Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Review: The Border (VIDEO)


Hello!

As you may, or may not, know, I usually do my reviews for books in a written format. However, I've been meaning to film some as well, and I ended up posting my first review on my YouTube-channel today! It's a review of The Border by Steve Schafer, which I got as an arc from the publisher.



I will continue to write reviews as well, though I haven't been reviewing a lot of books recently. I haven't been reading as much, and what I have read haven't been anything I felt like writing a review for. I will be back, however! As soon as I read a book I really want to talk about, or I feel like reviewing, it will definitely be posted on my blog.

Until next time! x

Thursday, September 21, 2017

The Reading Quest Wrap Up - VIDEO


Hello!

So as you may, or may not, know, I recently participated in The Reading Quest. It's a readathon based on video games, and you can read more about it HERE


I talk more about my experience and my reading in the video, but just to sum it up: I had a lot of fun during this readathon, and I really hope that the creator, Read at Midnight, does something like this again, because I will definitely be participating!

Did you participate in The Reading Quest, and if so, how did you do?

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Top Ten Tuesday: Fall TBR

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

Hello!

The theme this week is the top ten books on my fall TBR, so this was actually pretty easy for me. My TBR is way too long, but I, fortunately, only had to pick my top ten for this post.


The Shining by Stephen King

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood


The Well of Ascension by Brandon Sanderson



The One by Kiera Cass 

I See You by Clare Mackintosh

The Betrayals by Fiona Neill

Let the Dead Speak by Jane Casey


The Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas // I KNOW, I can't believe I haven't read this one yet, but I am really looking forward to it!

Our Dark Duet by Victoria Schwab


What books are on the top of your fall TBR?

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Top Ten Tuesday: Books I Struggled To Get Through

Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

Long time, no see! I'm sorry that I've been super absent, but I will try to get back into blogging more now. I am still posting on my YouTube channel, but I will do my best to stay active on this blog as well. 

The theme this week is books I struggled to get through, or didn't get through at all. I didn't manage to come up with ten different books, but I did my best. I usually don't have that much problem getting through books, and I don't like to DNF books either, so I didn't have that many to choose from.


I'll start by mentioning the one book on this list that I didn't finish at all, and that is Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder. I picked this up because we were having a production of the musical at my school, so I wanted to read the book before performing the play. However, the philosophy sections were so long and hard to get through, that I ended up putting it back before even getting halfway.



The rest of the books I'll just mention in a list-format, as I don't really have much to say about each individual one. The main thing they have in common is that they were hard to get into, and had sections which I found hard to read. I did end up finishing all of them, and even enjoyed some of them quite a bit. And with some I might enjoy a lot more now, given that there's been some time since I read a few of them.


1. Carry On - Rainbow Rowell

2. After You - Jojo Moyes

3. All Our Wrong Todays - Elan Mastai


4. De Usynlige (The Invisible) - Roy Jacobsen

5. The Host - Stephenie Meyer

6. The Bohemians of the Latin Quarter - Henri Murger


What books did you struggle to get through?