I'm particapating in a readalong in June!

I will be participating in the read-along in June with the wonderful Ange. In this video, she explains what is going to happen throughout the month. 





Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156538.North_and_South?ac=1&from_search=true

When her father leaves the Church in a crisis of conscience, Margaret Hale is uprooted from her comfortable home in Hampshire to move with her family to the north of England. Initially repulsed by the ugliness of her new surroundings in the industrial town of Milton, Margaret becomes aware of the poverty and suffering of the local mill workers and develops a passionate sense of social justice. This is intensified by her tempestuous relationship with the mill-owner and self-made man, John Thornton, as their fierce opposition over his treatment of his employees masks a deeper attraction.

Until next time, happy reading! 

Books I finished in May 2018

May was a really good reading month for me. A lot of my progress was achieved by audiobooks. So I really like the Nextory App. If any of you want to have a good app for audiobooks, I really recommend this one. Anyway, on to the books! That's the reason you're reading my blog after all.





Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10818853-fifty-shades-of-grey

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.

Erotic, amusing, and deeply moving, the Fifty Shades Trilogy is a tale that will obsess you, possess you, and stay with you forever.

Rating: 3/5 stars
My thoughts:  
** spoiler alert **

 Problematic things: 
Repetitive
The fact that Ana says that Mr Grey is a stalker & then says; oh but he’s so beautiful.
All the characters say that they are all beautiful all the time & they are not well developed.
The story goes from cliches to new cliches.
Did not like any of the characters.

Better things: 
I enjoyed the sex parts & the relationship between Ana & Mr Grey. 



Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/792161.War_Horse
A powerful tale of war, redemption and a hero's journey.

In 1914, Joey, a beautiful bay-red foal with a distinctive cross on his nose, is sold to the army and thrust into the midst of the war on the Western Front. With his officer, he charges toward the enemy, witnessing the horror of the battles in France. But even in the desolation of the trenches, Joey's courage touches the soldiers around him and he is able to find warmth and hope. But his heart aches for Albert, the farmer's son he left behind. Will he ever see his true master again?

Raiting: 5/5 stars 
My thoughts: 
It was so good! I wish there were more pages though. I’d love to read more books like this one. I recommend it to everyone!  

 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6339664-hush-hush 
A SACRED OATH
A FALLEN ANGEL
A FORBIDDEN LOVE

Romance was not part of Nora Grey's plan. She's never been particularly attracted to the boys at her school, no matter how hard her best friend, Vee, pushes them at her. Not until Patch comes along. With his easy smile and eyes that seem to see inside her, Patch draws Nora to him against her better judgment.

But after a series of terrifying encounters, Nora's not sure whom to trust. Patch seems to be everywhere she is and seems to know more about her than her closest friends. She can't decide whether she should fall into his arms or run and hide. And when she tries to seek some answers, she finds herself near a truth that is way more unsettling than anything Patch makes her feel.

For she is right in the middle of an ancient battle between the immortal and those that have fallen - and, when it comes to choosing sides, the wrong choice will cost Nora her life.

Raiting: 3/5 stars
My thoughts:  
Full of tropes, very slow in the beginning & I didn't find any of the characters that interesting. I thought I would like it more than I did.

 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29430049-paris-for-one-and-other-stories

Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's never even been on a romantic weekend away--to anywhere--before. Traveling abroad isn't really her thing. But when Nell's boyfriend fails to show up for their mini-vacation, she has the opportunity to prove everyone--including herself--wrong. Alone in Paris, Nell finds a version of herself she never knew existed: independent and intrepid. Could this turn out to be the most adventurous weekend of her life? Funny, charming, and irresistible, Paris for One is quintessential Jojo Moyes--as are the other stories that round out the collection. 

Raiting: 3/5 
My thoughts: I loved the first & the last story in this book. But I felt like it missed something. 



Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35441934-vem-bryr-sig
 Djurrätt är en hjärtefråga för veganen Therése och hon skildrar här hur det gick till när hon blev medveten om djurens situation och stegvis blev vegetarian och vegan. Det blir en personlig berättelse om ett uppvaknande och även en introduktion till ett djurvänligare liv.

Okej, alla människor kanske inte vill bli veganer, men var och en kan hitta sin grej att engagera sig i. Det handlar om hur man vill leva sitt liv, vad som är viktigt för en själv. Klyschan stämmer ju: ingen kan göra allt, men alla kan göra något. För allt hänger ihop, det gäller att ta ansvar och orka bry sig.

