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Long Book Titles | Top Ten Tueday

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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl to bring bookish friends together. A new topic is posted each week. It’s time for a freebie tuesday, where you get to choose your own list (or at least I hope that was the purpose). So I chose the top ten long book titles I’ve read or want to read. Some are spot on, other hilarious. 

What I talk about when I talk about running by Haruki Murakami

Part running diary, part everything else including writing, I completely recommend it.

Aristotle and Dante discover the secrets of the universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

A lovely and gay summer romance story, with the best and most exhausting title to write. I can’t count how many times I’ve looked up the spelling of Aristotle, even after having read about the philosopher for so many years in school

Good Omens: the nice and accurate prophecies of Agnes Nutter, witch by Terry Prachett and Neil Gaiman

An okay book with spot-on title

Three books on my TBR:

Do androids dream of electric sheep? by Philip K. Dick

The girl who circumnavigated fairyland in a ship of her own making by Catherynne M. Valente

Everyone’s a aliebn when ur a aliebn too by Jomny Sun

The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams

A classic that I took way too long to read, with a nice long title.

Fantastic beasts and where to find them by J. K. Rowling

I remember loving this title, then the movies over-used it

I’d tell you I love you, but then I’d have to kill you by Ally Carter

I love the book titles of this young adult spy series, the books themselves are nearly able to live up to them, which deserves a slow applause.

Simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda by Becky Albertalli

I put off reading this book for too long, mostly because of hearing it was a “coming out” story and the weird title. I still don’t think the title was a good choice, even if I understand it now, but the story was so amazing with characters you can relate to. A really good young adult book, in every way. And so gay.

Currently Reading | Book Things

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It’s time for another update! I’m currently on a seven-hour train trip, writing this on my phone. My flight was cancelled, so it was my only way to get home.

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Leave this song behind by John and Stephanie Meyer is a collection of poems from teenagers, and some of them were really lovely. Review to come.

I started reading “when breath becomes air” by Paul Kalanithi at the bus to my flight this weekend. Horrible idea, as it’s about Paul’s fight against cancer after having worked as a neurosurgeon and removed tumors regularly. It’s about how his worldview changed, about the experiences he had at medical school and his wonder of death to being forced to face his own. It’s hard to go from doctor to patient. I was brought to tears so many times, regularly closing the book to not start bawling my eyes out in front of people. It was a masterpiece of a book though, as someone who has spent a lot of time in hospital, even if I luckily have no direct experience with cancer.

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I’m going to Belgium next week, so books I have in physical copy like Fahrenheit 451 won’t go with me. Maybe I’ll continue harry potter e la pietra filosofale, but i’ve said that for a couple weeks without following up as well. I’ll probably get to read some emily dickinson poems though, in between being a tourist and a lot of socializing (feel tired already, haha)

I travelled to visit an technology university this week and in the theme of trying to choose education, I decided to try listening to “letters to a young scientist” by Edward O. Wilson. The audiobook is okay, but as some sections aren’t as relevant to me as others and it would be easier to jump around in another format. Some info is outdated, and because of that I’m not certain what I feel about this book yet. Also it’s a lot of talk about snakes and ants, so mainly biology, which is the one science I’m not into.

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Nevernight by Jay Kristoff two/five stars

Kafka on the shore by Haruki Murakami four/five stars

Silence fallen by Patricia Briggs three/five stars

Airborn by Kenneth Oppel three/five stars

Books I Loved But Will Never Re-Read | Top Ten Tuesday

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Turns out, most of the books I’ll never reread is because I read them years ago, as a child or in my early teens and don’t want to judge their quality now. I think that leaving some of them alone is the best way to honour the choices I made and what I liked then. Also there’s other reasons, for examples there’s some beautiful or emotional memories I have attached to certain places and I want to keep those.

The Gone Series by Michael Grant

  • Book 7 is out after four year break, needless to say I started this series a long time ago, the first book came out in 2008. I’ll give it a chance for nostalgia’s sake, but I’m not rereading this series to catch up again.

Night School series by C. J. Daughtery

  • I had trouble reading the last book of this series, I found it an exciting ya spy-ish read and is torn between not wanting it to end and being a bit bored

Heist Society by Ally Carter

  • A fantastic young adult mystery and heist series which I would still very much recommend, but I have no need to reread.

