#readingchallenge2020

[missfliss88]

Trying for one more book before the year ends.

[chexawe]

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[owlnation-reads]

I’ve been reading so many books lately and it honestly feels great. Like I haven’t read like this since I started college and I’m honestly impressed with myself. I’ve been lucky that most of my classes are finished so I’m less busy now. Like I actually finished three books since Thanksgiving, one of which was an ARC from BOtM

[imagine-lilareads]

THE BEAUTIFUL by Reneé Ahdieh, SPOILERS!!

[admiralgiggles]

Number 15 “The Hellbound Heart” by Clive Barker though most of you may know it by it’s movie title, “Hellraiser.” There were some differences between the book and the film but nothing too crazy, oh except I’m pretty sure Pinhead was a chick and not really in charge. I’m not mad that they switched it up for the film because Doug Bradley was legendary! If you are looking for a dark read this will do just fine.

[narga]

Đọc được 10 cuốn trong 4 tháng, trước phải mất 1 năm. 😆 (Phàm nhân tu tiên, Tiên giới thiên đọc cùng tiến độ sáng tác trong 3 năm 7 tháng.)

[mypineappledreams]

Book 3 of 2020: Tamas by Bhisham Sahni . . ‘Listen! All Indians are irritable, they lose their tempers easily, they kill for religion, they’re all individualistic and... and they all like white-skinned women!’ . . #quarantinereads #readingchallenge2020 #bhishamsahni #tamas #bookstagram #preindependence https://www.instagram.com/p/B-umBo8Fn2_/?igshid=w4nw8qpsb1i3

[runawayrowan]

January... you’ve been great! #bookstagram #readingchallenge2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/B8ABalungGM/?igshid=l85hrmjq9lr4

[scholarlysoldier]

Bit of a slower than anticipated start to my 2020 reading challenge. It’s been a busy month of getting moved in and settled into my new apartment (very pleased with how my reading corner turned out though! 😍) and the tempo with course I was teaching was quite high up until this week. So with that in mind, reading took a bit of a back seat. • Regardless, I was able to read three really good books to kick off 2020! These included the 4th book in Richard Sharpe series where Ensign Sharpe finds himself fighting under Lord Horatio Nelson at the battle of Trafalgar, A compilation of some of Malcolm Gladwell’s most prolific articles from his writings at the New York Times, and a re-read from when I first started University where Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield explains how he become an Astronaut and offers friendly advice on how anybody on Earth my achieve there goals. • Hopefully I can match this reading output with another busy month ahead of me. I’m flying out to Kingston, Ontario for a course in the morning for a couple of weeks and then right back into teaching a field oriented Army Leadership Course when I return. Doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for reading! 🤷‍♂️ #bookstagram #januaryreads #readingchallenge2020 #readingcorner #newplace #sharpestrafalgar #bernardcornwell #malcolmgladwell #whatthedogsaw #chrishadfield #astronautsguidetolifeonearth (at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8CqS2xpGwO/?igshid=1jyy7iatw2n91

[putputies-blog]

Judul: Milea - Suara dari Dilan Penulis: @pidibaiq Penerbit: @pastelbooks.id Tgl baca: 1/03/19 - 22/03/19 Novel ini mengambil sudut pandang dari Dilan. Karena dua buku sebelumnya itu menggunakan sudut pandang Milea. Jadi semacam penjelasan mengenai apa yg Dilan rasakan dan alami yg sebelumnya diceritakan di Dilan 1990 & Dilan 1991. Menurutku pribadi, sikap Dilan memang gengsian seperti yg dikatakan salah satu tokoh di dalam cerita yaitu Remi Moore. Seandainya Dilan mau berusaha untuk menjalin hubungan kembali dan menghancurkan sebuah kerinduan yg amat dalam, bisa saja Milea dan Dilan dapat bersama kembali. Lagi2 memang karena mendengar kabar burung yg tak jelas hingga memiliki prasangka buruk dsb. Dan tak mencoba untuk menanyakan yg sebenarnya. Yah walaupun menanyakan hal itu disaat waktu untuk kembali tak ada lagi, setidaknya Dilan sudah lega (menurutku yg sok tahu). Memang sangat disayangkan hubungan mereka berdua. Tetapi mau gimana lagi, kalau memang bukan jodohnya. #review #novel #buku #book #bookreview #indonesiannovel #dilan #diadilanku #suaradaridilan #noveldilan #goodreads #readingchallenge2020 #bookstagram #bookloves #bibliophile #bookaholic #bookworm #booksniffer #librocubicularist https://www.instagram.com/p/B8BzAHOAqZE/?igshid=10yx8u45t9tv0

[motherhood-reads]

Book #2 of 2020

If I Never Met You - Mhairi McFarlane

Book #2 of 2020

If I Never Met You - Mhairi McFarlane

I knew I was onto a winner simply seeing Mhairi's name on the cover of this book. You should probably know I'm a right old Scrooge when it comes to parting with much more than three quid for a book on my Kindle, so I will only do it if I know it's worth it. (Beth O'Leary's The Flatshare was one of these, as was Dolly Alderton's Everything I Know About Love - both undeniably brilliant!) I clicked 'buy' and heard the knowing coin-jangle as 5.99 left my Monzo account.

