My 2021 Blog and Reading Goals!

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This time last year I set out 5 goals for my blog and reading right here. Firstly lets take a look at what I was hoping for in 2020!

2020 Wrapped!

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2020 is finally nearly over so it's time to look back over my year of reading with the information taken from Goodreads.

I read 75 books this year with 23,364 pages read!

The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton was my longest book of the year at 576 pages and My Soul to Lose by Rachel Vincent was my shortest book at only 60 pages.

My Top 10 Books of 2020!

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We are nearing the end of 2020 (FINALLY) so it is time for my favourite books of the year. Some are books that have been released this year and some have been on my TBR for ages! I read 75 books this year so I had a lot to choose from.

1. The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton

A murder on the high seas. A detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist.

This book has everything you are looking for in a crime/ mystery novel. I was intrigued from the very beginning and it had the essence of a Sherlock Holmes case which keeps your attention for the whole book as you need to find out what is really going on.

NetGalley November 2020 Wrap Up!

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Last month I took part in NetGalley November which was created by Emandherbooks and Girlnovelliving. We had a group chat full of people and were always talking about books, I don't know how we managed to read! There were 50 people who took part and together we all read 355 books throughout November! Here is how I did.

As shown in my last blog post these were my start stats:

NetGalley November 2020!

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Has your NetGalley shelf gotten out of hand? For the whole month of November, Emma at Emandherbooks and Lisa at girl_novel_living have created a plan for everyone who wants to get involved to tackle their NetGalley reads and up their ratio! Check out their pages for more information.

Here are my starting stats for the month:

Most Anticipated Books on my TBR!

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Do you ever buy a book that you have heard lots about and know it's going to be amazing so you just leave it on your shelf for a long time never being read?? Or you buy a book for the hype but then don't want to pick it up in case it disappoints you? This is me! For this post I am going to go through some of my most anticipated reads (new and old) that are on my bookshelf that will probably take me a very long time to pick up!

1. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

Obviously The Hunger Games are a very big franchise that many people loved, me included, and once I heard about this prequel that focuses on Snow as a young mentor for someone in the games, I was concerned but also curious. I have no idea when I will eventually get around to this but I'm pretty sure it won't be for a while!

Yes No Maybe So by Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed Book Review

Book Title: Yes No Maybe So

Author: Becky Albertalli and Aisha Saeed

My Rating: 5*

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: 04/02/20

Genre(s): Young adult, Contemporary, Romance

Pages: 436

Format Read: Paperback

Goodreads: Jamie Goldberg is cool with volunteering for his local state candidate - as long as he’s behind the scenes. There’s no way he’d ever knock on doors to ask people for their votes…until he meets Maya.
Maya Rehman’s having the worst Ramadan ever. Her best friend is too busy to hang out, her summer trip is cancelled, her parents are separating and now her mother thinks the solution to her problems is political canvassing - with some awkward guy she hardly knows...
Going door to door isn’t exactly glamorous, but maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world. After all, the polls are getting closer - and so are Maya and Jamie. Mastering local activism is one thing. Navigating the cross-cultural crush of the century is another thing entirely.

January 2020 Wrap Up!

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I know this post is super late but better late than never right? January was a good reading month for me, I managed to read 6 books which is a tenth of my reading goal completed already! I also had THREE 5* reads to start off my year. Here's what I read:

All the Rage by Cara Hunter Book Review

Book Title: All the Rage

Author: Cara Hunter

My Rating: 3.5*

Publisher: Penguin

Publication Date: 23/01/20

Genre(s): Mystery, Crime, Thriller

Pages: 416

Format Read: Ebook

Goodreads: A teenage girl is found wandering the outskirts of Oxford, dazed and distressed. The story she tells is terrifying. Grabbed off the street, a plastic bag pulled over her face, then driven to an isolated location where she was subjected to what sounds like an assault. Yet she refuses to press charges.

DI Fawley investigates, but there's little he can do without the girl's co-operation. Is she hiding something, and if so, what? And why does Fawley keep getting the feeling he's seen a case like this before?

And then another girl disappears, and Adam no longer has a choice: he has to face up to his past. Because unless he does, this victim may not be coming back...

My 2020 Anticipated Book Releases! (January - June)

2020 is a great year for book releases so I have picked one book with a release date in each month for the first half of the year. All of these books have been on my radar for a while and I'm so excited for when I can finally read them!

January:

Blog and Reading Goals 2020!

2020 is here! A new year and a new decade. It's almost my one year blog anniversary and I can't believe I've made it this far! I didn't make any resolutions last year as I didn't want to put any pressure on this new experience of mine but now I've decided to make some goals for this new year ahead for me and my blog.