I typically hate making New Year’s resolutions because it’s my belief that you should do so throughout the whole year, but I do still love them because it’s good motivation and something to look back on to see if I’ve accomplished my goals! READING RESOLUTIONS Read more than last year. I really wanted to get to 100 books in 2019, but I didn’t even make it to 75. I’d love to get back to reading 100 books a year – I used […]
Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl I usually do my end of year book awards every year, and this year I decided to go ahead and combine it with Top Ten Tuesday, since the prompt was favorite books read in 2019! Top ten books of 2019 *doesn’t include re-reads Top 5 science fiction Top 5 high fantasy Top 5 urban fantasy Best contemporary Top 5 audiobooks All of these were re-reads! (Aurora is on both lists […]
Last year I saw Cristina @ Girl in the Pages post about her 5 star reading drought (which was originally inspired by Lauren @ Bookmark Lit’s post here), and I thought it was such a great post, so I did one of my own! It was really interesting to see what me 5 star reads looked like for last year, and I definitely want to start doing it every year! 5 star books of 2019 This number is usually low since […]
I’ve been a huge fan of re-reading with audiobooks this year! It frees up time to physically read the books I want to get to sooner, and also gives me another perspective on books I loved. LIFEL1K3 by Jay Kristoff Series: Lifelike #1 Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult Published by Knopf (5.29.2018) Format: Audiobook, 416 pages Source: From Publisher On an island junkyard beneath a sky that glows with radiation, a deadly secret lies buried in the scrap. Seventeen-year-old Eve […]
Trigger Warning: Rape I have some very mixed feelings on this book, which is going to make it super hard to review. I love mythology, so the basis of this book is a total win for me. However, I was not a fan of the writing style at ALL. The prose is very, VERY dry. That was probably my biggest issue with this book. It’s told in past tense, first person – which is usually my favorite, because I tend to connect […]
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff – First of all, there’s no Jay book I would never NOT want desperately to get my hands on. Second, I’m not normally a fan of vamp books so I am DYING to see what Jay does with it! Change my mind, mister Kristoff! TRUEL1F3 by Jay Kristoff – The ending of DEV1AT3 was KILLER! I need to know what happens! Aurora Burning by Jay Kristoff & Amie Kaufman – Um, Aurora Rising […]