Hastily securing the best seat on the sofa (bedtime - done, packed lunches - done, school bag - checked, old fruit removed, and letter signed), I flopped down in exhaustion; the kind that can only come after a teacher's first day back at work. And from the first chapter I knew this book certainly had more promise than anything Channel 4 could offer me on a cold January evening.

If I Never Met You had already generated a fair bit of #bookblogger buzz and rightly so. It is so much more than a romcom - it's a middle-finger-up-to-misogyny, it's a big fat YES to realising your best friend can be more of a soul mate than your boyfriend* and it is a great wodge of don't-judge-a-book-by-it's-cover, with regards to men. Sometimes the nice ones turn out to be dicks. Sometimes the shitty ones are aren't actually all that bad, after all.

*I have best friend/soul mate. We met (like Laurie and Emily) at university. I think I realised she was a keeper in our 2nd year when I sicked up a bit of battered sausage on my bedroom floor and she cleaned it up. No questions asked. She was, well is, the ying to my yang, the Morcombe to my Wise. And when we were 21, she picked me up and dusted me off when I was left - dumped, pregnant and in a Nandos. And luckily for me she has stuck round every since.

I honestly tried to make book last, but found myself reading 70% of it in one go, staying up till 1am (on a school night, no less!), which is praise in itself. It angered me (grr bloody men!), made me laugh and gave me the fuzzies. I really loved it.

Completely unputdownable.

Now... Mhairi, babe. When's the next one out?!

[meredithsreadingchallenge]

Books 1 & 2 of the 2020 Reading Challenge: “The Sisters Grimm”

Welcome to the first blog review of my 2020 Reading Challenge! Today, I will be sharing with you two books from one of my favorite series, “The Sisters Grimm”.

There are going to be spoilers. You have been warned!

“The Sisters Grimm” Books 2 & 3: “The Unusual Suspects” and “The Problem Child”

Author: Michael Buckley

Book Type: Novel

Page Length: 292 pages (Book 2) and 296 (Book 3)

Genre:  Children’s Fiction, Fantasy, potentially Fan Fiction.

Reading Level (estimated by opinion, grade level, and content): 6th or 7th grade+

How Many Days Did It Take to read?

Book 2: Jan. 3-Jan. 5 (2 days).

Book 3: Jan. 6-Jan.7 (1 day).

 A Brief Summary of the books: MORE SPOILERS

Book 2: Sabrina and Daphne enroll in a new school three weeks after the events of book 1, but soon find trouble tagging along the way. A series of murders in her school lead the Grimms to believe the Scarlet Hand is influencing a new Everafter to attack the humans, so it’s up to the family to find the culprit before anyone else is in danger.

Book 3: After using the Match Girl’s matches to teleport to her parents, Sabrina learns that Little Red Riding Hood, typically one of the good guys, has been keeping her parents hostage with her new pet kitty, the Jabberwocky. She must then find a way to use magic to save them from the little girl, for it’s hard to fight a magical person without it. With the help of her sister, Puck, and her Uncle Jack, the family searches for the pieces of the Vorpal blade to make sure Little Red doesn’t add Granny Relda or Mr. Canis to her make-believe family.

Spoiler Summary of the series:

Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sisters who recently move in with a relative they never heard of in their life. Their parents disappeared over a year ago, and the girls had been exchanging foster homes faster than returning items at your local Walmart. When Sabrina learns that she is a descendant of the Brothers Grimm, her parents were kidnapped by the Scarlet Hand (an organization of Everafters that want to hurt humans and rule the world), and that all the fairytale characters—called Everafters—live in a little town by the name of Ferryport Landing, her world is turned upside down. She and her sister must solve mysteries on her new home so that they can find their parents again and stop the Scarlet Hand from hurting anyone ever again.

Review Questions:

 1.     Did Both Books Have a Compelling Plot?

Yes, these books do have compelling plots. I will address this down the line in question 6, but the plot is simple for readers to understand. I could write the major plot points on a timeline and still understand where the stories are going.

2.     Did Both Books Have Consistent and Believable Dialogue?

Yes, indeed. Buckley keeps the characters’ tone, motivations, and vocabulary into account, so the reader understands who’s talking and why. I find the dialogue to be quite entertaining.

3.     Did I Care About the Characters?

This is more of a yes and no question. I do care about what happens to Sabrina, Daphne, Mr. Canis, Puck, and Relda Grimm in the stories. However, I don’t feel sympathy for most of the Everafters in the town because the point of view is from Sabrina. She is a very tense person and doesn’t trust anyone easily. I don’t get attached immediately to other characters unless she approves of them.

