There's nothing worse for a book lover than to get to the end of the year and realise you barely read anything. My Goodreads challenge is pitifully low and I wasn't even close to winning. NaNoWriMo was a bust and overall 2015 had been a suck-ish year in terms of reading for me.

This isn't from not wanting to but simply in the immortal words that writers love to condemn,

I'm a third year at University living and tidying my first house. I have to work to pay for said house and at the end of the day, when I drag my knackered bottom to bed, I don't stay up to read. Having a year in which I only read about 20 books (I know that still okay for some people, but one year I got 200 down! Damn I was on point) and I'm sort of freaked out by it and hope this won't be the beginning of a sad bookless life. I'm being dramatic, I've just been busy. Adulting is all about finding routine, once I get that down, I'll be good.

However in 2015, I did purchase a lot of books, and in order to urge myself to get them done, here is a TBR for 2016 of sorts. These are the books I will definitely get read this year, hopefully this month.

• A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin
• Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo
• The Art of Being Normal by Lisa Williamson (Started in 2015)
• Throne of Glass 5 by Sarah J Maas
• A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J Maas
• Stolen by Melissa De La Cruz and Michael Johnston
• Let It Snow by John Green and More (I'll get it done one year, I swear)

Warning: Spoilers! (duh.)

Can you say dismal? The readers block demon has struck again but thankfully all is right in the reading world right now. This February I have already started and finished Frozen by Melissa De La Cruz and Michael Johnston. Naturally this is in my February TBR but first, on with the wrap up.

In January the only book I read was Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater. My review is up and maybe I should have edited and drafted it, but it's not my style. Check out my review and lets see what we have to expect this month.

As I mentioned this month I have started and finished Frozen by Melissa De La Cruz and Michael Johnston. 

Welcome to New Vegas, a city once covered in bling, now blanketed in ice. Like much of the destroyed planet, the place knows only one temperature - freezing. But some things never change. The diamond in the ice desert is still a 24-hour hedonistic playground and nothing keeps the crowds away from the casino floors, never mind the rumors about sinister sorcery in its shadows.

At the heart of this city is Natasha Kestal, a young blackjack dealer looking for a way out. Like many, she's heard of a mythical land simply called "the Blue." They say it's a paradise, where the sun still shines and the waters are turquoise. More importantly, it's a place where Nat won't be persecuted, even if her darkest secret comes to light.

But passage to the Blue is treacherous, if not impossible, and her only shot is to bet on a ragtag crew of mercenaries led by a cocky runner named Ryan Wesson there. Danger and deceit await on every corner, even as Nat and Wes find themselves inexorably drawn to each other. But can true love survive the lies?

Fiery hearts collide in this fantastic tale of the evil men do and the awesome power within us all. This is a remarkable first book in a spellbinding new series about the dawn of a new kind of magic.

I can't fully explain why I picked this book up, part of me was attracted to the name (because who didn't love Disney's Frozen?!) and another part thought the cover was just so beautiful and I had to have it on my shelf. Having already read it I won't tell you I'm excited about reading it but I am so pumped to the write the review. I haven't been this enthralled with a book for a while. It truly fixed my New Year Reader's Block. 

Next I will be reading the books I was supposed to read in January. The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon will make an appearance as will The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E Smith. If I get all of that done I will finally get down to finishing series I've been putting off. I love closure by my god I hate when series end, the mourning takes a lot of time *tear*. 

I will be finishing off the Darkest Minds Trilogy by Alexandra Bracken. In the Afterlight is the final book and  have been putting it off terribly, but no more. I will find out what happens with Ruby and I will accept it with dignity and grace - once I've stopped the uncontrollable weeping. 

Ruby can't look back. Fractured by an unbearable loss, she and the kids who survived the government's attack on Los Angeles travel north to regroup. With them is a prisoner: Clancy Gray, son of the president, and one of the few people Ruby has encountered with abilities like hers. Only Ruby has any power over him, and just one slip could lead to Clancy wreaking havoc on their minds. 

They are armed only with a volatile secret: proof of a government conspiracy to cover up the real cause of IAAN, the disease that has killed most of America's children and left Ruby and others like her with powers the government will kill to keep contained. But internal strife may destroy their only chance to free the "rehabilitation camps" housing thousands of other Psi kids.