Raiting: 5/5 
 My thoughts:  
This book gave me such a boost. I’m so happy that I stopped hurting animals & thanks to this book I feel more proud than ever before for making that decision. She’s wonderful & I absolutely love her! 

  

Goodreads:  https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30230923-arthur 

When you are racing 435 miles through the jungles and mountains of South America, the last thing you need is a stray dog tagging along. But that's exactly what happened to Mikael Lindnord, captain of a Swedish adventure racing team, when he threw a scruffy but dignified mongrel a meatball one afternoon.
When they left the next day, the dog followed. Try as they might, they couldn't lose him - and soon Mikael realised that he didn't want to. Crossing rivers, battling illness and injury, and struggling through some of the toughest terrain on the planet, the team and the dog walked together towards the finish line, where Mikael decided he would save Arthur and bring him back to his family in Sweden, whatever it took.

My raiting: 5/5 stars
My thoughts: 
A really touching story between two souls who found safety & love. A really sweet story.  

 

 Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12600138-ready-player-one

In the year 2044, reality is an ugly place. The only time teenage Wade Watts really feels alive is when he's jacked into the virtual utopia known as the OASIS. Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within this world's digital confines, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them. When Wade stumbles upon the first clue, he finds himself beset by players willing to kill to take this ultimate prize. The race is on, and if Wade's going to survive, he'll have to win—and confront the real world he's always been so desperate to escape. 

Raiting: 5/5 stars
My thoughts:
 I loved the references in this book. It was a real reminder of my young self. Great characters & a wonderful time.  

 

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13158800-the-light-between-oceans?ac=1&from_search=true

A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel that opens in 1918 Australia - the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds.

Australia, 1926. After four harrowing years fighting on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns home to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel. Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby.

Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them. 

Raiting: 5/5 stars 
My thoughts: That ending was heartbreaking 😭! A great story with wonderful characters. I loved this one so much. 

I really hope that the upcoming month is just as good! I loved reading this much.  

Until next time,  
  

Update book group | Reading June

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18623531-n-finns-det-hopp

På liv och död

Året är 1953 och polioepidemin härjar. Ella-Kristin på sjuksköterskeutbildningen får hoppa in och praktisera på det fullbelagda lasarettet i Ekstad. Hon oroar sig för fästmannen Carl vars läkarkunskaper sätts på hårda prov och det blir en höst när många liv slås i spillror och friska unga människor drabbas. Ella-Kristins och Carls förlovning stundar men de har svårt att få tid över för varann. Och hur kommer förlovningsmiddagen gå för två med så olika bakgrund?
Vi möter läkarfrun Nancy Brandh, som helst vill tillbringa tiden framför spegeln eller på Drotts kappmagasin på jakt efter en ny klänning; tvåbarnsmor Sonja Bengtsson som söker vård för en otäck knöl i bröstet, Kåre Hjelm, överläkare på Epidemin; Ulla och Gittan, som går sista året i flickskolan och gärna spenderar sina eftermiddagar på fiket Atlantic och många många fler.
Än finns det hopp är första delen i en romanserie om människorna kring ett lasarett - en värld fylld av spänning och allvar, skildrat med ett stort mått av tidsfärg och nostalgi. 

We are going to read this in June, let me know if you want to participate.

Until next time,

Reading vlog | MAY 2018

C O N T A C T

Blog: http://b00kaholic12.blogspot.se/
Goodreads: B00kaholic12
Instagram: mouiiyo
Twitter: marwez3

Let's chat down below! Happy reading! 

BOOKGROUP UPDATE JUNE

Hello readers,

I wanted to tell you that the 1st of June we'll start reading The light between oceans - M.L Stedman




   A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel that opens in 1918 Australia - the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds. 
   Australia, 1926. After four harrowing years fighting on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns home to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on Janus Rock, nearly half a day's journey from the coast. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes once a season and shore leaves are granted every other year at best, Tom brings a young, bold, and loving wife, Isabel.       
   Years later, after two miscarriages and one stillbirth, the grieving Isabel hears a baby's cries on the wind. A boat has washed up onshore carrying a dead man and a living baby. 
    Tom, whose records as a lighthouse keeper are meticulous and whose moral principles have withstood a horrific war, wants to report the man and infant immediately. But Isabel has taken the tiny baby to her breast. Against Tom's judgment, they claim her as their own and name her Lucy. When she is two, Tom and Isabel return to the mainland and are reminded that there are other people in the world. Their choice has devastated one of them. 

