It’s still November! We can still legit do the Fall Book Tag! We were tagged by Zezee With Books to do the Apple, Pumpkin Book Tag (which was a combo of two tags for her) and by Dani of Perspective of a Writer to do the Fall Time, Cozy Book & Manga Tag (in which she embellished). While they were quite different, they both had to do with fall, so we decided to combine the two into our own awesome mash-up! We alternated answering- can you figure out who answered each question?
From ZeZee’s Tag:
Granny Smith: An overbearingly sweet work or character
Faith is a kick ass heroine that also is super sweet. You go girl!
Red Delicious: A book that would be perfect if it was only judged by its cover
Darkness Becomes Her. Man, the cover is beautiful and the synopsis was so good. But don’t be fooled. It’s a hot mess inside.
Golden Yellow: A book with yellow on the cover
Hark! A Vagrant has awesome riffs on history and literature, and is done so in an intelligent and hilarious manner.
McIntosh: A writer that has influenced or would influence your writing
Isabel Allende! She definitely has influenced my (fan)fiction writing.
Honeycrisp: A book you have read that is in great demand
Written in 1986, this dystopian tale seems so very timely during our current political climate, and still is checked out regularly.
Gala: A work that fits under many genres
Can’t talk enough about it – the Dark Tower series! An intoxicating mix of fantasy, Western, horror, and sci-fi.
Ambrosia: A long work that was easy to follow
The six book series Locke & Key kept me enthralled the entire time. Hoping for more books from this duo and the upcoming Hulu series. (Edit- now Netflix has the rights and is filming the series!)
Pumpkin Soup: A work that you first enjoyed, but then lost interest
The Mistborn series. The first book was great! I could not make it more than a quarter of the way through the second book, though. *yawn* Booooring.
Pumpkin Picking: Within the last year, in which genre did you purchase the most books
Ummm….hello….what is the name of our blog? Graphic Novels of course!!!!!! Pictured is the graphic novel shelves at my library that I do all the purchasing for.
Pumpkin Painting: A book with magnificent illustrations
Need I say more? (Actually, I did. In my review of TSS.)
Pumpkin Ice Cream: The most random work you would recommend
I just finished this photography book by Gregory Crewdson. Filled with surreal photographs that are dark and disquieting. A fascinating book that I looked at over and over again.
From Dani’s Tag:
Crunching Leaves
The world is full of color Choose a book that had reds/oranges/yellows on the cover!
An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson. Not a bad YA novel. Bonus because it takes place in part in autumn =P
Cozy Sweaters
It’s finally cold enough to do warm cozy clothing what book gives you the warm fuzzies?
This is my crazy favorite YA book. Young love in the 80’s…
Fall Storm
The wind is howling & the rain is pounding Choose a book that you like to read on a stormy day…
Man, if I’m in the mood to get spooked on a stormy day… this book is it. Beautifully unsettling.
Cool Crisp Air
Makes you breath freely What’s the coolest character you’d want to trade places with?
Tyleet from the ElfQuest saga is my favorite elf! She’s kind, patient and steady. She’s not a flashy character but the kind of person/elf you’d always want by your side.
Hot Apple Cider
Warm autumn drink What under-hyped book do you want to see become the next biggest, hottest thing?
*SLAMS FISTS ON THE TABLE* GIVE ME AN 8 SEASON TV SHOW ON THIS SERIES
Coat, Scarves, and Mittens
The weather has turned cold & it’s time to cover up What’s the most embarrassing book cover that you’d like to keep hidden in public?
This was an awesome book, but it just screams that I’m a geek for reading it.
Pumpkin Spice
Time for some Starbucks What’s your favorite Fall time comfort foods (i.e. genres) and a book/manga that represents them.
Fantasy ❤ Autumn is the best time to read fantasy, imo.
Thanks ladies for choosing us! We are not choosing to tag anyone, because fall is almost over, and our tag is a hopeless muddle of our favorite questions from the tags above. And now that this autumn tag is complete, we are ready for winter- bring it on!
(Okay, Nancy is obviously ready for winter, but I DEFINITELY am not… can’t wait for it to be over!!! I’m so sad autumn is almost finished 😭😭😭 )
-Nancy & Kathleen
Graphic Novelty² 
December 1, 2017 at 8:38 am
Locke and Key, that’s great, so is the Infinity War. At the moment I’ve been reading the Sandman Vol 1 Preludes and Nocturnes, great to revisit this classic series 🙂
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December 1, 2017 at 9:11 pm
I tried Sandman Vol 1 and couldn’t get past the artwork that I hated. So many people like Gaiman’s Sandman series, but I did not.
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December 2, 2017 at 8:33 am
Really? Although I enjoy modern comics, I’m actually very old school when it comes to comic book art, I love all the older style stuff – with less of the digitally tweaked visuals we get now – but I can see how Sandman isn’t for everyone’s taste. Its a shame, as the storyline is brilliant. I tend to read older comics or collections like this when I get a bit bored of modern comics and want to escape with a bit of nostalgia – like when there’s been all these big events such as DC’s Metal and Marvel’s dire Secret Empire clogging up schedules with all their spin-offs and tie-in issues,
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December 2, 2017 at 12:50 pm
I hear you! I thought the big event Civil War II was a horrible mess, but I am willing to try Secret Empire due to the positive review Michael from My Comic Relief shared.
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December 3, 2017 at 7:43 am
Well, tbh the subject matter of Secret Empire put me off a bit. I did read one issue, think it was issue #3, but I didn’t like the art much. Maybe I’ll check it out when its out in a trade collection.
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December 1, 2017 at 11:27 pm
Is it odd to say that Nancy answered the ZeZe ones and Kathleen answered the Dani ones?! It is isn’t it?! Okay I give up, hahhahaha. LOVE mashup tags and alterations! These were fun answers… I was sad about the Mistborn series because I’ve only read the first but even so it was a bit of a mess with duplication and just too many words (but still quite excellent) so I’m not too, too surprised but still sad… I LOVED seeing your graphic novel area (Nancy’s right?) that is HUGE, the area in my library is much smaller… Not sure what series that is but it looks like it would make a GREAT TV SHOW!! ❤
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December 2, 2017 at 12:47 pm
I started the questions, so Faith is mine, Darkness Becomes Her is Kathleen’s, Hark! A Vagrant is mine and so on. The picture of the library graphic novel section is mine- I love buying the YA books & graphic novels for my work library!
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December 6, 2017 at 11:13 am
Bruh, the Jill Kismet series needs to be a Netflix staple like yesterday. Phenomenal characters, great blend of magic, mystery, and romance… I love it sooooo much. I could easily see it becoming a TV show. I wanted to like the Mistborn series a lot more than I did because I do like other books by Brandon Sanderson =(
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December 2, 2017 at 2:09 pm
So glad you did the tag! And it’s never too late. Where I am, fall is still lingering around though winter is trying to sneak in.
BTW, I didn’t know there was going to be a Hulu series based on Locke & Key!!! Glad you mentioned it.
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December 2, 2017 at 8:29 pm
They are casting the Locke & Key series, but I haven’t heard when it will premiere.
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December 4, 2017 at 7:45 am
Oh, I’ll look out for it
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