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Lazy TBR Challenge October 2018

Goal: 265 - I managed to get there...by deleting 3 books.... Books finished Burn for Burn by Jenny Han (TBR book) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (TBR book) Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry (TBR book) The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker The Joy of Tax by Richard Murphy (TBR book) Gemina by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (TBR book) Books DNF’ed Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (TBR book) Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao Books added to my TBR King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo Trainwreck by Sady Doyle Books currently reading Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World by Rachel Swaby All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake (TBR book) From Twinkle With Love by Sandhya Menon Severed. A History of Heads Lost and Heads Founds by Frances Larson Books deleted Frida. A biography og Frida Kahlo by Hayde
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Lazy TBR Challenge September 2018

September was way better than August, but there is definitely room for improvement still. I finished five books and currently reading 8…! That’s a lot for me to have going all at once and I do admit that a few of them aren’t really being read right now.   I had to delete one book, so now my TBR is at 270.  Books finished Invictus by Ryan Graudin American Panda by Gloria Chao Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson (TBR book) Easy by Tammara Webber (reread) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (TBR book) Books added to my TBR King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo Books currently reading The Joy of Tax by Richard Murphy (TBR book) Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World by Rachel Swaby All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake (TBR book) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (TBR book) Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (TBR book) Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë  Books de
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Lazy TBR Challenge August

August was ROUGH! I had an exam to resit and then a 3 week course on the other side of the country for my trainee position. Having school and classes all day and being away from my home comforts my brain was not wired for reading too much when the evening rolled around, so I only managed to get a couple of books off my TBR by reading them. I had to delete 4….but I’m pretty happy about the situation now and just hope September will be better. So now my TBR stands at 275 books.   Books finished La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles (TBR book) Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi (TBR book) Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner  The Rules of Persuasion by Amity Hope Books DNF’ed None…But I will admit that some of them are lingering a bit on my Currently Reading list… Books added to my TBR None! Wooo go me! Books currently reading The Joy of Tax by Richard Murphy (TBR book) Headstrong:
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Lazy TBR Challenge July 2018

Books finished The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 5 stars (TBR book) I absolutely loved this book, even though I was a bit apprehensive because of the hype. But then again not a lot of people seem to have read it but those that have absolutely rave about it. And now I’m raving too. The book takes place in two different timelines; modern day and from the 1950s onward. It deals with what constitutes a family, LGBTQIA-themes, forgiveness and family history all shrouded in the glitz and glamour of old Hollywood.  Who Cooked the Last Supper? The Women’s History of the World - 5 stars (TBR book) This is a non-fiction about women’s role in the history of the world. Not the newest resource, as it was published in 1988, but still really well written and informative.  Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli - 3 stars (TBR book) I finally got my hands on a copy of this book which has been all the rage since the movie came out. And I was sligh
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TBR Update June 2018

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Well, July is here. Am I the only one who is taken aback? I for sure thought I had a least a couple more days…But nope! Here we are! And surprise, surprise I did not manage to get my TBR down by 5. Well, actually I did but then I added more books, so now my TBR stands at 287. Meaning I have to delete 2 books off of it.   First lets go through all the books I read in June: They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera - 4 stars (TBR book) The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Johnson - 4 stars (TBR book) One of Us Is Lying by Karen McManus - 4 stars (TBR book) Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart - 3 stars Far From the Tree by Robin Benway - 5 stars My Lady Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton and Jodi Meadows - 3 stars and by the skin of my teeth I managed to finish I Believe in a Thing Called Love by Maurene Goo last night and I gave it 2 stars.  Aside from finishing
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Getting my TBR under control...

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I am a bit of a Youtube junkie when it comes to TBR challenges. I love watching other people get their TBR under control and The Closet Unhaul series on BooksandLala's channel was some of my favorite content last year. Basically she had an entire closet full of books she had bought when she first started doing Youtube and hadn't gotten around to reading yet. So she would watch her hauls from the same month 2 years earlier and any books she hadn't read she would have to read or get rid of. Sadly she isn't really doing that anymore but I have found another creator who does something similar - Drinking By My Shelf does Balancing the Books and is all about balancing the books she brings onto her TBR and the books she removes from it (by reading or unhauling). Anyway...I love watching that type of video (if you have any recommendations please let me know) and I thought I would try something similar myself. I'm starting out slow because I'm super lazy and don't
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TBR Jar DNF Review: Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger

I had high expectations of this one, because “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque is my all time favorite book (along with “Pride and Prejudice” by Jane Austen) and this one promised something similar.   Once I got around to it though, it turned out to be a meticulous diary of trench life, but instead of the intense emotions and philosophical ponderings on life of Remarque this was a rundown of the technical workings of the trench. It was one long list of “then this person got shot in the head, then we built another shelter, then these two people got blown up, then we laid out some barbed wire, then this one was shot in nose and bled out, then it rained and stuff got muddy.” I wasn’t very far into it when I gave up, because even 50 pages of that was just too much. It was weirdly cold and unemotional and he listed deaths with the same punctuality as improvements on their shelters. I flipped through the rest of it and it seemed pretty much the same so I decided t
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