Oh look! More books!

Like I said last time, no more promises about not buying any more books for a while. So here we are :P

It was half price on everything at work Wednesday evening so I decided to buy some books (you know... because it was 50% off... can't miss those deals, can ya? :P ) and I also bought a book yesterday when I was at work..for uhm.. research..*ahem*. So this week I ended up buying 6 more books to add to my collection. Three of those are in Norwegian and they are also some of the books I don't mind reading in my language. That also mean that I won't be doing any review on those since, you know, they're in Norwegian :P

Steinhimmelen by Karin Brunk Holmqvist
Rosa Elefanter by Karin Brunk Holmqvist
Kaffe med Musikk by Karin Brunk Holmqvist
Six of Crows (#1, Six of Crows) by Leigh Barduco
I Let You Go by Clare Mackintosh
Daughter by Jane Shemilt

Lots of things has happened these past few days with work and all so today I felt like I could sit down and write this blog post. I also finished The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton late last night so there will be one more post up pretty soon!


See ya!

Bye xx

When there's a sale online...

Here we are yet again... another book in my shelves. I'm officially done promising myself not to buy any more books for a while. It doesn't work. I give up.

So yes, there'a a sale on Bookdepository where you can buy books with up to 50% off! Yey! Of course I had to check that out when I got an email about this glorious bargain! I found 5 lovely books I wanted and added them to my 'cart' (also found out that some of the books I had bought in August/September-ish was 50% off as well...but hey! What can you do?!). After finishing my little "shopping-spree", I thought I had purchased them and didn't think any more about it, until I got an email last week(?).  They told me that my lovely books felt bit lonely and asked me if I wanted to keep them or not (something like that). I went back to the page (after checking both my email accounts for any confirmations on the purchase with no luck) and saw that 3 out of 5 of the books I wanted was now unavailable... I was sad, but I ended up only order the 2 books that was left from my previous attempt which was still available without really trying to find something else (I did look through the books, you know...just one last check). But, it doesn't stop there because few days later I got this in the mailbox:

"I am terribly sorry to inform you that on this occasion we have been unable to fulfil part of your order.

If your order was a pre-order unfortunately, information ahead of publication is not foolproof so a new title may be cancelled or postponed indefinitely. An edition scheduled for reprinting may be similarly abandoned by the publishers.

If you have ordered other titles, we will send you the remainder of your order immediately."

And the last part of the email:

"Again, please accept my apologies and I hope we can be of service to you in the near future."

So.. I ended up getting only 1 book out of 5, but it's OK because I already got so many I haven't read yet and I don't really mind even though I kinda wanted the book that got cancelled.

The last part of that email sounded so sad that I just want to give them a hug and tell them that I still love them and I will continue to buy books from Bookdepository. Why, you might ask? Because I love this page. The price is just perfect, they arrive pretty fast (and I live in Norway so that says something) and this is also the only time they have "messed up" my order. And I have ordered loads of books from there these past few years! So..

Dear Bookdepository,

I accept your apologies. I am not going to give you up because of this little problem. I will always love you and I know you will "fulfill" my "book-needs" whenever I want to go shopping. So thank you so much of being a part of my life and for being there when a girl needs to burn most of her money on more books even though she already has bought tons of books just few weeks previously. (You should probably put on some limit or something when someone buys more book than actually needed, knowing they won't be able to read all of them in their lifetime unless they got the same powers as The Flash)

Love from,
Me x

Ok.. back to the main reason of this blog post! The newest addition to my bookshelf! 

Before We Met by Lucie Whitehouse

I have been back and forth with this book, but when it was 50% off, I decided that I wanted to buy it after all :) After reading the "blurb" again, it did sound better than I remembered :P 

I have absolutely no idea what else to say.. I think I have already written enough about this whole book-shopping fail and troubles so.. But I can give you a quick update on the book I'm currently (still) reading since I'm already here :)

Currently reading update:

I'm still reading The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton. My grandmother told me I should read this one next and so I did. I got hooked from the beginning, but the saddest thing is is that I get really tired of reading it and ends up closing the book in the middle of the chapter (happens pretty much all the time :( ) It doesn't mean that it's bad, because, trust me.. it's not! It's really good and I hate myself for having those eyes that won't stay open when I'm in the middle of a chapter! I will finish it. I must! It will take some time but I will. So be patient with me! The review will come one day in the near future! 