Hardcover, 343 pages

Published July 31st 2012 by Scribner 

 

I have seen the movie & I loved it. I'm so happy that I found it on audiobook so I can experience it.   

 

Until next time, happy reading!  

Nextory

Hi my dear bookish friends,


I have some good news. Yesterday I decided to get the App Nextory. Now I can listen to audiobooks & read e-books as much as i want. I have already started using it everyday. I usually listen to books at 2X speed, it's pretty fast which I really enjoy.  Unfortunately I don't really like to read e-books on my phone. It's a personal preference. Hopefully I can finish books quicker & I also stopped annotating, it made me fall in to slumps. Maybe I'll pick it up when I have more time than I have now.




Until next time, happy reading! 

I WON MY FIRST GIVEAWAY!

Hello bookworms!

Check out Elenas channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG2fmuUAmFVV_kGZE6jXJwg

C O N T A C T

Blog: http://b00kaholic12.blogspot.se/
Goodreads: B00kaholic12
Instagram: mouiiyo
Twitter: marwez3

Let's chat down below! Happy reading! 

APRIL BOOKHAUL

Here's my fellow booktuber, check her out: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVff0mKdudysnhpVm4h4NQA

C O N T A C T

Blog: http://b00kaholic12.blogspot.se/
Goodreads: B00kaholic12
Instagram: mouiiyo
Twitter: marwez3

Let's chat down below! Happy reading! 

Dewey's 24 hour readathon ANNOUNCEMENT | 2018

DEWEY'S 24 HOUR READATHON 2018

28TH APRIL 

00.00 ' a clock

Read as much as possible in 24 hours!

Let me know what you'll be reading. Until next time, happy reading!

THE ONE READATHON TO RULE THEM ALL | ANNOUNCEMENT 2018

THE ONE READATHON TO RULE THEM ALL 

FANTASY READATHON

29TH APRIL - 12 MAY 

CHALLENGES

1. Read a book written by a POC author. 
2. Read a fantasy book with a POC main character. 
3. Read a book under 300 pages. 
4. Read a book over 1,000 pages ( Try to find a mass paperback of a large book )
5. Read a stand alone.
6. Read a book written by a non-English speaking author.
7. Read a book set in a non-European location. 
8. Read a book with a LGBTQIA rep. 

Let me know what you'll be reading. Until next time, happy reading!

Cosy reading night Announcement

Cosy reading night is taking place, 

20th april 

7-9 a clock

Grab a book, some tea & relax for these hours. 

 

Until next time, happy reading!

Book group update!

Hello, readers!

Me & my book group will be reading Barnbruden - Anna Larsson. Our plan is to read one chapter a day.





https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17997697-barnbruden

Det är juni 1774 och det kungliga linjeskeppet Sofia Albertina närmar sig Sveriges kust. Ombord finns Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotta, femton år gammal och den yngsta kungliga bruden i Sveriges historia.

Den omsvärmade adelsfröken Sophie von Fersen förbannar tyst sin mor som tvingat med henne på resan. Hon vill inte passa upp på en trilskande tysk barnrumpa, i tankarna är hon på bal i prins Fredriks armar.

I Stockholm förbereder Gustav III och hans hov ett ståtligt mottagande. Förväntningarna på flickan är höga, hon ska gifta sig med kungens bror Karl och skänka landet den tronarvinge man så länge väntat på.

Och långt under slottets vackra paradvåningar vaknar Pottungen – den stumma flickan som tar hand om andras skit.

Det är upptakten till journalisten Anna Laestadius Larssons debutroman Barnbruden, som är första delen i en planerad trilogi. En berättelse om vänskap, svek, maktlystnad och frihetstörst som för läsaren tillbaka till den gustavianska tiden, skildrad ur kvinnornas perspektiv.

Hardcover, 410 pages

Published August 27th 2013 by Piratförlaget

 

Qoutes - Outlander

“And if your life is a suitable exchange for my honor, tell me why my honor is not a suitable exchange for your life?”

 Outlander - Diana Gabaldon, page 588.

Qoutes - The chaos of stars

“ I yank my hand away. It’s too much. I can’t- I can’t feel this. I can’t do this. I stand & glee the room before he can finish saying my name, run out of his house, start the long walk home with tears in my eyes. I don’t need a new person to suddenly spring up under my skin & push out who I was, who I’ve already decided to be. Those feelings have no place in my life & I will not let myself be a fool in love, with love, let it take over & destroy me. Love isn’t magic. Just like my family, just like my place in the universe, it’s something that I can’t keep, can’t make last.” 

