Books Read: 4 books
Book Challenge Complete %: 77% complete
Am I Ahead? And By How Many Books: 9 books ahead of schedule. With 23 books Read
This month I had a pretty decent month with reading. Sometimes when I’m reading I don’t realize how many books I’ve read that month until I do my wrap ups.
- PS I Love You
I hated the book when I read it after many years. I didn’t feel anything towards it. It wasn’t nearly as good as I remembered it to be.
- My Life Next Door
I love this book. I don’t know why but it’s a book that isn’t perfect but just hits the spot when I am deciding on what to read.
- Reconstructing Amelia
One of the best books I’ve read this year so far, and definitely one of the best books I’ve read by an author that I’ve never read before. It’s is the authors debut book, and I hope her other books are as good as this one.
- Dear John
I actually read this book pretty quickly. I enjoyed the book a lot more the second time around than the first.
Book: Dear John
Author: Nicholas Sparks
Pages: 276 hardback (330 mass market)
Publisher: Warner Books NY
Publish Date: October 2006
Start Reading Date: June 19th 2019
End Reading Date: June 25th 2019
My Goodreads Rating: 4*
When I first read Dear John last year I’ll admit I didn’t like it, this year as I’ve re read it I actually really like it. My mind has definitely been changed for the better.
Dear John is about John Tyree, who joins the army when he feels like his life is going nowhere. On one of his trips home he meets college student Savannah and they begin a relationship. For a year he’s back out deployed and when he comes back home he is back with Savannah but their starts to fade and they argue a lot. When 9/11 happens he is deployed once again this time to Iraq and Savannah writes him a letter breaking up with him. His dad becomes seriously ill and passes away.
What I liked about the book is how it was set up in three parts, and each part had something really significant happen within them and not just John re-enlisted into the army. I like how John has grown up and evolves over the cause of the book.
When I read the book before I really didn’t like Savannah that much. I like her a little more but not a lot.
My summer TBR isn’t massive, and this is such a guide lined for me. With the pool at my apartment building opening in the next week I’m so exited to read some of these books by the pool
- Me Before You
- JoJo Moyes
This was such a popular book around the time the movie came out, that I thought that maybe people are only raving about it because of the movie. So I’ll have to see if it’s as good as everyone says.
- Girl on the Train
- Paula Hawkins
Movie or no movie I haven’t really seen anyone talk about this book that much and it’s always interested me. And if I am being honest I thought the movie was a lot older then 2016, I always thought it came out in like 2012,
- The Boy in The Striped Pajamas
I’ve wanted to read the book for so long so now that I’ve gotten the book. Because it got made into a movie I expected a lot more people to have reviewed the book. But it’s one that is hardly ever reviewed.
- The Mortal Instruments
- Cassandra Clare
I tried to start the series a few weeks ago at book one (City of Bones) but wasn’t enjoying it enough to finish it. Over the summer I at least want to read City of Bones,
Book: Reconstructing Amelia
Author: Kimberly McCreight
Pages: 385 pages (paperback)
Publisher: Harper Pereinnal
Publish Date: December 3rd 2013
Start Reading Date: June 8th 2019
End Reading Date: June 17th 2019
Good reads Rating: 4*
For a good few years I have been wanting to read the book. So I finally picked it up
On Goodreads it has a overall total of 3.83*, from 112,918 reviews.
This is a book I needed in my life. It was an amazing book. Very fast moving but not so fast that you can’t keep up.
*42 pages read*
I’ve said this before that I am not a big lover of multiple peoples narrative in books. Any more than two is far to complicated (yes Jodi Pilcoult I’m talking about your books) but so far it’s been really good in this book. You get both Kate (mum) and Amelia (child/The one who dies) and that what I think is needed at the moment so we can get both sides of the story. I am currently on 42 pages into the book though.
*135 pages in*
I am really enjoying the book so far. I really like how it goes between Kate and Amelia. I like how quickly Kate’s part moves along,
*170*
Ok honestly I cannot put the book down it’s so good. I am enjoying Kate’s part of the book a lot more than I am Amelia’s if I am being truly honest. I think Amelia’s part could have been put in here and there but it’s interesting to see how she changes
*220 Pages in*
I love when you read a book like this, and you have no idea who could have killed Amelia, you can tell right away that she didn’t kill her self (if she did by the time I have finished the book than wow) but literally anyone and everyone that is in the book could be the one to have killed her even down to her best friend Sylvia.
*330 pages in*
Seriously this book is so good, it’s definitely keeping me on my toes.
What I likes about the book is Kate is going backwards I see what’s happened to Amelia while Amelia is going forwards. It’s a book with great twist and turns it’s a book that deals with typical teenage life, friendships, bullying, lies, adults who lie just as much as the children.
It’s a lot better then I imagined it would be, but I did feel bored in some places with Amelia’s side of the story. But it definitely made up for it when you find out what happened to her and the fact that she was closer to family members then you could imagine.
With the summer fast approaching I wanted some books for the summer by the pool. And though the goodwill book store is a little more expensive than the teen challenge and further away, they do have more selection and it’s laid out better
I’ve always wanted to branch out with my reading and the books I buy. It sounds silly but at some point I have to. So why not at 30.
- Reconstructing Amelia
I have been wanting to read this book FOREVER, but it’s $18.99 before tax and couldn’t justify that amount. $4 is a better amount. The synopsis of the book seemed really intriguing and something I’d never thought I would read.
- Me Before You
Of course a few years ago people were raving about the book. But me being me I wasn’t going to get it right away because of the hype.
- Boy In The Striped Pajamas
I’ve had this book on my radar for a while, I had it saved for later on my amazon cart for ages, but when I went to the book store I saw it. I actually saw it when I took a better look around the store. I went right for the Nicholas Sparks books, and when I went and started from the beginning I saw it there and picked it up.
- The Girl on the Train
I’ve wanted to read this book for ages and almost missed seeing it being there. It’s definitely one I am going to wait to read until the pool is open which isn’t long
Donated
All of the books I donated was because I either read them or knew I wasn’t going to read them. I kind of did the Kon Marie thing where if they didn’t spark joy they were gone.
I decided to get rid of two of my John Green books because I didn’t like Paper Towns and I was always over looking Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- Paper Towns & Will Grayson, Will Grayson
With the Jodi Pilcoult books I got last year for my birthday but I just found that her writing style really wasn’t for me and that I found her books super confusing so I decided to donate them.
- My Sisters Keeper
- House Rules
- Change of Heart
- Vanishing Acts
The next two books I donated because I kept overlooking them and had no interest of reading. I got them 5 years ago and never read them.
- All Fall Down
- Last Night At Chateu Marimont
- Girl Online
With Girl Online it was taking up way to much room for a book that wasn’t all that great.
Books Read: 3
Book Challenge Complete %: 63%
Am I Ahead? And By How Many Books: Yes and by 7 books
So May was a lot slower than April in the book department. Mainly re reads,
The Stripper Diaries
Nothing much to say about this book other than a piece of shit. It’s not that great
The Help
The Help is one of my favourite books.
The Lucky One
I love a good old romance in a book, and this is such a good romance book. I love how different Beth and Logan are, but they are so cute together as well
