Lieke's reading plan - May 2017

[Lieke]

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2-3-4 Challenge / Around the year in 52 books
✔ Dead as a Doornail
✔ Winter
✔ Windzangers
✔ Ashling
✔ Zero Hour

2-3-4 Challenge

Around the year in 52 books
✔ The Ocean at the End of the Lane

FF Challenge
to choose from:
✔ The Girl with All the Gifts
✔ Frankenstein
....

Random
✔ Beneath the Earth

Unplanned
✔ Vattenhästen

[Angela]

Have a great month Lieke. I hope you enjoy The Ocean at the End of the Lane. It's been on my TBR for a while so I'll be interested to see what you think of it.

[Jonetta]

Hope you enjoy The Ocean at the End of the Lane! Loved it. Enjoy your reading.

[Lieke]

Thank you Angela and Jonetta. I'm looking forward to reading The Ocean at the End of the Lane I have heard good things about it and I have enjoyed all the Gaiman books I have read until now. Happy reading!

[Tracey]

Have a great month Lieke!

[Lieke]

Thanks Tracey! You too!

[Veronica]

Have fun reading, Lieke. I was just watching a special on Neil Gaiman on the Starz channel yesterday (following him on his final book tour) and he mentioned that The Ocean at the End of the Lane started out as a short story that he was writing as a present for his wife. Then it grew and grew.

[Lieke]

Thanks Veronica!
All these comments about The Ocean at the End of the Lane make me want to read the book even more :)
But I'm going to read some series books first.

[Mary Beth]

Looking forward to what you think of The Girl with All the Gifts. I was going to read it this month but couldnt fit it in.

[Amie]

I hope you enjoy your month, Lieke!

[Lieke]

Thanks Mary Beth and Amie!

Finished reading Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris. I liked the book but it gets a bit much with all the guys/characters who like Sookie.

[Lauren]

Lieke wrote: "Thanks Mary Beth and Amie!

Finished reading Dead as a Doornail by Charlaine Harris. I liked the book but it gets a bit much with all the guys/characters who like Sookie."

Yeah, she's like Catnip to supernatural men.

[Sharmon]

I have been wanting to get to The Ocean at the End of the Lane for years but I never quite get to it!

[Lieke]

Lauren wrote: "Yeah, she's like Catnip to supernatural men."

Thats the right description :)

[Lieke]

Sharmon wrote: "I have been wanting to get to The Ocean at the End of the Lane for years but I never quite get to it!"

So many books so little time :)

[Lieke]

I finished the Lorien Legacies: The lost Files series by reading Zero Hour by Pittacus Lore. These where the last three novella's in this series.
I enjoyed reading the bit of extra information about these characters.

[Lieke]

I read The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. I liked the book, but didn't completely click with it (does that make sense?). I liked reading the interview with Neil Gaiman in the back a lot, finding out that he used a lot of things from his own childhood.

[Lieke]

Finished reading Ashling by Isobelle Carmody, the 3rd book in the Obernewtyn Chronicles. Another good book in the series, really looking forward to read the next book in June :)

[Angela]

Lieke wrote: "I read The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. I liked the book, but didn't completely click with it (does that make sense?). I liked reading the interview with Neil Gaiman..."

Lieke what did you end up rating the book? It does make sense that people don't click with a book. I've read books friends have raved about and they haven't clicked for me in the same way.

[Lieke]

I gave it three stars, I did like it but didn't love it. I think I just expected more from the story.
Did you read the book?

[Lieke]

Finished two books today Beneath the Earth by John Boyne and Windzangers by Megan Lindholm.
The first book are short stories, I liked it but I think his books for young readers are better.
I loved the other book, it is the second book in the series and I liked it more then the first book.

[Angela]

Lieke wrote: "I gave it three stars, I did like it but didn't love it. I think I just expected more from the story.
Did you read the book?"

Not yet. It's one of those books that's been sitting on my TBR for a couple of years so I was curious to see what you thought. I really loved American Gods and Neverwhere, but his work can be quite different between books, as I wasn't a big fan of Stardust. I liked it, but didn't love it like others of Gaiman's I've read.

[Lieke]

I finished reading Winter by Marissa Meyer. I really liked this series a lot. I was thinking of a different ending (view spoiler)[ Winter on the throne in Luna and Cinder back to earth with Kai, but I guess this makes more sense with the royal bloodline being so important (hide spoiler)]. Now I just have to read Stars Above to finish the series.

[Lieke]

A unplanned book I read Vattenhästen (The Waterhorse) by Dick King-Smith. It was an ok children's book, but a bit too short some points could have been a bit longer. And I didn't like the drawings in the book.

[Lieke]

I read another book I bought this year Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Not sure what to think of this book, it was not too hard to read being from 1818. I liked reading 'The nightmare of romantic idealism' by Paul Cantor in the back since it gave me some knowledge about the time the book was written and about how people thought back then.

[Lieke]

The last book of the month is The Girl with All the Gifts by M.R. Carey. I'm not a big fan of zombies, but I liked this book. Melanie was een interesting character and the relationele between the characters were well done too.