#bookgoals

[lisa-lostinlit]

💬 Do you consider yourself a competitive person? 🏆 I’m not a very competitive person. Don’t get me wrong, I do enjoy winning… but the real enjoyment for me is just playing the game. 😊 Obviously, as you can probably tell, I don’t win things often. 😅 So when I do, I celebrate big time!! Thank you to @wednesdaybooks for gifting me this copy of THESE DEADLY GAMES by @dianaurban! This YA thriller sounds right up my alley! This one releases February 1st so be sure to check it out! 🤎📖 . . . s u m m a r y : Let’s play a game. You have 24 hours to win. If you break my rules, she dies. If you call the police, she dies. If you tell your parents or anyone else, she dies. Are you ready? When Crystal Donavan gets a message on a mysterious app with a video of her little sister gagged and bound, she agrees to play the kidnapper’s game. At first, they make her complete bizarre tasks: steal a test and stuff it in a locker, bake brownies, make a prank call. But then Crystal realizes each task is meant to hurt—and kill—her friends, one by one. But if she refuses to play, the kidnapper will kill her sister. Is someone trying to take her team out of the running for a gaming tournament? Or have they uncovered a secret from their past, and wants them to pay for what they did… As Crystal makes the impossible choices between her friends and her sister, she must uncover the truth and find a way to outplay the kidnapper… before it’s too late. Author of All Your Twisted Secrets, Diana Urban’s explosive sophomore novel, These Deadly Games, will keep you riveted until the final twist is revealed. . . . h a s h t a g s : #thesedeadlygames #dianaurban #yathriller #yabookstagram #bookstagram #cozyvibes #morningslikethese #cozymood #booksbooksbooks #igreads #bookgoals #vintagebooks #bookstack #libraryofbookstagram #booksofinstagram #literature #booksandcoffee #hyggelifestyle #bookphotography #bookreviewer #lightacademia #lovetoread #neutraltones #quietmoments #booklife #bookishlove #igbooks (at At home) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYWrgAGODQ8/?utm_medium=tumblr

[booksiseeloveandread]

The Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classics #QOTD: Do you have any (bookish) New Years resolutions? #AOTD: This year rather than have a reading goal (though I have set one on Goodreads 🤷🏻‍♀️) I want to aim and read more books than I buy! That way I’m hoping my TBR will be shorter by the end of the year! ✨ Here’s hoping I can resist the temptation of all those amazing books being released this year 😅 #barnesandnoble #barnesandnobleleatherboundclassics #bookcover #bookcovers #bookgoals #bookgoals2020 #newyearsresolution #2020 #booksbooksbooks #classicbooks #classicfiction #bookstagram #bookstagrammer https://www.instagram.com/p/B6y87O4g1fp/?igshid=2ahh5m9yj8aw

[leoramonroe]

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[coffincritiques]

February 2020 Monthly Wrap Up

So...

I didn’t meet nearly any of my hopes for February but oh well, it’s was an ok reading month I just wish I would have gotten more lengthy books completed.

But, I am only one book behind to meet my goal of 100 for the year, and I got some back logged review requests complete so I feel very good about that. I just need to up my page count.

On to the next! Here I come March.

[bitchiestqueen]

Nevernight Chronicles is Underrated

Spoilers will be sandwiched between two asterisks

In every sense of the word, this series is so underrated, and I recommend it to literally everyone. The writing style is quite unique with the narrator taking it upon himself to engage with the audience - especially in the footnotes, and also with the medieval flair and wording that is used. That, in turn with the combination of profanities being sprinkled over petty much everything, creates such a lovely writing style that I believe is such a shame more people can’t experience (for example here’s a few of my favourite parts: “She was ten years old, after all. Alone and helpless and afraid. But here is truth, gentlefriends, no matter the number of suns in your sky. At the heart of it, two kinds of people live in this world or any other: those who flee and those who fight. Your kind has many terms for the latter sort. Berserker. Killer instinct. More balls than brains. And it shouldn’t surprise you, knowing what little you know already, that in the face of this thug and his blade, and laden with memory of her father’s execution never flinch never fear instead of wailing or breaking as another ten-year-old might have, young Mia gripped the stiletto she’d fished from the darkness, and slipped it straight up into the puppy-choker’s eye.”, “Lay hand upon me again, sir, and I'll feed your jewels to the fucking drakes.” , “Iron or glass? they'd ask. She was neither. She was steel.”)

Besides the amazing writing style, the characters are also perfectly written. I’m not going to do an in-depth analysis of each character, but I’ll use Ashlinn as an example (I would use Mia, but she is the main character so she should be written well regardless). In the first book, Nevernight, Ashlinn is Mia’s loyal friend, but, right at the end, a twist in the novel creates a huge rift in this relationship. In Godsgrave (the second book), **Mia and Ashlinn are not friends, but enemies. In this book though, Ashlinn ends up coercing Mia to her side, and thus puts the rest of the plot in motion. Not only this, but a different kind of relationship blooms between Mia and Ashlinn, a romantic one. This creates such a tension between the characters and also heightens the risks on their many shenanigans.** Still using Ashlinn as an example, she is the perfect example of a love-hate relationship with the reader. The way that Kristoff writes this relationship between her and the reader is masterful.

The plot itself is a whirlwind of romance, adventure, and murder. The events not only help give the characters more depth, but they are really quite creative. **Whether it be travelling across miles of desserts to learn at a school of assassins (or more accurately a cult), or turning against the same school in the name of justice, this book has it all covered** I am constantly in a state of suspense, and whenever I finally think I know what’s going to happen, Kristoff takes it in an entirely different direction 

TL;DR: Just read this series its so good. I just really love it, okay??

[jen-in-cleveland]

Three weeks of 1200 calorie/day diet, eight weeks in the gym, and I'm down one pant size 🙌😁 Old Navy didn't have this color in my regular size so I tried on one size down, and they fit! I'm also almost done with book #6 for the year and on my phone/iPad waaaay less than before. Goals for 2019 and year 30 are going well so far 👍 #2019Goals #FitGoals #BookGoals #LessScreenTime #Almost30 https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs1ABRhDekIYZATmkHhOHtERVg8d0KrVhD45Yg0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=k501ubwoa755

[teachingliteracy]

Looking for a fun and motivating way for your student to keep track of their reading habits and goals? Check out this Reading Bullet Journal that was just uploaded to my TpT store: That Book Life! - - #teachingliteracy #thatbooklife #teachersofinstagram #teacherspayteachers #reading #teachersfollowteachers #books #bookgoals #reading #readinggoals #elementaryteacher #middleschoolteacher #studentaccountability https://www.instagram.com/p/Bl6ZePJndUD/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1t19ixx7pdy83

[wertigous]

okay so I just found out about “If We Were Villains” by M. L. Rio and I really want to buy it.