Top 5 Wednesday - Favorite Character Tropes
Today's Top 5 Wednesday is my Favorite Character Tropes, which means I spent way too much time pursuing TVTropes in order to find the exact names of my favorite tropes for fun.
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Today's Top 5 Wednesday is my Favorite Character Tropes, which means I spent way too much time pursuing TVTropes in order to find the exact names of my favorite tropes for fun.
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#TBRTakedown 2.0
From July 25th to 31st I'm going to be participating in the #TBRTakedown read-a-thon created by BookTuber Shannon to smack some books off my TBR pile. Even though I only just heard about it today, it is something that I really want to do because there are a lot of books that I have been meaning to read and this will be a good way to get to some of them.
For those who don't know what a read-a-thon is, it's basically where you commit to reading as much as you can over a period of time. This is my first read-a-thon and so I don't know exactly how everything works, but I'm excited to learn. There is supposed to be contests and prizes with the #TBRTakedown as well as various BookTubers and BookBloggers hosting. For this read-a-thon there are specific categories to fill, so in this post I am going to share the book choices I've made to read during this coming week as well as a little explanation as to why I picked that book. I'm also including the page count and the amount of pages I will have to read per day to make sure that I read all of the books on my list.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
This is an old review I wrote on my Tumblr a while back. I decided to move my blogging over to Blogger and I moved this post with me as I felt it was relevant to the subject of my blog. I will likely not keep to this style of reviewing, but for the sake of content, I am posting this review. I still don't know how to add spoiler tags to my posts and so there are spoilers in this review, however they have been marked by a bolded "SPOILERS!" and "End of spoilers" so if you haven't read the book yet, you can skip those portions.
One would think I’d have heard of Ready Player One earlier than I did, but it wasn’t until vlogger Sauna posted a vlog of her Oct/Nov book haul in which she purchased the book and mentioned that it’s universally loved by YouTubers. I actually checked out the audiobook from Overdrive without knowing anything about it except that I figured it involved video games from the title.
The story is set in 2045 where Earth’s energy sources have been depleted and poverty is rampant. However, to escape the bleakness of this world, people log on to OASIS, an open-world 3D MMO experienced through a head console (think of Oculus Rift) and gloves that imitate the sensations of the game. The creator of OASIS, 80’s pop culture fanatic James Halliday, died, leaving a vast fortune with no heir. Instead, he chose to program a hidden Easter egg within OASIS where the first person who finds it, by finding three keys and three gates that are also hidden within the game, will win his fortune.
Wayne Watts, who is known as Parzival in Oasis, is currently living in a trailer park called The Stacks which received it’s name because the trailer homes have been staked on top of each other to save space. He is determined to be the winner of Halliday’s game so he can get out of there. Unfortunately, it’s been five years since the announcement of the contest and no one has even found the first key yet.
