💫 2017 on Goodreads💫 2016 on Goodreads💫 2015 on GoodreadsThe last few years have certainly been interesting! This year I have discovered so many amazing new authors and returned to old favourites - it's been a really good year for books. I also attended the Goodreads Choice Awards celebration, visited an amazing Austrian library, and had another baby! A Gryffindor, methinks.Now for the annual Emily Choice Awards.Best Fantasy: Circe and The Poppy WarBest YA Sequel: Muse of NightmaresBest Science

Every Rating & Review for 2018Wonder Woman, Volume 1: Blood by Brian Azzarello(B+) 76% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 01/03/2018Notes: A rōnin tale of finesse and survival. It's Old World and folklore focused, insulated from America and its superheroes.Wonder Woman, Volume 2: Guts by Brian Azzarello(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/06/2018Notes: It endows humanity upon gods, who, in their cold divinity, admit forsakenness and love as fountainheads to motive.Wonder Woman, Volume 3: Iron by Brian Azzarello(B+) 78% | Go...

Omg!! I forgot about updating this damn thing! I have 6,498 books to add. I don't know if I can do this! I might just add a few here and there. I'm starting to get burnt out on GR. I didn't plan on coming on here after cancer and being the same boring person. I want to get to know more of my friends in groups and stuff. Damn it all ........*So far this year I have re-read some books and loved a few that I have read for the first time. I'm only going to list favorites and 5 stars (including just

Never reviewed a year before, but here goes!!2018 was absolutely full of books - 290 to be precise - and with those books came some amazing highs and some pretty deep lows. I discovered the pure awesome of Sarah J. Mass (courtesy of Angela's Booked)... and the pure headache of Gena Showalter (also courtesy of Angela's Booked). Actually, a huge shout out to Angela's Booked in general for getting me on this site - she's literally the best. I read over 90 books from authors and publishing compa...

2018 was actually a really good year for me; reading wise and life wise. This was the first year I've read 200 books and I really can't believe it! But more importantly, I have made so many more friendships and connections and I truly feel so blessed that I get to gush about books with so many people! Thank you so much to everyone who interacts with me and takes the time to read my reviews. It means more to me than you'll ever know! And I'm wishing you all pure happiness, unconditional love, goo...

Greetings goodreads friends. In 2017, I enjoyed a surreal experience where I managed to read over 200 books. The year 2018 has shaped up to be a year where reading has been at a premium due to a variety of real life factors including family celebrations. It has been a small miracle that I even approached 90 books this year. Many of the books I have read were earmarked special books in order to maximize the reading time I do have. I also cut down on reviewing due to time constraints even for book...

What a wonderful reading year I had in 2018! Sometimes, I think I know what books to choose and it doesn't turn out that great. This year, for the most part, I allowed the books to choose me - and the results were a pleasure.A preliminary note for my personal rating system might be warranted here:1-Star Reads: this is not something I have experienced yet2-Star Reads: these are, plain and simple, bad choices on my part3-Star Reads: books in this category are, for me, most likely ones that were go...

Update 14.11.18I've completed my challenge of 90 books and the year isn't over! (4.1.19) EDIT: I actually finished the year on 103Here are some more favourite's from the second half of 2018 :) A Shiver of Snow and SkyStation ElevenLost Boy (this was a phenomenal retelling, and I am definitely going to read more of her books!)The Shock of the FallA Thousand Perfect NotesThe Song of AchillesLie With Me (I was pleasantly surprised by this thriller)A Darker Shade of Magic and A Gathering of Shadows

I read 68 books this year. These were my favorites:Fumio Sasaki - Goodbye, ThingsErnest Hemingway - A Moveable FeastIain Reid - FoeTara Westover - EducatedPriya Parker - The Art of Gathering Ernest Cline - Ready Player One R.L. Stine - Please Do Not Feed the Weirdo Stephen King - Pet Sematary (Re-read)Octavia E. Butler - KindredMost intriguing:Ice by Anna KavanMost unexpectedly great:Heidi by Spyri JohannaThe President is Missing by Bill Clinton & James PattersonMost quirky and fabulous:Convenie...

Well… here’s my review of 2018. On a personal note, my year has been really difficult. Without going into much detail, my partner Peter, while already having a heavy medical record, became seriously ill. It made our year into a real challenge and emotional rollercoaster. I decided to stop my Master studies after finishing the first module, to support him as best as I could. We are now hoping for a better year and are working to achieve this as beste as we can. I also hope to pick up studies agai...

