The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas | Review

Title: The Hate U Give

Author: Angie Thomas

Release Date: February 28th, 2017

My Rating: 5 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

The Sun is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon | Review

Title: The Sun is Also a Star

Author: Nicola Yoon

Release Date: November 1st,  2016

My Rating: 3.5 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han | Review

Title: To All the Boys I've Loved Before

Author: Jenny Han

Release Date: April 15th, 2014

My Rating: 4 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone | Review

Title: Every Last Word

Author: Tamara Ireland Stone

Release Date: June 16th, 2015

My Rating: 5 Stars

Format: E-book

Life Update #1

Why not start a new series on how my life is going? Not that you care but I feel like I owe you all an explanation on why I haven't been posting much, only reviews, that to be honest those were already scheduled since summer.

I've been in a reading slump for the past month, I don't feel like reading at all, not even pick up a book, I'm currently reading one again, trying to get out of it, it's hard, but I'm trying, I already DNF'ed two books during that slump, which doesn't help.

Anxiety has been killing me, not literally, but with university work and teachers always telling you everything is wrong, do it again, I don't like that idea, elaborate in a different way... that makes me stressed, if I'm stressed then I don't eat or sleep, if I don't do any of those then anxiety kicks in and does the job of finishing me, to a point where I don't even want to leave the house, only for school, and even that I missed a few times or arrived later because I'm just done.

I'm an art student, so some stuff I need to have a plan before doing it, and I need ideas first, the teacher wants to speed the creation process to a point where I don't like my idea at all and I'm just doing it because I have to, normally that doesn't work well for me, why? the stress, the anxiety, the panic attacks.

Friends asked me if I wanted to go out with them, but I'm so out of energy that not even that I want to do, and trust me, if the day comes that I don't even want to go to the gym, which is the only place that I still want to go because I get my mind off of things and life, take some of the stress out, if that day comes... I don't know how to get back to a "normal" life, I'm already trying to go back to before all of this, making me eat and sleep. Today I had a headache for the entire day because I was just tired of everything, but I still got out of bed and went to school...

So yeah, long text just to explain that even though I've not been posting the tags and TBR's and wrap-ups, etc, I'm still trying to come back and write, but I need to be sure that I'm better enough for that, I want to enjoy doing this, I love writing posts on books, but if I don't even want to pick up a book then why would I write? Those are my thoughts right now and I don't want them...

Sorry for the long text, actually felt like writing, sorry if the text doesn't make sense, I don't even think I'll re-read it so I won't be able to change my mind and delete the whole thing.

If you're struggling with anxiety and uni and stress feel free to just write a long text, or small, if you need to vent, maybe someone will be able to help you (I don't promise I will) or just write something encouraging for other people that come here and need something positive, because I also could use that right now...

Love you and hopefully see you soon in more posts other than reviews.

An Abundance of Katherines by John Green | Review

Title: An Abundance of Katherines

Author: John Green

Release Date: September 21st, 2006

My Rating: 3 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

A Quiet Kind of Thunder by Sara Barnard | Review

Title: A Quiet Kind of Thunder

Author: Sara Barnard

Release Date: January 12th, 2017

My Rating: 4.5 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella | Review

Title: Finding Audrey

Author: Sophie Kinsella

Release Date: June 9th, 2015

My Rating: 4.5 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting by Holly Bourne | Review

Title: The Manifesto on How to Be Interesting

Author: Holly Bourne

Release Date: August 1st, 2014

My Rating: 3 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

How I Choose my Books | Book Tag

1. Find a book on your shelves or e-reader with a blue cover. What made you want to pick up this book?

The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli. I picked it because it has blue on the cover... probably also because I really want to read it.

2. Think of a book you didn’t expect to enjoy, but did. Why did you read it in the first place?

The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. I read it mostly because I wanted to learn a bit more about the WWII and what better way than to read from a 14 years old girl that was actually in hiding during those awful moments?

3. Stand in front of your bookshelf with your eyes closed and pick up a book at random. How did you discover this book?


Looking for Alaska by John Green - I read a few books by this author at the time and I decided to start to buy them all, I also heard great things about this one, so my parents gave it to me on Christmas 2016!

The Inexplicable Logic of my Life by Benjamin Alire Sáenz | Review

Title: The Inexplicable Logic of my Life

Author: Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Release Date: March 7th, 2017

My Rating: 5 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

Jonathan Unleashed by Meg Rosoff | Review

Title: Jonathan Unleashed

Author: Meg Rosoff

Release Date: July 5th, 2016

My Rating: 2 Stars

Format: E-book

Taking Part in a Book Lover's Life | Book Tag

1. Name a book you’re embarrassed to say you haven’t read yet.

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green, I'm embarrassed because I'm a huge fan of his work and still haven't read this, which people are saying it's his best work yet!

