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Reading Dry by Neal and Jarrod Shusterman on a hot summery day might cause severe dehydration and overheat. Read it at your own risk! But read it. As someone who enjoys post-apocalyptic stories like cotton candy, I knew I had to read this book. And I was not disappointed. So if the premise speaks to you, do yourself a favour and take the risk of making your summer even drier. Author: Neal Shusterman, Jarrod Shusterman Pages: 390 Genre: YA, Survival, Dystopian Publication: 2018 Synopsis: When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival. The drought – or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it – has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take …
Usually, we bookworms are the advocators of “read the book before seeing the movie”. Obviously, this isn’t some sort of law, and it does not improve your enjoyment of said movie – probably will take most of it away. And all because we believe that the books are always – probably most of the times – better than the movie. But there are times when I can’t squeeze in another book in my TBR, or I honestly don’t bother, and I go see the movie anyway. I always thought that watching the movie first was me just giving up on reading the book. The mystery is all gone. I already know how the story is gonna go. Why bother taking hours reading something that I already know how it’s going to end when I can rewatch the movie instead of in an hour and a half? Yet, I found myself wanting to read …
Summer has come early this year, and while I’m sweating over here, I might just sit down with some ice-cold tea and write about every book I read in May. Wrap-Up I was expecting to finish A Game of Thrones by George R R Martin in the first week, but no. I left it there on my nightstand, judging me, while I was happily doing a puzzle and listening to The Final Six by Alexandra Monir. Although the audiobook wasn’t long enough so I could finish the puzzle, and ended up listening to the sequel The Life Below as well. By then, I had completed the puzzle, and I could go back and finish GoT before doing anything else. The Final Six is a sci-fi dystopian story about a group of teenagers selected to go to space training camp. Earth is dying and Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, might be …
Two months into the new year and my reading mood are as good as ever. At this point, I’m just waiting for a reading slump to hit me hard. Meanwhile, I’m taking advantage of it as much as I can! February had one more reading day this year, and even though it still has fewer days than January, I read six books one more than the month before. For someone that was reading one to two books a month, this is pretty awesome! Wrap-Up When I was presented with the opportunity to review another book by Karl Drinkwater for a blog tour, I had to grab it. Chasing Solace is the continuation of Opal’s scavenge through the universe, and I wanted to reread the first book, Lost Solace, to refresh my memory on everything that happened. I enjoyed Chasing Solace even more, and now that I know there is a …
I’ve missed this little corner. I’ve missed writing some nonsense just because I’m in the mood. And I’ve missed talking about books! Happy New Year everyone!! So this is the new 20s, ahn? Well, I have some plans and goals to achieve one of them being to read more and to create a habit out of it. Another goal is to try and blog consistently. In the past year, I’ve taken a lot of breaks and posting whenever I feel like it, but I’ve missed my blog. To start 2020 with the right foot, I already read my first book of the new year, and it’s a favourite. I can’t even describe how great it was, and I’m continuing with the series for sure. Although I’ll leave all the details for next month. *evil laugh* November Wrap-Up The last time I did a wrap-up was in October starring all the …
Past me kind of made my life easier for October. I was way over halfway into three books, so it wasn’t hard to finish them all up in the first week of the month. I managed to read 5 books which is as much as the last two months combined. And not only that, but I also bought a few books for my birthday as a gift from me to me. Moreover, Spookathon happened, and I didn’t participate. All this time waiting for that stupendous week and life got in the way. I’m quite sad I couldn’t enjoy as I was hoping for since it’s one of the few readathons I’ve been doing every year. Oh well… there is more Spookathon next year – I hope! *fingers crossed* Wrap-Up The first book to finish off in October was One Child by Torey Hayden. I just wanted to get it out …
February was one of the strangest and longest months ever – I know the irony. I’m still trying to switch my brain back to DIYing and blogging which it’s surprisingly hard. But thankfully during my break, I didn’t stop reading, so that part of my brain is still intact. I’ve read somewhere that one way to create a reading habit is to read when you’re feeling bored, to make the brain associate reading as something to take you out of the boredom. Although when I’m bored, I don’t want to pick a book because I’m bored! Do you see my problem? Well, this is a really long intro just to say that I’ve only read ONE book this month and wasn’t even good. *facepalm* As I usually like to do, I’m currently in the middle of three books, but only managed to finish one, After by Anna Todd. If you …
Long time no see! It has been ages since I’ve written anything on this little corner of the internet. I was expecting to take at least a two weeks break before Christmas, turns out it became an extended pause. Between two part-time jobs, a 25 hours curse, the usual Holiday madness, and family emergencies, December flew by. When January arrived everything slowed down, but I still kept on delaying my come back over and over again. Hopefully, this February is going to be my return to old routines and my usual schedule. I still need to organize my mind and start to plan ahead – or at least try. Back in December, I had planned to read so many books. I was reading Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See and The Affair by Amanda Brooke, which I intended to finish by the end of the month, needless …
Thank you, next! Thank you, next! Thank you, next! I’m so. f*ckin’. grateful. for my ex… I’ve just watched Ariana Grande newest music video, and it’s great! The music is such a mood! This is going to be stuck in my head for the rest of the day. Although I’m not here to write about Ariana’s new song, and instead to gush about books. TBR Here we are in December, and here I am throwing away my autumnal TBR out of the window. In my September Wrap-Up, I was planning a TBR for the newly began season that I was going to read until the last day of Autumn, December 21st. First I thought I was doing great but we are already in December, and it means I only have 21 days to finish that TBR although I want to read something else to get me in the Christmas spirit. …
I feel like November completely slipt away between my fingers. This was a really odd month, and I don’t understand how are we already in December. I guess life just happened and the brain was put on hold. All the books I was planning on reading now seem like a joke that I told myself in October. I barely picked a book on my spare time, I was constantly thinking I had other things to do, and I couldn’t spend time reading. So here we are. Wrap-Up I don’t even know what to do with Snow Flower and The Secret Fan anymore. I started this book in September, read about 30 pages, didn’t pick it up in October nor November. I was enjoying the book it was just taking me too long to read a single page because I had to look up what every other word meant. The book …
I knew the Spookathon wouldn’t fall in the Halloween day. I knew it was the third week in October. But the problem is, first I needed to know when was the third week of October. In conclusion, I didn’t realize the readathon hosted by BooksandLala was starting next week. It will fall right into my birthday – which will be a day lost of reading – but it still makes this readathon extra special.