Meanwhile, reunited with Liam, the boy she would-and did-sacrifice everything for to keep alive, Ruby must face the painful repercussions of having tampered with his memories of her. She turns to Cole, his older brother, to provide the intense training she knows she will need to take down Gray and the government. But Cole has demons of his own, and one fatal mistake may be the spark that sets the world on fire.

Well that is this month, hopefully we will hold the readers block at bay, find a reading balance and maybe even have a few surprises and hauls along the way. 

Happy Reading.

Warning: Spoilers! (duh.)

New Year, New TBR! That's right. With oncoming deadlines I am both in need of a break from reading for that oh so good extra study time! and mass amounts of reading,to keep my hair from falling out. Obviously I prioritised the latter. With my reading being somewhat sketchy this past month with Christmas Shenanigans and my very important sleeping and eating cake routine, I am very excited to get back on with it. So let's crack on!

Assuming it arrives and being super excited about it. I will be reading The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon. Sequel to The Bone Season, I am sure it will be delightful. I pre-ordered it approximately 8 billion years ago and it is due to arrive the 27th of this month. Fingers Crossed!

Paige Mahoney has escaped the brutal penal colony of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the fugitives are still missing and she is the most wanted person in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on Paige, the mime-lords and mime-queens of the city’s gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take center stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around every corner. Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from the shadows. But where is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided. Will Paige know who to trust? The hunt for the dreamwalker is on

I will also be finishing off Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater. The book in which I horribly abandoned over Christmas. These books always take me about 100 pages to get into it so I withold all judgement until then, but I'm sure it will be worth the effort.

There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up. Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs.
The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.
Friends can betray.
Mothers can disappear.
Visions can mislead.
Certainties can unravel.



Writer of the Matched trilogy Ally Condie, has returned with her one off book, Atlantia. I like water, I like Atlantis, I like Ally Condie.  This is gonna rock! (Plus, I already read the first chapter.)

For as long as she can remember, Rio has dreamt of the sand and sky Above—of life beyond her underwater city of Atlantia. But in a single moment, all her plans for the future are thwarted when her twin sister, Bay, makes an unexpected decision, stranding Rio Below. Alone, ripped away from the last person who knew Rio’s true self—and the powerful siren voice she has long hidden—she has nothing left to lose. Guided by a dangerous and unlikely mentor, Rio formulates a plan that leads to increasingly treacherous questions about her mother’s death, her own destiny, and the complex system constructed to govern the divide between land and sea. Her life and her city depend on Rio to listen to the voices of the past and to speak long-hidden truths.


I am aware my TBR is a little short this month but with deadlines, you can't be too careful. My reading challenge for the year is a measly 60 as I'll be hard at work and university until April. But I'm sure I'll crack this summer wide open and so a reading marathon type thing. 

I've also made a resolution this year to post ATLEAST once, every week. I was a bit inconsistent last year, disappearing for a fortnight and re-emerging with dozens of posts. This is the year of consistency. Wow, that's sound bland - but it won't be. 

Happy Reading!

P.S It's my 21st birthday on the 17th of this month! EXCITES!

Warning: Spoilers! (duh.)

Who wants a late TBR! You? Well, I'm here to please.

In November I only read two books and two short stories. Pathetic I know, but I've been trying to write for my assignments in January and reading took a back seat.


This month I am determined to read four books. This is because I am so close to completing my read challenge.


I have already started Blue Lily, Lily Blue by Maggie Stiefvater.


There is danger in dreaming. But there is even more danger in waking up.

Blue Sargent has found things. For the first time in her life, she has friends she can trust, a group to which she can belong. The Raven Boys have taken her in as one of their own. Their problems have become hers, and her problems have become theirs.

The trick with found things though, is how easily they can be lost.

Friends can betray.
Mothers can disappear.
Visions can mislead.
Certainties can unravel




I am almost finished with The Tragedies by Sophocles. 

This volume contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity, are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy, and are equally suitable for reading for pleasure, study, or theatrical performance. The selection of Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Electra not only offers the reader the most influential and famous of Sophocles' works, it also presents in one volume the two plays dominated by a female heroic figure, and the experience of the two great dynasties featured in Greek tragedy--the houses of Oedipus and Agamemnon.




I have also begun a reread of Cinder by Marissa Meyer, as this was one of the last books I read in 2013 so will be a nice way to end the year. 


Humans and androids crowd the raucous streets of New Beijing. A deadly plague ravages the population. From space, a ruthless lunar people watch, waiting to make their move. No one knows that Earth’s fate hinges on one girl.