Steelheart by Brandon Sanderson

  • What would a top ten tuesday list be without a Sanderson book?
  • A good ya fantasy book, but not worth a reread for me

The Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan

  • Was a great series for me as a child, further fueling my interest for mythology, stories and especially greek gods. Most recently read the Heroes of Olympus and if that’s a pointer, I’ve grown out of these series. Won’t dare to ruin the magic rereading it and finding out, though I think the Heroes of Olympus is more unoriginal overall.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

  • Do I need to explain why this book is on this list? The movies and hype ruined it for me, as they did with Divergent, I won’t reread it to find out just how much.

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

  • Liked it when I first read it, but later books in the series made it not worth the reread.

Vampirates series by Justin Somper

  •  Once upon a time I read a series with pirates that sometimes were turned into vampires and two twins who wanted to spend their life at sea. I had never found a book that perfect for me, in norwegian because this was before I learned a lot of english, with a strong female character as well. I will definitely reread it one time out of curiosity, so not never, but it deserved its place on this list.

The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han

  • I read this book in summer, visiting one place, a family summer house that reminded me a lot of the summer house of this story. This book will now forever be linked to that place, and I hope to find new book experiences like that.

The first three books of the Temeraire series by Naomi Novik

  • I loved this series with dragons and war between nations. Novik has since written books like Uprooted and has a new release soon. So I searched for her and realized there exists SIX other books in this series! How did this go me by? I read the first three books translated to norwegian at my library, and these just never appeared. I’ll never reread the three first books because there’s a slim chance I’ll ever finish it at all if she’s going to continue releasing those amazing fairytale-inspired books as Uprooted.

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It’s time for another update! I’ve read a lot this past week, mostly poetry, young adult and one high fantasy book.

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One of us is lying by Karen M. McManus

Genre: young adult

It started out good, they’re a group of students who all get detention for having their phones out, but all claim it’s not theirs. Then one of the kids name Simon dies from allergy shock and they soon find out it wasn’t an accident. But it never seem to progress from there, just a bunch of kids built on stereotypes (the smart, the sporty, the pretty, the troublemaker) grieving very strange and loudly, gossiping about what could’ve happen and who likes who. The plot or writing is not good, the characters are bad, and it’s not an exciting mystery.

 

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Dette skjer ikke by Ida Lórien Ringdal

Genre: poetry

A norwegian book that would be translated to “this isn’t happening”, it’s an okay poetry book. Some of the poems sounds like something written on a morning commute with the mobile notes app, and then not edited. Maybe it could’ve needed some more work and thought put into it.

The day is ready for you by Alison Malee

Genre: poetry

I got my first book from netgalley and it was okay as well. It’s short poems, the look and theme similiar to “milk and honey”. The writing flows very good. I especially liked the connections to nature, like landscape and ocean. The subject was mainy heartbreak and it became a bit repetitive at times. The author seemed to understand something the book above didn’t, that for poems to be simple doesn’t mean they can be easy or not require effort to get the words and rythm right, which I appreciated.

The art of escaping by Eirin Callahan

Genre: young adult

Here’s the second book I read from netgalley and it was amazing! I’ll write a longer review, but it’s relatable, well-written young adult book with a main character facinated by escapalogoism and Harry Houdini. Would recommend!

Words of radiance by Brandon Sanderson

Genre: high fantasy

Sanderson did it again, this book is pure brilliance. It’s the second book of the Stormlight archive and also a thousand pages, so I didn’t expect that I would get through it in four days, but it’s been some long nights where I couldn’t put it down over the weekend.

 

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Fahrenheit 451

It’s going so slow reading this, but I’ll get back into it this week.

Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale

Same as above. We’ll leave my attempt at reading spanish to that. It’s not going great.

The collected poems of Emily Dickinson

Nice to read once in a while. It’s a lot of poems in here, some great, some not for me.

 

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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin  2/5 stars

Mary Oliver’s New and Selected Poems Vol. 2 4/5 stars

Jade City by Fonda Lee 3/5 stars

Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami 4/5 stars

The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender by Leslye Walton 4/5 stars

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green 5/5 stars

Characters I Liked From Books I Disliked | Top Ten Tuesday

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Well, disliked is a strong word, but these books were three stars or less out of six. Give me some slack, it’s a hard list to make because most books I dislike is exactly because of the characters.  

Wax and Marasi from Shadows of Self by Brandon Sanderson (look, they’re on the cover!). Wax and Wayne is an awesome team, but Wax brings the casual genius plans and humor.

The whole gang – Ronan, Gansey, Blue, and Adam – in The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater. I have a thing for group dynamics, especially when they are so different characters as these.

Julep Dupree from Trust Me, I’m Lying by Mary Elizabeth Summer. Less than average plot, good female main character who’s a con artist and doesn’t stop lying.

