Last year, I miserably failed my reading challenge. I had planned to read 15 books that year, but I ended up reading only 6 books in a whole year. A black page in my History Book of Life. Well, this year I hope to repeat the Golden Age of 2012, where I read a stunning 21 books. Yes, that is a lot for me. An astonishing 7616 pages. This year, I intend to read at least 10 books, but the books I've planned to read are a lot longer than most books. For example, I'm currently reading The Way of Kings and A Dance of Dragons, which combined account for more than 2200 pages alone.
So I think I should be able to read at least 10 books, but I have challenged myself to read 15 books this year. I already read 2, so I don't think it will be much of a problem!
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Normally I'm not the kind of person for writing reviews, and it's even rarer that I post a status update on a book. Well, this is a special occasion, because it's a special book.
My review untill now:
Wow. WOW. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
AWESOME.
That's all. Carry on.
I really, really liked it, except for the end. The last chapter 'Speaker of the Dead' could have been left out...
REVIEW IN DUTCH!
Ik zag dit boek toevallig op de tafel liggen in de woonkamer. Mijn moeder had hem blijkbaar van een vriendin geleend. Ik bladerde het even door, en ik zag dat het maar 91 bladzijdes bevatte. Aangezien ik niets te doen had, besloot ik er meteen in te beginnen.
Just won a Dutch translation of a book via a Goodreads Giveaways. So I'm one of the 5 people who get an ARC. I'm honored, although I don't really know if this is my kind of book. I'm going to read it ASAP and will post a review here.
When the game Metro 2033 came out a few years back, I played it for like an hour. I wasn't really good at it, and it had too much horror elements for my taste. Despite those reasons, I really liked the setting of the game. That post-acolyptic undergroundish envirnoment had something... intriguing. So, after I read a bit more about the game, I discovered it was based on a book.
I heard some great stories about the Discworld series, so last year I bought The Colour of Magic. I had a lot of other books on my TBR pile as well, so I just started with the book last week. I'm only halfway through, but I'm incredibly disappointed. A lot of people say that this book is one of the weakest of the Discworld-books, but I didn't knew it was that bad. It's just boring... So I'm putting it on hold for the moment, and will maybe pick it up later...