Rainy Day Reads

I decided to put a Harry Potter book on the bingo chart because I have been wanting to re-read some Harry Potter for a while. But with all the new exciting books you can easily forget to take the time to re-read old favorites. I decided to go for the first one because I feel like that is the one I have read the least. Or at least it has been the longest since I’ve read it. Whenever I do take the time to re-read Harry Potter I usually start with “The Goblet of Fire” of “The Order of the Phoenix”. But this time I decided to start at the beginning. I might even re-read all of them this year.  I absolutely adore Harry Potter and a review as such will be hard, because I don’t really have anything bad to say about it. The first book is quite short and I was worried about all the plot it had to cover along with world building and character depth and so forth. I thought maybe I remembered it as better than it was, but I’m glad to say I didn’t. It was every bit as good as I expec...

So I know I said a few posts ago that I wasn’t being books these days. But then my favorite online book shop had a sale…and I caved! I bought 8 books, but they all had 20% off, so I couldn’t not buy them, right? First I got the two first books in the Harry Potter series. I bought these, because I have them in Danish, and I really wanted the complete set in English. I don’t know if you can call it a “set” as such, as they are in three different editions….But I actually really like this edition, so I don’t mind the mis-matching set too much. Then I got “Between Shades of Gray” by Ruta Sepetys. I have heard nothing but good things about this book. It is set during WWII, and deals with the deportation of Lithuanians to Siberia on the order of Stalin. I just read the synopsis and the main character is a young girl who encodes her drawings to give her imprisoned father a chance to find them again. Now I want to read it even more! I also got “365 Ways to Change t...