This weeks theme from the Broke and the Bookish is all about what characters you wish had gotten the spotlight and had their own book. I don’t know if I necessarily want a book for the characters I’ve chosen, but I think I would have liked to know more about them, gotten a chapter from their perspective or something. I couldn’t think of ten, again, but I went with however many characters I could think of that immediately sprang to mind.

I want to know about the games Haymitch was in and about how he survived, what he was thinking when he won. I want to know what happened to make him the man he was in The Hunger Games, what made him the angry drunk? I know it’s all implied and hinted at, but to actually read and know would be so nice. I just want to learn all about Haymitch because I think he was hard done by in the third book, I wanted more of him because I adore him.

There are so many characters in The Hunger Games I wish had their own story, but the other one who I adored was FInnick Odair, because I know there was a greater story behind him and we only got to see glimpses of it. Finnick was such an interesting character, but that may partly because I find cocky pretty boys interesting, but I wanted to know Finnick, both the face he presented to the world and the real Finnick.

I would like a Marauder’s Era Harry Potter book, as would half the HP fanbase, because I want to learn everything about Rowling’s characters. Even though they died, I would love to read about the first war and everything that happened to make them into the characters of Harry Potter’s era. I want to know about the wizarding world before war broke out, was it always continually brewing this war or was there a peaceful period whilst the marauders were at school?

I loved Mogget in the Abhorsen trilogy, I’d love to know more about him I think. Honestly I’d love of everything in that series, especially with Clariel out, it’s renewed my teenage obsession with these books. I would love to read a book about the Clayr from the Abhorsen series, I would love to read books about life before the darkness and after and the periods in between and just learn about that world a little more. But Mogget, I want to know more about Mogget and the things he would have seen in his long life.

In Daughter of Smoke and Bone you got mere glimpses of him, you heard parts of his story, but not enough. He deserved more of a backstory he came and went too soon for my liking, I know you found out more about him, but I do kind of wish you got more about him, he was such an interesting character. I want to know life from his perspective and why he made the decisions he did, why did he not lead more? Why did he make the decisions he did and keep the secrets he had? Were there more secrets he never had a chance to reveal?

Calicifer was my favourite character in Howl’s Moving Castle, both in the film and the book. I want entire books written about him because he intrigues me. I know it would be difficult to write entire books about the Fire Demon, but I do wish there was more on him, just a scene from his perspective. I don’t know how interesting it would be, but it might quell my curiosity.

I would have loved to have gotten his perspective of things, he was developed wonderfully as a character, but it would have been so nice to see how he viewed the world, especially with his grace. he was so interesting and I feel he never got his full chance to shine and grow as a character.

I can’t think of anymore characters, which annoys me, because I know there are characters in books I wanted more of. I do have a thing where I always want to know more about the fictional worlds, like I would love to know more about the wizarding world in Harry Potter, have it all fleshed out about career options, the education of wizards before they go to school, and how different houses spend their freetime, but I literally can’t think of any more characters I want a book for.

I am not going to tell you how to find time to reread because that is something I struggle with at the moment. I want to reread, but how do you find the time when there are so many new releases? As a book blogger you try and stay up to date with books, you want to review new books for people and tell everyone what you’re reading. There are a ton of books I currently want to reread at the moment, I've even started one, but as a book blogger how do you stay current and relevant when all you want to do is reread old books?

It’s hard to justify rereading, it sometimes feels like a waste of time, despite the enjoyment you get from it, because  I know I can write reviews on books I’ve not reviewed on here before, and can make my rereading a part of my blog in a feature of some sort, but I’m a terrible book reviewer, my immediate response to a book is I like it. Reviews get boring when you like every book you read and I end up trying to force myself to think of intelligent reasons for why I liked a book. So, writing some other feature would make rereading a relevant thing to my blog rather than what sometimes feels like a wasted effort.

I suppose that’s the point isn’t it, you can easily find time to reread, especially if you make it relevant to your blog so the rereading doesn’t feel like a wasted effort. It’s not about needing to find time, it’s feeling comfortable with rereading. I love to reread things, it’s like seeing an old friend, it’s happy and comfortable because you know exactly what’s going to happen.

I don’t need to justify rereading to myself, I know this. Just because I have a book blog doesn’t mean it should control every area of my life. It’s easy to forget that when you want to post things and keep people reading, going over things you’ve already read won’t really interest other people, or at least it can feel like that, yet how many people do you know that love to watch things they’ve seen before, or have read Harry Potter ten million times since the release? Exactly, rereading is not a wasted effort, I only wish I had more hours in the day to read books so I could do it, especially when I’m not on top of my TBR list.

What are everyone’s thoughts on rereading then? I know there has been some convoluted rambling from me here, but I would love to hear (or read) some of your convoluted rambling on the topic.

The Broke and The Bookish are asking an easy question this week about books I want to reread. I love to reread books because it’s like visiting old friends, books you’ve already read can be comforting because you know what will happen, and sometimes that can be good, to enjoy a book simply for the story, or that could just be me. Sorry if this post comes across a bit blergh but I currently have a cold and this was hurriedly put together whilst hopped up on Lemsip and ibuprofen, just so you know.

1. Fangirl – Rainbow Rowell

I’ve been wanting reread this book ever since I saw some post on Tumblr which said that Autumn was the perfect season to reread because of all the cozy jumpers and that, and they’re right, I think this is an autumn book, and now I want to reread.

2. Love Rosie (when I first read it it was called Where Rainbows End) – Cecelia Ahern

Ever since I saw this book was being made into a film I was excited, I was even more excited by the fact Lily Collins would be in it because that girl is just so awesome, I love her. I read this book way back when my mom got it from the library, I had just read PS I Love You, which ruined me, and I wanted to read everything she had ever written, so me and my mom were continually on the look out for them. I loved this book, whilst I tend to lean towards Ahern’s magical books, her normal everyday ones do hot something in me which I adore, like this one did.

3. The Bone Season – Samantha Shannon

I simply want to reread because the second book comes out in January and I can’t remember all the details, a continual issue I have with series.

4. Throne of Glass – Sarah J Maas

I have a confession, I’ve still not read Heir Of Fire, and that’s mostly because I need to reread before I do, I’ve forgotten stuff. I need my series refresher before I start a new book. I’m also scared I won’t like it and I don’t know if I’ll make until the next book if I start now.

5. Graceling – Kristin Cashore

I know it’s not even been a year since I read this, but I know this will be a series I will reread one day, because I adored it so much I know I’ll want to go back and visit the characters, that’s just who I am.

6. Harry Potter – JK Rowling

I don’t need to even justify this, but I know it’s been a good long while since I read it, at least two years, and to me that is a travesty.

7. Abhorsen Series by Garth Nix

Clariel, that’s all you need to know. I need to reread because of that book coming out, a book I can’t buy until it’s out on paperback otherwise the series won’t match on my shelf.

8. The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets – Eva Rice

My Nan bought this book for me years ago and every so often I like to reread both because it makes me smile and reminds me of her and both those are good things.

9. Fearless – Francine Pascal

I read this series when I was younger and never finished it and I know I loved it, despite it being like ten million books long. I want to reread it just to see if it is as good as I remember, I don’t know.

10. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen

I want to reread all of her books really, but this one holds a special place for me simply because it is the first book of hers which I read.

I am a bit of a mood reader. I’ve been over that before, a long while back now, but because of my book choosing tendencies I don’t plan what I’m going to read and I will often pick up and put down several books when deciding on what to read next. I sometimes pick up and put down various books and even read the first chapter about ten million times on various attempts to begin a book which I’ve bought that I’m dying to read. Often, because I try and read a book multiple times and don’t get into it, I end up writing it off a bit and think it’s not worth the effort and questions why I bought it.

I’ve started to question the logic of me doing this disregarding of books because there a couple of books now that I’ve written of and when I go back and try and read them a second time (because the thought of buying a book and not reading it makes me sad) I find myself really enjoying it and question what I was waiting for. That’s happened with the book I’m reading at the moment, Brilliance, it is actually a brilliant read, but I’ve attempted to begin this book on three separate occasions and it is only this current attempt that has led me to get into the book and actually enjoy it. It’s made me question whether I’m too quick to judge a book simply because I wasn’t in the mood to read it at the time.

