Rainy Day Reads

This topic is going to be a bit hard, because the prompt clearly states that it is characters you are most like, not who you would LIKE to be like. It does allow you to pick individual character traits, though, so I guess that’s my loophole ;)  In no particular order, I would say I am most like:  Hermione Granger from the Harry Potter series. I can definitely recognize myself in her work ethics, her crazy studying and always being on time with her homework. I was such a little goodie two-shoes in school, but I don’t think there is anything wrong with that. I had quite a stress free school life, because I was always on time with assignments, and when occasionally I would completely space out and forget something, the teachers would cut me some slack because of my stellar record. Life tips for you right there! Lyra from His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. As a kid I would make up stories constantly, like Lyra does. I even did writing with two of my friends, drea...

I’ve been seeing videos on Top 5 Wednesday forever on Youtube, and I thought I would finally give it a go. This was created by Gingerreadslainey on Youtube, and there is a Goodreads group where you can keep updated on upcoming topics.  The topic for today is books you DNF’ed, i.e. books you didn’t finish. I’ve only recently started not finishing books, because of various reasons explained here , but I have managed to DNF a few books and here is my top 5. 5 - The Little Friend by Donna Tartt I tried to read this one because of all the good things I heard about Donna Tartt’s writing. And while I did enjoy the writing style, the pace was glacially slow. I read just under half of the book (283 pages to be exact) and nothing had really happened. I had learnt nothing that wasn’t in the blurb, and I lost my patience and gave it up.  4 - Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters This was a TBR jar pick and when I first started reading it, I really enjoyed...