Got myself a new book this weekend. I have seen this one circulate on internet and on Goodreads and when I saw it in the bookstore I thought that maybe I should read it. It feels like a book that will be an classic that everyone should read. When I will be able to read this one however, I don´t know. It just have to stand in line and its turn will come eventually. 🙂
Have your read The underground railroad? What did you think about it?
Out of 20 books I read: 13 books.
Stars: I have distributed 48 out of 65 stars to give.
Average rating: 3,7 stars.
The books with highest ratings (4-5) are:
Rock Chick Reckoning – Kristen Ashley 5/5
Mark – Jessica Gadziala 5/5
Sinister – Jana DeLeon 5/5
Double Dare – R.L. Mathewson 4/5
The King of Plagues – Jonathan Maberry 4/5
Down And Dirty – Liliana Hart 4/5
A Dark And Twisted Tide – Sharon Bolton 4/5
Truth Or Beard – Penny Reid 4/5
The book(s) with lowest ratings (1-3) are:
Midnight Action – Elle Kennedy 3/5
Lazarus – Jessica Gadziala 3/5
Hungry Like The Wolf – Paige Tyler 3/5
Odd Hours – Dean Koontz 2/5
The Rosie Effect – Graeme Simsion 2/5
Best book: Sinister – Jana DeLeon
Worst book: Odd Hours – Dean Koontz 2/5
Best cover: Odd Hours – Dean Koontz 2/5
Worst cover: Double Dare – R.L. Mathewson 4/5
The books I did not read:
A Sudden Crush – Camilla Isley
Run To Ground – Katie Ruggle
The Knowing – Ninie Hammon
The Crawling Darkness – J.L Bryan
Extreme Honor – Piper J. Drake
The Hating Game – Sally Thorne
The Thing About Love – Julie James
A few words: The months go by way to fast and I have not been that attentive to my list that I made in May. During the three months I read 44 books and just 13 of them was from the list. But oh well. That is how it can go sometimes. Not gonna make me read something i´m not feeling ready for and I still think I did it pretty good. 4 of the 7 books I have left to read, I actually don´t have. I banned myself from buying books this summer. O well I tried, still bought a “few” books. But I could hardly read books i didn’t have. Still want to read them tho.
I gave three books a full 5 star review. Not surprising that Jessica Gadziala was there. Odd Hours and Rosie effect was the two books with the lowest score. Really surprised me that i did not like Rosie effect and it made me kind of sad.
Overall I´m happy with the outcome of the list and now ready to start tackling the next list. 30 books before 30. And soon we will go in darker times and I will probably do an short winter list.
Chick Lits is something I rarely read. Had some bad experience through out the years and to start reading a book labeled “chick lit” is hard for me. But I do it sometimes because there are some really good and funny books out there that i do think everyone should read. So here i have compiled a Top 5 of the best Chick Lits I have read so far.
1.
The one plus one – Jojo Moyes
2.
The Rosie Project – Graeme Simison
3.
Twenty-eight and a half wishes – Denise Grover Swank
4.
Can you keep a secret? – Sophie Kinsella
5.
One for the money – Janet Evanovich
Which is your favorite Chick Lit book?
Oh my G, oh my G, oh my G! In September it is happening. Gadzialas forth and last book about the Mallick brothers will finally be published. I can hardly wait. After the ending in the third book (it still was a happy ending) I have been a really impatient and can hardly wait to get my hands on the file as soon as it will be available on Amazon.
Today it is exactly one year until I’m turning 30 years old. :O Soooo! I have made myself an list with 30 books i want to read before turning 30. There where 3 reasons for a book to end up on the list and those reasons are, 1. Been in my library to long (we are talking years), 2. Books I feel for one or another reason i need to read, 3. I want to read it but never get my self to do it.
So here is my list with 30 books I want to read. In one year from today we will see if I really read all 30 books or not. I´m not gonna make myself read something I don´t want to read or are yet not ready for, but I hope it will help me read some of the stuff that have been in my “to read” list a little to long.
The Luminaries – Eleanor Cotton
And the Mountains Echoed – Khaled Hosseini
The Redbreast – Jo Nesbø
War´s Unwomanly Face – Svetlana Alexievich
Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
Blood Honor – Russell Blake
Dissent – Jessica Gadziala
After the Dark – Cynthia Eden
Adam – Kris Michaels
Deadly Silence – Rebecca Zanetti
Four Letter Word – J. Daniels
The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year – Joanna Bolouri
Salt to the Sea – Ruta Sepetys
Blue Smoke – Nora Roberts
The Boat Man – Dustin Stevens
A Dark Lure – Loreth Anne White
Departure – A.G. Riddle
Fall of Giants – Ken Follett
For You – Kristen Ashley
The Collector – Nora Roberts
Dark Lover – J.R. Ward
The Good Daughter – Karin Slaughter
Twisted – Mandi Beck
Rot & Ruin – Jonathan Maberry
The Hitchhiker´s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
Three Wishes – Kristen Ashley
Ransom – Callie Hart
Spotless – Camilla Monk
Seven for A Secret – Lyndsay Faye
The Doll´s House – M.J. Arlidge
So you know that feeling when you have read a genre a little to long that the books are starting to float together and the story lines starting to feel the same to you? Well, yesterday when I was done with the latest book (Blind fury by Gwen Hernandez) I felt kind of sick on romance. Now i needed something new. So i decided to go with a book I have had in my electronic library for ages. An science fiction with aliens. That felt just perfect for me. But after just two chapters in the story i started to feel that maybe this is not as clean, cut and dry science fiction book that i first thought. So i looked little closer on the books description on Goodreads, and lo and behold, it is an Romantic science fiction. Bwahahah 😀
Oh well, cant stop reading it now.
I love books! There is nothing (material) i love more than books. As long as I have my kindle, i don´t have to have a phone, tv or even internet. *hear the chocked whispers going through the crowds* But yeah it´s true. So even if I already have tried this book blog think i keep thinking that i want to do it again. This time on English. Because yeah, if you haven’t realized it yet, English is not my native langues and as keeping up a blog is not already hard enough, i now have decided to do it on English to. Yeah because that is me. 😛 Never gonna do anything simple.
