To keep track of my goals and progress, I am going to give you all a monthly update each month. In these posts I will tell you about the book(s) I read during the month and update my progress on both the reading challenges.
Books
This month, I was able to read 6 books, which surprised me! Of to a good start!
I started the year of with a book to improve my life, to inspire me to work on myself in the new year: A Beautiful Mind, A Beautiful Life: The Bubz Guide to Being Unstoppable, written by Lindy Tsang. You can find my review here.
The second book I read this month was All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, written by Bryn Greenwood. This was quite a heavy book about a shocking love story between a child and a man. It was really intense and made me feel very ambiguous. You can find my review of this shocking story here.
After that, I started Far from the Tree by Robin Benway, which is about 3 adopted siblings finding each other. I had heard so many good things about this book, plus it was nominated for a national book award (winner!), so I knew I had to read it. My thoughts can be found in my review.
And on the the fourth(!) book I read this month: Unfiltered by Lily Collins (yes, daughter of and actress). You can find my review by clicking here. I liked it and I think it is quite an important books for young women to read.
The fifth book is It's Kind of a Funny Story by the late Ned Vizzini. This is one of my all time favourites. I think this is an important book that really grasps what it is like to be depressed, which you can read about in my review here.
And lastly, Depression & Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Benaim, which is a collection of poems about (well, the title is quite obvious) depression. I read really great things about it and I really wanted to love it, but I couldn't really get into it. My review will follow soon!
I also read the first chapter of The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. I've decided that with this book, as the chapters are per month, I am going to read one chapter every month. To me, that seemed like a fun idea. This way I could compare her project for happiness with my own life and see if there is anything I wish to implement in mine. So this month, I read the first chapter: January. I don't really do new years resolutions, but this first chapter gave me some ideas for my own little happiness project (like exercising more (to not keep wasting 20 euros a month on my unused gym membership), implementing the one-minute rule into my life, try and sleep more and keeping my bedroom a little more clutter free (after spending my Christmas break tidying and organizing)).
Progress.
Now, for the challenges.
As you can see, I've coupled 5 books to this challenge.The completed challenges are:
1. Book to improve your life: The Bubz Guide, written by Lindy Tsang.
2. New to you author from another country: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, by Bryn Greenwood. I had never heard of her before, plus she is from America (I'm from the Netherlands, so that was a pretty easy one 😀 )
3. 4 word title: Far from the Tree, by Robin Benway.
4. Under 250 pages: Unfiltered. With acknowledgements and everything, this book was about 220 pages.
5. Reread: for this one, I decided to reread one of my all time favourites: It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
So, I was able to cross off 5 categories in the first challenge, which feels like a lot! Now, onto the second challenge:
I haven't matched any books to this challenge yet. I wanted to match the poetry-one to Depression & Other Magic Tricks, but, as I said, I couldn't get my head in it, so I decided against it. I've got another couple of poetry collections on m TBR, so I will be able to fill that one up soon!
Next month.
I am a member of the Goodreads group called The Life of a Book Addict, in which the one of the mods hosts a colour challenge every month. In January, this colour was white and 4 of the books I read added up with this (all except All the Ugly and Wonderful Things). I probably won't participate in this challenge every month, but I had these books on my TBR and felt like this was a way to motivate me even more to pick them up. Like an extra sense of accomplishment, which is always nice!
For February, the colour of this challenge will be red, which I was honestly hoping for. In the last month, I've acquired 2 books with red covers, plus I had another one which I felt like reading, so I've decided to try and read the following 3 books with red covers:
I ordered Final Girls and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda from BookDepository. I want to read the first because of the many good things I've heard and read about it, plus it is kind of outside my the genres I'm used to reading. I mean, this review:
"The Final Girls need you. . . . The Final Girls are tough, everything survivors should be. But the new threat is clever, ominous, even closer than you suspect. You are about to gasp. You might drop the book. You may have to look over your shoulder. But you must keep reading. This is the best book of 2017."—Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of Find Her
Come on! That sounds like such an thrilling and suspenseful read! Plus, Stephen King liked it, so it must be kind of good, right? :)
Simon vs. on the other hand, I really want to read that before the movie comes out. I've seen the trailer and what really got me was the part where the straight people 'come out' to their parents. I found this such an endearing thing that got me quite excited about the story.
As for Dark Matter, I borrowed that book from a friend who recommended it to me. There is a part in the blurb that really makes me curious about this book: In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Plus, I found out this is written by the same guy that wrote Wayward Pines. I watched that show for a little while (before I got lost in all the other things on my watchlist) and thought it was quite intriguing, so I'm excited to get to know more of his stories!
Books
This month, I was able to read 6 books, which surprised me! Of to a good start!
I started the year of with a book to improve my life, to inspire me to work on myself in the new year: A Beautiful Mind, A Beautiful Life: The Bubz Guide to Being Unstoppable, written by Lindy Tsang. You can find my review here.
The second book I read this month was All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, written by Bryn Greenwood. This was quite a heavy book about a shocking love story between a child and a man. It was really intense and made me feel very ambiguous. You can find my review of this shocking story here.
After that, I started Far from the Tree by Robin Benway, which is about 3 adopted siblings finding each other. I had heard so many good things about this book, plus it was nominated for a national book award (winner!), so I knew I had to read it. My thoughts can be found in my review.
And on the the fourth(!) book I read this month: Unfiltered by Lily Collins (yes, daughter of and actress). You can find my review by clicking here. I liked it and I think it is quite an important books for young women to read.
The fifth book is It's Kind of a Funny Story by the late Ned Vizzini. This is one of my all time favourites. I think this is an important book that really grasps what it is like to be depressed, which you can read about in my review here.
And lastly, Depression & Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Benaim, which is a collection of poems about (well, the title is quite obvious) depression. I read really great things about it and I really wanted to love it, but I couldn't really get into it. My review will follow soon!
I also read the first chapter of The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin. I've decided that with this book, as the chapters are per month, I am going to read one chapter every month. To me, that seemed like a fun idea. This way I could compare her project for happiness with my own life and see if there is anything I wish to implement in mine. So this month, I read the first chapter: January. I don't really do new years resolutions, but this first chapter gave me some ideas for my own little happiness project (like exercising more (to not keep wasting 20 euros a month on my unused gym membership), implementing the one-minute rule into my life, try and sleep more and keeping my bedroom a little more clutter free (after spending my Christmas break tidying and organizing)).
Progress.
Now, for the challenges.
1. Book to improve your life: The Bubz Guide, written by Lindy Tsang.
2. New to you author from another country: All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, by Bryn Greenwood. I had never heard of her before, plus she is from America (I'm from the Netherlands, so that was a pretty easy one 😀 )
3. 4 word title: Far from the Tree, by Robin Benway.
4. Under 250 pages: Unfiltered. With acknowledgements and everything, this book was about 220 pages.
5. Reread: for this one, I decided to reread one of my all time favourites: It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini
So, I was able to cross off 5 categories in the first challenge, which feels like a lot! Now, onto the second challenge:
I haven't matched any books to this challenge yet. I wanted to match the poetry-one to Depression & Other Magic Tricks, but, as I said, I couldn't get my head in it, so I decided against it. I've got another couple of poetry collections on m TBR, so I will be able to fill that one up soon!
Next month.
I am a member of the Goodreads group called The Life of a Book Addict, in which the one of the mods hosts a colour challenge every month. In January, this colour was white and 4 of the books I read added up with this (all except All the Ugly and Wonderful Things). I probably won't participate in this challenge every month, but I had these books on my TBR and felt like this was a way to motivate me even more to pick them up. Like an extra sense of accomplishment, which is always nice!
For February, the colour of this challenge will be red, which I was honestly hoping for. In the last month, I've acquired 2 books with red covers, plus I had another one which I felt like reading, so I've decided to try and read the following 3 books with red covers:
I ordered Final Girls and Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda from BookDepository. I want to read the first because of the many good things I've heard and read about it, plus it is kind of outside my the genres I'm used to reading. I mean, this review:
"The Final Girls need you. . . . The Final Girls are tough, everything survivors should be. But the new threat is clever, ominous, even closer than you suspect. You are about to gasp. You might drop the book. You may have to look over your shoulder. But you must keep reading. This is the best book of 2017."—Lisa Gardner, New York Times bestselling author of Find Her
Come on! That sounds like such an thrilling and suspenseful read! Plus, Stephen King liked it, so it must be kind of good, right? :)
Simon vs. on the other hand, I really want to read that before the movie comes out. I've seen the trailer and what really got me was the part where the straight people 'come out' to their parents. I found this such an endearing thing that got me quite excited about the story.
As for Dark Matter, I borrowed that book from a friend who recommended it to me. There is a part in the blurb that really makes me curious about this book: In this world he’s woken up to, Jason’s life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife. His son was never born. And Jason is not an ordinary college physics professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something remarkable. Something impossible. Plus, I found out this is written by the same guy that wrote Wayward Pines. I watched that show for a little while (before I got lost in all the other things on my watchlist) and thought it was quite intriguing, so I'm excited to get to know more of his stories!
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