My Great Women Writers Box – details :)

Good night, guys! In the beginning of the month (OMG, we are almost in July, I can’t wait for my vacation to start!), I showed at my Instagram account a small box that I purchased with four volumes of classics from Collector’s Library: Jane Austen’s Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice; Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights and Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women.

I bought it at Livraria Cultura, with a very large discount, and am deeply in love with them <3 Check it out:

 

Accordingly to the description available at the site, “The novels contained in this exclusive deluxe edition of Livraria Cultura are - Wuthering Heights, Little Women, Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion. (…) All books are hardcover with dust jacket”. And they are! *--*

The box itself is very pretty as well. I have to say that I love purple and gold in the same combination, so I got a double surprise, esthetically speaking <3 They are also illustrated inside, like every title of Collector’s Library (I have Alice in Wonderland and The Grimm’s Fairy Tales from them too).

The only title I’ve read so far is Pride & Prejudice, so I won three more books for my book jar/box!

That’s it, guys! Just wanted to show the box better, as it is so pretty :D If you, like me, live in Brazil, you can’t miss this opportunity!

Avulse books or box sets: an existential doubt

If you follow me on my Instagram profile (follow me! :D) or read any of the posts in the blog, you may notice that I collect books besides reading and loving them, LOL. This collecting thing is a bit tiresome sometimes, I admit. This post is full of book lovers problems, be prepared.

 

I’m mostly unlucky with book boxes. I love them, I find them very beautiful and practical, but I usually already have all or most of the books inside of it to make it worth buying it. It’s so dammed frustrating! They take so long to release those that I already got the separate books instead.

I brought here three examples in my collection: The Selection series, Tales from the Kingdoms series and Percy Jackson main series.

The first series that I started among those three was TFTK, in my book reader. I loved it and needed it, but, short in money that I was, several months had passed before I was able to buy the printed copies as well. I bought Charm on a liquidation, then Venom at a used bookstore and then Beauty, on another liquidation. Some weeks ago, I saw a beautiful box with the three books inside at a bookstore and wanted to be dead. It was the economical edition. Dammnit, guys :(

The second series was The Selection. I also started it in my book reader after nudges from a friend and read them all in a matter of one week. A few months later, Christmas arrived and I was able to buy them all, in a beautiful box set. Points for me /o/

The third series, Percy Jackson, was very similar to The Selection, but I didn’t buy the box, as I didn't find any; I just bought the five books at once and, again, navigating through an online bookstore, yesterday I found the box edition.

While admiting that buying a book at time has lots of advantages, I like the boxes way better. They usually have something more inside and, even when they haven't, like my The Selection box didn’t, they still are pretty and good for organization in the book shelf.
Unfortuantelly, here in Brazil, they take too long to publish those and I don’t usually have that patience. The only ocasions that I can manage to buy boxes is when I don’t have money for a long time, like months, and them I go and buy the box set later. Oh, and we never know when a saga/author is going to turn into a box set too ://

There’s also the issue of costs. Even when publishers do release boxes, I usuallyt don't have the money to buy them, as they have a greater cost at once than byuing books separatelly :(

I'll remaing in my suffer, as not years of theraphy healed my anxiety with certain topics, but I can say that I'm happy to be buying more and more boxes, even in a slow rythm: today I just ordered online a box set from Collector's Edition with two Auten romances, one Brontë and Little Women <3

Resuming: I will keep ranting about how boxes are great and expansive, but I still prefer them and I'm still wanting the TFTK box set, LOL.

Boy Princess: a storm in my life

From time to time, I experience some odd situations in terms of reading. I buy books without reading the description, I get mysteriously drawn to a book I’ve never heard of or liked the cover, I foresee the most unthinkable scenes in the plots… Anyway, sometimes I’m pretty messed up. With Boy Princess, from Seyoung Kim, was no different.

However, before I explain what the hell happened with me and this saga, let me post here the Goodreads’ description of it:

When Princess Elena runs away two days before her wedding to the neighboring kingdom's prince, her brother - Prince Nicole - is dressed up like a girl and sent to the ceremony in her place, leading to mischief and adventure between the two princes.

Resuming it better: Prince Nicole is sent to another kingdom to be another Prince’s bride in the place of his sister and has to dress up like a woman, but Jed, the other Prince, doesn’t like women, so he’s very happy to find that his beautiful wife is a lovely boy.

If you, like me, thought it would be a funny light yaoi manhwa (Korean manga), you are very and deeply wrong. Boy Princess has a deep plot, several characters that look all the same (which was a nightmare for me, because I suck with names, so I remember characters by their faces), some weird ends during the story and an unbelievable happy ending after so much drama. 

Moreover, I didn’t feel a connection with the main characters and there was little comedy about it all, to my frustrations. I prefer less drama and, even hating many parts of what I was reading, I didn’t stop until I had read all nine volumes of it. NINE. In less than 4 hours.

That’s the bizarre part. I couldn’t put it down. I found the title at Manga Rock’s app and didn’t put my iPad down until I saw the end of Boy Princess. It was like a big tide washing over me, if I was going to die if I didn’t finish it. Strong black magic, really.

Anyway, I’m not a fan of manhwa generally speaking and I have a lot of issues with this series, but I strongly recommend it if you like a good yaoi drama in an alternative universe :)

And that was the Boy Princess phenomenon that crossed my way this year, thanks for reading it! Have you already gone through something really bizarre concerning books? :D