Julian from Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare. I feel for him, I feel like him, I would read the books solely for him if he didn’t become a smaller and smaller part of them.

Margo from Paper Towns by John Green. The main character was average, Margo was much better. Probably not the best person, but a good character.

Percy from House of Hades by Rick Riordan. Especially from that book because I didn’t like it, but he’s been great through most of the series, until he fell into hell or whatever and changed. Then it all went downhill.

 

 

Books That Take Place In Another Country | Top Ten Tuesday

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Most of the books I read are from another country, since I’m norwegian. But I’ll include more books that aren’t placed in the US/America, since that’s where most of the authors I read are from.

Kafka on the Shore and Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

  • Japan
  • Absoloutly worth reading, the writing, the characters, the plot all amazing

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

  • Kabul, Afghanistan
  • Haven’t read the whole book, only long excerpts for class, but it’s heartwrenching and I have to pick up the whole book soon

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

  • Alaskan wilderness, USA
  • Okay book, based on a better story

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

  • Pacific Ocean, with a Tamil boy

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

  • Germany
  • Historial fiction from nazi germany with a girl who steals books, her parents taken away to concentration camp.

Across the Nightingale Floor by Lian Hearn

  • Japan
  • A fantasy book I read as a child and loved, but I can’t vouch for how good it is since it was so long ago

The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  • Barcelona, Spain
  • Gothic mystery

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

  • Pakistan
  • Non-fiction and biographical book of Malala’s life in Swat Valley in Pakistan and how she got shot in the head fighting for her education

The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke

  • Venice, Italy

 

 

Currently Reading | Book Things

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Hey! I’ve stopped doing the www wednesday posts recently, it doesn’t make sense to give a weekly update that strictly scheduled right now. But here’s a little update on what I’ve recently finished reading and my current reads.

 

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Mary Oliver’s new and selected poems vol. 2

A good poetry collection, generally I like these “best of” collections less than Mary Oliver’s other poetry collections like A Thousand Mornings.

Simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda by Becky Albertalli

I couldn’t put this book down and ended up reading it, over three hundred pages, in one saturday. There was some crying, a lot of “aahhh” sounds in sympathy and some good humor in here. To be honest, the title as well as the “coming out” plot put me off this book for a long time. I read positive reviews and that the movie “love, simon” is coming out soon and decided it was now or never. No regrets, as this book is fantastic. A more in-depth review out soon.

Alt som ikke har blitt tjoret fast by Eirin Gundersen

I’ve read some more norwegian books lately, this one was good, but I had some thoughts on it. Review will be out soon, but only in norwegian probably (which will be weird, but the only thing that makes sense as it’s not translated)

Truly devious by Maureen Johnson

An incredibly murder mystery young adult book that I higly recommend! 5/5 stars definitely.

 

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The snow child by Eowyn Ivey

I rarely stop reading books, usually I skim-read to the end. But I couldn’t get into this, the plot wasn’t interesting to me, even with the lovely writing.

The faster I walk, the smaller I am by Kjersti Annesdatter Skomsvold

I read this in norwegian, and it seemed good, but the plot and theme wasn’t anything I wanted to read right now

 

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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Trying to get through some more classics, but this one is slow and kind of boring, even if I’m wondering where the plot will go.

One of us is lying by Karen M. McManus

I’m reading this in norwegian, just started and excited to see where it goes.

The collected poems of Emily Dickinson

Not much to say yet, except the poems are lovely.

Harry Potter e la pietra filosofale

It went really slow for a while, but I decided to try more again. Btw, I’m not very good at spanish, which is why I’m trying to read this book, but I am able to understand it surprisingly well. When did that happen? I’m 28% in, with 94 highlights/things I’ve translated, in one month. Could’ve been better.

 

Amazon UK’s 100 Books To Read In A Lifetime Tag

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I first saw Nikki at booksandlemonsquash do this tag and it looked fun!
 

Rules:

1. Include a link back to Amazon’s official 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime 
2. Tag Perfectly Tolerable, the creator of this meme
3. Tag the person who nominated you (none, but first saw booksandlemonsquash do it!)
4. Copy the list of books and indicate which titles you have read.
5. Tally up your total.
6. Comment on the post you were tagged in and share your total count.
7. Tag five new people and comment on one of their posts to let them know.

