Lenas Reading Challenge 2019 [50 Books]

[Lena]

I want to have read 50 books by the end of the year :)

25/50

1. Die Gesichter: Roman - Tom Rachman
2. Die Ladenhüterin - Sayaka Murata
3. Das Mädchen - Stephen King
4. Alte Meister - Thomas Bernhard
5. The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
6. Über Nacht - Sabine Gruber
7. Teleny or the Reverse of the Medal - Oscar Wilde
8. Fables, Vol. 2: Animal Farm - Bill Willingham, Mark Buckingham
9. The Lover's Dictionary - David Levithan
10. Babyjahre: Die frühkindliche Entwicklung aus biologischer Sicht - Remo H. Largo
11. Origin - Dan Brown
12. Shatter Me - Tahereh Mafi
13. The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
14.Schoßgebete - Charlotte Roche
15.Moody Bitches: The Truth About the Drugs You're Taking, The Sleep You're Missing, The Sex You're Not Having, and What's Really Making You Crazy - Julie Holland
16.Wiedersehen im Café am Rande der Welt - John P. Strelecky
17.Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
18.Fables, Vol. 3: Storybook Love - Bill Willingham
19.My Thoughts Exactly - Lily Allen
20.Animal Farm - George Orwell
21.The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories - Marina Keegan
22.Sandman  Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman
23.The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas
24.Die Känguru-Apokryphen - Marc-Uwe Kling
25.Dream House - Marzia Bisognin

[Lena]

11. Origin by Dan Brown

Listened to this as an audiobook, I wrote my very first
Goodreads review after I finished listening. Didn't feel
comfortable enough to write one in english though, so
unfortunatly you have to either speak german or google
translate if you are interested.

2/5 Stars

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12.Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

This was my first english review. By this point I had this book on my shelf for a long time and I felt sooo relieved knowing that I finally finished it.

3/5 Stars

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14. Schoßgebete - Charlotte Roche

Third review, again in german. This turned out longer than I expected. I originally only wanted to write two to three sentences but there was so much in my head that I wanted to say about this that it ended up beeing a bit longer. But I thought genuinely about what I was going to write so in the end I am somewhat proud of this review.

3/5 Stars

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15. Moody Bitches: The Truth about the Drugs You're Taking, the Sleep You're Missing, the Sex You're Not Having and What's Really Making You Crazy... - Julie Holland

This was the first review on which I was working with post-it notes while I was reading. Also written in english. I started to bring in more detail on how I felt while I was reading and presenting not only my opinion, but also why I thought that way.

3/5 Stars

[Lena]

17.Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

This was when I started to participate in the reading challenges. I had this on my shelf for quite a while at that time, so I took it as an opportunity to finally finish it.

5/5 Stars

[Lena]

19.My Thoughts Exactly - Lily Allen

At this point I began to bring in a little bit of backround story to my reviews, I tried to get across why certain novels where special to me and why I had started to read them at all. This one is again in german.

5/5 Stars

[Lena]

20.Animal Farm - George Orwell

I wanted to continue with this type of approach on reviews with Animal Farm. I don't particularly feel entitled to rate a book, that's why it only felt fair to frame it with a personal backstory in order to allow the comprehension of why I think in a certain way about a book.

4/5 Stars

[Lena]

21.The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories - Marina Keegan

Nothing to add.

3/5 Stars

[Lena]

22.Sandman  Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes - Neil Gaiman

I felt very uneasy writing about Sandman, first of all because to me it was an edgy masterpiece and I didn't know how to describe that and second because it was my very first comic-book review.

5/5 Stars