Cinder, a gifted mechanic, is a cyborg. She’s a second-class citizen with a mysterious past, reviled by her stepmother and blamed for her stepsister’s illness. But when her life becomes intertwined with the handsome Prince Kai’s, she suddenly finds herself at the center of an intergalactic struggle, and a forbidden attraction. Caught between duty and freedom, loyalty and betrayal, she must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect her world’s future. 






The final book will be selected from my TBR Jar in the last week of December. So until then, lets blow this reading challenge. 100 books!

Happy Reading.

Here it is, the late TBR that you've come to know and...accept.

October has been a beast of a month for reading, I mean really. I've had a lot of short stories to read for my degree, and have just been down with the books as well.


I haven't had this good a month in a long time. Okay, some of them were so terrible I will not be writing a review  (*cough* If I stay *cough*) However, I finished an amazing series.Was disappointed by "Fantasy Royalty" and finished the month with two incredibly strong reads - you will not believe the dilemna I had trying to choose between them in the Goodreads Vote. So yeah good month and I am only 11 books off my reading challenge for the year and two months to go.

So let's keep the pace self. This month I have already started The Young Elites by Marie Lu (Author of the Legend series)  I haven't heard good things so far and most views have been mixed but curiosity got the better of me and I bought it on Kindle. I will also be finishing a book I started a few months ago called Tales from the Jazz Age by F. Scott Fitzgerald  which is a collection of short stories I admittedly started and then forgot about. I may also finish my book of Greek Tragedies by Sophocles as I read Oedipus and Antigone, then forgot before I read Electra. I will also be reading more Grisha-verse short stories by Leigh Bardugo but as for novels I have no idea. I find it's always better to surprise myself.

Happy Reading.

 After a really terrible reading block couple of months I am finally back and ready to party.This month I read 5 books and am currently halfway through 3 others.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens.
The Too Clever Fox by Leigh Bardugo.
If I Stay by Gayle Forman.

I imagine I will have all of these plus Ruin and Rising by Leigh Bardugo read by next week so you can happily look forward to that. I will also be doing a Grisha short story review as well as they are just delightful.  So not a bad month for reading I think.
This month however apart from cracking on and finishing these books I will also be pulling a last month and just reading whatever takes my fancy. I find I can be in the mood for different books at different times, so we will see. I am hoping to start Isla and the Happily Ever After or maybe even a little Hemingway this month. Or maybe the Lux series or possibly the Shatter Me series.

There are so many books in the world, how do I choose?

This month will not only be reviews however, I have also acquired a great number of books and shall hopefully be doing a BookTour post, with my many many books. (It  will probably be in parts, from now until Christmas.)

So that is this coming month, of course I am full of plot twists so I'll keep things a little fresh as well.

Happy Reading. 

Thanks to Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas, my book reading this month has been terrible, I've had the worst book hangover and spent all but a fortnight reading and re-reading the Throne of Glass series. I have no regrets. I did however read Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher and loved it (controversially) and It's not summer without you by Jenny Han.

Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas 5/5 Stars (FAVOURITED)
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher 4/5 Stars
It's not summer without you by Jenny Han  3/5 Stars

I tried very hard to read Landline by Rainbow Rowell but I struggled to get through the beginning, but I will try and get through it in September as I'm sure I will love it. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan is being put on hold for now. I haven't quite gotten over Percy yet so I am not ready to start this new series.

Now onto my TBR for September, I am leaving it up to a surprise, my TBR's have been failing recently and I think because I've been feeling too much pressure to finish them and not letting myself read the book I've been wanting to read after buying them. This month I bought Isla and The Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins so I would love to get into that this month or even The Finisher by David Baldacci. But I'm letting myself be free this month. I will however still pick from my TBR Jar when I start University again on the 22nd.

So what is your TBR?
Are you having a free month?
Will it help or will I need direction to read more?
Let me know what you think.

So guess who is doing a TBR 1 week into August? ME!

Guess who has neglected reading in that week? ME! 

Guess who is the laziest book blogger ever right now? ME!

In true essence I quit my job (without a back up) and have spent the week sulking and not wearing pants. But the show must go on, as must the reading. I did terribly with my July TBR.

In July I only read 5 books. Although I did have terrible readers block and only 3 were actually on my TBR. My TBR Jar pick was Wonder by R.J. Palacio but I read several chapters and decided it wasn't for me.

