Lieke's reading plan - September 2017

[Lieke]

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2-3-4 Challenge / Around the year in 52 books


2-3-4 Challenge
✔ Damin Wolfsblad by Jennifer Fallon
✔ Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris

Around the year in 52 books
✔ A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Kafka op het strand by Haruki Murakami
A Hopeless Romantic by Harriet Evans
Zusjes op leven en dood by Tineke Beishuizen

D&J BOTM
✔ Wacht! Wacht! by Terry Pratchett

FF Challenge


Reread
✔ Moordenaar des Konings by Robin Hobb
Foxmask by Juliet Marillier

Unplanned
✔ The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells
✔ Goldenhand by Garth Nix
✔ De Reuzenperzik by Roald Dahl (audio)
✔ Oma boef by David Walliams
✔ W.I.T.C.H.
✔ Sheer Mischief by Jill Mansell

[Michelle]

Have a great reading month

[Lieke]

Thanks Michelle! You too :)

[Angela]

Have a wonderful month Lieke.

[Lieke]

Thanks Angela, same to you :)

[Veronica]

I loved A Monster Calls! Haven't seen the movie though.

Have a great month, Lieke!

[Lieke]

Thank you Veronica, I have heard I might need tissues for A Monster Calls. I haven't seen the movie either.

[Veronica]

I certainly did.

[Lieke]

I will read that book at home and not on the bus going to work ;)

[Tracey]

Have a great month!

[Lieke]

Thanks Tracey!

[Lauren]

Hope you enjoy your books, Lieke!

[Lieke]

Thank you Lauren!

[Jonetta]

Enjoy your month, Lieke! As usual you've got such a nice mix.

[Lieke]

Thanks Jonetta!

[Lieke]

I finished my first book of the month a reread of Moordenaar des Konings by Robin Hobb. Like the first book I didn't remember a lot of the story, and it is so good!
Looking forward to reading the next book in october.

[Lieke]

Tears where flowing when I finished A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness this morning.
A beautiful but sad book.
I need something uplifting now.

[Lieke]

I finished Damin Wolfsblad by Jennifer Fallon.
I liked it better then them first book. It started good, but that ending was even better. Looking forward to reading the last book in the series next month.

[Veronica]

Lieke wrote: "Tears where flowing when I finished A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness this morning.
A beautiful but sad book.
I need something uplifting now."

I was a sad mess too when I finished.

[Lieke]

I finished my first Terry Pratchett book: Wacht! Wacht! (Guard! Guard!).
I liked it, but there where a few parts that where strange. Since I read a translation I'm not sure how much is due to the translation.

[Lieke]

Today I read Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris.
Fun but it didn't click the same way as some previous books.

[Lieke]

I took The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells of my plan this month becaue I couldn't find my copy and ofcourse now I found it. In the place where I looked three times before.....
Since I didn't want to loose it again I read it immediately ;)
I liked the story and the idea of the story. Also liked the writing most of the time.

[Angela]

Lieke wrote: "Today I read Dead and Gone by Charlaine Harris.
Fun but it didn't click the same way as some previous books."

I found from this point onwards, Lieke that the books were no longer as they good use to be. I think it was around this point that the TV show started and after that I felt like it declined the quality of the books.

[Lieke]

I have recently watched the first two episodes with my sister (she had seen them before) and all I could say was: thats different and thats different and ....
Not sure yet if I will watch more episodes, maybe when it has been a bit longer since I read the books.

Since it is only four more books and they are not very long I plan to finish the series. Will see what I think of the rest of the books.
But I stil found this one fun to read.

[Lieke]

I listened to De Reuzenperzik (James and the Giant Peach) by Roald Dahl.

And this morning I finished Goldenhand by Garth Nix. I love this world and enjoyed this book very much.

[Lauren]

Lieke wrote: "I have recently watched the first two episodes with my sister (she had seen them before) and all I could say was: thats different and thats different and ....
Not sure yet if I will watch more epis..."

I stopped watching the after season 1. I just didn't like the characters and the constant sex. The books are much better.

[Veronica]

Angela wrote: "I found from this point onwards, Lieke that the books were no longer as they good use to be. I think it was around this point that the TV show started and after that I felt like it declined the quality of the books. ..."

I echo Angela's thoughts on the Sookie series in those last books. I don't know if she was stretching things out to capitalize on the tv show being on the air (or, to be fair, if it was her publisher that was wanting that) but something felt off. I still have never read the very last book.