3/12: New favourite authors

3rd December: New favourite authors

Alright, so honestly I don't play favourites with authors, because most of the time I grab a book based towards its genre. The only time I pay attention to author's name is when there's controversy around them, or they're unlikeable as a person, or they just don't like cats.

So for this post, my definition of new favourite authors shall be: the ones whose books I only started reading this year, but have now become my auto-buy authors!

First off, we have the one from my favourite genre, Contemporary: Gayle Forman.
I've read 3 of her books this year, and bought the remaining ones after that, so I now have her full collection.

Back when the movie came out, I refused to read the book because it was another one of those cliche books that girls who "read" would buy. But I went to watch it at the cinema, and really liked it, and couldn't help going straight from Bishan's Golden Village to Orchard's Kinokuniya to buy the boxset :p

And then I Was Here came out, which I also got the exact day it was released. This rarely happens. I never anticipate a book's release, and even remembering its release date is a big deal for me.

That day, I remember so clearly being upset at my other half, and I'd gone to the Kino outlet at Jem for some retail therapy and that was where I purchased it.

Secondly, an author whose books is in a genre that I was surprised to know I liked last year, Science Fiction, only this time it's mixed with fairytales: Marissa Meyer, mastermind behind The Lunar Chronicles.

I first got to know the series early last year when I was just new to Booktube, but never got around to it. I remember my best friend from secondary school asking me over to her house to choose from the books she was gonna give away. She had Cinder and Scarlet, both of which were her own collection and not part of the donate pile (":

I only got to buying the books this year; I'd gotten the first 2 in February and then Cress and Fairest some months after. I always procrastinated reading them, until August when I picked Cinder up. I was so surprised at myself for flying through it!

Now I got to know that Marissa Meyer is writing an Alice in Wonderland retelling, which I am really looking forward to reading. In the meantime, I am still waiting for any of the local bookstores to have Winter, the final book, in the edition that matches with my current series haisss.

And there you have it!
What a nice feeling, to be typing away like this. I hope you missed it, because I do.

No pictures tonight, because I stayed back an extra hour at work after closing, and I'm exhausted. Good thing it's my off day tomorrow. Night!