I also read:
Take Back the Skies by Luck Saxon 2/5 Stars (Unfinishable)
Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler 2/5 Stars
Four: A Divergent Story Collection by Veronica Roth 5/5 Stars (FAVOURITED)
Percy Jackson and The Battle of  the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan 4/5 Stars (FAVOURITED)
Percy Jackson and The Last Olympian by Rick Riordan 5/5 Stars (FAVOURITED)

Honestly, I was very ambitious with my TBR! So August is gonna be a little more realistic.


My TBR Jar pick for the month is Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher.

I bought this book on a random him during a momentous book haul and I heard bad things about it so I never really picked it up, but we'll see how it goes.

 Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a mysterious box with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers thirteen cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker, his classmate and crush who committed suicide two weeks earlier.
On tape, Hannah explains that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out how he made the list.


Next as I am in deep Percy Jackson hangover mode, I will be starting the Heroes of Olympus Series. The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan is the first book and I'm primarily excited to get started as I know Percy shows up in the next books. Much Excitement.

Jason has a problem. He doesn’t remember anything before waking up in a bus full of kids on a field trip. Apparently he has a girlfriend named Piper and a best friend named Leo. They’re all students at a boarding school for “bad kids.” What did Jason do to end up here? And where is here, exactly? Piper has a secret. Her father has been missing for three days, ever since she had that terrifying nightmare. Piper doesn’t understand her dream, or why her boyfriend suddenly doesn’t recognize her. When a freak storm hits, unleashing strange creatures and whisking her, Jason, and Leo away to someplace called Camp Half-Blood, she has a feeling she’s going to find out. Leo has a way with tools. When he sees his cabin at Camp Half-Blood, filled with power tools and machine parts, he feels right at home. But there’s weird stuff, too—like the curse everyone keeps talking about. Weirdest of all, his bunkmates insist that each of them—including Leo—is related to a god.

I will also be continuing the The Summer I Turned Pretty series with It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han and if I like it I may crack on with the next one. Its been really warm here and these books are very easy going and quick to read so they really are perfect for summer.

It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come.But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the beach house, the three of them together, the way things used to be. If this summer really and truly is the last summer, it should end the way it started--at Cousins Beach.

And finally as an aggressive fan of this woman I am so pumped to start Landline by Rainbow Rowell. I have zero doubts that it will be beautiful and charming and will speak to my heart and make me all fluttery on the inside. Her writing has a way of doing that.
 Georgie McCool knows her marriage is in trouble. That it’s been in trouble for a long time. She still loves her husband, Neal, and Neal still loves her, deeply — but that almost seems beside the point now.

Maybe that was always beside the point.

Two days before they’re supposed to visit Neal’s family in Omaha for Christmas, Georgie tells Neal that she can’t go. She’s a TV writer, and something’s come up on her show; she has to stay in Los Angeles. She knows that Neal will be upset with her — Neal is always a little upset with Georgie — but she doesn’t expect to him to pack up the kids and go home without her.
When her husband and the kids leave for the airport, Georgie wonders if she’s finally done it. If she’s ruined everything.
That night, Georgie discovers a way to communicate with Neal in the past. It’s not time travel, not exactly, but she feels like she’s been given an opportunity to fix her marriage before it starts . . .
Is that what she’s supposed to do?
Or would Georgie and Neal be better off if their marriage never happened?

So that is my TBR for the month.
Have you read any?
Share yor thought?
But no spoilers...cheeky!

In all Word Nerd honesty, I admit my TBR's are...ambitious. I want to read everything immediately. But then life gets in the way, commitments, book hangovers, book purchases that you just cant wait to start and I find I don't stick to them religiously.

This month I read 8 books, 5 of them from my laid out TBR list. Much Pride, Many accomplish, WOW! But I also diverted off my beaten track of what I would read if I finished those. I ended up not reading Frozen by Erin Bowman or Dreams of Gods & Monsters by Laini Taylor. Why you ask? Because I just wasn't feeling it. I find I'm more likely to enjoy a book if I'm reading it because it's what I want to read, not because I agreed to read it so I have to. If I'm not feeling it, I'll come back to it. At some point.

Okay so in June I read the following:

The One by Kiera Cass 3/5 stars.
Tears of Heaven by R.A McCandless 1/5 stars. (Unfinishable)
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han 4/5 stars.
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon 5/5 stars.
More Than This by Patrick Ness 4/5 stars.
Percy Jackson and the Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan 4/5 stars.
Popular by Wagenen, Maya Van 5/5 stars.
What's Left of Me by Kat Zhang 2/5 stars (Unfinishable)

And onto July. This is an equally ambitious month with 5 books I selected then 1 from my TBR Jar.


From Bottom to Top.

We start with Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler. My sister gave this book to me a few months ago when I was going through a bad break up, which was a sweet thought but it was too soon. A lot changes in a few months and so finally I'm reading the book. Really excited for it, seems right up my street and might give me a new perspective on the experience.

 Min Green and Ed Slaterton are breaking up, so Min is writing Ed a letter and giving him a box. Inside the box is why they broke up. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket, a folded note, a box of matches, a protractor, books, a toy truck, a pair of ugly earrings, a comb from a motel room, and every other item collected over the course of a giddy, intimate, heartbreaking relationship

Next we have my TBR Jar pick for this month Wonder by R. J. Palacio. This was a complete impulse buy a long time ago and I don't think I ever even thought I'd read it but that's the point of the jar. So I'm excited to see what I've been missing out on.

August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school—until now. He's about to start 5th grade at Beecher Prep, and if you've ever been the new kid then you know how hard that can be. The thing is Auggie's just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, despite appearances?

Naturally I'll be reading the next book in the Percy Jackson series. Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth by Rick Riordan. Having read it's three predecessors, I kind of know what I'm expecting in terms of writing style but I am excited to see how Percy and Annabeth develop, and what happens from the fallout of the last book. Nothing better than returning to Camp Half-Blood. 

Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to worse.




Next is the book I am actually currently reading. Take Back the Skies by Lucy Saxon. I have heard so many good things about this book and Saxon even did a Celaena Sardothien cosplay and had her book recommended by Sarah J Maas so there was no way I wasn't going to read it. I mean she might just be the coolest person ever and the book actually sounds UH-MAH-ZING!


Catherine Hunter is the daughter of a senior government official on the island of Anglya. She’s one of the privileged – she has luxurious clothes, plenty to eat, and is protected from the Collections which have ravaged families throughout the land. But Catherine longs to escape the confines of her life, before her dad can marry her off to a government brat and trap her forever.

So Catherine becomes Cat, pretends to be a kid escaping the Collections, and stows away on the skyship Stormdancer. As they leave Anglya behind and brave the storms that fill the skies around the islands of Tellus, Cat’s world becomes more turbulent than she could ever have imagined, and dangerous secrets unravel her old life once and for all .




I also decided as I read More Than This last month I would take a crack at A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. It's an incredibly short book and so I'm sure I will fly through it and hopefully enjoy it as much as I enjoyed his other books.

The monster showed up after midnight. As they do.
But it isn't the monster Conor's been expecting. He's been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he's had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the screaming...
This monster is something different, though. Something ancient, something wild. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor.
It wants the truth

Finally I will be incorporating a classic I have owned and skimmed a billion times but never took the time to read. From reading quotes I feel like me and Ernest Hemingway would be best friends, although we wouldn't call ourselves that,  we'd just be drinking buddies and talk about how hard it is to be intelligent and happy. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway will hopefully live up to it's stellar reputation. 

In 1918 Ernest Hemingway went to war, to the 'war to end all wars'. He volunteered for ambulance service in Italy, was wounded and twice decorated. Out of his experiences came A Farewell to Arms. Hemingway's description of war is unforgettable. He recreates the fear, the comradeship, the courage of his young American volunteer and the men and women he meets in Italy with total conviction. But A Farewell to Arms is not only a novel of war. In it Hemingway has also created a love story of immense drama and uncompromising passion.

The book already contains what I think is the most romantic dialogue I have ever read in my life. 


Anyway that is what I plan to read this month but I'm sure if any of that changes, you'll be te first to know. So tell me, What are you reading? Have you enjoyed any of the books I'm about to start? Let me know your reccomendations! Come on lets starts conversing internet.

Have a good one.

My TBR list for June contains following on from series I started in May as well as continuing series I started a while ago and have had new releases. I also have a book recommendation and a TBR Jar pick. So lets get started.


Bottom to top, I picked The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon. 
  
It is the year 2059. Several major world cities are under the control of a security force called Scion. Paige Mahoney works in the criminal underworld of Scion London, part of a secret cell known as the Seven Seals. The work she does is unusual: scouting for information by breaking into others’ minds. Paige is a dreamwalker, a rare kind of clairvoyant, and in this world, the voyants commit treason simply by breathing.

