Book Slumps and Other Shenanigans

So here I am... A failing Blogger.

Book slumps has hit m heard this month, work has been crazy but I love my job. But I miss how much I was reading when I was jobless.

This month I have read a shitty 5 books in total is horrific for me, I can't even express how much this fact saddens me especially when I want to read 100 or hopefully more books this year. i honestly feel like I am letting my self down when I think of the amount of books I have read this month. Hopefully next month I can read some more.

Luckily I have started a new and exciting route in my life, I have started to try out online courses to build up to a degree type one, what I will do is still unknown to me but today 27th of June I have started Literature of the English House and I am so excited to see how it goes.

I might be able to put up a Review within this evening I will try and will also attempt to start a book to push the slumps away. Maybe I need to watch some Booktubers, do any of you watch book tubers if so who are they?

Anastasia x

Things People Say In Relation To Books That Piss Me Off

I should probably do a disclaimer here, yes these things do piss me off but I do know the intentions are for the good but after years of these sentences that many have uttered to me... Yeah I feel it's right to share them and let them be known.

They annoy me for a number of reasons and I am sure I am not the only one who feels this. Or I hope I am not the only one who feels this agony with some of these experiences.

• 'Oh you read, if you read then obviously you have read this book and that book it's a classic so of course you have read this'.

• When people start up conversations with me full well knowing that I am trying to read and also fully aware that i do not want to be disturbed.

• 'What are you reading?' They ask whilst I am reading and do not want to be disturbed.

• 'If you haven't read this specific book then clearly you don't read as much as you say you do'.

• 'I read this book and because you read I must suggest it to you regardless of you liking this genre or not.

• Judging me because I read or making assumptions based on me reading or even the materials I read.

• When most adults give me book recommendations.

• When people assume that because you work in a bookshop that you know where every single book is and what the book is about.

• When people make assumptions that I have read every book out there and then begin testing my book knowledge or saying oh have you read this or that in a test way.

• When someone starts judging me because I haven't read a book they have.

Reading Goal 100 Books This Year Part 1

So my goal for 2016 is to read 100 books, I don't know why but I just want to challenge myself and see if I can do it. It will be a huge accomplishment for me if I complete this challenge this year and read all the books I need to.

This will be a record of the first 5 months of books I have read and in December Part Two will come out, the books are from a wide range of genres and hopefully I will have Classics, YA,  New Adult, Sc-Fi, Historical Fiction and more genres involved with this years reading list.

So the past 5 months I have managed a grand total of 47 books and my Goodreads challenge says I am 8 books ahead of schedule which I am thrilled about, the best month for me was March for some reason I managed 12 books and the second best month was May. And the worst months where I got 8 books read was Jan, Feb and April.

The month goals for the next 5 months will be 10 or if I can more than 10 books a month, this also depends on what is going on in these months as I have just started a job so will obviously have less reading time.

     January

1. Four by Veronica Roth
2. Playlist For The Dead by Michelle Falkolf
3. Seed by Lisa Hathfield 
4. Denai Touch by Tiffany Shand 
5. Switched by Amanda Hocking
6. Carry on by Rainbow Rowell
7. Dangerous Lies by Becca Fitzpatrick
8. L.A. Candy by Lauren Conard

     Feburary

1. Darkmere by Helen Maslin
2. Crow Mountain by Lucy Inglis
3. Simon vs the HomoSapien Agenda by Becky Allbertini
4. Denai Bound by Tiffany Shand 
5. Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard
6. The Rest Of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness
7. Half Blood by Sally Green
8. Half Wild by Sally Green

     March

1. The World Of Odysseys by M.I Finley 
2. Finding Audrey by Sophie Mckenzie
3. Real Murders by Charlaine Harris
4. Looking for Alaska by John Green
5. Stolen by Lucy Christopher 
6. How Hard Can Love Be by Holly Bourne 
7. Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater 
8. The Scorpion Races by Maggie Stiefvater 
9. Sweet Little Lies by Lauren Conrad 
10. Beautiful Dead, Phoenix by Eden Maguire
11. Rebel of the Sands by Alwyn Hamilton
12. Torn Amanda Hocking

    April

1. Faceless by Alyssa Sheinmel 
2. My Sister Lives On the Mantlepiece by Annabel Pitcher
3. Landline by Rainbow Rowell
4. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
5. Hate List by Jennifer Brown 
6. Angelfall by Susan Ee
7. World After by Susan Ee
8. End Of Days by Susan Ee

    May

1. Storm Born by Amy Braun 
2. Brooklyn by Colm Tóibín
3. How To Be A Wild Flower by Katie Daisy
4. Magonia by Maria Dahvana Headley
5. Half Lost by Sally Green
6. Demons Daughter by Amy Braun 
7. The List by Siobhan Vivian 
8. (Graphic Novel) Angel Fire by Chris Blythe
9. Dark Divinity by Amy Braun 
10. Snow Like Ashes by Sara Raasch 
11. The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky