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Goodbye, 2016! Hello, all the books to be read in 2017!
So for the video, I was being pretty picky. I didn’t want to talk about full series I wanted to read in it or more than one classic (which thinking back I’m not sure why) but I still wanted to talk about them so welcome to Book Bucket List Part 2!
The Harry Potter Series! – by J.K. Rowling: I still haven’t read the Harry Potters. It’s almost shameful. I say almost because I’m only fifteen and I’ve already started the series. I just finished The Sorcerer’s Stone and it was Fantastic!
The Percy Jackson Series – by Rick Riordan: I’ve read (and loved) The Lightning Thief, but I kept putting off booktalking it and I like to do booktalks on books before continuing the series and now I’ll probably have to re-read it to do a decent booktalk. Anyway, I’d also like to at least start the Heros of Olympus Series this year too.
Anne of Green Gables – by L.M. Montgomery: For some unknown reason, I didn’t want to put more than one classic in my video bucket list so I’m putting Anne of Green Gables on this one.
The Lunar Chronicles – by Marissa Meyer: I’ve already started the first book, Cinder, and it’s excellent so far. I’ve heard lots of wonderful things about this series I’ve never heard someone say they didn’t like it. I’ve only recently discovered this series so I didn’t really want to put it on my video bucket list.
House of Secrets – by Chris Columbus & Ned Vizzini: This one I just somehow forgot to put in the video bucket list. Someone gave it to me a long time ago for who knows what occasion. It looks very good, and I’ve seen a review by J.K. Rowling and that should be enough to make anyone very interested.
The 39 Clues Series: I’m on book seven and would like to at least finish book ten by the end of this year, I keep forgetting what happens and have to re-read the series. They’re short, fast paced books but there’s a lot of them and it takes some dedication to read all of them.
Twilight – by Stephenie Meyer: This book has so many mixed reviews, some people LOVE it, some people HATE it, I would just like my own opinion of it.
Left Behind – by Tim LaHaye & Jerry B. Jenkins: I’ve been wanting to read this forever, I tried it once a long time ago, but it was a little too old for me at the time. But now I feel I could read it and enjoy it.
So that’s all the books I would like to read this year.
But before I finish this blog I would like to share some other reading goals.
First, I’m going to try and read one nonfiction book a month this year, I don’t read a lot of non-fiction and I’ve recently discovered some cool looking ones that I would like to try out.
Second, I’ve set my Goodreads challenge to 26 books (that’s a book every two weeks) Currently I’m three books ahead of schedule so hopefully, no big, nasty, book slump will show up before then (Knock on wood).
Comment below and tale what book series you’re hoping to finish this year.
That’s all, Bye!
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Today I’m going to talk about the books I’m planning to read this month. With NaNoWriMo in the past my reading urge is stronger than it ever has been!
The first book I’m actually currently reading and have been reading since October and it is: Coraline by Neil Gaiman. I’m actually only about forty pages till the end, and I’ll probably will finish it today or tomorrow. I’m loving this book so far, I’m pretty sure it’ll end up on my favorites shelf on Goodreads with a five star rating along side it. I ment this to be a Halloween read, but October was crazy and then there was NaNoWriMo, so I have to deal with the shameful fact that it has been two months and I still have not finished this… what? 160 page book? Great.
The next book I’m planning on reading ASAP is: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J. K. Rowling. Yes, I know I’m a terrible person for not reading the Harry Potter series yet, but I’m going to fix that starting this month. I promised myself that it would be the first book I pick up this month and I plan on keeping that promise.
The next book I’m very exited about is: Switch by Ingrid Law. Savvy and Scumble are two of my favorite books in the world and now there’s a third book! I recently re-read the first two, and now I can’t wait to read Switch.
This next book is one I’m currently audio-booking and it is: Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer. I wanted a nice audio book to listin to wile doing other stuff like cleaning, re-arranging bookshelves, coloring, riding in the car, etc. and I stumbled upon this and it was a book I’d heard good things about and the reviews didn’t say anything about bad language or anything so I downloaded it and so far it’s pretty good, I’m only a couple chapters in.
