January 2017 Wrap Up

Welcome

 back to my blog and my first Wrap Up of 2017. 

- Breaking Dawn : DNF
I tried I really did with breaking dawn to read it but I couldn't. I would skip pages. Though I haven't technically read every word in the book I just can't but it's going as read.
HERE is my review

- Just Listen DNF
Just like breaking dawn I couldn't read Just Listen. I have tried on multiple occasions but I just wasn't a fan and so I am marking it as read even though I haven't finished it.
HERE is my review

- The Ice Cream Girls. Dorothy Koomson
The first book this year that I read every word of. Dorky Koomson is my all time favourite author as an adult. Her books just draw me in.  The Ice Cream Girls is just perfect.
HERE is my review
HERE is part one of the Q&A
HERE is part two of the Q&A
HERE is part three of the Q&A

- Harry Potter and The Cursed Child
I was set to be disappointed with the book. But I wasn't. I really enjoyed it. I never normally read books that are set out as script and at the beginning I did struggle with it but I really liked it.
HERE is my Review

- Just One Day
Ok with Just One Day I read it last year but it didn't show up on my Goodreads for 2016 because I don't know why it just didn't, and i know I read it because I started reading Just One Year and didn't finish it. So I am cheating and read a review to refresh my mind on what happened and putting in my January read.
HERE is my review

- Just One Year DNR
As much as I loved If I Stay duology, and loved Just One Day, I didn't like Just One Year that I decided to DNR, it and put it as read because I just can't finish it
HERE is my review

- My Best Friends Girl
My best friends girl is honestly my favourite stand alone book ever. I have done a book recommendation on it. A few years ago I did lend it to someone I know and never got it back, and then got a copy for Christmas. I freaked out.  The feelings you go through in the book are intense. Basically Kamryn gets a card from her former best friend saying she's dying and wants her to adopt her five year old daughter. She hasn't seen her former friend in over two years after finding out that the father of the child is her fiancé. She breaks up with him and she moves away. She deals with looking after a child, a new boss who becomes her boyfriend, the loss of her best friend, the return of her former fiancé, a meeting with social services, being a black woman looking after a white child and everything comes along with it.
HERE is my review

I do have one book that I am almost done with but won't finish by the end of the month. I am almost done but it won't make it

One thing I said in a recent post is that I didn't want to put any pressure on myself to read x amount of books throughout the year and even though this month it seems like I did, I had books that I DNF'd and one that even though I read last year and didn't put into my  2016 Wrap Up. I am happy with the amount of books that I did read and tried to read.

Lauren
xoxo