Book Tag Thursday: Splendid Spring Book Tag
Welcome to my segment where I find awesome book tags throughout the vast, wide inter-webs made by lovely bloggers like you! I’ll hope you’ll have fun and participate with me as well!
Today’s Topic: Splendid Spring Book Tag
Created by: Victoria Mann
Everywhere you look flowers are blooming! Choose a book you love or think you will love with flowers on the cover.
It’s an emotional book readers can connect to and it’s a real story about healing and family. Most of all I loved how rich in culture the novel was and that it was left open-ended in certain aspects.
Spring is the perfect time for a fun trip! Choose a book you’ve read or would like to read while traveling from one place to another.
This was such a fun debut novel and a fantasy novel that transported me to a faraway magical world. It has Studio Ghibli vibes, being that I am such a fan of the studio animated films. Eva Evergreen did not disappoint and very much delivered on all of the elements of awe and wonder that a reader seeks out in a fantasy novel.
Who doesn’t love a good Spring Fling? Choose a book you were obsessed with for a short period of time, but then you swiftly cast it aside.
I love the grumpy hero and heroine (Jasmine and Ivan) and their constant banter, reconnection, and seeing them grow as a pair on and off the ice. The characters were the strongest point of the novel for me and I like how the book navigates the career of a figure skater through their own words. Both characters have gone through multiple obstacles, and we see how events have shaped them as a whole.
Everyone loves the smell of freshly mowed grass, but not at an ungodly hour! Choose a book that personifies as a middle-aged dad waking up at 7am on a Saturday to mow the lawn when he should be sleeping like the rest of us.
It was hard to follow along with the timeline shifts and the different characters. I also became confused as if things were actually happening in the story or if it was more magical realism elements. I think this was a case of it’s me, not the actual book.
A surprise rain shower might spoil your outdoor fun, but don’t worry the sun will be back! Choose a book that made you really sad, but the sun still shines in the end.
Neruda On The Park is a narrative that weaves together the tale of the Guerrero’s who live in the neighborhood of Nothar Park. This new development brings a new atmosphere to a community slowly recognizing that things are changing and becoming unrecognizable. It’s a powerful novel about fighting for what we believe in, the consequences of our choices, and what we define as home.
It’s that time of year when all the animals stretch their limbs and come out of hibernation. Choose a book that pulled you out of a reading slump.
Reading any manga always pulls me out of a major reading slump! Spy x Family has a lot of hype surrounding it and it holds up to its reviews. The story follows a spy who has to “build a family” to execute a mission, not realizing that the girl he adopts as a daughter and the woman he agrees to be in a fake marriage with are a mind reader and an assassin.
Students all over exhale a sigh of relief knowing they get a break from school. Choose a book whose friend group you’d like to spend Spring Break with.
These characters seem like a fun friend group to hang out with. I think this series is well-balanced between the slice-of-life bits and the hockey games shown on the pages. Though it’s about the bromance of a hockey team that essentially acts as one big family (which I thought was so endearing) it also talks about navigating college.
Spring is all about rebirth and blooming. Choose a book that made you grow as a person.
This is a very interesting autobiographical graphic novel about the author’s time during South Korea’s Fifth Republic. The graphic novel truly captured the essence of the turbulent time and the power that came with discovering these banned books that taught these students new ideas. Reading this book made me reflect on why it is so important to have the freedom to read and not to censor books.
A picnic at the park is the perfect springtime activity! Choose a book with a character who you think would pack the best picnic basket.
A Taste of Sage is a spicy novel in which two feisty cooks go head-to-head in the kitchen. Told in alternating povs, our main characters, Lumi and Julian, give us glimpses into their life as a chef. Coming from different food backgrounds and having strong personalities, they tend to butt heads when it comes to cooking. Lumi is a great chef I bet she would make a picnic basket for a girl’s day outing.
For many Spring is the first break from the bitterness of Winter! Choose a book that is the embodiment of sunshine.
I loved the gorgeous artwork of this story and the theme of friendship and finding joy in simple things. In this world, sprites used to be the sole caretaker of gardens, but once things shifted to the modern age, there was less of a use for them. Once Elena and Wisteria meet face-to-face by accident (the sprite’s existence is supposed to be a secret), they strike up a new friendship. It’s a very wholesome story.
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