 

Here’s the list:

1984 George Orwell

A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking

A Fine Balance Rohinton Mistry

A Game of Thrones George R R Martin

A History of the World in 100 Objects Neil MacGregor

All Quiet on the Western Front Erich Maria Remarque

American Gods Neil Gaiman

American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis

Artemis Fowl Eoin Colfer

Atonement Ian McKewan

Bad Science Ben Goldacre

Birdsong Sebastian Faulks

Brideshead Revisted Evelyn Waugh

Bridget Jones’s Diary Helen Fielding

Brighton Rock Graham Greene

Casino Royale Ian Fleming

Catch 22 Joseph Hellier

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Roald Dahl

Cider with Rosie Laurie Lee

Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevesky

Dissolution C J Sansom

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K. Dick

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Hunter S. Thompson

Frankenstein Mary Shelley

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything Stephen D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

Goodnight Mister Tom Michelle Magorian

Great Expectations Charles Dickens

Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone J K Rowling

High Fidelity Nick Hornby

In Cold Blood Truman Capote

Knots and Crosses Ian Rankin

Last Orders Graham Swift

Little Women Louise May Alcott

Lolita Vladimir Nabokov

London Fields Martin Amis

London: The Biography Peter Akroyd

Long Walk to Freedom Nelson Mandela

Lord of the Flies William Golding

Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie

My Man Jeeves P G Woodhouse

Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro

Norwegian Wood Haruki Murakami

Notes From A Small Island Bill Bryson

Noughts and Crosses Malorie Blackman

One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit Jeanette Winterson

Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen

Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier

Stormbreaker Anthony Horowitz

Tess of the d’Urbervilles Thomas Hardy

The Book Thief Markus Zusak

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas John Boyne

The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett

The Commitments Roddy Doyle

The Diary of a Young Girl Anne Frank

The Enchanted Wood Enid Blyton

The English Patient Michael Ondaatje

The Fellowship of the Ring J R R Tolkien

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson

The Grapes of Wrath John Steinbeck

The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Gruffalo Julia Donaldson

The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood

The Hare with Amber Eyes Edmund de Waal

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy Douglas Adams

The Hound of the Baskervilles Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini

The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks

The Mill on the Floss George Eliot

The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway

The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde

The Poisonwood Bible Barbara Kingsolver

The Road Cormac McCarthy

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Sue Townsend

The Secret History Donna Tartt

The Selfish Gene Richard Dawkins

The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes

The Stand Stephen King

The Story of Tracy Beaker Jacqueline Wilson

The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter

The Tiger Who Came to Tea Judith Kerr

The Time Machine H G Wells

The Worst Witch Jill Murphy

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy John Le Carré

To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee

To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

The Wasp Factory Iain Banks

Trainspotting Irvine Welsh

Venice Jan Morris

Watchmen Alan Moore

Watership Down Richard Adams

We’re Going on a Bear Hunt Helen Oxenbury

White Teeth Zadie Smith

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China Jung Chang

Winnie the Pooh A A Milne

Wuthering Heights Emily Brontë

 

I have read 12/100 books. That’s not a lot, but it could’ve been worse. I have to admit I haven’t read all of Game of Thrones, probably won’t for a while, or Hitchhikers to the Galaxy, which I want to continue soon. First obligatory excuse is that I’m not american or english, but honestly I haven’t read enough norwegian classics either. I definitely want to read more books on this list, along with classics in my own language. I don’t think anyone need to read classics, but the books are well-known for reasons and I’ve found several hits as well as misses among them.

Books already on my TBR: A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Philip K. Dick, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Stieg Larsson, The Handmaid’s Tale Margaret Atwood and The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini

Books I’ll add to my TBR: Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen, The Colour of Magic Terry Pratchett, The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald, To the Lighthouse Virginia Woolf

 

If you want to do it you’re free to tag me! ❤ I’m curious how many classics book bloggers have read.

Coffee Book Tag

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Coffee and books sounds fun! First saw this tag on The Book Eater, it was originally created by BangadyBangz

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1. Black coffee: a book that was hard to get into but has a lot of diehard fans

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff, I couldn’t get into this book no matter how much people seem to like its uniqueness. I never achieved the natural flow of reading I usually do and found the plot confusing. Gave up after a couple chapters. Black coffee is what I usually drink btw, just because that’s what is around.

 

hp2. Peppermint mocha: a book that gets popular around the holiday season

The Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling is the obvious answer, along with the movies. I don’t know why so many connect it with winter. Is it the childhood and family, nostalgia aspect? Holidays are when people have time to read or watch it?

 

 

3. Hot chocolate: your favorite children’s book

 

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“Gravbøygen våkner” by Sigbjørn Mostue, it was an exciting fantasy story, set in nature like the one I grew up in, in Norway (but it also isn’t translated from norwegian).

