My GoodReads Book Year

Last year I did a post all on my Goodreads reading challenge 

This year I challenged myself to read 24 books. Which I completed, with 42 books. 

This year I read 15,346 pages across 42 books

Shortest book
Blue 2004 Annual
61 pages 

Longest Book
Harry Potter and The Goblet of Fire
796 pages

Average Length
377 pages

Most popular 
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban 
2,521,140 other people read 

Least Popular 
Blue Annual
0 other people read

My Average Rating 
3.6 Stars ⭐️ 

Highest Rated on Good Reads
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
4.51

My first review of the year
Just One Day
4 Stars ⭐️ 

This year I have read 42 Books. 

- Breaking Dawn

- Ugly

- The Ice Cream Girls 

- My Best Friends Girl 

- Goodnight, Beautiful 

- Marshmallows for breakfast 

- Just one day

- Just one year

- Harry Potter and the cursed child

- Fantastic Beast and where To Find Them

- David Beckham My World

- Belle De Jour

- The Pact

- Lock and Key

- Just Listen

- Tracy Beaker

- Cinder

- Scarlet

- Cress

- Thirteen Reasons Why

- Jane Eyre

- Rules of Summer

- Since Last Summer

- The Devil Wears Prada

- One Day

- Dustbin Baby

- The Time Travellers Wife

- Blue Annual

- FanGirl

- Bad Girls

- The Last Song

- Safe Haven

- All I know now

- Hate List

- Billie Piper

- The Casual Vacancy 

- Harry Potter books 1-5

*any books that I’ve reviewed over the last year are linked*

Blogmas Day 2 November Wrap Up

Welcome to a quick and short post for day 2 of blogmas my November wrap up

• The Last Song
• Review Here

I actually finished the book book which was a surprise to me. 

• Will Grayson, Will Grayson 

Haven't even thought about picking it up. 

• The Casual Vacancy 

Being completely honest I am struggling 

Blogmas Day 1 Tis The Season Tag & Blogmas

Welcome

For the next 24 days I'm going to attempt to do blogmas. I've blogged got the last two christmas' but have never done blogmas before. So I wonder how this will go

1. Do you have a favorite Winter read?

I don't have a favourite winter book but I like the way JK Rowling describes Christmas at hogwarts 

2. Find a book with blue on the cover!

Girl Online

3. Find a book you’d use as the star on a Christmas tree?

The Ice Cream Girls 

4. Pick one fictional place that would be perfect for a Winter vacation!

Hogsmeade

5. Pick one fictional character you’d take with you on your Winter vacation!

Poppy from The Ice Cream Girls 

6. Name one book on your Wishlist this year!

Harry Potter Book 1&3 Illustrated 

7. Favorite Holiday drink, treat, & movie?

I like hot chocolate and quality street around Christmas and I dislike Christmas movies



L
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December TBR

Welcome  a short post on my December TBR

• The Casual Vacancy 

I want to finish it because I know I won't but I want to keep reading it. 

• All Fall Down
• Jennifer Wier

Im not going to put a massive pressure on myself this month all I am going to try and read is one book. 

Characters Who Would Make Great Leaders

Welcome to the characters that I think would make great leaders. They are all women who I think could be leaders in their own right. 

• Emma
• One Day

I feel is she had more faith in herself right from the beginning of the book she would make a great leader. She reminds me of Andrea from The Devil Wears Prada when she first walks in to the office

• Andrea
• The Devil Wears Prada 

Andrea is one of my all time favourite female characters but just like Emma I think she needs more self confidence at the beginning of the book and realize that she is a strong person who would make a great leader 

• Poppy and Serena
• The Ice Cream Girls 

Because of everything these two have gone through I think they'd make a great leaders together talking about their experiences 

• Tegan
• My Best Friends Girl 

When she's older I can see Tegan being an absolute boss. I can see her owning her own multi million pound company. 

• Ruby 
• Lock and Key

I honestly think that that if Ruby can completely get past the fact that she had to move in with her sister and brother in law she could settle down and work hard and become such a great leader in everything she dose. 

• Skeeter 
• The Help

Skeeter is one of those people who thinks outside the box anyway for the time and era that she lives in. If she could just keep it going she could be the best.  

The Last Song Book Review || Nicholas Sparks

Book: The Last Song

Author: Nicholas Sparks 

Pages: 405

Publisher:

Genre: Romance, 

Started: October 28th 2017

Finished: November 16th 2017

Goodreads: 2*

I've always had a thing about Miley Cyrus. I've never really liked her that much and so when I decided to read The Last Song I knew it would be difficult. And in some ways it was. I didn't like the flipping between characters in the book. I like the book to be simple and easy to read.  

I got over the fact that it's got Miley Cyrus on the cover, and got over half way through the book. And then bam. I am have trouble with it. I know Nicholas Sparks is well known for his romantic novels set in North Carolina but there was something about the book that isn't as good as the other books that I've read by him. 

There was so much going on within the book that made it an ok book but still didn't like the flip flopping between the characters in each chapter. 

I was expecting the chapters to be shorter because of all the different storylines going on within the book but I'm glad that it didn't. 

Did it need all the smaller storylines? In my opinion no, the storyline about Ronnie stealing I knew right away that it wasn't going to go anywhere because another storyline would pop up, which I don't like. If it's major enough to have in the story, then give it some bang. Ok so Blaze told the truth about what happened on the night of a tragedy happened, but that only because she had something bad happen to her (that was also kind of related to the first accident), and that she felt bad for Ronnie 

I looked through the discussion questionsat the back of the book and one question was about how much Ronnie changed throughout the book, yeah she changed but who wouldn't change. Isn't that the whole point of the book to see her change. 