I picked this up knowing nothing about it after the author did a live stream event with Sarah J Maas, and yes, I am an advertisers dream. The concept seems really interested and I am super excited to try a book I probably wouldn't have picked up if I'd just seen it in a store. Strong heroine, crazy new world, I don't see what I could dislike about this book.

Next we have The One by Kiera Cass. Admittedly I started this end of May and it is the final book in a trilogy I have followed throughout. Loved the first one and hated the second one. I am honestly finishing the  series out of a terrible loyalty.

The Selection changed America Singer's life in ways she never could have imagined. Since she entered the competition to become the next princess of Illéa, America has struggled with her feelings for her first love, Aspen--and her growing attraction to Prince Maxon. Now she's made her choice . . . and she's prepared to fight for the future she wants.

Third is the third (ha) book in the Percy Jackson series. Percy Jackson and the Titans Curse by Rick Riordan. I know nothing about what happens here on in and I am super excited to find out. Percy is delightful and I don't see what could go wrong currently.

IT'S NOT EVERYDAY YOU FIND YOURSELF IN COMBAT WITH A HALF-LION, HALF-HUMAN.

But when you're the son of a Greek god, it happens. And now my friend Annabeth is missing, a goddess is in chains and only five half-blood heroes can join the quest to defeat the doomsday monster.

Oh, and guess what? The Oracle has predicted that not all of us will survive...
  
Enter More Than This by Patrick Ness I bought this simply due to the John Green quote on the cover. I've read atleast one chapter from all my TBR books and I feel like I will enjoy this. I'm not like crazy excited for it because it looks bloody huge but hopefully I'll love it and it'll be worth it. 

A boy drowns, desperate and alone in his final moments. He dies.

Then he wakes, naked and bruised and thirsty, but alive.

How can this be? And what is this strange deserted place?

As he struggles to understand what is happening, the boy dares to hope. Might this not be the end? Might there be more to this life, or perhaps this afterlife?

And now a recommendation and lend from my twin. The summer I turned pretty by Jenny Han is apparently a lovely, summery read so I will bite the bullet and give it a go. It's not the type of book I would normally go for, I've even seen it in shops and avoided it. But I trust her judgement.

Belly measures her life in summers. Everything good, everything magical happens between the months of June and August. Winters are simply a time to count the weeks until the next summer, a place away from the beach house, away from Susannah, and most importantly, away from Jeremiah and Conrad. They are the boys that Belly has known since her very first summer--they have been her brother figures, her crushes, and everything in between. But one summer, one terrible and wonderful summer, the more everything changes, the more it all ends up just the way it should have been all along.

I also have a couple books on my Kindle for this month including:

Dreams of Gods and Monsters by Laini Taylor (I refuse to have the first two in paperback and the last one in hardback so I will wait) Super excited though, I love this series and will be sad to see it end.

Frozen by Erin Bowman, and the novella Stolen. I loved the first book and can't wait to carry on. I adore Bree. Just love her so much.

So hopefully that will be enough to keep me busy this month. 
Let's crack on.

These are the books I will be reading in May.

Finally, the last (possibly) book I will be reading this month is We were liars by E. Lockhart. I know literally nothing about this book and it's shall we say a wild card. I say a John Green reccomendation on the cover and that along with the endearing title, I figured I would give it a gung ho shot! I havent even Goodreads this book yet. Fingers crossed I like it.

If you follow Booktube or a seasoned member of the Word Nerd World then you've probably already heard of the TBR Jar. That's the "To Be Read" Jar if you aren't. The TBR Jar is a godsend. So many times I've had no idea what to read and my TBR shelf just becomes cluttered. The TBR Jar fixes that, but how?

You see that's the catch...the TBR Jar comes with rules.

This is my TBR Jar.
I took a jar I already had lying around the house, wrote down the names of every book I owned but hadn't read and sealed them inside.

Now once a month atleast I take a strip from the Jar.

I allow myself the opportunity to swap to another slip once, but then if I pick that book out again another time and still don't want to read it, I pass the book along to someone who will.

Every time I buy a new book I don't read within a week, it goes straight into the jar. 

I've had my jar for about 3 months now and I have already made considerable progress. Although saying that the jar is responisble fr getting me into series I'd never bothered to read, so naturally I have more books on my shelf. But the jar has also helped me de-clutter my shelves. I'm finally letting go of the books that lets face it, I never should have bought because I'm never going to read them.

Life is too short to read books you just aren't into.