Not-So-National Book Reading Month

Read books! All month!

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NotSoNaBooReaMo 2015 round-up!

Hello hello! Thanks so much for taking part in NotSoNaBooReaMo 2015! I hope you had a great time, no matter whether you read 19 books or 19 pages! You rock!

Before we go into the break-down of the winners, here’s a quick plug of the survey that I really want you to take! It doesn’t matter whether you took part or not, I want your opinion. Please and thank you.

So now onto the good stuff! I’m pleased to announce that @morpholomeg was the overall winner of NotSoNaBooReaMo 2015 with a whopping 5,339 pages! Congrats to you, Meg! 🎉✨

Our runners-up were PRoseLegendary in second place with 4,409 pages and @lookingforcarolinemarie in third place with 4,069 pages. You’re both amazing - our top score last year was 3,378 pages, so congrats to you! 

The reader of the most books - finished or unfinished - was also @morpholomeg, with the total of 19 whole books in a single month. Runners-up for book totals were @bringyouhometoo and @i-burn-i-pine-i-perish who both checked into 14 books over the course of the month. Excellent work, guys!

In total, we collectively read 157(!) books in December, with an average of 7.5 books each. Our total page count was 43,994 - and if we go with an average of 250 words on a page, this clocks in at ELEVEN MILLION WORDS. So that’s pretty impressive.

The notsonabooreamo page will remain up until the next event, and at that point your achievements will be archived and kept online for posterity and so our future children will know of our success. But, if you want your posts taken down for any reason, just swing us an ask and we’ll deal with that ASAP.

Please do take the survey - all responses are anonymous and only one question is compulsory (and it’s about months so it’s nothing intense). 

Until next time - happy reading!

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bringyouhometoo update

We left THE INTERNET for a week over New Year’s, so this is my first update in a while and also my final page count. Woo! Loved, loved, loved Us and The Rest of Us Just Live Here,could have done without starting and not finishing Submission which my grandad made me read and then didn’t want to lend to me, read a few chapters of HP with the littlest relative, started One Hundred Days of Solitude but ran out of steam with it (think it might have to be a commute book, little and often) and ended the year with…..the first half of Carol. How on brand.

Bring Up the Bodies - Hillary Mantel - 129 pages

(Unpublished Novel) - (My Friend) - 134 pages

Stardust - Neil Gaiman - 196 pages

The Island - Victoria Hislop - 473 pages

Eleven Minutes - Paulo Coelho - 298 pages

To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han - 421 pages

The Children Act - Ian McEwan - 212 pages

We Were Liars - E Lockhart - 225 pages

Submission - Michel Houellebecq - 63 pages

Harry Potter und der Stein Der Weisen - J K Rowling - 70 pages

Us - David Nicholls - 416 pages

The Rest Of Us Just Live Here - Patrick Ness - 401 pages

One Hundred Days Of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 123 pages

Carol - Patricia Highsmith - 174 pages

Pages read: 3335

What a fun list! I really liked keeping track of all the books across the month - there was a funny balance between weeks of end-of-term madness where nothing got read and then the Christmas break/road trip where all I did was read, which I guess is typical for December. I also intentionally only read NEW books (other than those 70 pages of HP, which at least were in a new translation…?), which was at times a slog (Submission wasn’t even that good but now i’ve started and left it which I NEVER DO WITH ANY BOOK EVER) but actually really great and got me out of a slight reading slump I know I was in all autumn. And looking at that list has made me like 5000% more confident about actually doing 50 books this year. I’ve started the year, predictably enough, with the second half of Carol. Happy 2016!

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itiselizabeth final update

Well, I had to cram quite a bit of reading into the last few days of this year so that I could finish the reading challenge I was doing, this included reading the shortest book to ever win a Pulitzer Prize because I had completely missed that topic. I finished reading at about 8pm on NYE.

This year I finished 62 books, and I’m still intending to write up about my favourites etc. but who knows when I’ll find a good time to do it!

Not as good as last year but I’m still proud of what I managed to get through! 

Official bit of post:

Half of a Yellow Sun - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (122)

The Little Prince - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (98)

Lady Chatterley’s Lover - D.H. Lawrence (404)

Feed - Mira Grant (599)

Another Life (Torchwood) - Peter Anghelides (253)

The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller (384)

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway (132)

Total pages read: 1992 Nowhere close to last year's 3,378 but I’ve still very much enjoyed taking part and it certainly helped me to get through what I needed to finish for my challenge. Adult life is BUSY! 

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pottermoosh update

I finished this at about 3pm on New Year’s Eve but as I was having FUN IN EDINBURGH I’m only updating now. (This is also the reason why nobody else’s posts have been updated on the blog for the last few days HAHA soz lol.)

So this book was actually one I found on the tube - there’s a Twitter, @BooksUndergrnd, that leaves books on London trains, and we found this one a few months ago. It was okay - I was really into it until there was an Unnecessary Rape Scene, and from then on my feelings grew significantly milder. But it was still okay, pretty good page-turner. Still not the One True Book I was hoping to find this month tho!

Assassin’s Apprentice - Robin Hobb (392)

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare (506)

City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare (411)

The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year - Sue Townsend (437)

The Poison Boy - Fletcher Moss (341)

Animal Farm - George Orwell (103)

Saving Francesca - Melina Marchetta (243)

The Lie - CL Taylor (468)

Total books read: 2,901

I didn’t read as many pages as I did last year, but honestly I didn’t take into account how exhausted I would be by the end of December. Life is HARD. Hopefully see y'all again next year though!!!

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lookingforcarolinemarie final count.

I didn’t quite finish the last one to take me to a total of 110 for the year. I planned to read it while on the bus and then while eating while out shopping on NYE, but I was feeling ill so neither of those things happened.

The Evil Beneath - A. J. Waines - 4 Stars

Picked up on the Kindle Lending Library, this promised a psychotherapist would help the police in solving murders that seemed to centre around her. Not too much on the romance as you sometimes get in these books, and just enough twists and turns to keep me reading avidly, polished off in two days!

The Other Half Lives - Sophie Hannah - 4 Stars

The attentive among you will notice this is the fourth Sophie Hannah book read this year (and by attentive among you, I mean the attentive among my Goodreads friends). I think Hurting Distance has been the best one so far, but this one certainly gave it a run for its money. Sometimes with thrillers you think you’ve figured it out, sometimes with thrillers they end up having to explain it to you like you’re a child, this was one that all fell into place at the end. Excellent, if a little too many red flags.

Salmonella Men on Planet Porno - Yasutaka Tsutsui - Not yet finished

A book of short stories I’d been dipping in and out of for the entire month of December - mostly when I needed a print book to read in the bath while I read a book on Kindle. I don’t often read short stories, this is only the second book of short stories this year, and this book makes me realise why. They tend to be either weird or boring or both. Not saying I won’t finish it in January, just saying it’s not high on my priority list.

Final List

Little Girl Gone - Alexandra Burt - 456

The Science of Monsters - Matt Kaplan - 244

The Boyfriend List - E. Lockhart - 243

The Martian - Andy Weir - 369

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre - 332

The Utopia Experiment - Dylan Evans - 275

Everyday Sexism - Laura Bates - 384

The Danish Girl - David Ebershoff - 289

Kill Your Friends - John Niven - 324

The Evil Beneath - A. J. Waines - 436

The Other Half Lives - Sophie Hannah - 552

Salmonella Men on Planet Porno - Yasutaka Tsutsui - 0-165

Final Page Count: 4069 (if Lindsey will just be a babe and check I’ve added them up correctly, I tend to switch digits when entering into a calculator. Thank you).

Over 1000 more pages than last years, so maybe the December switch was a very good idea on Lindsey’s part. Can’t wait to see everyone else’s totals!

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0mnibus Update Fin.

Finished my 2015 reading challenge of reading certain 46 books I own- with four books left to read. In this sense I “failed”, but because I read 36 books I do not own in a way I greatly exceeded my goal :) & I finished this year with having read 78 books total.

Keep Sweet Quotes: (Time to delve into the lives of the Mormon religion.)

