Top Ten Best Books I Read In 2015

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Top Ten Best Books I Read In 2015 (by only 2015 releases, overall, by genre, etc). 1.   Ask the Passengers by A.S. King 2. The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller 3. Maya's Notebook...

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Book Tag: How I Read

Thank you Nemo at The Moonlight Library! How do you find out about new books to read? Through other bloggers who have reviewed or mentioned new and upcoming releases. Sometimes through my mum, as she's a librarian. How did you get into reading? I don't remember; I think I always loved stories and books. How have your tastes in books changed as you got older? I don't read Jacqueline Wilson anymore,...

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Top Ten Book-to-Movie Adaptations I'm Looking Forward To or I Still Need to Watch

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Top Ten Book To Movie Adaptations I'm Looking Forward To or Ten Book To Movie Adaptations I Still Need To Watch. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (I loved the book and I can't wait for the film!) The...

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Update

I changed my blog theme again because I wanted the labels on my posts to be visible and I also wanted my sidebar info to fit without having to zoom out. Even though I tried making the font bigger on this new theme that didn't seem to work, but zooming in once makes the text readable. I have also changed my alias to Alexandria, as that's my pen name. I may as well use the same name across all the...

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My Reading Stats in 2015

This year I have read fewer books than any other year. There are several things that have got in the way of my book reading: school, TV shows, and fanfiction (both reading and writing huge amounts). I knew these would interfere with my reading even at the start of the year, so I set a fairly low Goodreads reading challenge of only 40 books. With only a few months to go, even though I just finished...

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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest (Millennium Trilogy #3) by Stieg Larsson

 Date finished: 11 October 2015 I just finished the last book of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, and I'm worried that I'll never be able to enjoy anything I read ever again. I feel that no other book will compare in complexity and intrigue. It's by no means a perfect book but it...

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New blog theme

I was getting sick of the old-fashioned themes provided by Blogger and my previous theme had absolutely no connection to what I blog about, so I did a little search and I found some very nice free themes made by other people for Blogger users to, well, use. I'm finding Typefocus by NewBloggerThemes.com clearer and easy to read, and way more professional and modern-looking than my old theme. It's not...

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Top Ten Books That Would be on My Syllabus if I Taught Historical Fiction 101

Top Ten Tuesday is an awesome weekly meme hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week's theme is Top Ten Books That Would Be On Your Syllabus If You Taught X 101 (examples: YA fantasy 101, feminist literature 101, magic in YA 101, classic YA lit 101, world-building 101). 1. Burial...

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Ask the Passengers by A.S. King

  Date finished: 22 August 2015 Ask the Passengers is one of the best novels I've read in 2015, and as you can see from my previous reviews, I've read some pretty good books this year. It's so good that I read it in one day, unable to put it down. The plot is pretty simple, but nice. I...

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Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Date finished: 12 August 2015 Where do I even start? This is a novel based on a true story about the last person to be executed in Iceland in 1830, Agnes Magnúsdóttir, sentenced to death for her part in the murders of two men. It’s dark and grim, definitely not what you’d want to read on a...

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