"Gee, thanks, Whore-us." He can't hear how I spell it, but it makes me feel better just knowing. 
Page, 11 

Quick as a bunny. I'd like to find the bunny that inspired my mother's favorite saying & skin it alive. 
Page, 16

It's hard to breathe with my mother's tentacles reaching out to strangle me from across the world, after all. 
Page, 44

Thank you Hathor & Whore-us. I'm about to run & bleach my eyeballs. 
Page, 21 

I can't pin any hopes on this timid shell of a god. 
Page, 20

Normally I wouldn't worry, but a woman is never more vulnerable than when she is with child & giving birth.

You mean lessons on incest? Betrayal? Jealousy? Murder? It doesn't count as dying if you come back to life, which everyone always managed to do.  

 Who would care enough to hurt me? In the grand scheme of things, I don't matter. At all. 
Page, 23

I am winning. Idiot gods, I am going to win.
Page, 25

Read book exchange with a friend

Hello, fellow readers!

I have spoken to a friend of mine that is interested in exchanging a read book. I will read this book first & annotate in it. When I'm done, I'll send it to my friend that annotates & then sends it back to me. It's a great way to experience a book together & to compare our thoughts.
I'm reading 2 chapters a day but I haven't started yet.



Goodreads:https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9634967-robopocalypse

In the near future, at a moment no one will notice, all the dazzling technology that runs our world will unite and turn against us. Taking on the persona of a shy human boy, a childlike but massively powerful artificial intelligence known as Archos comes online and assumes control over the global network of machines that regulate everything from transportation to utilities, defense and communication.

In the months leading up to this, sporadic glitches are noticed by a handful of unconnected humans – a single mother disconcerted by her daughter’s menacing “smart” toys, a lonely Japanese bachelor who is victimized by his domestic robot companion, an isolated U.S. soldier who witnesses a ‘pacification unit’ go haywire – but most are unaware of the growing rebellion until it is too late.

When the Robot War ignites -- at a moment known later as Zero Hour -- humankind will be both decimated and, possibly, for the first time in history, united. Robopocalypse is a brilliantly conceived action-filled epic, a terrifying story with heart-stopping implications for the real technology all around us…and an entertaining and engaging thriller unlike anything else written in years.

Audiobook, 347 pages

Published June 7th 2011 by Doubleday (first published January 1st 2011) 

 

That's all for this time! Happy reading!

COLLAB with Read Lots Drink Coffee

Hello my dear bookworms!

Yesterday I started reading The chaos of stars by Kiersten White with the wonderful Read Lots Drink Coffee. 

Check out her channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVff0mKdudysnhpVm4h4NQA





Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12578305-the-chaos-of-stars

Isadora's family is seriously screwed up—which comes with the territory when you're the human daughter of the ancient Egyptian gods Isis and Osiris. Isadora is tired of living with crazy relatives who think she's only worthy of a passing glance—so when she gets the chance to move to California with her brother, she jumps on it. But her new life comes with plenty of its own dramatic—and dangerous—complications . . . and Isadora quickly learns there's no such thing as a clean break from family.

Hardcover, 277 pages

Published September 10th 2013 by HarperTeen 

Our plan is read 2 chapters a day. Yesterday I only read 8 pages so I'll have to catch up today. I ordered some books & according to the delivery company it will unfortunately not get here in time. It's such a shame! 

I'm sure it will get here soon.  

What are you reading?

That's all, until next time! Happy reading.

BookBuddyAthon VLOG 2018

Blog: http://b00kaholic12.blogspot.se/
Goodreads: B00kaholic12
Instagram: mouiiyo
Twitter: marwez3

Let's chat down below! Happy reading! 

5 big books from my TBR

These books are some of the biggest ones on my TBR. I'd love to read them soon. I don't mind reading big books & I feel like it's a lot of fun to spend time with the characters.
Do you feel intimidated by big books?  Why?

  

So begins the unexpurgated first-person narrative of nineteen-year-old Skyler Rampike, the only surviving child of an "infamous" American family. A decade ago the Rampikes were destroyed by the murder of Skyler's six-year-old ice-skating champion sister, Bliss, and the media scrutiny that followed. Part investigation into the unsolved murder; part elegy for the lost Bliss and for Skyler's own lost childhood; and part corrosively funny expose of the pretensions of upper-middle-class American suburbia, this captivating novel explores with unexpected sympathy and subtlety the intimate lives of those who dwell in Tabloid Hell.