Does this mean that I should reattempt all the books I don’t finish at a later date, just in case I’m in the mood for it and it’s in fact a good book? Okay, that’s a bit extreme, I’m not going to read all my DNF, but I will certainly reattempt books that I put down after a chapter or two, because who knows? I could be missing out on an amazing book… or not. But I have to keep giving books a chance, just in case.

The Broke and the Bookish are trying to get us into the Halloween spirit with this weeks theme. I am not a fan of Halloween, I’m British and Halloween is not a British holiday (one of my friends disputes this fact and calls me miserable) but I do not approve of this ridiculous idea of children going round asking for sweets, they’re my damn sweets and I don’t like sharing.

I do, however, love horror films. They are like my jam. I love Halloween time because there is always a load of horror films being released so it is cinema time for me. I know it’s not really book themed this week, I have sort of veered into the film thing, but I figure adapting once is fine, right? So this week I will be telling you my favourite scary movies for the Halloween season.

Okay, I don’t know if this fully counts as a horror film because it is sort of a satire of horror films in general, but it is so freaking awesome! Seriously, I have mentioned before Joss Whedon is my God, but he is an absolute genius for making this film. I was a bit wary before watching it, as much as I love Joss I did worry he may lead me astray with this horror film... I'm sorry I doubted.

This is one of those horror films that I know isn’t spectacular, but I watched it as a kid and I absolutely adore it. I remember I would watch it whenever it was on TV, despite the fact I knew exactly what would happen, and it was amazing. I don’t know what it was I loved. Maybe it was the whole alternative zodiac, maybe it was the glass house. Whatever it was it’s freaking awesome.

This is the first horror film I ever remember watching, I was at a friends house and it was probably around Halloween and we were having a sleepover. We found all the DVDs which were rated 15 or over and picked a scary one to watch. This film did not scare us but it was good, or I thought so anyway. I’ve always enjoyed horror films that have something to do with religion and demons and things like that. I don’t know why, but I find them fantastic, so I always enjoy watching this.

I watched this in the cinema last year. Me and my friend sat there and it properly made us jump throughout. We kept thinking we knew what would happen, after all horror films are a bit formulaic, but we didn’t. Jumpy films are the best.

I remember watching this at uni. Me and three of my house mates all curled up on one bed in multiple duvets. We were in pyjamas, it was probably raining outside (we lived in Lancaster, it’s always raining there) and I thought it wouldn’t be that scary, it made us jump, it was all about the suspense in this film. I love films like that, the ones all about the build up

I’m talking about the original films here, they were so freaking terrible, but they were hilarious. It was another series of films which we sat and watched at uni (we had a lot of free time, okay) and they were terrible, but it was so much fun to just sit and watch them. To be fair, they are quite old, so they will be ridiculous, they are the kind of films that help define a genre, they are perfect easy watching at Halloween for if you're not the biggest scary movie fan.

This is just a film that I watched when I was in a horror film mood one week. I like Jeffrey Dean Morgan and I remember seeing it advertised on TV so when I saw it on Amazon Prime I figured why not? I’m glad I watched it, it was so interesting, and it made me jump. Sure, it was a bit ridiculous at times, but what horror film isn’t?

I’ve only ever seen the American remake of this film, I only watched that because Sarah Michelle Gellar was in it. Someone I know thinks this is the scariest films ever, the creepy kid freaks him out, I find this hilarious because The Grudge never really got to me, I do like it though.

One friend from uni forced us all to watch this film, it properly freaked her out and she was all terrified about demons for days, she was already a bit of an insomniac so this made her sleep even less. I’m glad we watched it because it was a good film, the perfect level of suspense and things actually happening. I love all the Paranormal Activity films, even if they are a bit terrible

Me and a friend go see the Resident Evil films every time a new one comes out. Who knew a film adaptation of a video game could be quite so good? I know they are just ridiculous action films with weird zombie things, but they are still awesome. I'm pretty sure the next film is the last one, which is a bit sad, but hopefully things will get wrapped up nicely.

So guys, please let me know… what’s your favourite scary movie?