Top Ten Tuesday: Top Ten Most Unique Books I've Read

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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted by The Broke and The Bookish. Every week, there is a different topic. This week's topic is the top ten most unique books that we have read. It could be because of the main character or the plot or just anything that made it unique.

We are very excited for this since there are many books that are so unique and deserve to be read by everyone. Enjoy!

1. Every Day by David Levithan
Recently, we made a review of this book. We stated there that its plot was very unique. It really was. The plot was very unique and so were the characters so we decided that it would be perfect on this list.

2. Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
Here, it's the main characters that are unique. Instead of the main characters who say they are ugly but are actually pretty or handsome Eleanor and Park were both just average. Their personalities were also very unique and their voices were very distinct.

3. The Summer I Found You by Jolene Perry
The main characters here are also unique. Kate has diabetes and Aidan lost his arm. This makes them very memorable since they are not perfect either. They are also different from the usual YA books with  disabled people as their main characters.

4.  Catching Jordan by Miranda Kenneally
This book is the only book we've heard of that has a female football captain. That's what makes it unique.

5. The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
All four of the main characters are unique. They are all very different from each other and yet they're still friends.

6. The Lover's Dictionary by David Levithan
The way this was written was very unique. Instead of in the usual way, it was written using words and their definitions. We all were amazed by how the author was able to write the story like that. We know we can't write like that. We'd probably go out of our minds trying.

7. Two Boys Kissing by David Levithan
This dude has been mentioned, like, thrice already! Seriously!  Levithan just manages to make books that are so unique! It's so unique that this whole thing is being written with exclamation points! YAY!

8. Openly Straight by Bill Konigsberg
Instead of a homosexual who wants to be out of the closet but can't find it in him to come out, this is a book about a homosexual who already came out, decided he hated people knowing, moved to another place and pretended to be straight. That sounds kinda weird but if you look at it from his point of view it makes sense.

9. Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
Umm... This is pretty obvious so we won't explain anymore.

10. Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
It's told using pictures and words. It has a very unique plot with a very unique main character and very creepy children.

What's your Top Ten Tuesday? What did you think about ours? Leave a comment!

Soupy Sundays: On Writing DNF Reviews (3)

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Soupy Sundays is a weekly feature at Geeky Chiquitas, where we write discussion posts about our thoughts, feelings and opinions about certain topics.

 ON WRITING DNF REVIEWS

DNF Reviews are reviews wherein the person who is reviewing the book has not finished the book. The reviewer is reviewing the book based on what he/she has read. This week, we will talk about whether or not it is okay to make a DNF review.

Since we have started blogging and reading other people's book reviews, we have seen a couple of DNF reviews. We didn't even consider ever making a DNF review at those times since we believed that every book should be evaluated wholly not just a part. After blogging for a longer period of time, we started feeling tempted to write a DNF review. There were instances when we simply did not have enough time to read the book and the publication date was nearing or instances where we just didn't want to read the book anymore and felt like we should just give up and make a DNF review but so far, we haven't made a DNF review yet.

We stubbornly refuse to make a DNF review because we think that reviewing the book when we haven't even read the full story is wrong. We also believe that writing a DNF review might be insulting to the author, especially if you were the one to request for a copy of the book. We think that the author at least deserves a review of the whole book and not just a portion of it. We are also worried that maybe if we had stuck it out until the end, we might find something redeeming and/or start to like the book more. Maybe the book gets better in the end or something happens in the first part that we haven't fully understood that will be explained in the end. We will not know whether we will be missing something important by not finishing the book so we try as much as possible to not make DNF reviews. We also think that maybe when another reader sees your DNF review, the reader who might have liked the book if he/she had read it, would become discouraged by the DNF review that has been made. We believe that writing a DNF review is a last resort, only to be done when we really cannot continue the book anymore.

Of course, if there is a reason why we don't make DNF reviews, there are also reasons why we would make one in the future or why others make DNF reviews. We really shouldn't torture ourselves by reading a book that we just don't appreciate. Instead of wasting our time finishing a book that we know we won't like anyway, why don't we just make a DNF review of the book then find another book that we might like. What's the point of finishing a book if you know that you could be reading another book that you will like and help make the book more popular? It's not really wrong to make a DNF review especially if you state before you actually write the review that you are making the review based only on what you have read. If you establish beforehand that the review you are making is a DNF review then it warns readers that the book might actually be nice if you finish it. Writing a DNF review doesn't take away the possibility that the book might be nice when you reach the end, it only shows that so far, the parts that you have read, you didn't like.

In conclusion, we believe that writing DNF reviews aren't wrong but should be avoided. If you are to make a DNF review, you should clearly state the review you have made is a DNF review and is based only on what you have read so far.

What do you think about writing DNF reviews? Do you think that it is okay? Leave a comment!