Thanks to each and every one of my Goodreads friends for exchanges revolving around books this past year. I so appreciate every time someone takes a moment of their valuable time to read and/or comment on one of my reviews. Onward in 2019! We have a spectacular thing going here. In addition to several works of non-fiction, for the fun of it, I kept a list of the titles of the novels I've read and posted a review in 2018. Here they are, all 94: The Information - Martin AmisTishomingo Blues - Elmo...

2018 = 200 books! Here's my top five (in no particular order!)1. Midnight’s Children 2. The Ocean at the End of the Lane 3. The Waves 4. Circe 5. Spinning Silver Blog | Twitter | Facebook | Insta | Academia

Awwwww, 2018...or as I like to call it...That Year I Was the Shittiest of GR Friends...As you can tell by that^ bullshit title, this is going to be more of a quick-and-dirty-lifestyle-verbal-diarrhea monologue. So if you have no interest in that, you've been warned. Thoughtful discussion of the books I read this year? Sorry, not so much. This is more for those wonderful and caring people who have sent me, "Are you ok? You aren't around anymore," messages throughout the year. 2018 was one of the

Woo! What. A. Year. I have a lot to say, but first of all, let's talk books: 💜H O N O R A B L E M E N T I O N S A sortable shelf of all my 2018 faves is available here. backlist: school reads →The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles→Dracula by Bram Stoker→Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov→The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen→Exit West by Mohsin Hamid backlist: contemporary →It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover→Hunger: A Memoir of Body by Roxane Gay backlist: scifi-fantasy →This Savage Song (#1) by...

Thinking about life with books, attempting to recapitulate the reading year for the fourth time, maybe just one word could do for 2018: Middlemarch. Reading Middlemarch in 2018 to me was pure bliss. In the afterglow of it, reading Zadie Smith’s essay on the novel in Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays, I caught myself nodding at Smith’s eulogy: In Middlemarch love enables knowledge. People are still all that people really have: our knowledge of, and feelings for, one another. Eliot is thinking w...

2018This is a list of my top books of 2018. The books on this list may not have been published in 2018, but I READ them in 2018, and that counts in my book. So, without further ado-Top Ten of 2018The Dream Daughter- Diane ChamberlainLadder to the Sky by John BoyneFrom Sand and Ash- Amy HarmonBefore We Were Yours- Lisa WingateThe Secret Keeper- Kate Morton The Shadows We Hide- Allen EskensAn American Marriage- Tayari JonesTangerine- Christine ManganAnd Then She Was Gone- Lisa JewellThe Traveling

Goodreads tells me my average rating for 2018 is 4.1, so rounding that to a solid 4 stars. It was a great year for reading and it was the most 5 star books I have had in a year since joining GR in 2012.It was also the year I became the social media/Goodreads pariah because of my controversial feelings about a book. More on that below!Here is the basic breakdown: Best book this year: - I cannot wait for the third one!Least favorite book this year: - many of you know there is a lot of ba...

Update: 2019/01/01Since 2018 is officially over I made a list of my top 15 books that left either a good or bad impression. *lol*If you want to read it you can find it on my blog:Top 15 of my bookish 2018 - The Awesome, The Meagre & The Series I hope your 2018 was a good reading year too and I'm already looking forward to your reviews, updates and challenges in 2019!! _____________________________Haha! What to write in here? I think so far I’ve been A HUGE FAIL when it comes to my reading goals

What made this year so special? Well, buddy reads of course! (You know who you are!): Thank you for always being there, for being an amazing friend and for making me laugh daily. This was an amazing year for me from a reading perspective - I’ve read more than ever before, far surpassing my reading goal, which astonishes me. I’ve also interacted with and formed genuine friendships with many more of you and for that I am so very grateful. I am very close with a few of you and I appreciate you a...

Update : I'm just adding a couple of books in here, and I forgot to mention my Author of the Year (see below)THE GOODGoodreads page of stats tells me that the least popular book I read this year was The Top 1000 Doo Wop Songs Collectors Edition, by Anthony J Gribin and Matthew M Schiff which has only been read by one person so far, myself.Interestingly, according to the stats, the most popular book I read this year was The Top 1000 Doo Wop Songs Collectors Edition by Anthony J Gribin and Matthew...