Authors I want to read more from || Top 5 Wednesday April 2017

Welcome

To my only Top 5 Wednesday of April. This months top 5, has been hard. I very rarely read anything that would be considered anything science fiction or fantasy that I could justify making a whole post about it. It's the same the LGBTQ books. I haven't really read any, that I am aware of anyway, and I am not a big video game player. 

Dorothy Koomson 

I wanna be that wierd fan Girl and own all her books at some point or another because I love them so much. 

Sarah Dessen

I'm on the fence about Sarah Dessen's books that I want to read more by her to be 

Morgan Matson

Again I am on the fence with Morgan Matson. I didn't dislike SYBG, but I didn't love it either. 

Jenny Han
With Jenny Han it's a difficult one. I wasn't in love with To All The Boys I've Loved Before and am worried about reading other books by her for that simple fact. But that's also the upside. She has other books that I want to read to see if they are better.  

Nicholas Sparks

I have a few books by Nicholas sparks and I enjoy them.  It's just that I want to read more of them.  

There we are for this month. Let's hope I have better luck with May's T5W

Lauren

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Just Listen || DNR Book Review

Book: Just Listen
Author: Sarah Dessen
Publisher: Speak
Pages: 371
Started December 29th 2016
Finished: DNF (Did Not Finish)

I don't remember when I got this book, how long I've had it sitting on my shelf, or how many times I have tried to read it. It's always seemed to be there. I think I have tried to read it multiple times as there are some pages early on that have creases in the corners. By me who knows.

Just Listen follows Annabel a high school student who is the youngest of three daughters who are all models. Annabel's sisters moved to New York, where the oldest sister decides she doesn't want to be a model anymore and takes classes at college and the middle sister becomes seriously ill.

It also explores the friendship and beaksown of the friendship between Annabel and Sophie from how they met to Sophie not talking to Annabel. Also in the mix is Annabels childhood friend Clarke.

Also it tells the backstory of how Annabel and her sisters get into modelling.

At first I found the book super hard to get into. There were so much going on. From the end of the friendships, modelling, the middle sisters weight loss, it was all over the place and was dipping in and out of each story. I loved the dipping in and out of another book but that worked well

Even though the story goes in and out I like how it covers hard topics such as an eating disorder, how one person getting an opportunity in something has a knock on effect and how people can be influenced by others.

 I couldn't finish it. It's that bad that it's just gonna sit there on my self until I think it's the right time to read it.  I don't know if it's a totally bad book it could get better but I don't want to give it that opportunity.

I'm doing a review on it now because I can't actually see myself finishing it in a long time. Even though I don't like to leave a book unread when I started reading it, (I have done that a lot with other books but have always finished the book at some point) I really didn't like Just Listen enough to justify reading it again.

Books I Started But Did Not Finish

Hey

Today's post is one on Books I Haven't Finished, so basically I have started the book at for some reason or another haven't finished them. 

Beneath the Glitter

Elle and Blair Fowler

Elle and Blair were for me the first ones from YouTube to really do a book. After that everyone seemed to do a book. I picked up the book (at the time I really liked the sisters) started reading it and I almost finished it but couldn't. The book as a whole really confused me.

 Animal Farm

George Orwell

It's not a particularly a long book. The version I have is less then 100 pages but it was something about it that I couldn't finish reading. I found it really hard to get through.

Just Listen

Sarah Dessen

Just Listen is on my September TBR list and to be honest I don't think I will get to it this month. I want read it by the end of the year. I did start reading it but gave up part way through. Even though it's completely different then Animal farm by George Orwell I found it really hard to get through the few chapters I did read off it

Just One Year

Gayle Forman

Gayle Forman has written one of my all time favorite books (if I stay) and I really liked just one day. But just one year I found hard to read. I didn't like Willem that much in Just One Day and found his side of the story that I read really bland and uninteresting.

All I Know Now

Carrie Hope Fletcher

I have no idea why I didn't finish all I know now. I really enjoyed it but now it's sitting on my shelf with the book mark that I was using in it on the page I was reading. - side note - I was in a goodwill bookstore (goodwill is a thrift store and in the city I live in they have one just for books) there was a copy of all I know now and I picked it up for $4.

Lauren

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