“Raising up a righteous seed unto the Lord is a woman’s highest calling and it is only through a husband’s guidance that a woman can attain entry into the celestial kingdom.” pg 11

“In my new, crisp undergarment, I felt safe, knowing I was protected from bullets, fire, knives, and all manner of evil-and more importantly, from Satan, the destroyer.” pg 39

“I looked at my reflection in the mirror. My cycle had begun. I was now a woman. I was ready to do God’s work.” pg 56

“It was easy to believe when everything was good. But when bad things happened, doubt sowed its seed in fertile soil and burrowed deep. It was my duty to root it out.” pg 84

Wandering Unicorn Quotes:

“As for denying the existence of fairies, good and bad, you have to be blind not to see them. They are everywhere…The wealthy, spendthrift ones squander fortunes in Venice or Monte Carlo: fabulous, ageless women whose birthdays and incomes and origins nobody knows, putting charms on roulette wheels for the dubious pleasure of seeing the same number come up more often than it ought…Others spend the hours of darkness hanging their apartments in Paris or New York with Gothic tapestries…kept hidden away in massive chests beneath deserted abbeys and castles since their own belle epoque in the Middle Ages. Some stick to their original line of country, agitating tables at seances or organizing the excitement in haunted houses…Now wrinkled with age, the amorous ones contrive to lure young men on the make who, immaculately tailored and bedecked with baubles from Cartier, escort them through the vestibules of international hotels. Yet other fairies, more studious and respectable, devote themselves to science, whirring and breathing above tired inventors and inspiring original ideas..And so it goes on-all sorts and conditions of fairies…unnoticed on the impercipient earth. And I am one of them.” pg 3-4

Currently Reading:

The Wandering Unicorn by Manuel Mujica Lainez (9)

Books Read:

Alice I Have Been by Melanie Benjamin (79)

The Mythology of Supernatural by Nathan Brown (266)

Generation Dead by Daniel Waters (410)

Secrets of my Hollywood Life by Jen Calonita (257)

If I Have a Wicked Stepmother, Where’s My Prince? by Melissa Kantor (297)

Keep Sweet by Michele Dominguez Greene (218)

Total pages read: 1,536

Thank you for putting on this amazing readathon, I would have never finished this many books otherwise. 10/10

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final morpholomeg update!

Didn’t finish the Alison Weir because stuff happened. So far, it’s just making me aware that my knowledge of sixteenth century Scottish nobility/politics is seriously lacking. Like, if I see the name Rochester when I’m reading about sixteenth century English politics, I immediately know that’s George Boleyn, Viscount Rochester, related to the Howards (patriarch the Duke of Norfolk). If I see Châtellerault, on the other hand, I will have no clue that that’s the Duke of Châtellerault, formerly the Earl of Arran, James Hamilton. Hopefully it’ll come more naturally by the end of the book!

Did finish Louise O'Neill’s other book, Asking For It. Brilliant, but massive trigger warnings for rape and rape culture, immensely hard hitting, don’t read it just before going to sleep.

Overall, I think NotSoNaBooReaMo has been really good for me. My library account has certainly had a workout, which I hope to keep up into 2016. I went through a bit of a phase of not reading any books after I left university, completely worn out. It’s been really nice to get back into reading, and into sharing book recommendations with people. :)

Books read:

The Silkworm - Robert Galbraith - 454 pages

The Big Over Easy: Nursery Crime Adventures - Jasper Fforde - 396 pages

The Fourth Bear: Nursery Crime Adventures - Jasper Fforde - 379 pages

Oliver’s Story - Erich Segal - 191 pages

Coraline - Neil Gaiman - 185 pages

Stardust - Neil Gaiman - 256 pages

The Notebook - Nicholas Sparks - 221 pages

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams - 149 pages

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe - Douglas Adams - 159 pages

Life, the Universe and Everything - Douglas Adams - 151 pages

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish - Douglas Adams - 131 pages

Brooklyn - Colm Tóibín - 252 pages

The Maze Runner - James Dashner - 374 pages

Only Ever Yours - Louise O'Neill - 390 pages

The Tudor Vendetta - Christopher Gortner - 290 pages

The King Is Dead - Suzannah Lipscomb - 215 pages

American Gods - Neil Gaiman - 640 pages

Asking For It - Louise O'Neill - 346 pages (according to Goodreads, because I took it back to the library before writing it down!)

The Lost Tudor Princess: A Life of Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox - Alison Weir - pages 1-160

Final page total: 5,339

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Sigei-Sinnoa Update

I managed to finish The Atlantis Gene about an hour before midnight on the 31st which I was really please about. This book was not at all what I was expecting andit took me a while to get into, i think because it was in such a different genre to all the other books I’ve read this month. Once I’d adjusted i was hooked,the book is so well written, it combined real science with conspiracy theories and science fiction and came up with a completely unexpected answer. I had accidentally started reading the blurb for the sequel before reading this book, and so i knew roughly how the story ended, despite this, i was still surprised by the way the story got there. 