This book is another one I’ve been in the middle of since October: In Too Deep: The 39 Clues book six by Jude Watson. I’ve been working my way through The 39 Clues – five star series by the way – and I was doing pretty good until guess what! yep. NaNoWriMo came around!
the last book I’m planning on re-reading this December is A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. I read this a few years ago and since then I discovered that Charles Dickens wrote four more books that follow it, which I’m very exited about! I think I’m going to try to read one every December starting this December and hopefully ending December 2020. Another reason I’m reading this this month is because my dad asked me to pick out a classic for us to buddy read together, he specifically asked for a shorter, older book. A Christmas Carol is short, older, and fits with the season. It’s perfect!!
I’m not finished yet, I still need to draw something from my TBR challenge jar (if you don’t know what that is this link will take you to a video that explains it) This month’s challenge is to read: A book with an ugly cover. I have a few options for this so I guess I’ll decide later.
So that’s all the books I hope to have read by the new year.
Comment below and say what books your planning on reading this month 🙂 and also a challenge all my readers to read a book with an unappealing cover this month.
Bye!
Today I’m going to talk about the books I finished this September.
The first book I finished is “Passenger” by Alexandra Bracken. I gave this three out of five stars on Goodreads. This is the first book in a duology if I’m right. It’s about a girl named Etta and a boy named Nicolas (I don’t think I spelled his name right) who have to travel through time to find something. The plot was very interesting and the action was great, but there were some romantic parts that were a little too much and slowed down the progression. One paragraph is more than enough to describe a kiss. and I also had to lose a star for bad language.
The next book I finished is “I Survived: The Attacks of 9/11” by Lauren Tarshis. I gave this book five out of five stars on Goodreads. This is historical fiction that follows a boy who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. I think the tittle is pretty self explanatory. The “I Survived” books are so good and they make you see just how horrible these events were to live through and that there not some random events you read about in bland history books. By the way, I read this book on September 11th. :]
The third book is actually the Werefox bookclub pick for the month of September and it is “Furthermore” by Tahereh Mafi. I definitely gave this five stars as well as put it on my favorites shelf. In this book a girl named Alice travels through the dangerous land of Furthermore in order to find her father. It was kind of like Alice in Wonderland meets A Wrinkle in Time and I loved it!
This next one is a re-read and it is “Savvy” by Ingrid Law. If you know me, I’m not big on re-reading books so you know I like this one A LOT! I gave it five stars obviously. It’s about a family of people who, on their 13th birthday get a savvy Which is kind of like a superpower. That is a very, very basic idea of what the book is about. If you want to learn more about the plot I recommend looking it up or clicking my link.
Tell your favorite book you read this month in the comments.
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For this blogathon I’ll be giving a summary of my June. three book recommendations, three movie recommendations, a writing challenge, and a writing life update.
June summary:
So this June was very crazy yet successful. First of all, I started this blog! I got my braces on (blah,) started a creative writing club, took a family trip to the smoky mountains, turned 15, then there’s father’s day of course, and best of all… I GOT MY BOOK PUBLISHED!!!!!! (more information about that below.
Books:
All my book recommendations today have been adapted into movies in honor of “The BFG” which comes out today.
So of course this first book is The BFG – by Roald Dahl.
This next book is A Wrinkle in Time – by 
This last book I liked, but I’m only recommending it to older readers: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children – by Ransom Riggs.
Movies:
This first movie is: Freaky Friday.
the next movie recommendation is: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day.
This last movie is Into the Woods
Writing challenge:
So these challenges don’t have a due date, you don’t even need to do them! they’re just here to encourage me and other writers to practice and step outside our comfort zones.
last month’s challenge was to write a short story inspired by a piece of classical music. July’s is to write about something that happened to you from someone else’s prospective.
Writing life update:
So as I mentioned earlier I’m now a published author! My new book is called Sea of Trees.
Now, this next book I’m writing, the one for camp NaNoWriMo, I don’t want to give away the name so I’ll call it: An American Werewolf in New Orleans. It’s about a werewolf, takes place in New Orleans, and it isn’t a horror story. That’s all I’m saying for now.
If you guys have any book and/or movie recommendations for me I’d love to hear them along with ideas for writing challenges, just put those in the comments.
Bye!
