Forever Fictional's Fourth Birthday!!!

Another year has passed and Forever Fictional is now four years old- my baby blog is getting well through it's toddler years!
Like always, I wanted to look back over the year and mention my favourite moments and posts! It's also a nice time to thank everyone who follows, likes and comments on my blog. I appreciate everyone's support and love so much and I'm super grateful for the bookish friends I've met online.

Favourite Posts: (linked)

Favourite TV Females
I wrote this post at the very beginning of the year and I still love it. It details my four favourite females in TV shows and... my choices have not changed in the slightest. I'm all about feminism and female empowerment so this post was really cool and fun for me to write.

Escapril 2019
I participated in 'escapril' last year- an instagram challenge where you write and post a poem every single day based on a prompt. I created an instagram account specifically for this because I'd never had one before and I really loved doing this. Sure, some of my poems were downright crappy but it's good practice of sharing your work.

Top 10 Books of the Decade!!!

As well as my favourite books of 2019, I also wanted to list my top ten books of the decade! These aren't necessarily my favourites because they're amazing books but because they mean a lot to me for different reasons and I have memories and experiences attached to them.

1. Jacqueline Wilson Books
I read Jacqueline Wilson books at the beginning of this decade when I was about nine years old and they were the first real kind of books I read and really enjoyed. Particularly, Hetty Feather was one of my favourite books and My Sister Jodie is the first book that ever made me cry. While I haven't read these books since the very beginning of the 2010s, I hold a lot of fondness for them as they were a stepping stone to my love of reading.

2. Judy Blume Books
Similar to Jacqueline Wilson, I read Judy Blume books at the beginning of the decade, probably when I was around ten. My favourites were Are You There God, It's Me Margaret and Forever. I particularly remember reading Forever and feeling so oddly grown up because it had the barest of sex scenes in it and I'd never read anything like it before. Ten-year-old me felt so mature. These books were the bridge between kids books and YA for me which will always hold a significance to me.

Favourite Books of 2019

It's that time of year again! 2019 is over and I get to list out my favourite reads of the year! Like always, the following books may not necessarily have been released in 2019, but have just been books that I read for the first time this year.
Let's start with some honourable mentions that didn't quite make the cut...

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

If There's No Tomorrow- Jennifer L. Armentrout 
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It kind of pains me to have a JLA book in the honourable mentions because hers are usually all my faves (as evident in the three of her books in my faves this year) but this one just fell a tiny bit short. Obviously, I loved it (it would be sacrilegious not to) but it wasn't as all-consuming as her other books are. I loved the story and characters but, just from the nature of the story, it was a bit of a downer. It dealt with some difficult subjects and, while that's amazing to read, it dampens the obsessive love for the story sometimes.


A Very Large Expanse of Sea- Tahereh Mafi
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This book would totally be in my list of favourites if it wasn't for that ending! The end of this book disappointed me and it let the book down a little. I think this story is so amazing and would make a perfect movie but... the ending just dulled the love for me.