4.     Are the Illustrations Engaging?

Yes! I love Peter Ferguson’s sketches! The style is consistent, cartoonish, and unique alongside the text. I think they add great details to the book as well since they’re about fairytale characters.

5.     Is there an index or bibliography included at the end?

Yes, the first three books include a short guide in the back of the book about a brief history of the fairytale, short questions to test your knowledge, a couple of questions to write your own fairytales, and a section of the resources for writing the book.

6.     What Did I Learn While Reading? [spoilers!]

I think two of the most important concepts I could understand as an adult is prejudice and addiction from the two books. The main plot point, if I’m not mistaken, from each book is Sabrina learns a significant lesson in growing up while interacting with the mysteries and Everafters. In book two, she understood that she did not need to prejudice towards every Everaftre in town based on the actions of one bad group, and she also learned how to control her anger. In book three, she struggled with becoming addicted to using magic because she was insecure about her capabilities as a powerful person. It took a lot of strength to turn away magic so she did not suffer the consequences, for magic always has a price to pay to use it.

7.     Why is do I consider this series a fanfiction?

I consider this series a fanfiction because it elaborates on the fairytale world established by authors, like the Grimms, but it’s pretty good to read. It includes original characters with their own motivations, an extended point of view from the fairytale characters, and it has its own plot for readers to follow. The genre, technically, is mystery and fantasy, but because it concerns fairytales from different authors in history, I would also categorize it as a fanfiction, too.

8.     Have I read these books before?

Yes, I read this series when I was in middle school. I was the intended audience for reading the books, and I enjoy reading and watching fantasy stories. There’s nothing sweeter than a happily ever after!

9.     How Many Stars Do I Give it?

I give both books 5 stars.

10.  Would I recommend this book/mini-series/series to other readers?

Yes, I would definitely recommend this series for anyone to at least read the first 3 books. In my opinion, books 1-3 establish a great connection with the world of Ferryport Landing as well as determine if the reader would like to continue following Sabrina’s journey. I also say age doesn’t matter much when it comes to reading this series. There were a lot of jokes, themes, and plot points that I understood better as an adult versus a teenager.  

What else am I currently reading?

“It”: no current update.

“Girl, Stop Apologizing”:no current update yet, as well. I will post Excuse 3 and 4 hopefully next week.

“The Sisters Grimm: Once Upon a Crime”: I will start the fourth book in the series when I get my reviews done! :)

[mooberryink]

》𝕐𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕝𝕪 𝕨𝕣𝕒𝕡 𝕦𝕡 QOTD 》Which book(s) had the biggest impact on you last year? Happy New Year, book dragons! Just a quick post in celebration of completing my 50/50 @goodreads reading challenge last night (only just), then I’m off to celebrate the day with fam. A more in depth discussion of my reading intentions for this year to come. I wish you peace & health & more time to read in 2022! 🤎🤎 xo Noelani 2021 Top 5 》 ▪︎The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern ▪︎This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone ▪︎Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra ▪︎A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness ▪︎The Book of Yōkai by Michael Dylan Foster #bookstagrammersunite #bookworms #bookwormsofinstagram #booksbooksbooks #bookstack #wrapup #topreads #bestof #readingchallenge2020 #bookchallenge #goodreads #bookbloggers #bookpost #letsread #mooberryink #bookcommunity #bookrec #bookstoread #classicbook #literature #booklist #favebook #favereads #bye2021 #hello2022 https://www.instagram.com/mooberryink/p/CYM-b2lPoYL/?utm_medium=tumblr

[my-hand-made-tale]

First book finished for 2020. This was a book I felt I needed to read as it is considered a classic, however my advise would be to anyone thinking of reading it not to bother. It is so boring and repetetive due to the nature of the journal writing style and I really had to force myself to keep going with it. The story can be summed up in about 10 pages but dragged on for 389 pages that, someone aptly, drained the life out of me. Glad to finally have this one crossed off my long list. #dracula #bramstoker #oxfordworldsclassics #goodreads #readingchallenge2020 #goodreadsreadingchallenge #goodreadschallenge2020 https://www.instagram.com/p/B68YeWHFpfeoyiZcWE601Xe5rjhZ9D1DVuL4pU0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[imagine-lilareads]

THE PROPHECY by Jennifer L. Armentrout, SPOILERS!!

[admiralgiggles]

Number 11 “Dreamseller: An Addiction Memoir” by Brandon Novak w/ Joe Frantz

This book takes an unfiltered look at the highs and lows of one mans struggle with heroin addiction. Though not every addiction story has a happy ending, eventually (fortunately) this one did. Brandon Novak is now a certified interventionist w/ over 4 years of sobriety under his belt!