#holly bourne books have a special place in my heart

[spvilers]

AM I NORMAL YET? (the spinster club #1)

'You. Evelyn. You're always like, 'I wish I could be like this' or 'I wish I could be more like so-and-so'. You're obsessed with being normal, but that's well boring, and you're extraordinary, Evie. Promise me you'll stop trying to stop stop being you'

- Holly Bourne, Am I Normal Yet?

[study-read-repeat]

Best books of the decade

So because I’m an idiot I just straight up forgot to make this post so I’m doing it now. Thanks to @rayonfrozenwings for the tag!

1. The Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowlilng. I’m not sure how much of this I read this decade, but I know I read most of it in 2010. They were the first “real” books I ever read and they have a special place in my heart just for that. 

2. A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas. Acomaf is to this day one of the best books I have ever read, but this whole series is just great. I’m super invested in these characters and I can’t wait for the Nessian book. 

3. Red, White and Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston. Absolutely amazing. Made me laugh, made me cry, gave me the most relatable piece of text about bisexuality ever. 

4. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer. Look, it’s iconic and shaped my reading life forever and got me back into reading.

5. The Hating Game by Sally Thorne. *insert Lady Gaga adjective gif here* that’s it, that’s the book. 

6. The Manifesto On How To Be Interesting by Holly Bourne. All of her books really belong here, but this will have to do because I had to pick and choose and this one was the best and most impactful. But seriously, just read all of her books. 

7. The Shadowhunter Chronicles by Cassandra Clare. Another one of the series that got me back into reading. I loved this when I started and it’s only improved over time with all of the new books being released. 

8. Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella. It’s hilarious, it’s romantic, it’s occasionally sad. It’s just a really fun to read. 

9. Did I Mention I Love You by Estelle Maskame. This just pulled me in with each installment and made me keep reading until I finshed the book that same day. And it did this with every installment of the series. 

10. Hoe God Verdween uit Jorwert by Geert Mak. Very different from the rest of the books on this list. It’s a non-fiction book about the demise of a small town in Friesland, The Netherlands after world war two. As someone who lived in that part of the Netherlands for most of my life and who has a lot of family in towns like Jorwert this was a story that hit very close to home for me. It was very good , but also very sad.

So yeah, these were the best books of the decade/my life for me. It’s a bit late to tag people, but if you see this and like it, please feel free to do it. 

[beatvenueyani]

Noone tagged me but I saw @zephyreden and @pastelm3m3s do it and I wanted to do it too, so consider me tagged by them uwu

rules: answer the questions and tag 20 followers u want to get to know better! (Noone tagged me so rules don’t apply ~)

name: Yani

nickname: Bunnini, Buni, Oyster-chan

height: around 155 cm or 5'2" for all yall americans uwu

ethnicity: Belgian, but is that an ethnicity?

favorite fruit(s): I really like fruits, its a shame i dont eat them more... I really like bananas and pears.

favorite season: probably spring or summer, but all seasons have something special about them. ~

favorite book: “de wilde avonturen van het blauwe konijntje” is my favorite childhood book, its about a blue bunny. For the rest perhaps Soulmates by Holly Bourne, it changed my view on soulmates and i really like it. There are other books but idk the names at this moment and i dont really wanna go and search for them...

favorite flower(s): forget-me-not’s have a special place in my heart tbh, but I really like all kinds of flowers like lily-of-the-valley, roses, cant really think about any at the moment but im sure there are more...

favorite animal(s): bunnies, cats, owls, snakes, dogs...

favorite beverage: water and chocolate milk, I dont really drink anything else

fave fictional characters: o boy, euhm My favs are definitely Osomatsu, Karamatsu, Todomatsu, ((Jyushimatsu, Choromatsu and Ichimatsu are also favs but slightly less)), I really like Homura-chan (from episode 9), totoko, ((all the others from osomatsu-san, Iyami @the-human-boomerang )), I also like Kaoru, Hikaru and Haruhi from Ouran high school host club

number of blankets u sleep with: 2, but one of them is at the end of my bed for if i were to get cold.

dream trip: Ah I would love to travel around the world, because there are so many amazing sight i want to see. But most of all i would love to go to Japan one day.

blog created: aah i dont know when exactly but I know I created it because I wanted to follow a nice artist that I really admired, I didn’t start using tumblr until two years ago in the summer of 2015.

number of followers: 224, where did everyone even come from???

i nominate: noone unless they wanna do it