100 WOMER WRITES | CHALLENGE

Hi everyone! 

Long time no see... I'm very sorry and hope this is the last time that I am going to apologise for my absence in a long time. Since I have finished school for this years (technically I still have two days left but oh well) I decided that it is the perfect moment for me to pick up blogging again. 

Although I had quite the hiatus myself for blogging, I never stopped reading. As well as I did also not stop reading book  blogs or watching booktube. I am following Jean (JeanBookishThoughts) for a while now and she is the creator of '100 Women Writers'. This is a list she put together with 100 must read women writers. For more information what this list is about click here. I find this to be an amazing concept and decided that I want to participate to this as well. 

I discovered that a lot of the authors on this list, I know and really want to read books of but I haven't. Now that I have a visual list I'm very excited to see how fast I will discover new books by amazing female authors. 

1. A. L. Kennedy

2. Agatha Christie
3. Ali Smith 
4. Alice Walker 
5. Angela Carter 
6. Angela Davis 
7. Anne Bronte
8. A. S. Byatt
9. Anne McCaffrey
10. Anne Radcliffe
11. Anne Tyler
12. Arundhati Roy
13. Audre Lorde 
14. Audrey Niffeneger
15. Azar Nafisi
16. Bell Hooks
17. Betty Smith
18. Carol Ann Duffy 
19. Charlotte Bronte 
20. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
21. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 
22. Christina Rossetti
23. Daphne Du Maurier 
24. Donna Tartt
25. Dorothy Sayers
26. E. Nesbit
27. Edith Wharton
28. Edna O’Briean
29. Ellen Feldman
30. Emily Bronte
31. Emily Dickinson
32. Emma Donaghue 
33. Elena Ferrante
34. Elizabeth Gaskell
35. Elizabeth Goudge 
36. Erica Jong
37. Fanny Burney
38. George Elliot 
39. Han Kang 
40. Harper Lee 
41. Hilary Wainwright
42. Helen Oyeyemi 
43. Hilary Mantel
44. Ida B. Wells
45. Isabel Allende 
46. Lynne Segal
47. J. K. Rowling 
48. Jackie Kay
49. Jane Austen 
50. Jaqueline Wilson 
51. Jean Rhys
52. Jeanette Winterson 
53. Jhumpa Lahiri
54. Jacqueline Susann
55. Joanna Russ
56. Judith Butler
57. Kate Atkinson
58. Kate Chopin
59. Alexandra Kollontai
60. Liz Lochhead
61. Louisa May Alcott
62. Louise O’Neill 
63. Madeleine L’engle
64. Murasaki Shikibu
65. Margaret Atwood 
66. Margaret Cavendish
67. Malorie Blackman
68. Marjane Satrapi 
69. Mary Beard 
70. Mary Shelley
71. Mary Wollstonecraft
72. Maya Angelou 
73. Maxine Hong Kingston 
74. Monica Ali
75. Muriel Spark 
76. Naomi Mitchison
77. Naomi Wolf
78. Nnedi Okorafor
79. Octavia E. Butler
80. Pat Barker
81. Robin Hobb 
82. Rokheya Shekhawat Hossein 
83. Roxanne Gay
84. Ruth Ozeki
85. Sappho 
86. Sarah B. Pomeroy 
87. Sarah Waters
88. Sheila Rowbotham
89. Shirley Jackson 
90. Simone De Beauvoir
91. Stella Gibbons
92. Sylvia Pankhurst
93. Sylvia Plath
94. Toni Morrison
95. Ursula K. Le Guin
96. Virginia Woolf 
97. Vita Sackville-West
98. Willa Cather
99. Zadie Smith
100. Zoe Fairbairns

Which authors do you recommend most for me to start with? Have you read any of these authors? 

THE READING SLUMP | BOOK DISCUSSION

Hello, everybody, it has been a while!

Recently, I have been in the worst reading slump ever. School and work got the best of me and whenever I had a moment just to do something I like, I would pick sleeping over reading. It now had gotten to the point where I kept buying new books but did not read any of them to which my TBR-shelf now has grown to 29 unread books. Where first I only had 12 unread books on my shelf.

Since reading and book blogging come hand in hand, you understand where the lack of blog posts is coming from. I'm really disappointed that I did not keep up with my blog but really want to pick it up again. 

I still am not sure how to actually get out of the reading slump. My only motivation, besides the fact that I of course like reading, is probably the fact that I'm behind on my reading goal. 

I hope you will hear more from me soon because that will mean I am over my reading slump! If you have any tips or tricks to get over one, please let me know in the comments!

Thanks, guys! 

BOOK REVIEW | ON THE OTHER SIDE BY CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER

Title: On The Other Side
Author: Carrie Hope Fletcher
Published: 2016
Pages: 345
Rating: 3/5

"Evie's soul must be light enough to pass through so she needs to get rid of whatever is making her soul heavy. For Evie, this means unburdening herself of the three secrets that have weighed her down for over fifty years, so she must find a way to reveal them before it's too late. As Evie begins the journey of a lifetime, she learns more about life and love than she ever thought possible, and somehow , some way, she may also find her way back to her long lost love... Evie Snow is eighty-two when she quietly passes away in her sleep, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. It's the way most people wish to leave the world but when Evie reaches the door of her own private heaven, she finds that she's become her twenty-seven-year-old self and the door won't open." 

I was really curious to read this book because Carrie was the person who got me back in to reading. I used to watch every book video of her multiple times. I was so excited to find out that she had written her own novel.

I really, really like the story and the fact that this is not you average love story. It was super cute and whimsical. I really enjoyed the story, it was nothing special just adorable.

The characters were all very likeable and all characters that I would love to be friends with if I would knew them. If you are looking for a cute contemporary which you can fly through I would highly recommend this read. 

BOOK REVIEW | THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK BY CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

Title: The Thing Around Your Neck
Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Published: 2009
Pages: 218
Rating: 4/5

"This is a short story collection, set in Nigeria. In “A Private Experience,” a medical student hides from a violent riot with a poor Muslim woman whose dignity and faith force her to confront the realities and fears she’s been pushing away. In “Tomorrow Is Too Far,” a woman unlocks the devastating secret that surrounds her brother’s death. The young mother at the center of “Imitation” finds her comfortable life in Philadelphia threatened when she learns that her husband has moved his mistress into their Lagos home. And the title story depicts the choking loneliness of a Nigerian girl who moves to an America that turns out to be nothing like the country she expected; though falling in love brings her desires nearly within reach, a death in her homeland forces her to reexamine them."


This is the second short story collection I've ever read and although I didn't have a good first experience when reading 'My True Love Gave To Me', I really loved this short story collection!

All the stories are set in Nigeria, a place I normally never read about in either fiction or non-fiction but something that did intrigue me a lot. When reading the stories it felt like all stories had an important message to give when you had finished the story.

I really love the writing style Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie used and I'm really excited to read more/all of her work. I have 'Purple Hibiscus' on my shelf and I'm very excited to pick it up in the near future!

TOP 5 WEDNESDAY | CURRENT FAVOURITES THAT AREN'T BOOKS

First of all I want to apologise, again, for the lack of blogging. I have been so extremely busy; school, internship and work really got the best of me. But now I am finally in my last week of internship and although I'm sad to leave, I am glad that I will have some time for my own now. Internship just really took a whole lot of my time. Without any further do, today I decided to do a Top 5 Wednesday since my latest posts all have been reviews. These weeks T5W is: current favourites that aren't books. 

Hannibal

First of all, I am absolutely loving the show Hannibal which I'm watching with my boyfriend. It is absolutely creepy and totally disturbing but I really enjoy watching it. It also makes me very curious about the books!

Fernandes Cherry Bouquet

My favourite drink at the moment is definitely 'Fernandes Cherry Bouquet'. I think it's a drink that is only available in the Netherlands and Suriname though...

On My Way by Phil Collins

'On My Way' from the movie Brother Bear was always one of my favourite songs but one I totally forgot about. Recently I rediscovered it and once again I'm absolutely in love with this song!

Disposable Camera

Maybe the most random one; but I love disposable camera's. I really like to take pictures with these because I am for sure that I will look at the pictures a lot more than when they are on the computer.

Mamma Mia

Mamma Mia is one of my favourite films ever and recently I have watched it a couple of times again. Still loving it to bits!

What are your non-book favourites?