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the world is not a wish granting factory… 24 book challenge

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hello april

I am ready to welcome April into my life and ready for spring to be in the air. It’s been a long and annoying winter and any hint of warmth in the air helps me breathe a little easier, feel a little more relaxed.

Saying farewell to March, a brief update on my 24 Book Challenge is in order. Last month I recapped my most recent reads. In order to get 24 books in this year I have to be sure I am hitting my 2 books per month minimum.

Not being much of a reader I surprised myself at how easy it was to fall into a book. To be so engulfed by the characters and design that I was knocking books out in a matter of days. Having read mostly trilogies up to this point I wanted to know what was going to happen next at the end of each book. My TV watching has significantly decreased, I feel I should apologize to my DVR.

Wrapping up my 3rd month of this challenge, I shocked even myself. I didn’t read two books in the month of March…

I read four.

After killing Divergent in the first few days of the month, I immediately ordered the next 2 books in the series. Thank you Amazon Prime for making it infinitely easy to order anything I want and have it appear on my door step in two days. When Insurgent and Allegiant arrived I started on Insurgent right away. Reading the second book, Insurgent, got me so excited for the movie I bought advanced movie tickets to the first Divergent movie.

In mid March Cleveland was struck with a nasty snow storm. No surprise there. The big surprise was that because of this snow storm my Wednesday night volleyball game was canceled, a rarity honestly, generally games are held regardless. This gave me the time I needed to jump immediately into the 3rd book, Allegiant. Similarly to the Hunger Games, the third book held it’s own up until the last quarter of the book when I started to feel it could have been wrapped up chapters ago. That must be the curse of a trilogy, authors do so much to pack the first two books with excitement, by the third book they are grasping whatever they can to ensure the books are comparable in length. Either way, the Divergent series is a must read. If I got them done in under a month, you can too.

Another single-click purchase on Amazon and two new books arrived. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby.

The Fault In Our Stars

I picked The Fault in our Stars to read first. I was turning page after page and would find myself sitting in my chair for hours reading. I could not put this book down. Sometimes I struggle with books that are written from the perspective of a high schooler but with the vocabulary of a college professor, but I didn’t care with this book. I loved the writing and the story, everything about the description. Even though the novel falls closer to the young adult genre it is written in such a way that I felt it was older.

There were parts in the book I adored, parts that made me laugh out loud, and not a single paragraph I could do without. It’s a love story and a comedy and everyone should read it.

I am killing it with my resolutions this year. I’m ahead of schedule with my reading and making impact all over the place. How are you doing so far this year? Ready for spring?

 


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