The Silent Patient – Amy Leigh Reads

Foreboding Book Titles

March 23, 2021March 23, 2021by amyleighreads9 Comments

This week’s Top Ten Tuesday prompt is funny book titles. I couldn’t really come up with ten funny book titles so I decided to go in the opposite direction and pick out my top ten most foreboding book titles instead.

My Top Ten most foreboding book titles are:

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

Down Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire

Burn our Bodies Down by Rory Powers

The Deck of Omens by Christine Lynn Herman

Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

No Exit by Taylor Adams

The Damned by Renee Ahdieh

He Started It by Samantha Downing

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite

Readathons, TBR

Reading Rush 2020 TBR

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020by amyleighreads4 Comments

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The 2020 round of The Reading Rush will be starting next week from Monday 20th – Sunday 26th July. I participated for the first time last year and really enjoyed this readathon, I found it to be an incredibly fun and inclusive with a great community vibe. To watch the announcement video and hear all the challenges click HERE. I am going to try my best to complete the seven books, but I know there are a couple of books on my TBR that can actually fit multiple prompts so I may end up doubling up on a few… we’ll see how I go!

The Prompts and my TBR for the Reading Rush is:

Read a book with a cover that matches the colour of your birth stone

My birth stone is Amethyst: Into the Crooked Place by Alexandra Christo

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Read a book that starts with the word ‘The’

The Shadows Between Us by Tricia Levenseller

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Read a book that inspired a move you’ve already seen

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

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Read the first book you touch

The Night Country by Melissa Albert

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Read a book completely outside of your house

Clap When You Land by Elizabeth Acevedo

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Read a book in a genre that you’ve always wanted to read more of

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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Read a book that takes place on a different continent that where you live

Amal Unbound by Aisha Saeed

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Readathons

🎲Becca’s Bookopoly Readathon🎲

July 13, 2020July 14, 2020by amyleighreadsLeave a Comment

I made the last minute decision about three hours already into the readathon to participate, which is pretty much how I roll. For all the information about the Readathon see Becca’s announcement video HERE. I have been watching her Bookopoly TBR videos pretty much since she started them so I was only too happy to participate in the first round! I knew I wouldn’t be able to complete all 8 of the prompts but I am happy I did end up finishing four books which was pretty much the overall goal.

The first prompt I chose was the Chance card pick from the 2020 board

The Right Swipe by Alisha Rai

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For the second book I was able to combine both prompts of Culturally Diverse & Reader Recommends

Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert

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The third prompt I chose was a Mystery/Thriller from the 2019 board

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

The fourth prompt I chose was also from the 2019 board for a contemporary/romance

The Worst Best Man by Mia Sosa

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Book Lists

5 Mystery/Thriller Books I want to read in 2020

January 30, 2020January 14, 2020by amyleighreads2 Comments

I have figured out over the last year that I actually really enjoy mystery/thriller books. I had previously just stuck to either fantasy or contemporary but I have finally broadened my reading horizons’ to include some other genres which I greatly enjoy!

These are the five mystery/thriller books I plan to read this year:

The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides

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Lock Every Door by Riley Sager

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The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware

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The Shining by Stephen King

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Watching You by Lisa Jewell

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Top Ten Tuesdays

10 Popular Mystery/Thriller Books I Haven’t Read

October 29, 2019July 11, 2020by amyleighreads6 Comments

I’ve slowly been dipping my toes into the Mystery/Thriller/Horror/Spooky genre over the last year but I am far from caught up with a lot of cult favorites! So when I seen this week’s prompt for Top 10 Tuesday I thought this was a perfect opportunity to list the top 10 most popular books in these genres that I haven’t read and I can make my way through the list and maybe this time next year I will have completed them all!

The Shining, IT & Pet Sematary by Stephen King

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