Readathons I wanna do in February 2018

These are only the Readathons I wanna do in February 2018. There will be a lot more, but I can't do them all because not all of them can be combined. So I chose just a few that I will participate in and try to do all challenges of. I'm also planning to do a few Reading Challenges this year starting in February. So I will post my complete February 2018 TBR including the Readathon TBRs soon. For a whole list of Readathons happening in February look at the Monthly ReadAThon Guide of Duskangelreads or at the Readathon Calendar of Little Book Owl!

Read-A-Thin (Whole February)

The Read-A-Thin is a monthlong readathon. The goal is to finish 6 challenges out of 11 but only with books you already own. There are a lot of reading sprints on their Twitter page which I love!
For more information go to the Goodreads Group

Alphabethon (February 12-18)

Another readathon I wanna do is round 5 of the Alphabethon. It's a readathon centered around (you guessed it) the alphabet. So every readathon is focused on another letter of the alphabet. This is round 5 so the letter will be E. There are also reading challenges and even a giveaway. All the information can be found on the host's blog: Bookaholicbanter Blog and the Twitter Page

Duodecathon (February 15-21)

This is a monthly readathon and here is how it works: You pick one challenge every Duodecathon to complete out of the list of 12 challenges, so by the end you will have completed all the challenges. All the reading challenges can be found in the Goodreads Group




So these are all the readathons I wanna do in February. If you are participating in any of these let me know. Also if you are participating in any other exciting readathons please link them in the comments ;)

My snow day reading list

It’s day one of the Winter Biannual Bibliothon 2018 and I'm already behind on my reading goal. I have already finished a novella and started reading the group book Otherworld. But since I've not a lot of time to read next week I wanted to get ahead of my reading. Hope to finish my goal of reading a book per challenge but if I can't do it I will just double up on some.
But enough about the reading challenges. Let's get started with the blog post challenge.

There are a lot of books I would read on a snow day because it's just the perfect weather for reading. Also I normally don't select my books by the weather outside so I have a lot of very different books on this list. So here it is:

My true love gave to me

I love to go outside when it's snowing because it's my favorite weather. I will do a snow angel or have a snowball fight or build a snowman. But if you go outside into the cold weather it's nice to warm yourself up in between. Maybe with a cup of tea and a good book. My true love gave to me from a bunch of different authors is the perfect book for this. Since it's a collection of shortstories you can just read one of them and then go back outside when you feel warm again without having to pause a novel.

The Selection

Winter is ball season where I live. The first book that came to mind when I think about parties with people in pretty dresses is The Selection by Kiera Cass. Also it's a very fast read so perfect for Winter Biannual Bibliothon ;)

Anna and the French Kiss

I think snow is very romantic as is Paris. Anna and the French Kiss is one of my favorite contemporaries of all time and I love the description of Paris in it. It's like being teleported to the city of love.

Love & Gelato

This book is a little bit strange for a snow day reading list because it plays in the summer and they eat ice cream which you normally don't do that often in winter. But if you have enough of winter and the snow it's nice to put your head in a book and dream about summer. I read this book in July but I think I would have liked it just as much on a snow day.

Twilight

I haven't recommended this book in a long time. Not because I don't love it anymore, on the contrary. I will always love Twilight. I just feel like everybody has already read it. But it came immediately to my mind because Bella is struggling a lot with snow and especially the slippery ice. (And who wouldn't love being caught by a sexy vampire on a snowy day)

Wanderlost

A lot of people are travelling south when it's snowing to avoid the cold. But if you don't have the opportunity to travel in the winter time you can always do it by reading a story about traveling. I always love to go to new places with book characters and one of my favorite travel stories is Wanderlost by Jen Malone. It's just a nice read to escape from especially stressful times :)

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

This list wouldn't be complete without a Harry Potter book on it. Of course any Harry Potter book would do it. Also I think any time is a good time to reread Harry Potter but I just feel more like diving into this world on a snow day because I love it the most when it's winter time in Hogwarts. For me Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is the most wintery, snowy book because of the winter ball. Also who can get cold while reading about getting burned by dragons ;D

That's it for my snow day reading list. Would you read any of them in the winter time or do you prefer different books. Comment down below! I would love to chat about it.

2016 Reading Challenge

My goodreads reading challenge is to read 100 books this year! Last year I did it :D
In addition to my Goodreads Reading Challenge, I try to do another challenge every year to read books I wouldn't have picked up normally.

In 2015 I did the TBR-Jar-Challenge. This year I thought about doing the Popsugar Reading Challenge. I'm so glad that they published a Challenge again this year so I can participate.

