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TRY A CHAPTER #1 - Thoughts

I read the first chapter of these 5 books. And this is what I thought of them.

ps. I don’t know what the books are about, and I’m going in blindly.

AND THE MOUNTAINS ECHOED by Khaled Hosseini

The first chapter (15 pages) was a father who told his son a bedtime story about the div. It was really cute, but I have no idea what the book is about. But I am interested in reading more...

A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES by Deborah Harkness

I have this book in dutch, and it’s weird not to read in English. But actually the only reason this book is on my TBR is because my mom loved it and wants me to read it. But since it’s almost 700 pages, I never got around to it.

The first chapter was okay, but I think it was harder to read because it was in dutch. But I will probably read this book (and serie?) because of my mom. But I’m not sure I will read it now...

CARAVAL by Stephanie Garber

So I read the first two chapters of this book, because the first chapter were letters and not so much the story. I liked it and I know this is a book I will fly through. I heard about it when it was all hyped-up and since then I wanted to read it. And I will read it in the near future, I believe.

A THOUSAND PIECES OF YOU by Claudia Gray

This is the book I wanted to read the most before, but never got around to it. So now that I read the first chapter, I am thrilled to continue in this book. Like Caraval I am sure I will fly through this book. And I really hope it matches my expectations, although I don’t know what the book is about.

LINCOLN IN THE BARDO by George Saunders

The last book... and this first chapter was confusing. I have abselutely no idea what it is about, or what even the chapter was about. I was not that into it. But to be fair, I only bought this book because I knew the title from instagram.

CONCLUSION

I am not that into Lincoln in the Bardo, but I am willing to give it a shot at some point, but I’m going to take it off my TBR.

I liked A Discovery of Witches and And The Mountains Echoed. But I’m not going to read them right now.

I was very into Caraval, but the book that I really want to read is A Thousand Pieces of You. So that is what I’m going to do 

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JULY 2018 WRAP UP

1. Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas (4 stars)

2. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (3 stars)

3. Roar by Cora Carmack (4 stars)

4. Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge (3 stars)

Books I read this year: 9

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JULY 2018 BOOK HAUL

1. Caraval by Stephanie Garber

2. Cruel Beauty by Rosamund Hodge

3. Roar by Cora Carmack

4. Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh

5. The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories by F Scott Fitzgerald

6. Final Target by Iris Johansen

7. The Assassin’s Blade by Sarah J Maas

Books I bought this year: 25 Books I already read of this list: 2

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TBR TOP 10 (31.07.2018)

1) The Zookeeper’s Wife by Diane Ackerman 2) Hotel Prison by Jan de Cock 3) Caraval by Stephanie Garber 4) A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray 5) A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 6) And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini 7) Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff 8) The Assassins Blade by Sarah J Maas 9) Reign of the Fallen by Sarah Glenn Marsh 10) Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

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TRY A CHAPTER #1

So I have my TBR top 10 and I don’t know which book I’m going to read next. So I am going to read the first chapter of 5 books who have the best reading on goodreads. And I’m not going to count Illuminae since I already started this book.

So the books are:

1) And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini 2) A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness 3) Caraval by Stephanie Garber 4) A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray 5) Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

I’ll keep you updated

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FEBRUARY 2018 TBR

1. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

2. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

3. Van een andere planeet by Dominique Dumortier

4. A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray

5. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

6. A Discovery of Witchess by Deborah Harkness

7. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

8. Tower of Dawn by Sarah J Maas

9. Inside Out by Marie V. Snyder

10. The Puppet Boy Of Warsaw by Eva Weaver

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JANUARY 2018 WRAP UP

Challenge of the month: “Read a dutch book”

The books I read this month:

1. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz 5 stars

2. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 5 Stars

Books I read this year: 2 2/2 books of my tbr

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JANUARY 2018 BOOK HAUL

1. Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff 

2. Seeker by Arwen Elys Dayton

3. The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

4. Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders

5. The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

6. Van een andere planeet by Dominique Dumortier

Books I bought this year: 6 Books I already read of this list: 0

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JANUARY 2018 TBR

Every month this year I’m putting 10 books that are on my shelf (so books that I own) on my TBR. And hopefully I get to read them, but I still can read whatever I want, if I want to. And at the end of every month I will put up a Wrap Up of all the books that I read that month. And a haul of all the books that I purchased.

1. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe  by  Benjamin Alire Sáenz

2. The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden

3. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo

4.  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol

5. A Thousand Pieces of You by Claudia Gray

6. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

7. A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

8. Tower of Dawn by Sarah J. Maas

9. Hermelijn by Lina van Mieghem

10. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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ITS NATIONAL BOOK LOVERS DAY GUYS

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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! – When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.” (Jane Austen)

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The Library of Nicholas II, tucked away in a corner of the Winter Palace which is now the home of the Государственный Эрмитаж.

This is my favourite room at the Hermitage – there are so many (many) opulent and beautiful rooms here, but this one is one of the smallest and quietest and, in a way, the most thoughtful and carefully crafted in its atmosphere.

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Best reddit comments so far ;)

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Summary of Season Seven, Episode Three

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Bonus:

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missandei listing all of daenerys’s titles and jon’s just like: