I’ll Have Pancakes With A Side of Pancakes // The Pancake Book Tag

In case you haven’t noticed, I like breakfast food. Like, a lot. Well, duh Kat. I mean, just look at your blog. You take this whole “waffle theme” to a new level. In any case, when my dear friend Becky @ Blogs of a Bookaholic created The Pancake Book Tag …welp, I kind of had an Abu-and-the-Forbidden-Treasure situation going on; I just couldn’t help it. I HAD to nab it for myself. This tag was like … beckoning to my breakfast-loving soul.

And although when it comes to the age-old pancakes versus waffles debate, I would gladly die on my waffle hill ( I MEAN, COME ON! Waffles have little pockets to hold all that delicious melted butter and mouth-watering syrup!) that doesn’t necessarily mean I don’t love pancakes too. In fact, give me some good ol’ fluffy-as-a-freaking-cloud buttermilk pancakes any day, and I’ll give you one very happy Kat.

But enough with my wafflings about thieving animal sidekicks and cumulonimbus cakes – let’s move onto the part you all came here for! THE TAG!

The Rules:

• Link back to the original creator in your post
• Feel free to use any of Becky’s wonderful pancake graphics in your post (I know I did), or create your own!
• Tag 5 other people at the end of your post, and let them know you’ve tagged them. 🙂

Let’s Eat Some Pancakes

Gosh, this book is THE QUEEN of purple prose (Hahaha get it? Cause like…the title is The Star-Touched Queen? Okay, this is me… shutting up… right now…possibly forever…okay not really, but still…my puns are getting out of control). From what I remember about this book, it had a lot of flowery descriptions (heck, it had a whole bouquet), such as this beauty: “I see only night and smoke, dreams and glass, embers and wings. And I would not have you any other way.” Yes dear friends, the prose is strong with this one.

How could I not choose Jude from The Folk of the Air series for this one? JUDE IS A FIERCE GODDESS WHO WILL POKE VICIOUSLY GOUGE YOUR EYES OUT WITH A STICK. And I mean that in the best way possible.

“Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.”

That one sentence fills me with so many feels (most of them nostalgic, happily-eating-ice-cream-cones-at-the-beach sort of feels), But seriously, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is one of those books that I will never tire of. I will (and have) reread it a million times (and I’m only exaggerating this number a little).

A Curse So Dark and Lonely is a Beauty and the Beast retelling – but wait, before you roll your eyes and say, “Oh gosh, another one?” LET ME ASSURE YOU THAT IT IS UNLIKE ANY RETELLING YOU’VE EVER READ. (And also, let me just gouge your eyes out with my excessive usage of the Caps Lock here…but seriously, this book deserves ALL THE CAPS LOCK SCREAMING.)

The characters jumped right off the page and into my heart, which is just an all-around bad situation for my blood pressure, because of course a truckload of drama is going to be hauled into this story before my babies get their HEA. (In other words, I guess you can say I got a *tiny* bit invested). When the book ended, I literally sat there for twenty minutes, pondering my existence and how it was currently empty/meaningless/a mixture of the two because I did not have the sequel to this book in my hands at that very moment. Talk about the worst book hangover ever!

I don’t want to ruin the ending, but The Bird and the Blade made me feel all the feels. ALL. OF. THEM. I realize that claiming to have felt all the emotions of the human spectrum while reading a single book might sound like a hyperbole, but it’s not. I really do think I experienced them all as I went through the Five Stages of Grief for this book. I laughed, I cried; it was like a night at the opera (which is funny because this book is actually based off of an opera…go figure).

If you’ve been around for a bit, then you’d know that I’m very much into morally-grey antiheroes/heroines. Are they:

• a) Good
• b) Bad
• c) All of the above

(Hint: The answer is C.)

For some reason, I absolutely thrive on these complex character arcs, and one of the best (worst?) ones I’ve ever read is Adelina from The Young Elite series.

I’m quickly learning that reading anything by Jay Kristoff is going to end up being one heck of a carriage ride. Yeah, you read that right: I said, “carriage ride,” not “rollercoaster ride.” Why? Because, we all expect rollercoasters to be fast-paced and exciting; that’s what we sign up for when we stand in line for three hours at Disneyland.

That being said, have you ever been in a horse-drawn carriage circa the 1700s? It sounds all romantic and picturesque in Jane Austen novels, but the reality is bumpy, stressful, and full of sharp turns that you didn’t see coming, both literally and figuratively (getting robbed by armed bandits being one of those figurative ones). It bears a remarkable resemblance to reading a Kristoff novel, doesn’t it? You think it’s going to be fun, but it ends up tearing out your very soul, like LIFEL1K3 did to me. And yet, strangely, I loved it?

I first picked up Legend back while I was but a wee lassie in high school, and despite all the attention the book was getting, I just couldn’t push myself to finish it. The reason? Day and June’s relationship felt too forced and insta-lovey to me, which is saying something because back then I ate cheesy Rom Coms for breakfast.

After Marie Lu’s announcement for a fourth book hit Twitter, I figured I should probably give the series another go and I am so glad I did because THE GLOW UP FROM LEGEND TO PRODIGY IS REAL, FOLKS. Day and June’s relationship becomes so much more complex and multifaceted, and I love that the author doesn’t just make all the hard stuff disappear because they are “IN LUVV.” By the final installment, I’m pretty sure I would have donated a kidney just to see June and Day happily together. I don’t really know how my kidney would have helped their relationship (kidneys aren’t very high on my list of romantic items), but you get what I mean.

First off, OH MY GOSH! There’s somebody else in this wide universe that hates peanut butter too! IT’S FATE. Becky and I are officially twinsies.

Secondly, Gone by Michael Grant was the very first book I ever listened to on audiobook, and it was then that I met the devil himself, Drake Merwin. If a story is only as good as its villain, then this one must be one heck of a classic, because Drake is a sick psychopath. He’s worse than Voldemort and Professor Umbridge COMBINED. Yeah, I went there.

Wow, Want is so diverse, it’s bursting with all it’s diverseness, and that’s the best part of this book! We’ve got Jason, the main character, who is Taiwanese-American. We’ve got Daiyu, the love interest, who is Taiwanese. Also, there are some great secondary characters, who include:

• Victor = Filipino
• Lingyi = Chinese/ Bisexual
• Iris = Sapphic
• Arun = Indian

I Tag:

🥞Rain @ Bookdragonism

🥞Kelly @ Another Book in the Wall

🥞Christine @ Lady Gets Lit

🥞 J.R. Lynn @ Eternity Books

🥞Meaghan @ The Words Gremlin

And anybody else who loves pancakes and wants to participate in the sweet and sticky fun!

Here’s the most important question you might ever have to answer: WAFFLES OR PANCAKES??

Are you super hungry for pancakes now, because I KNOW I AM.

Have you read any of these books? I would love to hear your thoughts about them!

Wasn’t this scene from Ralph Breaks the Internet SO DANG FUNNY?