Books & chats

Hey! Hi! So by now I completly ruined my goal of posting once a week bUT well what can i do? during this little break i got an instagram account (if you would like to follow me here it is thank u <3) BUT what we are here for it's my January wrap-up; I started this year reading 10 books, 7 of them counted towards my "ATYin52" challenge and six for the Pop Sugar Reading Challenge. So here we go! My first read was "Murder in the Orient Express" by Agatha Christie. Here we are following Poirot who is a detective (if i'm remembering correctly) and meanwhile he's on the Orient Express (dah) someone gets murdered so he starts to investigate who could have done it.  Wow, this was my first time reading something by Agatha Christie and I got to say I'm in love, I want to read every book by her now. Christie has a way with words where she immediatly grabs your attention and you want to know what really happened.  It was a 5 out 5 stars read, simp

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green My rating: 4 of 5 stars   (or more of a 3.5 shhh) "But you give your thoughts too much power, Aza. Thoughts are only thoughts. They are not you. You do belong to yourself, even when your thoughts don't" My hopes for this book weren't (at all) high and well, this really didn't amazed me that much but it was a good read; what really got to me was the anxiety rep. So here we have Aza, who's our main character and is going through life with OCD and anxiety and suddenly she finds herself with her bestfriend trying to solve a mystery of a person dissapearing and she reconnects with a guy from her past, and really sums up the book. Something I got to point out was the "mystery", I kind of enjoy John Green's books but I think he repeated himself here and went for the same thing as in "Paper Towns" and that did not set well with me, I'm just tired of that narrative; honestly the &q

From January 29 to February 4th the BreakyourTBRapart Readathon  is happening and one of my 2k18 goals is to actually "complete" a readathon this year, so what better way to start trying than now 😊 Here is my TBR for the readathon and the challenges: A book that's been on your TBR for some time now: Talentos Ocultos A short book or book of short stories on your TBR: Diez Negritos Read a first book in a series or sequel that's on your TBR: Roar   Read a book/books for 24 hours (should be on Saturday, Feb. 3rd): I will try to finish the ones I got and in case I'll finish them all I'll pick Wild Beauty Read 5 books: Lo que dejó tu adiós I really don't know if I'll be able to finish 5 books in 7 days but I'll give it a try, so wish me luck!💚

It's Kind of a Funny Story by Ned Vizzini My rating: 3 of 5 stars This one was definetly a let down and that breaks my heart; I really wanted to love this book, because mental illness should be something we talk about more, we have to be consious of how many people struggle with some type of mental illness and we really have to start undestranding them, and for me this book would be a good starter for the conversation but it really wasn't. I first met this story when I watched the movie about 6 years ago when I was just diagnosed with depression and anxiety, and honestly it was my favorite, like I would recommend it to everybody and I felt really represented through Craig's thoughts but now that i've read the book some time after, it really didn't do it for me. It was not a total waste of a read, I kinda enjoyed it, well some parts, for starters Ned Vizzini had depression and anxiety, and you really can feel those types of thoughts and feeling thro