An english one would be Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer, also a fantasy story with police fairies and a millionaire criminal 12-year-old genius who outsmarts everyone.

4. Double espresso: a book that kept you on the edge of your seat

thoaPs: this is my type of coffee. I didn’t drink coffee, then a couple years ago I was in Firenze in Italy with four/five hours sleep each night and guess who suddenly shotted espresso. Some cappucinos is good too, but mostly I take my coffee out of necessity.

Back to books – The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson is the last book of the original Misborn trilogy. It’s a perfect example of a last book where shit goes down and the ending is up in the air until the very end, which made me tense up and so so excited.

 

5. Starbucks: a book that you see everywhere

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Lately it’s been Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi. It has just been published and I need to read it soon, it’s been getting such good reviews and sounds like an exciting unique fantasy book, which is rare.

6. Hipster coffee shop: a book by an indie author that you love

I’ve read some indie books, but none that I’ve loved as far as I know. I don’t really realize when they’re indie either?

7. Oops, accidentally got decaf: a book you expected more from

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Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare (review linked), I liked the first book Lady Midnight, but the second was just okay and I’m in no hurry to pick up the third book in the series. All the Clare series seem to become more similiar as time goes. I do have a soft spot for Julian Blackthorn and his children though, which was maybe why I disliked the ending of this.

 

8. The perfect blend – a book with the perfect combination of bitter and sweet

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I’m not sure what this means entirely?? Then I saw The Inexplicable Logic of My Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz on my goodreads list and it just fits. Life is a combination of bitter and sweet, and this book reflects that so well. People who has unfortunate things happen in their lives, losing people they love, sometimes struggling through each day, loving each other, creating and redefining family. The gay adoptive mexican dad of the main character is the best, a person the world needs more of .

 

 

9. Green tea – a book that is quietly beautiful

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Upstreams by Mary Oliver, a collection of eighteen essays. Mostly about nature, growing up in a small american town, on poets like Whitman and Poe and what inspires her to write.

 

 

 

10. Chai tea – a book that makes you dream of far off places

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Nearly every book, especially fantasy. A picture can make me dream of far off places, I just want to travel more. Norwegian wood is a weird choice, it’s not about the place as much as the people. But all of Haruki Murakami’s books I’ve read makes me want to go to Japan.

 

 

Books On My Spring TBR | Top Ten Tueday

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You might take on look on this list and think it’s just a TBR list, it doesn’t have anything to do with spring at all.

Let me explain a little; spring is the season of new hope (no longer dark outside 20/7), of motivation and exhaustion (exams). So hopefully I’ll give books I’ve forgotten about a new chance, along with reading more sports books, especially with fighting. I miss being healthy enough to exercise (I’m chronically ill and currently not feeling so good). Also I’m going to a university visit/science workshops, so I want to read a bit more science and non-fiction on the travel there. Fighting, forgotten books, science – here we go

The F- It List by Julie Halpern

Why I want to read it: mostly because I’m trying to clear out my to be read list, tbh.

 

 

Bruised by Sarah Skilton

Why I want to read it: young adult book with taekwon-do, no more research needed.

 

Fighting for Flight by J. B. Salsbury

Why I want to read it: martial arts, romance. I hope it’s good, I’m not quite certain about this one.

 

 

Letters to a Young Scientist by Edward O. Wilson

Why I want to read it: a famous book of advice by the scientist Edward O. Wilson, which hopefully will give me some inspo for choosing uni.

 

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

Why I want to read it: it’s a classic and I want to give it a try before the movie comes out, starring Lilly Singh. I think it will be hard to avoid spoilers afterwards.

 

New and Selected Poems Vol. 2 by Mary Oliver

Why I want to read it: I love Mary Oliver’s poems and I need them at all times in my life. It’s good she’s published so many.

 

(Don’t you) forget about me

Why I want to read it: This book has been on my tbr list for many years, and while many books have been read or crossed out, this one persists.

It’s an interesting plot – a town where no one ever gets sick or dies from illness, but of course it comes with a catch. Every fourth year the teens in the town is infected with something that makes them do weird shit, like kill their friends. Skylar’s sister was locked up for killing sixteen of her classmates in such a incident, and she’s haunted by it four years later. She needs to stop the murder sprees from happening and she doesn’t have much time left. 

 

Words of Radiance by Brandon Saderson

Why I want to read it: It’s the second book of the Stormlight Archive. The only reason I haven’t read it yet is that it’s 1000 pages and I need time, because it’s so hard to lay down when you first start. I love Sanderson’s books. I don’t know if I’ll get the time before summer, but I’ll certainly try.