The adventures of a bookworm
A collection of my longer-form book reviews.
I had a little trouble thinking of a book to review this month, mostly because I have been reading either self-help style books or the small penguin classics, both of which I don’t feel like reviewing. So I went to my Goodreads page and scrolled …
Almost a year ago I did a massive post about the books by Rainbow Rowell (here) where I did a batch review of her four books. I absolutely love her books and recommend them whenever possible (most recently to my little sister). Last year a …
Lauren Oliver is the author of the Delirium trilogy, a dystopian series that comes close second to the Hunger Games in my favorite dystopian YA. So when I started reading Panic, a standalone novel, I suppose I was expecting more dystopian fantasy, but I got …
This book is a little different from the other books I have reviewed so far. It is non-fiction. I first heard about this book from John Green who picked the book as a nerd fighter book club read (he speaks about the book in some …
This week I am writing about a book turned into a movie and the movie premiered this month in the Netherlands! I am actually going to see the movie tonight, so I might post an update below this post tomorrow. So which book you may …
A genre that I have been getting increasingly into is thrillers. Which you might have guessed from the last few bookposts I did. This week is another thriller, and also another one from Gillian Flynn. If you haven’t read my review of Gone Girl, you …
A book that has had a lot of attention in the online community recently is the best-selling novel of Paula Hawkins: The Girl on the Train. After hearing so many people talk about it I decided to give it a go. What’s the book about? …
This book has been on my to read list ever since the movie came out. However I cheated. I read the plot on Wikipedia first.. I know, horrible thing to do, but I heard so many people talking about this amazing plottwist and I could …
I have an addiction, and it is buying books. So even though I brought books with me to read and even ordered more books online, I still decided it would be ok to buy some more books when I was walking in the new Fetrinelli …
Being in Milan has left me with less time to read books and more time to see new things. Which I definitely do not mind! And you probably don’t either, as it results in more posts about cool things to see and do in Milan/Italy. …