Hardcover, 576 pages

Published June 24th 2008 by Ecco (first published 2008)

 

The Trojan War rages at the foot of Olympos Mons on Mars—observed and influenced from on high by Zeus and his immortal family—and twenty-first-century professor Thomas Hockenberry is there to play a role in the insidious private wars of vengeful gods and goddesses. On Earth, a small band of the few remaining humans pursues a lost past and devastating truth—as four sentient machines depart from Jovian space to investigate, perhaps terminate, the potentially catastrophic emissions emanating from a mountaintop miles above the terraformed surface of the Red Planet.

Mass Market Paperback, 752 pages

Published June 28th 2005 by HarperTorch (first published 2003) 

 

Koushun Takami's notorious high-octane thriller is based on an irresistible premise: a class of junior high school students is taken to a deserted island where, as part of a ruthless authoritarian program, they are provided arms and forced to kill one another until only one survivor is left standing. Criticized as violent exploitation when first published in Japan - where it then proceeded to become a runaway bestseller - Battle Royale is a Lord of the Flies for the 21st century, a potent allegory of what it means to be young and (barely) alive in a dog-eat-dog world. Made into a controversial hit movie of the same name, Battle Royale is already a contemporary Japanese pulp classic, now available for the first time in the English language. 

Paperback, 617 pages

Published February 26th 2003 by VIZ, LLC

 

In her most ambitious work to date, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker -- the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startlingly intimate and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story of an emblematic American artist -- intensely conflicted and driven -- who had lost her way. A powerful portrait of Hollywood's myth and an extraordinary woman's heartbreaking reality, "Blonde" is a sweeping epic that pays tribute to the elusive magic and devastation behind the creation of the great twentieth-century American star.

Mass Market Paperback, 1115 pages

Published April 30th 2002 by Le Livre de Poche (first published 2000) 

 

It is an epic drama of adventure, courage, ruthlessness and passion by one of Scandinavia’s most acclaimed storytellers.
In 1848 a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans. Not all of them return – and those who do will never be the same. Among them is the daredevil Laurids Madsen, who promptly escapes again into the anonymity of the high seas.
As soon as he is old enough, his son Albert sets off in search of his missing father on a voyage that will take him to the furthest reaches of the globe and into the clutches of the most nefarious company. Bearing a mysterious shrunken head, and plagued by premonitions of bloodshed, he returns to a town increasingly run by women – among them a widow intent on liberating all men from the tyranny of the sea.
From the barren rocks of Newfoundland to the lush plantations of Samoa, from the roughest bars in Tasmania, to the frozen coasts of northern Russia, We, The Drowned spans four generations, two world wars and a hundred years. Carsten Jensen conjures a wise, humorous, thrilling story of fathers and sons, of the women they love and leave behind, and of the sea’s murderous promise. This is a novel destined to take its place among the greatest seafaring literature.

Hardcover, 688 pages

Published February 9th 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (first published 2006)

   

Let me know if you've read any of these. Until next time, happy reading.

HOW I READ TAG

Q U E S T I O N S 

1. How do you find out about new books to read? 

Youtube, Goodreads, friends & boook groups that I am active in on Facebook. 

2. How did you get into reading? 

Everything started in 2014 really, one night I couldn't sleep so I stayed up & watched some videos on booktube. It really started everything & I wanted to have my own channel. I'm happy that it happened because I've found so many new friends & I've collaborated with some wonderful authors & booktubers. I love being a part of this community.

 3. How has your taste in books changed as you've gotten older?

I didn't really know anything about different genres when I started out, so I read the series that everyone else had read already, LOTR, HP, Twilight, The Hunger Games ect. As the years have gone on, I've been picking up books that were completely new to me & that has made my taste become broader.  I'm still in the process of finding out what I like & don't like, which is wonderful. I read anything that sounds interesting to me.

 4. How often do you buy books? 

Usually I buy books once a month online. Sometimes I pick up something more from the 2nd hand shop.

5. How did you get into Booktubing?

Through booktube, actually. Perhaps it was an accident that I found Booktube that night, perhaps it was meant to be.

 6. How do you react when you don't like the end of a book? 

I hyperventilate & scream NO.
 

7. How often do you take a "sneak peak" at the end of a book to see if there is a happy ending? 

I've never done that.  I can't believe that people do that either.
 

8. Who are you going to tag? 

I TAG YOU! ( too lazy to tag specific people )

Until next time, happy reading!

UNICORN READATHON 2018

The Unicorn readathon starts this month on the 9th - 15 th of april.

Challenge: Read a book that features magical creatures. 

Until next time, happy reading!