Bye x

(I was supposed to finish this blog entry earlier today, but things got in the way. I'm sorry for the late update!)

Lack of reviews and updates

Hello!
Sorry for the lack of reviews and updates lately!

I'm still reading Sand by Hugh Howey and but I haven't gotten that far tbh. I've been reading another book in Norwegian lately and wanted to finish that one before continuing. But I'm back to reading Sand again now so hopefully I will finish it soon and give you a review! I won't do a review of the Norwegian one because..well.. it's in Norwegian (originally in Swedish) and I don't want to translate the blurb and stuff :P

So for now you just have to wait (and maybe read the other reviews and stuff if you haven't already?) till I'm done reading this book :P

Bye xx

GISHWHES and new books!

And by new books, I mean the ones I bought a few weeks ago (after the previous blog post)...

I wanted to wait till I got all the books that I've ordered (also ended up buying a few more at work in the meantime) and today I finally got the last one in the mail. Yey!

Been waiting for this book for weeks! So happy to have this book which probably sound weird, but I am! :D Found out about Carrie Fletcher through her brother Tom who's in a band that I have been a fan of for 12 years (McFly if you wanted to know). And I've also been watching her videos on her youtube channels for the past few years. It's the same thing with Tom's wife, Giovanna and when I got her first book (Billy and me). I'm proud of them both for coming this far and am so happy to get the chance to read their books and also knowing that I will love the stories before I even read them.

So there's that!

Anyway... so over to the latest additions to my bookshelves:

The Lake House by Kate Morton

The Little Shop of Happy Ever After by Jenny Colgan

The Key to It All by Joanna Rees

Inkheart (#1, Inkworld trilogy) by Cornelia Funke

Inkspell (#2, Inkworld trilogy) by Cornelia Funke

Inkdeath (#3, Inkworld trilogy) by Cornelia Funke

On the Other Side by Carrie Hope Fletcher

Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey (Three novels collection) by the Brontë Sisters

And that was all of the new books!

Updates on currently-reading (and "gishing")

Not long now! Tried reading every day or more like every night and at work to finish this but it's taken me some time to finish it :P Been working and "gishing" this past week(s) so I haven't had that much time or energy to read for very long when lying in bed at night :P But the book is really good! In this book you get to know about how it all started and why people are living in silos. 

And talking about "gishing", this  year was the first time I signed up to GISHWHES (The Greatest Scavenger Hunt the World Has Ever Seen)! Have wanted to try it out for a few years, but haven't had the money or the guts to try it out. This year I decided to finally sign myself up and go through with it (also got my bf to sign up or more liked begged him to sign up with me).

Seriously... even thought I didn't do as much as my teammates, but I had lots of fun doing this! For someone who's shy, socially awkward and also got some degree of socially anxiety, this has been a huge thing for me to do. I literally dressed up as a prospector (looking for gold in a public fountain) and a zombie (at work) this week and that was waaay over my comfort zone. But I did it! Yey! And I also have to add that I made a panda out of sanitary pads (named him Padnalecki)....yeh... It turned out great though and the panda looked really cute X) But anyway.. it was a lot of fun and I hope that I'm able to do it next year too! 

Have to go now 'cause dinner's ready and I'm hungry!

GISHWHES <- In case you want to know more about GISHWHES

Bye xx 

One creepy looking book... (New book)

Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children (Nr. 1 in the Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children trilogy) by Ransom Riggs

So, I've seen this book sometimes around the internet and thought it was a really creepy book because of the cover, but yesterday I saw the trailer by Tim Burton and it turned out to be not so creepy after all.. just a bunch of kids with abilities (probably a lot more is going to happen I know..). So today I decided to buy it at last :) I think I'm going to read it after I finish Second Life by SJ Watson which, by the way, I'm currently reading. 

