To Kill A Mockingbird Book Review

So sorry for updating my reviews so late for the last couple of weeks. I got a whole lot of reading done, but writing the reviews got a bit overshadowed by school. Anyway, now my holidays have started and I need to make up for my laziness and educational priorities. Here's the review for To Kill A Mockingbird, an assignment on my TBR.

To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Animal Farm Book Review

The first book I ever finished in ONE sitting. Finally. My sleeping schedule is ruined now, but still. I'm proud of the accomplishment. It's also the first classic I'm reviewing. I hadn't really planned on reading Animal Farm, but since I suddenly wasn't going to proceed reading the Remnant Chronicles, I needed a new book. I'd seen this in my public library (the English YA section is getting bigger every time I come there, which is often) and thought I might as well try it out. So here we are.

Animal Farm by George Orwell

The Kiss of Deception Book Review

My sincere apologies for the lateness of this review. (I'm three/four books behind, time for my walk of shame.) I'd been wondering when the moment would come when I would be reading four books at once. The tragic day has come. I've been reading a 17th century play for Dutch, To Kill a Mockingbird for English (I haven't said Mockingjay ONCE in public, applaud me), Tintenherz for German, and the Kiss of Deception for fun. I feel so proud that I managed to finish this book. I hated it. I really did.

The Kiss of Deception by Mary E. Pearson

Carry On Book Review

It's been a long time since I finished this cursed book and I still haven't decided how to rate it. I have all the reasons to love it: It was a fast-paced, fun fantasy read, that dared to poke fun at today's urban fantasy, magical extravagancas. The thing that makes this rating process really complex is that I also have all the reasons to dislike this book: It took its time to pull me in, and I argue that poking fun at existing stuff is not as original as coming up with your own pokable stuff. What makes this really impossible is that I also have all the reason to burn this book: It sent me into an unbearable favorite-books withdrawal.

Fangirl Book Review

Even though I love escaping to futuristic science fiction worlds or fantasies with dragons and magical powers, sometimes a human being from the 21th century longs for characters who know about things like Google or X Men or 9/11. And when those moods come around, I set aside my typical preferences and pick up a contemporary novel. And sometimes, I just freakin' love it.

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

I loved this book. I related to it so much and had so much fun reading it. And I don't mean we're-on-an-epic-and-dangerous-quest-and-people-die-but-we're-funny fun. I mean real mindless fun with no one being in mortal peril. And I needed that so badly. What I also needed so very much was a main character that was just as socially awkward and a tearcano as I am. When Cath almost cried in the first chapter already only because she was extremely nervous I was THIS far from actually doing a happy dance in public. (But because it's not exactly advisable to dance in school hallways during lunch time, I did not.) (And because I don't dance. Period.)

Winter Book Review

I feel so bad for spending over TWO WEEKS on this book, not even during school, but in my holiday break. Okay, terrible, but I'm just going to forgive me for it because I had to visit family and write blogs and read a book for Dutch class and... Yeah, there's really no excuse for this. But one thing is absolutely inarguable: It wasn't the book's fault. This was a (nearly) perfect finale to the Lunar Chronicles.

2015 Recap and 2016 Goals and Plans

Let's just begin by wishing all of you a very happy new year and all the best wishes for 2016.

Another year comes to an end. The Goodreads Reading Challenge is completed, school is about to start again, and time finishes another chapter in your book. So, to celebrate a new start, here's a post dedicated to all the things I've done in 2015 (and I'm gonna cheat and add 2014 since I have only started reading really late in 2014) and all the amazing new things you can expect in 2016.