I hope I can read a book for all 40 challenges. We'll see ;)

Review: Dreaming of Antigone - Robin Bridges

Uncharacteristically for me I've read a lot of Contemporary YA lately. In between I also read Dreaming of Antigone. I didn't like it as much as some of the others, but it was still a great book. I liked the way the main characters fell in love with each other and although it was a little bit unrealistic and instalovey it kind of makes sense that they would turn to each other for comfort after what happened before the book. I think there was happening a little bit too much at the same time for such a short book. Which means it was very fast-paced, but some topics felt a little bit rushed and I thought they could have been exploit a little bit more. I liked the characters very much. I love it when main characters are passionate about something. It gives them personality and makes them become alive. Also I often learn something new about hobbies the main characters practice. Still I couldn't quite connect with the main characters. But in the end I really liked the story and especially that it deals with so many serious topics. And even though I kind of guessed the plot twist it was still surprising and very interesting. I just think because of all the serious topics and sad events the characters were just coping a little bit to well and that was the only thing that made me really feel a little bit disconnected and not emotional enough considering all the terrible and heartwarming events. Oh yeah and by the way I LOVE this cover.

Review: Untraceable (The Nature of Grace #1) - S.R. Johannes

I can't decide if I hated or loved this book. The first 100 pages were kind of boring but it got better after that. The last 100 pages were really exciting and thrilling. I couldn't take my eyes of the book, but I feel like it was more like a train wreck. I wanted to stop reading but I just couldn't. That doesn't mean that I didn't like it. There were so many plot twists in the end and I love it if a book is unpredictable. Also I really liked the characters - at least the ones you were supposed to like ;). I would have wished for a better clear up of their relationships in the end. It was just like the emotions described in the whole book where in the end just gone and after three days everything was back to normal.
The end was just the thing that kind of ruined this book for me. It was like the whole book was pointless in the end and I wished it would have been differently.
Also I saw on Goodreads that it was listed as Fantasy and I waited the whole book for something fantastical to happen but it didn't!
I kinda wish I haven't read this book - although it was not that bad - but because of this stupid cliff hanger in the end I feel like I have to read the next one in the series but I didn't like this one so much that I wanna invest the time to read two more books, so I don't know what to do!
If you like mystery thrillers I think you should try it, but prepare for reading the whole series!

Review: Call Me, Maybe - Ellie Cahill

I normally don't read romance novels but it was a nice change. I actually liked the characters and I liked that they had a background story that influenced them til today. It made them human and relate-able. I liked the way their relationship started. It was nice and cutesy and really original I think. Also I liked that you get to know different characters who don't actually show in the book. That made the main characters come to life because they had other relationships in their life like a family and friends.
The story for me was kind of boring. Maybe it's because I don't usually read romance books and fantasy books have a lot more going on than just the romance between the main characters. I waited through the whole book for something unexpected to happen but it was pretty predictable. I still liked the story because it was also very realistic but it just wasn't enough for me I think.
But the writing was great. It was fast-paced and in the beginning I couldn't even put it down. After about 100 pages I realized how far I've gotten and was kind of shocked. That's also why I finished this book in a day. Since it covers only approximately 3 weeks it is easy to read in one sitting and also it is kind of understandable that there wasn't going on that much. I think the main part in a contemporary romance novel is the romance so it was very well done. I think I just don't wanna read romance novels all the time but I'm really clad I did read this book and I'm happy I got approved for this book on netgalley. If you like romance novels you should definitely give this one a try.

Review: Sentinel (Covenant #5) - Jennifer L. Armentrout

Ok first of all: Normally I hate the covers of Jennifer's book. The covers of the Lux series are really hideous, but this series has so beautiful covers. I just adore them!

I did a review of the first book of the series and talked about the resemblance to Vampire Academy. The first one was pretty similar, but as the series progressed it got more and more complicated and develop it's own story and it was very thrilling and captivating. The love story in this book was just amazing and I love how this all wrapped up in this book. I just really like it when a couple overcomes all its problems to be with each other and starts to fight their problems together. Also I liked the "love triangle" in this series. Normally I really hate them, but there are a few series where it's well done and this one definitely belongs to the well written love triangles.

I also love the main character's relationship to the other characters and how they develop and also how she develops throughout the book. You can really see that this book is written for young adults who are as well in the process of changing and finding themselves.

Also as the series progressed I started to appreciate the Greek mythology in this book. You can't really see much of that in the first book, but it definitely adds to the story later.

I really really loved the ending. It wasn't the typical corny and cheesy ending which you have sometimes with happy endings, but it was still a happy ending. I could have never thought about this ending. It was very surprising for me, but it was a nice surprise. And if I wouldn't have had all the feels already throughout the series with this ending I would have had them at the latest. I just wanted to cry and laugh at the same time throughout the whole series. It was heartbreaking and so relate-able and also so sweet and sad and scary at the same time. Really just all the feels!

Also this series is relatively long because there are 5 books and 2 novellas but they are really fast-paced and pretty short so you can read them in a short amount of time like all Jennifer L. Armentrout books but you should read the novellas as well to really understand the whole series and also the novellas are amazing especially the second one ;)

This series is like Percy Jackson for young adults. So if you wanna have a mix between Vampire Academy and Percy Jackson you should definitely try this. Just don't let yourself get scared of by the first one because you feel like you have read this already because there is a lot more to the story later on.