Did Not Finish 2019

The way I know a book is getting to be a DNF is because I am willing to read anything else. I’m kind of happy it was only four books that I DNFd this year.

City of Bones
What an absolutely crap book it is. Normally when I struggle with a book, if I leave it for a while I can get back into it. But with this book I just couldn’t do it. I felt that it was way to confusing. The characters are boring. They didn’t hold my attention because of how confused I was by them all. I got about 100 pages in and couldn’t tell you anything about the book.

Girl On The Train
I don’t want to be as harsh about this book because what I did read I actually enjoyed I think though I was a little confused with it. I don’t normally read books that are Thrillers or that are like this book. I did feel disheartened when reading the book because I wanted to love it where I actually read it all but I just couldn’t.

Anne Frank
I don’t know why, but the book is a part of my overall goodreads challenge yet I know I didn’t finish it. It’s not that it’s a bad book, but it’s a book that I just didn’t enjoy enough to carry on reading.

At First Sight 
Again I don’t know why this book was a part of my overall goodreads challenge, because I didn’t finish it. I think it’s because I didn’t start this DNF post until March/April time.

My Year in Books 2019 & Books Read

It’s that time of year again, where I go over my Goodreads Challenge and share it with the world. 


Totals
I read 14,659 pages
39 books
My goal this year was to read 30 books, I did that

Shortest Book
The Stripper Diraries
80 pages

Longest Book
Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire
796 pages

Average Length 
375 Pages


Most Popular
Harry Potter Book 1
6,303,978 

Least Popular
Michael Barrymore Autobiography
5


My Average Rating for 2019
4.3*


Books Read

1. At First Sight (Nicholas Sparks)
2. Michael Barrymore Autobiography
3. The Brighton Mermaid (Dorothy Koomson)
4. Safe Haven
5. My Best Friends Girl
6. Girl A
7. Marshmallows For Breakfast 
8. Goodnight, Beautiful
9. The Diary of Anne Frank
10. The Ice Cream Girls 
11. Looking For Alaska 
12. The Story Between the Lines. Channing Rose
13. BFG 
14. Matilda
15. George’s Marvellous Medicine 
16. One Day
17. The Stripper Diaries
18. The Help
19. The Lucky One
20. PS I Love You
21. My Life Next Door
22. Reconstructing Amelia 
23. Dear John 
24. The Devil Wears Prada 
25. Girl A 
26. Marshmallows For Breakfast
27. Me Before You
28. Matched
29. Crossed
30. The Brighton Mermaid 
31. The Ice Cream Girls 
32. The Great Gatsby 
33. Harry Potter Book 1
34. Harry Potter Book 2
35. Harry Potter Book 3
36. Harry Potter Book 4
37. Harry Potter Book 5
38. Harry Potter Book 6
39. Harry Potter Book 7

City of Bones DNF

Book: City of Bones (Mortal Instruments Book 1)
Author: Cassandra Clare
Pages: 485 (Paperback)
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Publish Date: March 2007
Start Reading Date: March 19th 2019
End Reading Date: DNFd.  


This post should have been up months ago. And when I say months ago I mean in like April. We’re now nearing the end of the year, and I am putting it up. 

If you know two things about me is that 
1. I don’t like to read popular books right away. I always feel that if a ton of people recommend it all at the same time it puts me off and I don’t like it as much. 
2. I like getting books from thrift stores just as much as going to the full price book store. 

So when I saw the first four Mortal Instruments at a local thrift store for 75 cents each. Picking them up was a no brainer. And they are in pretty good condition.  


*Update 1*
(April 2 19)
If I am being honest I am struggling with the book a bit. I’m about 100 pages in or so and I am finding it difficult. 


*Update 2*
(4/4/19)
I am about 50 pages after update 1, and there are some good parts of the next pages but if I’m being honest I am so confused by what’s happening, who is who and how they play a role in the book, and in curtain parts such as shadow hunters, and all the other people and groups there are.   

I am also finding the characters not that interesting. I got to about 170ish Pages and just gave up I found it really difficult to get into. Saying that there will be a full review hopefully 

Books I Was Unsure About

Today’s post is all about books I was unsure about. We all have books that we see and are just not sure about, because of a bad experience with the author or a similar book or even if it’s a genre you’ve never read before. I did this post is on books I was unsure that I would like but loved, and even disappointed with. 

- Goodnight, Beautiful 
    - Dorothy Koomson 
As your all probably aware Dorothy Koomson is my absolute queen. Her books (that I’ve read) are amazing and are always on the top of my favourite book lists or anything that 


- The Lunar Chronicles (Cinder/Scarlet/Cress)
I’m not really a Disney fan (I know shoot me right). I’d never read any retellings of any books, and I wanted to broaden what kinds of books I read. I’d never really read any fantasy/science fiction/fairytale kind of books before. So I was completely unsure if o wanted to read the books or not. I brought the first three books, and read them after reading The Matched Trilogy (and spoiler they are really similar.) and if I am honest for me it’s like the Matched Trilogy in the fact that I could have dealt with just the first book. But in the sense of the first book of either series I would say Matched takes the win.  