2. What is the strangest thing you’ve ever used as a bookmark?

Beach Towell, just left it between the page I was in while I went into the water, came back with the book closed because of wind...

3. Look at your bookshelf. What’s the first book you see with a yellow spine?

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella.

It Only Happens in the Movies by Holly Bourne | Review

Title: It Only Happens in the Movies

Author: Holly Bourne

Release Date: October 1st, 2017

My Rating: 3.5 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

My Life In Books | Book Tag

Pick a book for each of your initials…

J 

C

M

B

Count your age along your bookshelf, what is it?

On my Young adult shelf my 21st book it Looking For Alaska by John Green.
Pick a book set in your city/country.

The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel - There are no books set in my city because it's boring so here's Portugal! 

Pick a book that represents a place you’d like to travel to..

Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch. I would love to travel to Italy!

September TBR | 2018

I usually don't do these TBR posts but today I thought I might actually try and do it, it probably won't be every month but we'll see.

I'm not adding a lot of books in this month TBR because uni starts September 17th and I don't know if I'll have time after it starts, last year and stuff, the teachers will be killing us with work.

The Book Blogger Test | Book Tag

1. What are your top three book pet hates?

1. I hate when they decide to change the covers in the middle of a book series, like, can you not? I like my books to match!

2. A cover problem again, when Portuguese books decide to change everything about the cover, the main example is Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli, they changed that completely and I hate the Portuguese cover!

3. I don't mind details, but some of them during sex scenes are just cringy and I want to stop reading and have to take a break from the book.

2. describe your perfect reading spot

In a balcony out in the woods with a swing chair! I would so love that!!

Blankets by Craig Thompson | Review

Title: Blankets

Author: Craig Thompson

Release Date: July 1st, 2003

My Rating: 5 Stars

Format: E-book

Book Adaptation Tag | Book Tag

1. What is the last book adaptation movie you saw?

To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han and it was perfect!! I still need to read the rest of the trilogy.

2. What book movie are you most excited about?

The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas - I read this last week and I'm so excited for the movie this October!

3. Which upcoming book movie will you definitely NOT see?

I don't know... some horror movie that came out of a Stephen King book...

Books I DNFed #1

So I recently read a post about books that should've DNFed and I remembered I DNFed a lot of books, and I thought maybe you would enjoy reading something like that, maybe not, but I want to get this out of me because a lot of these are people's favorites and I just couldn't get it done. So here's the first post about books I DNFed and there's more to come.

Remember: these are just my opinion, I'm not saying the books suck, they just aren't for me, if you enjoyed any of these books then that's your opinion, don't judge me, please.

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell | Review

Title: Carry On

Author: Rainbow Rowell

Release Date: October 6th, 2015

My Rating: 4.5 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

Lost in a Book | Book Tag

Do you have a certain place at home for reading? 
Normally I like reading in my bed but in the summertime, I love reading outside in the swing chair.

Bookmark or random piece of paper?
Definitely bookmark! Most Portuguese books come with bookmarks whilst my English books have I have none. My mom is definitely the piece of paper reader, and she's also always losing it.

Can you just stop reading or do you have to stop at a chapter?
Unless I'm not enjoying the book I always have to finish the chapter!

Erasmus+ Book Haul | 2018

So I went to study Erasmus+ in Latvia and being the Bookworm that I am I couldn't help but buy books, I just didn't realize I had bought so many until I had to pack them to come back home, so I had to send a package home separately because the bag was overweight.

Looking now at my shelves I thought I could do a book haul, I bought 10 books while I was abroad, I arrived in mid June, I stayed for 4 and a half months, if you want I can write about my Erasmus experience, I've been thinking about it and how I would write it.

So without any further ado let's get into the haul

Simon vs The Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli | Review

Title: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Author: Becky Albertalli

Release Date: April 7th, 2015

My Rating: 5 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

The Book Addiction | Book Tag

What is the longest amount of time you can comfortably go without picking up a book?

It depends if I have tons of school work than it can take a month... During vacation maybe 2 days.

How many books do you carry on your person (or kindle) at any one time?

Maybe one physical book and around 6 books on my phone.

Do you keep every book you buy/receive or are you happy to pass them on to make space for more?