And talking about Second Life, I haven't read that much of it yet, but I will probably finish it by next week. Yes, long time to read it, but right now I'm currently playing sims 4 and got a lot of things to collect (got a long list of collectible items so I'm busy doing that apparently). So for now I'm gonna read it whenever I take some break from sims and other things :P 

There's not much that have happened yet and the beginning was kind of 'slow', but I think that things might pick up a little bit soon (hopefully), especially after the end of the last chapter I read last night. We'll see. Maybe I end up ditching sims soon and read and read and read because serious things are happening :P

That was it for now and I will come back soon to do a review!

Bye! x

A list over my books!

Hello!

I've been thinking for a while about adding a list over all my books and now I've finally done it! So now, if you want, you can click on this link  (or find it on the sidebar under pages) and there you can find aaaall of the books that I own! I've also added (read) on the ones that I'm finished and (currently reading) on the ones I'm..uhm you understand... :P 

Anyways! If there's a book that you want to read and see that I've already read then you can ask me about the book(s) if you want. If there's some books you're curious about and want to read more about but you're not sure which book is the "right one" because of the author, then you can ask me about that as well :)

Aaand if you just want to discuss books then we can do that too :P
(or, if you like spn we can talk about that as well! X) )

When it comes to Edge of Eternity...I'm STILL reading it, BUT! It's not that much left though.. only 342ish pages..

Hopefully I will finish it soon so I can move over to the last book in The Lunar Chronicles series, Winter.

Bye! x

One last thing: Last year (in December (?)) I told you I had gotten myself a youtube channel where I could talk about books and stuff, but after 2 uploaded videoes (and a few non-edited, non-published ones) I have decided that I'm not going to make or upload any more videoes. At least for now. I do want to continue, but right now I want to focus on this blog instead :)

8 new books and some update

Hello! It's been a while but nothing much have happened since last time. I'm still reading Edge of Eternity and hopefully I will finish it soon! I know...It takes some time to finish it and I don't have a really good excuse other than I haven't been in a reading mood or had that much time lately (blaming my bf for staying a week at a time). At least I'm over halfway in the book and I still enjoy reading it. So far, so good!

Over to my new books!:

I finally got the books I've been waiting for since christmas. Two of them I got a few weeks ago and the other 6 I got today:

Variant (nr. 1 in the Variant series(?)) by Robison Wells
Feedback (nr. 2 in the Variant series(?)) by Robison Wells
Onyx (nr. 2 in the Lux series) by Jennifer L. Armentrout
Opal (nr. 3 in the Lux series) by Jennifer L. Aremntrout
Wake (nr. 1 in the Wake trilogy) by Lisa McMann
Fade (nr. 2 in the Wake trilogy) by Lisa McMann
Gone (nr. 3 in the Wake trilogy) by Lisa McMann
We Are Not Ourselves by Matthew Thomas

That was a long list!

Not sure what else to write other than to say (a bit late) Happy New Year and I promise I will try and update more often with reviews on books I've already read (if I remember what the stories was all about) and ones I've just read and other things :)

Bye! x

New books!

I was actually supposed to blog last week about my new books (the day after I made my first yt video in fact) but it's been a busy week and my boyfriend was here for a few days too.. anyway..

So yeah! New books! Whoop whoop!

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews

The Lie by C. L. Taylor

The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin (second book in the Mara Dyer series)

I also got book nr. 18 in a norwegian series called Misteltein (Mistletoe in english) the same day I bought these ones, but in the mail :)

So exited to read them all! (apart from the norwegian one because I finished it in just a few days :P )

I'm still reading the last book in The Century trilogy by Ken Follett so it might take a while before I will do a review on that one. So i guess in the mean time I will write about other books that I've already finished and maybe make some videos.. (already got 3 videos that I haven't edited yet..hopefully they will be up soon!)

And that's it for now!

Bye x