- Matched Trilogy 
Matched Trilogy was ok, I really liked the first book. But I was unsure about reading the books because it’s not my normal genre


- The Great Gatsby 
By the time I had read the Great Gatsby I had seen the movie (though I normally don’t like to watch movies based on books first), and I also had a big thing about classics. By the time I decided to read The Great Gatsby I was so unsure if I’d actually like it because I hadn’t liked any other classic books I had read. 


- Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them & Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
I’m such a Potter head it’s unreal, but I was totally unsure about Fanatic Beasts and Cursed Child because I’ve never read books that are basically scripts. And if I’m being honest I never actually realized until I read them that they were scripts. 

- The Help 
    - Kathryn Stockett
I got the book years and years ago, around the time the movie came out, and like most readers you see online, I want to read the book before I see the movie. 


- Me Before You 
    - Jojo Moyes
So I was hesitant to get the book, even when I saw it in Goodwill bookstore for only $4, I feel like I’ve said it a million times that i don’t particularly like getting popular books right away or at full price, and while I didn’t do that with this book, I did see a lot of people having different opinions on the book so I was really unsure about it. And if you saw my review on it in the summer you know it wasn’t great. 

Christmas Book Wishlist

We all know these kinds of posts right? Wether they are in blog form or vlog form. These are the books I would like to see under the tree for Christmas 🎄.  

The Hate U Give
- Angie Thomas

On The Cone Up
- Angie Thomas

The 57 Bus
- Dashka Slater

The Family Upstairs
- Lisa Jewell

Then She Was Gone
- Lisa Jewell

Dear Martin
- Nic Stone

Long Way Down
- Jason Reynolds

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone Illustrated

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Illustrated

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Illustrated 

Books I’ve Tried To Read but Can’t Get Into

So as I was looking at my bookshelf to get inspiration to blog about anything. This idea came to mind.

These are the books that I’ve tried to read but can’t. For the most part I have picked them up multiple time to try and read them and then there are some books that I haven’t read because I didn’t read the first book.

The Casual Vacancy 
- JK Rowling
Theres no denying that JK Rowling is an amazing author, and as many times I’ve tried to read the book I couldn’t get into it.


City of Bones
- Cassandra Clare
I got quite far into the book, but there was so much I felt that was wrong with the book in what I did read. I felt that it was easily confusing about whose who and who can see what and what they are aloud to see and go that when I read a little bit further on I had no idea who was who, and aloud to see and do things and who aloud where.


City of Ashes, City of Glass and City of Fallen Angels

Because I didn’t finish City of Bones, I couldn’t even begin to pick up the rest of the Mortal Instruments series. I’ve seen so many people rave about the series, and the fact that I have most of the book, and got them super cheap makes it a little easier but still sucks.

The Choice
- Nicholas Sparks 
I’ve tried and tried with this book, but I just don’t feel connected to it or the characters. I always think “I’ll come back to it” and when ever I do I just can’t do it.



At First Sight & The Best of Me
I don’t want to bash Nicholas Sparks and his book, but these two books I just couldn’t get into. It’s not that I dislike all his books, because I don’t. In fact two of his books are in my top 10 favourite books, and another I’ve changed my mind on.

Just Listen
- Sarah Dessen
Ive had this book for so long that I couldn’t even tell you when or where I got it I’ve had it so long. And I’ve gotten about half way through it a few times. But something about it makes me just stop.



The Girl on the Train
- Paula Hawkins 
As I’ve said before I’m not a massive fan of multiple people having their own chapters, and while I can understand it with this book I hate it, think it should be multiple people later on down the line near the end of the book explaining how they got there.

Lola and the Boy Next Door
- Stephanie Perkins
I kinda liked what I did read, but couldn’t get any further. It’s one of those books that I’ve read a million time before within other books and so this isn’t really unique in anyway.

Jane Eyre 
- Charlotte Bronte
I’m not a massive reader of classic books, and I tried really hard with this book and got about half way, but couldn’t carry on. Since then I’ve tried and tried and I just can’t read it.




Sense and Sensibility 
- Jane Austen
I always wanted to expand my reading and try books I never normally would read, and I tried so hard with this book.

The Coldest Girl in Coldstown 
- Holly Black
I have no reason to own this book yet I do. I’ve tried countless times to read the book but don’t even like books that are mainly vampire based because of Twilight.

Holiday Reads TTT

This weeks Top Ten Tuesday is all about holiday reads.

It’s a pretty short one 


I don’t normally read books that are specific to a season, it’s a big pet peeve that you can only read curtain books at a curtain time of year.  

This year my ‘holiday’ reads are the final three books of the Harry Potter Series. I am about half way through Order of the Phoenix.  

November Wrap Up

Books Read 3

This month was very much Harry Potter heavy. I am re reading the whole series again because you can never read Harry Potter to many times.  




1. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
2. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
3. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire