DECEMBER 2016

December has been an incredibly busy month and made it almost impossible for me to read. In the beginning of the month I finished 'Naamloos' a Dutch fiction book which I really enjoyed. The other two books I finished this month were 'Reached' by Ally Condie, and 'My True Love Gave to Me' edited by Stephanie Perkins. Unfortunately I didn't like either of these books. Reviews will be up soon!

I am really looking forward to a new year full of reading. I am really excited to start reading in 2017, with all my reading goals being set. 

December has been a fun month full of festivities and happy things! 2016 overall has been a year I utterly enjoyed and I can't wait to find out what 2017 has to offer. I wish you all a very happy new year! Thanks for your support!

2016 CONCLUSION | BOOK DISCUSSION

With just a few days away from 2017 I would like to talk about my 2016 - reading wise.

First of all my mid-year reading goals. The only reading goal I (sur)passed was reading 2 Dutch fictions (I read 3). I only read one translated fiction, one classic and one poetry. I read 3 historical fictions where my goal was to read 5. Although I didn't reach all of these goals I am really happy with the books I did read. Click here for the specific post on my mid-year reading goals.

This year I read - books. I read - pages. The shortest book I read had 37 pages and is called: 'Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth'. The longest book I read had 600 pages and is called: 'Illuminae'. The average length of the books I read was 314. My average rating this year was 3.6 stars. The most popular book (on Goodreads) I read this year was: 'The Lovely Bones'. The least popular book (on Goodreads) I read this year was: 'Indiase Sprookjes'. For my exact Goodreads statistics click here!

I am really happy with this reading year and I cannot wait to read even more next year! Talk to you soon, lots of love!

NOVEMBER 2016

November was a good reading month, luckily, since I didn't read anything in October. I was in quite the reading slump for a while but I finally got out of it in November. I am very satisfied with what I have read and I'm really excited to continue this in December. What also excites me is the fact that I can almost set 2017 reading goals and share them with you! 2017 is going to be such a good reading year! But for now; here is what I read in November 2016.

JULY 2016

Hiiya!

July has gone by so quickly! As of the first of August I finally have a break from school as well from work. The last couple of weeks I worked a lot of hours at my job. I am really looking forward to August. I am going to Crete, will be doing loads of fun things with friends, it's my birthday month and there is a big music festival I will be visiting at the end of the month.

Here's what I have been up to in July reading-wise:

Books I read:
More Than This by Patrick Ness 5/5
The Unmoving Sky by K.L. Hallam 3/5 (e-book)
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande 4/5
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 3/5
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff 3/5
Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng 5/5
Queen of Hearts by Colleen Oakes 4/5
Life of Pi by Yann Martel 2/5
Er ist wieder da by Timur Vermes 3/5 (lent)
Vector by Simon de Waal 4/5
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Lelsye Walton 4/5

Favourite book of the month:
My favourite books of the month are 'More Than This' and 'Everything I Never Told You'. I really can't pick a favourite from these two. They were both amazing and unique in their own way. I would definitely recommend them!

Least favourite book of the month:
My least favourite book to read this month is without a doubt 'Life of Pi'. It took me so long to pick this up and when I finally did, it was as disappointing as I thought it would be. It just wasn't put away for me.

What have you been up to this past month?