Waiting for the Bee Stings - Calvin Wade (436)

The Pale Horseman - Bernard Cornwell (386)

Wolf’s Head - Stephen A. Mckay (329)

The Wolf and The Raven - Stephen A. Mckay (327)

The Rise of the Wolf - Stephen A. Mckay (332)

The Atlantis Gene - A.G. Riddle (489)

Total Pages: 2299

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ilikemyfaithandilikemygirls update

Hello all,

So I finished New Moon… and I really dislike Edward. Bella healed so well with Jacob and then Edward came back and ruined everything. Also Eclipse is not a great book compared to New Moon. I think I just prefer werewolves in every situation. I am very much looking forward to Breaking Dawn and the parts of the book that are from the werewolves’ point of view.

I have not read too much more of Grace’s Guide, but I actually met her at a live show and got her, Hannah and Mamrie’s books signed, so that was very very exciting!

I am very much missing reading Harry Potter as this month is the first time in literally years that I’ve taken a break from always having at least one Harry Potter book on the go. But it’ll be that much sweeter when I go back to them in a few months (after I get through LOTR and various other things).

I will miss this incentive to read and may just log all the pages I read from now on in a document so as to keep these reading habits going. I hope to see you all again at the next NotSoNaBooReaMo!

Books read:

Twilight - Stephenie Meyer (302)

Midnight Sun - Stephenie Meyer (28)

New Moon - Stephenie Meyer (563)

Grace’s Guide - Grace Helbig (78)

Eclipse - Stephenie Meyer (266)

Total Pages read: 1237

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hailstormhayley update

Final update! I read How To Be Bad and Him. I enjoyed both, but really really liked How To Be Bad. E. Lockhart is a goddess.

I was hoping to finish one more because then I would hit my Goodreads reading goal for the year, but it’s almost 5 pm here and my friend is on her way over to celebrate New Year’s with me. I’m happy with all the reading I did this year anyway.

Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age - Virginia Eubanks (53 pages)

Vivian Apple at the End of the World - Katie Coyle (164 pages) 

The Year We Hid Away - Sarina Bowen (270 pages)

Vivian Apple Needs A Miracle - Katie Coyle (295 pages)

Understatement of the Year - Sarina Bowen (304 pages)

Blonde Date: An Ivy Years Novella - Sarina Bowen (92 pages)

The Shameless Hour - Sarina Bowen (331 pages)

The Fifteenth Minute - Sarina Bowen (294 pages)

Binge - Tyler Oakley (303 pages)

How To Be Bad - E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle (336 pages)

Him by Sarina Bowen and Elle Kennedy (352 pages)

Total: 2,794 pages

I’m DEFINITELY going to do NotSoNaBooReaMo next year too! It was tons of fun. :)

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last i-burn-i-pine-i-perish update!

i failed totally at the booktubethon due to anxiety but on the thirtieth i read two books! :)

The Letter of Othea to Hector - Christine de Pizan (101)

The Book of the City of Ladies - Christine de Pizan (22)

Myth, Montage and Visuality in Late Medieval Manuscript Culture - Desmond and Sheingorn (98)

Feminist Approaches to the body in Medieval Literature - Helen Solterer [the chapter: At the Bottom of Mirage, a Woman’s Body: Le Roman de la rose of Jean Renart] (20)

Ideals For Women in the Works of Christine de Pizan - Diane Bernstein (14)

Playing in the Dark - Toni Morrison (100)

Am I Normal Yet? - Holly Bourne (433)

The Lottery - Shirley Jackson (12)

Villette- Charlotte Bronte (616)

Lumberjanes: Friendship to the Max - Noelle Stevenson (111/2=55*)

Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens (554)

Madness, Rack and Honey - Mary Ruefle (30) (i didn’t read any more of this unfortunately)

Agnes Grey - Anne Bronte (211)

Poisoned Apples - christine hepperman (107)

total pages read: 2,373

total books read (finished!): 9

nine books is a lot! go me!! this was fun, thanks for organising it lindsey!! <3 

(*admin edit: as per The Rules, graphic novel/comic page totals are halved!)