BookTube-A-Thon 2018 | Wrap up

So Booktube-a-thon ended last week, it was the first time ever that I participated, all those other years I just watched, even though I don't have a booktube account I still wanted to participate and see if I can do all challenges, I didn't... So yeah, but I still read 6 books and had a little reading slump in between so I'm still happy with the results. 

Alphabethon Summer Round | Wrap-up

Reading Wrap Up 2018! Books 41-50

If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo | Review

Title: If I Was Your Girl

Author: Meredith Russo

Release Date: May 3rd, 2016

My Rating: 4 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

No Disclaimers | Book Tag

1). Which trope (or tropes) in books, annoy you the most?

The best friend's to relationship trope, can they just stay friends? At least most books are like that when in real life it's most likely for you to stay in the friend zone (oh hey, I've been there).
I hate the dead parents one, like, can they just be alive and well? Do they have to be dead, or have a traumatizing death at the beginning, or be alive but are alcoholic or drug addicts and don't care about their kids? C'mon.
2). Which writer or writers do you feel are overrated/overhyped?

I head a lot about how people loved Girl Online when it came out, I don't know if it's considered overrated with 3.75 ratings on Goodreads but I'll consider it. I love Zoe as a YouTuber, I watch her vlogs and I love them. But that book was just bad, it has all the cliches I hate, it was put as a Young-Adult book but honestly, I felt like it was for early-teens because it has all the stupid decisions a teen would do.
3). What are your least favorite books you've read since you started blogging?

Alphabethon Summer Round | Week 5

Reading Wrap Up 2018! Books 31-40

Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley Review!

Title: Words in Deep Blue

Author: Cath Crowley

Release Date: August 30th, 2016

My Rating: 3.5 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

BookTubeAThon TBR | 2018

Even though I'm not a booktuber (but thinking about it), I want to participate in this read-a-thon because I just think it's so cool, last year I only watched the videos, I didn't participate, this year I want to challenge myself and see if I can read 7 books in one week or complete all challenges. Hopefully, it'll be easy with my TBR because I have, 1 contemporary, 4 poetry books, 1 graphic novel, and 1 re-read, so yeah.

Alphabethon Summer Round | Week 4

Alphabethon Summer Round | Week 3

The Truth and Lies of Ella Black by Emily Barr Review!

Title: The Truth and Lies of Ella Black

Author: Emily Barr

Release Date: January 11th, 2018

My Rating: 2 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

Reader Problems Book Tag!

1. You have 20,000 books on your TBR. How in the world do you decide what to read next?

I don't even know how to decide with my 30 TBR pile, but I guess I would pick a top 5 or top 10, put their names on pieces of paper, put it in a hat and take one out. The name that I got would be my next read!

2. You’re halfway through a book and you’re just not loving it. Do you quit or are you committed?

Depends, if I spent a lot of money on the book (some are expensive), then I will try, but normally the ones I give up on are E-books, which are cheaper so I don't really mind stopping.

3. The end of the year is coming and you’re so close, but so far away on your Goodreads reading challenge. Do you try to catch up and how?

I would try to catch up by reading short books and graphic novels!

The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan | Review

Title: The Keeper of Lost Things

Author: Ruth Hogan

Release Date: November 28th, 2017

My Rating: 2 Stars

Format: Physical Book (Paperback)

Guilty Reader | Book Tag

So lately I found a lot of book tags that I found very interesting, and I want to implement more tags in my blog so I decided to do this one today, Guilty reader, it was so much fun answering these even though sometimes blogger was stopping and I don't know why, but it's fine.

I hope you enjoy reading this as much as I enjoyed writing it!

Alphabethon Summer Round | Week 2

Alphabethon Summer Round | Week 1

So the day has come and Alphabethon started! And what did I decide to do? a weekly "wrap-up" or progress or whatever you feel like calling it because, to be honest, I have no idea what I'll call this thing I'll be doing for the next 4 weeks.

Reading Wrap Up 2018! Books 21-30

Creating a schedule for my blog?

Hello everyone! I think it's time for me to decide when to post stuff here, like wrap-ups (that I've been doing every time I read 10 books), tags, reviews, and just random stuff that I want to post. So my main idea is:

Monday - Book Tag

Wednesday - Review

Sunday - Wrap-up if there's one!

Saturday/Sunday - Random stuff like read-a-thons I participate in; hauls; TBR, etc.

These would be at around 7PM in Europe and surroundings, which I think is 11AM in America and surroundings, and I say around that time because I don't know how it will work once I get a job. But I'm going to try and make this schedule work because it's a matter of time to finally do it because before I posted every time I just felt like it.

What do you think? And is there any post that you would like to read about? Let me know!