Another is about why Will fell for Ronnie, and it's an obvious answer.  Because he wanted to be nothing  like his family. He wanted to be with someone who is so completely different then himself. I call it the rich-poor syndrome. Where one person in the relationship is rich while the other isn't and it's a bit of a pet peeve when reading books. 

The whole book could have been a lot better then it is. And that's why I gave it a 2* rating on Goodreads because it could be such a good book. Most of the storylines could and should have gone somewhere, the romances within the book should have gone further and not have even happened. 

Lauren

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Top 5 Wednesday || November 22nd: Books I Am Thankful For

Ok so I should have done a post the first weekend of October on books that I am thankful for, as that was when Canadian thanksgiving was, I had it already to go, and then instead of hitting publish I deleted it.  Yep. Full on hit delete and boom it's gone. I was so mad at myself. So this one is a 

• My Best Friends Girl 

The book shows so many stereotypes still happen with curtain things that should be gone. It's a book that is close to my heart because of adoption. I'm thankful that it shows forgiveness because sometimes forgiving people can be hard. 

• The Devil Wears Prada 

I'm thankful for The Devil Wears Prada because I know it's a book that can get me out of any and all of my reading slumps. 

• The Ice Cream Girls 

The book is one that a lot of people should read.  It deals with topics that are happening everyday.  I'm thankful because someone has written it.  It's beautifully written and flips stereotypes around

• Harry Potter 

Just because it's Harry Potter. 

Book Talk: October Wrap Up

Welcome to October's Wrap Up. How is it November already. It feels as if it shouldn't be. 

Cress

I was so disappointed with Cress that I couldn't even finish reading the book.  I felt like it was way to dragged out in some places, way to much going on in other places and like there was no actual structure within the book. 

All I Know Now

Finished.  One of those books, like I said in my review, that I wish I had. I think a lot of people should read it. 

Safe Haven 

I love this book, I love the movie, it just pits everything into perspective for Katie on how she should live her life. 

The Ice Cream Girls 

This was a re read, because I disliked Cress and felt that I couldn't finish it, I read a book that I knew I loved and finished it. 

Book Talk: September TBR

Welcome to my September TBR. I'm gonna start doing my TBRs and Wrap Ups as a book Talk from now on. 

• Cress
• Marissa Meyer

I started the book in August as a replacement for one of the two books that I DNF'd in August. It's a pretty long book but I am already half way through the book as I post this TBR. 

• Marshmallows for Breakfast 
• Dorothy Koomson 

Again this is a replacement for the other DNF'd book from last month. I read the book last year but as I have already read the other three Dorothy Koomson books that I own this year I had to re read it. 

• Will Grayson, Will Grayson
• John Green

I wanted another book on here that I haven't read before and will Grayson, Will Grayson seemed like the best choice. 

Lauren

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August Wrap Up

Welcome to August Wrap Up. This month reading was hard. I didn't complete the books I wanted to for various reasons. But completed others. I also completed my 2017 Goodreads challenge for the year. 24 books this year which I have done - it includes my DNF books but I think even without them this year I still have completed 24 books. 

• Time Travelers Wife

🙅🏼✖️. I started the book but didn't get any further then about 20 pages. I was slowly getting through it but reading other books seemed to take over. Check HERE for my DNF review. 

• Fan Girl
• Rainbow Rowell

Check ✔️.  I finished rather quick. Check HERE for my review. 

• Love Anthony 
• Lisa Genova

my first DNF in a while. Check HERE. I hoped for better but it just didn't get any better. It was just flat lining. I have DNF'd it because I have tried so many times to read it but can't. 

• Bad Girls
• Jacqueline Wilson

✔️. This books is such a classic childhood book for me. In fact it was the book that I finished that was the 24th book and completed my challenge on Goodreads for 2017. 

Love Anthony DNF Review

Book: Love Anthony

Author: Lisa Genova

Pages: 320

Released: September 2012 (hardback) April 2013 (paperback)

Started: August 13th 2017

Finished: August 15th 2017

Goodreads: 1*

Welcome 

To my DNF post about Love Anthony. I wanted to love the book, but couldn't. Out of all the books that I have read this year (those I have finished and DNF'd) I think this is the biggest disappointment of them all. 

My Review

I've had the book on my shelf for what seems like forever. I've tried to read it but only got as far as the first chapter. 

Ok so this is after reading 66 pages. I wanna strangle somebody. I mean it's so slow and boring that I think paint would be more fun to read about. I find that the characters are really selfish and self obsessed. There are a lot of people who go through divorce or having a child with autism, but in the way they are coming across I wanna scream and shout at them. Beth going to look for the woman her husband cheated on her with is so cliche. 

It's one of those books that I want to throw across the room. 

Because I didn't like it enough to put myself through any more of the trash, I gave up. At 66 pages.  Which most of my other DNF books this year I at least got to triple digits before that happened. 

The way that the book is laid out is a massive pet peeve of mine. The spacing between the end of a line and the end of the book for me was far to big. 

The copy of the book I have is the black cover one. What I will say is that I don't understand why there is three versions of the book, two really similar and actually have a massive part in the book (that I read up to) where the third is completely different. 

I know that the book covers autism, and while up to page 66, it touches on it, it's not really enough.  It's just how he (Anthony) was diagnosed and a little trait that he has. 

I didn't feel connected to any of the characters and the main two women Beth and Olivia could easily be confused as just side characters 

The one star that I gave the book is being generous. 

I found some other people via Goodreads that had the same kind of feelings as I did towards the book


Laren
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