ooh Hunger Games! Still blows my mind I only read that for the first time a couple years ago...
ReplyDeleteTo be honest, I've seen THG movies so many times now that I don't remember the books very well. I remember whatever changes the movies made - not the original source material.
DeleteKiersten was/is such a Cassandra Clare fan, and when I started reading again, I was reading all her books. So, my early reviews (in GR) are for the TID and TMI books, and a lot of YA dystopian books. I couldn't bring myself to read One Day after the movie ripped my heart out.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading the first TMI book and just being so sucked in to that world. I read everything that was out and then had to start waiting on the books. Torture! LOL
DeleteI was the same way when I first started on Goodreads. If I wrote more than a sentence, it was a big deal, lol.
ReplyDeleteRight? My how times have changed. :)
DeleteI love seeing everyone's first reviews! It's so fun. I've only read The Hunger Games from this one.
ReplyDelete-Lauren
www.shootingstarsmag.net
It's funny too see how much different people's reviewing styles have changed, isn't it? :)
DeleteHehe, the cringey ones is what I thought too. I've read 50 Shades of Grey, but never reviewed it. Kind of glad that I didn't tbh. LOL.
ReplyDeleteUh, you were probably the smart one to skip reviewing it. LOL
Delete50 Shades was one of the first books you reviewed? Wow. I remember reading but think I had to place to one side and couldn't review it. I dread to think what my reviewing style was like now.
ReplyDeleteI am not sure my first review. For this blog SMBS it was Marked by Elizabeth Naughton. I have been a GR member since 2008 I think so I should check it out.
ReplyDeleteMary
We've both been at GoodReads for ages! :)
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