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    Chiara's reading list 2012

    in Past Book Logs

    Posted · Edited by Chiara

    I read 29 books in 2011, and my goal is to read 35 books in 2012. This is going to be quite a challenge since I'm very busy with school and I will be having a lot of important exams. I'm going to try to read as much as I can though! :readingtwo:

     

    I will keep a list of the books I've read and give each of them a rating, varying from * to ******.

     

    January

    1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold ******

    2. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins ******

    3. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins *****

    4. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins *****

    5. Matched by Allyson Condie ***

     

    February

    6. Crossed by Allyson Condie ****

    7. Eyes of a king by Catherine Banner (re-read) ***

    8. The Time Traveler's Wife (re-read) ******

     

    March

    9. L'écume des jours by Boris Vian *

     

    April

    10. The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss *****

    11. The Maze Runner by James Dashner ****

     

    May

    12. The Scorch Trials by James Dashner ***

    13. Twilight by Stephenie Meyer (re-read) ****

    14. The Wise Man's Fear *****

     

    June

    15. Like a charm by Karin Slaughter (and some other writers) **

    16. De ooggetuige (The eyewitness) by Simone van der Vlugt ***

     

    I hope this is going to be a great (reading) year for everybody! :bestw:

    Worst ever film from a book?

    in General Book Discussions

    Posted

    Recently I read Roald Dahl's Matilda & Charlie and the chocolate factory. I especially loved Matilda. Was curious of C&TCF as it is a Burton/Depp project. But I saw the promo on Youtube and I was like Noooo!!!!!!! I can't watch it. It will forever ruin my vision of the characters!

    Next I saw the first couple of minutes of Matilda. When I saw that Danny DeVito and Rhea Perleman were playing the parents, I immidiately decided NOT to watch!!!!

     

    It's been a while since I read the book, but I read Matilda after having seen the movie a thousand times and I thought the book was actually quite disappointing. I really liked the movie and it's funnier than the book. I don't think Danny DeVito and Rhea Perleman did a very bad job playing the parents and I really think it's worth watching the movie.

    Hello :)

    in Introductions

    Posted

    Hi Chiara welcome I really like your avatar very clever.

     

    Thank you! :)

     

    Hi Chiara

    It sounds like you are in an exciting part of your life. Enjoy ,and good luck with your future career . Sounds interesting .

     

    Yes, my life is very exciting :) Sometimes it is kind of busy but I'm mostly enjoying everything. I do hesitate a bit about criminology at the moment. It is very interesting, but most of the jobs you can get after studying criminology are very sad and sombre and I don't want to do that my whole life. So I'm now thinking about studying advertisement-psychology, which is also very interesting :)

    Hi, I'm new!

    in Introductions

    Posted · Edited by Chiara

    Hi! Yes I'm Dutch too :) I also searched this forum because no one near me reads the same books as me (my friends don't even read other books). I started reading English books when I was 7, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix was released, but only in English. The Dutch version would be released 2 months after the English version, so I couldn't wait and bought the English version. So I started reading in English and I never stopped. I now prefer reading English books. What do you like most, reading Dutch, French or English books? :readingtwo:

    Sandra Brown books in dutch

    in Book Buying

    Posted

    I'm sorry, but I'm afraid I won't really like them. I hope you will find someone else who wants to buy them :) I'll ask around if I know anybody who likes them and I will let you know if someone wants them. You could also try to contact the publisher who sent you the books. They'll probably swap them.

    Looking for a bunch of different books in different styles

    in Book Search and Reading Recommendations

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    I think the subforums give you lots of books to consider! Some books I loved and really made me think are The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold and The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffeneger. Both are very well written and have a good and unusual story. They are a bit sad though. A book I thought was quite scary is The Guardians by Andrew Pyper. It's a paranormal story about a haunted house and I had a few nightmares about it. I can also recommend Before I go to sleep by SJ Watson. It's not scary, but it's thrilling and I thought it had a very good story with a lot of unexpected turns, it's one of the best books I've ever read. I'm looking for some happy books myself at the moment, so I don't know any I could recommend.

    Do teenagers still read books?

    in Children's / Young Adult

    Posted · Edited by Chiara

    I love working there :) I have wanted to work in the bookstore since I was little, and just a week after I turned 15 (in the Netherlands, we're allowed to have a job from the age of 15) the job became available and I got it. I was and still am so excited. However, I don't know how long I can keep working there. I am going to college next year and maybe I will move to another city so I will have to quit...

     

    My dreams haven't changed. When I was little I wanted to be a writer and work at a bookstore. The latter, I achieved, so now I only have to become a writer. If only it were that easy.

    Do teenagers still read books?

    in Children's / Young Adult

    Posted

    People at school still consider reading as 'not cool'. When I tell people that I like reading and that I have read all the books we have to read for school, they are surprised. They associate reading with the boring books we have to read for school. I think that's also one of the reasons none of my friends read. They think all books are as boring as those we have to read for school. They don't realize most books aren't boring and are actually fun to read.

     

    They also think it's very strange for someone of my age to work at a bookstore, and think it's a boring job. I think it's very fun and it's an easy way to learn a lot about books. The only 'negative' thing about working in a bookstore is that I buy way too many books. But who could blame me, books are appealing and I get a nice discount :blush:

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