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Eveent update

Just finished The Long War last night and to end on a finished book I’m stopping counting here. The Long Earth series is honestly one of the best and most skilfully put together series I’ve ever read. There’s nothing bad about them. Everyone should read them. EVERYONE

Also this has been very fun and I’m sad it’s over. Reading is good. I’d kind of forgotten how good. Might even join a book club 0_o

Death Note I -Tsugumi Ohba (384/2 = 192*)

Death Note II -Tsugumi Ohba (394/2 = 197*)

Can The Subaltern Be Heard? - J. Maggio (26)

Review of Elementary Aspects of Peasant Insurgency in Colonial India - Ronald J. Herring and Chandra R. de Silva (4)

Mapping subaltern studies and the postcolonial - Chaturvedi, V (8)

Review of The Coming of the Devi - Douglas Haynes (3)

The Mangle Street Murders - MRC Kasasian (342)

Death Note III - Tsugumi Ohba (413/2 = 206)

Death Note IV - Tsugumi Ohba (409/2 = 204)

Subaltern Studies I - Ranajit Guha (230)

The Long War - Stephen Baxter and Terry Pratchett (419)

Total: 1,831

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hailstormhayley update

Binge was good, even though I didn’t get as into it as I did with a lot of the other books I’ve read this month. It was more personal and at times much darker than I expected. I’m amazed that Tyler had the courage to be so vulnerable with the millions of people who will read that book.

I also read the last Sarina Bowen novel in The Ivy Years series, which was great!

I spent less time reading the past week or so because CHRISTMAS and because I’ve been working on a knitting project (matching socks for cat and owner, it’s the cutest thing ever). To finish out the year, I think I’ll read How To Be Bad by E. Lockhart, Sarah Mlynowski, and Lauren Myracle.

Digital Dead End: Fighting for Social Justice in the Information Age - Virginia Eubanks (53 pages)

Vivian Apple at the End of the World - Katie Coyle (164 pages) 

The Year We Hid Away - Sarina Bowen (270 pages)

Vivian Apple Needs A Miracle - Katie Coyle (295 pages)

Understatement of the Year - Sarina Bowen (304 pages)

Blonde Date: An Ivy Years Novella - Sarina Bowen (92 pages)

The Shameless Hour - Sarina Bowen (331 pages)

The Fifteenth Minute - Sarina Bowen (294 pages)

Binge - Tyler Oakley (303 pages)

Total: 2,107 pages

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End of month procedure!

Hello there, readers! The month is nearly over - well done for getting this far, whether you've read a few thousand pages or a few dozen! You rock! Just to let you know, you don't have to submit your end of month totals by midnight on the 31st, but you do have to stop counting then! Even if you're someone who considers 3am to be an early night, midnight is the cut-off point. Stop counting your pages at 12:00 exactly, please - even if you're just halfway through a book - and submit however many you managed to read as your total for that book! (Of course, there's no way we'd be able to check that you stopped counting at midnight, but not doing that is cheating and quite frankly is a bit of a dick move, and you will know in your heart that your final place on the leaderboard will be a lie. Is that the right way to start 2016, I ask you.) We'll give you a few days to get those final totals in, so you have recovery time from the New Year's festivities; January 5th will be the cut-off point for submissions, and we'll get a round-up post done by the weekend. It'll announce the overall winner, throw up a bunch of interesting statistics, and maybe have a little survey link to see how you found notsonabooreamo this year. Everyone loves statistics and surveys, right? So make sure to keep an eye out for that. There's still a day left to get yourself boosted up a few places on the leaderboard, so get off Tumblr and go go go!

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schmutzonthemirror update

So much reading in the last few days! Yay! 

Brooklyn- Colm Tóibín (252)

Michelle Obama: A Life- Peter Slevin (364)

Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck (121)

To the Is-land- Janet Frame (191)

The Story of My Tits- Jennifer Hayden (353/2=177)

Northanger Abbey- Jane Austen (297)

Really enjoyed it! Probably my favourite Austen after P&P (which, because I’m a giant cliche, is my all-time favourite book). It’s also on the syllabus for the English paper I’m doing next year, so I feel all smug about getting ahead. 

The Princess Bride- William Goldman (329)

A genuine TREASURE. My first five star on Goodreads in what feels like forever. I’d seen the movie a couple of years ago, but wasn’t really in the right state of mind for it (I think it was the middle of the night and I fell asleep) but I gave it another shot last week on Netflix and !!!!!! No wonder everyone loves it so much. So I fell in love with the film instantly, and therefore thought I should read the book, which was also wonderful! I will be rereading/watching this for many years to come. If you want to take away one recommendation from what I read this month, let this be it!

Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret- Judy Blume (152)

Hahaha okay so I’d never read any Judy Blume and knew it was a pre-teen classic and I feel like I don’t read enough *fun* books anymore… It’s exactly as I expected and I enjoyed it immensely. :)

Total pages read: 1883

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Lookingforcarolinemarie update.

I think I just clicked why I’m so bad at updating my blog :D 

Here they are:

Bad Science - Ben Goldacre - 3 Stars

I’ve been wanting to give Goldacre a try for a while, he’s come highly recommended. Problem I found though, is that I’m a psychology graduate who has both studied the scientific method and read at least one book on pseudoscience already this year. Therefore, it didn’t impress me all that much. I still recommend it for the beginners, but if you’ve any prior knowledge then give this a miss.

Pages: 332

The Utopia Experiment - Dylan Evans - 3 Stars

I was expecting this book to be very different. There was a bit of a focus on the mental health of Evans, and a bit about the kind of science behind why it could happen that he would have to live in a utopia like the one he simulated, but far too much about the day to day. I’m not too much of a fan of survival books, and if I were there are plenty of choices out there, so it’s a good thing the mental health aspects were there to rescue it in my opinion.

Pages: 275

Everyday Sexism - Laura Bates - 5 Stars

I want to shout from the rooftops about this book. A chronicle of sexism in the modern day, including focus on how it’s maybe not the worst of the individual events, but how the culture causes endless issues. There was even a chapter on intersectionality, which did feature throughout as well, but was highlighted like so often it isn’t in feminism books. I really do think everyone should be made to read this, especially the people I know who think all feminists are evil and have gone to far because of that one time they heard about a woman lying about being raped. Laura Bates really shows that, although that is terrible, it’s not our only, nor our biggest, concern: even in 2015!

Additionally, I don’t know about anyone else who has submitted to the Everyday Sexism project, but I spent a lot of the time looking to see if any of my entries made it into the book. They didn’t.

Pages: 384

The Danish Girl - David Ebershoff - 4 Stars

I want to watch the film, so I have to read the book. Plus it was cheap. I have read about the issues with this fictionalisation of Lili Elbe’s life, and how it ignores a lot of things people think to be key issues - particularly her wife’s sexuality - but as a standalone story inspired by the true events with at least enough historical accuracy, I rated it. Kind of anxious to see how Redmayne handles it, and what the reviews of the film come back like as well.

Pages: 289 (had to take this one from Goodreads, no real page numbers on my Kindle edition!)

Kill Your Friends - John Niven - 2 Stars

I also wanted to watch the film of this, but now I’m not convinced. I’m beginning to subscribe to Lindsay’s theory that straight male authors talk about their cocks far too much. While I do acknowledge that this is fiction, I can’t believe that even in the 90s the music industry was quite that bad and yet lead to some amazing music, I just can’t, it’s not realistic. It was also gross in parts, had some dubious rape references (I know, I know, representing the 90s, but much too far by today’s standards) and ended in a really crappy place. It did make me laugh though, so I have to give it at least a little bit of credit.

Pages: 324

Little Girl Gone - Alexandra Burt - 456

The Science of Monsters - Matt Kaplan - 244

The Boyfriend List - E. Lockhart - 243

The Martian - Andy Weir - 369

Total Page Count: 2916

Quite a jump there in page count total…

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pottermoosh update

This book was definitely not something I’d usually read - and by that I mainly mean it wasn’t fantasy - but it was leant to me by the marvellous @chalkletters and it was the first book in ages that I’ve really wanted to read while I was reading it. I still wouldn’t give it 5 stars - it was fun, but it was quite slow to start and it’s still not something I’d go out of my way to recommend to people, but I had a good time with it. :)

Assassin’s Apprentice - Robin Hobb (392)

City of Bones - Cassandra Clare (506)

City of Ashes - Cassandra Clare (411)

The Woman Who Went to Bed For a Year - Sue Townsend (437)

The Poison Boy - Fletcher Moss (341)

Animal Farm - George Orwell (103)

Saving Francesca - Melina Marchetta (243)

Total pages read: 2,433