Document Your Life | JULY

New Reads

I decided to borrow a few books from my school library to read over the summer holiday!

The Book Thief Markus Zusak 
The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness
Beautiful Creatures by Margaret Stohl and Kami Gracia
The Maze Runner by James Dashner

I'm very excited to read these books because a lot of people on the Booktube community seem to love them and I can't wait to find out whether I'll like them or not. 

I also won Insomnia by J.R Johansson on a giveaway:D

Booktube-A-Thon Wrap Up

The Booktube-A-Thon is a readathon created by Ariel and Raeleen for Booktubers. It ran from 15th July-21st July and will hopefully be bi-annual.
Here are the books I read, the number of pages I read and the challenges I completed:

Day 1:
The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
313 pages
Finished ✔
Completed the reread a book challenge

Day 2:
The Maze Runner by James Dashner
Read 9 pages
This Lullaby by Sarah Dessen
Read 70 pages
Total page count: 392

Day 3:
This Lullaby: 57 pages
Total page count: 449

Day 4:
This Lullaby: 30 pages
Total page count: 479
+ 15 minutes of The Great Gatsby on audiobook

Day 5:
This Lullaby: 55 pages
Total page count: 534

Day 6: 
This Lullaby: 98 pages
Total page count: 632

Day 7:
This Lullaby: 20 pages
Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare: 49 pages
Total page count: 701

+ 1 hour 26 min The Great Gatsby on audiobook = 65 pages

701+65 = 766 pages

Challenges partially completed:

Listen to an audiobook☑
Read a classic☑
Read a book that has been on your shelf forever☑

Catching Fire Trailer & Reaction

THE TRAILER IS OUT!
OUT!
OUT!
OMD! I DIED WHEN I WATCHED THIS!
If you have not yet watched it, click below and watch it!!

*No copyright intended*

NOW, for my reaction!
I look a mess but it had to be done!:)

Booktube-A-Thon #1

Hey!

It is the first day of the Booktube-A-Thon!! So excited! Here is a quick update and don't forget to comment what you're reading down below:):)

See you in a few dayss! 

The Elements Book Cover Tag

I'm doing a taggg:)

Original Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vne9UTL5TA

FreckleFairyFantasy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi0C9_4RIo4

This tag was really fun to do and I tag:

ABookADay: http://www.youtube.com/user/closet454/featured

SkeletonsOnMyShelves: http://www.youtube.com/user/SkeletonsOnMyShelves/feed

TheBookFanatics: http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBookFanatics

** A new intro:) **

Have fun doing this and I'll talk to you soon:)

xoxo

Throwback Thursday

Cathy Cassidy was one of my favourite authors when I was younger. Ginger Snaps was an amazing book and it has been years since I last read it!

'You can make a wish come true, if you're determined . . .'
Gone are the days when Ginger was an outsider, always on the fringes of friendship. She's swapped puppy fat and pigtails for make-up and hair straighteners and never looked back - until now. Ginger and Shannon are best mates, but when they befriend lonely Emily, everything changes. Even the saxophone-playing boy in the trilby hat can't help - he's part of the problem. Are Ginger and Shannon drifting apart or can they stay best friends forever?

So very happy to get this from a friend and I shall be taking a trip down Memory Lane.

New Reads Wednesday

So I've decided to update you on some of my new reads. The Booktube-A-Thon starts next week and I have nothing to read between now and then, so I picked up some books from my shelf and from my library to start on these last few days of chilled-out reading. Once the Booktube-A-Thon starts I am going to be reading like a fast bunny (not like a slow turtle I always am).

1. Life at the Shallow End by Helen Bailey

Electra Brown can be very shallow. Her dad is having a mid-life crisis, her mom's given in to her daytime TV addiction, her little brother (aka The Little Runt) has been caught shoplifting Tampax and even Google the guinea pig's gone mental. But despite life going pear-shaped around her, all Electra can think of is whether green eyeliner complements or clashes with blue eyes!

Found it at my library and it looks like a very light, teenager-y read. If it's anything like Angus, Thongs and Full-frontal Snogging then I'm definitely excited to read it!

2. The Maze Runner by James Dashner 

When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the only thing he can remember is his first name. His memory is blank. But he’s not alone. When the lift’s doors open, Thomas finds himself surrounded by kids who welcome him to the Glade—a large, open expanse surrounded by stone walls.

Just like Thomas, the Gladers don’t know why or how they got to the Glade. All they know is that every morning the stone doors to the maze that surrounds them have opened. Every night they’ve closed tight. And every thirty days a new boy has been delivered in the lift.

Thomas was expected. But the next day, a girl is sent up—the first girl to ever arrive in the Glade. And more surprising yet is the message she delivers. 

Thomas might be more important than he could ever guess. If only he could unlock the dark secrets buried within his mind.

I have this on my Kindle but my school library just recently got it so I decided to borrow it as I do enjoy reading 'real' books rather than ebooks. This is meant to be an amazing trilogy so I am excited to read it!

3. Black Heart Blue by Louisa Reid

Hephzibah: You've no idea what it's like having a freak for a sister. 

Rebecca: Born first, prettier, Hephzi's always been the popular one.

The Father: When he was busy with his bottle we were usually safe. Usually. 

The Mother: Her specialist subject was misery and lessons of painful silence ...

Hepzibah and Rebecca are twins. One beautiful, one disfigured. Trapped with their loveless parents, they dream of a normal life. But when one twin tragically dies, the other must find a way to escape. Because if she doesn't, she'll end up like her sister.

Recommended to me by an old friend and sounds like an interesting book. I don't know a lot about it but that just makes it more exciting to read!

4. Looking for Alaska by John Green

Before. Miles "Pudge" Halter's whole existence has been one big nonevent, and his obsession with famous last words has only made him crave the "Great Perhaps" (François Rabelais, poet) even more. Then he heads off to the sometimes crazy, possibly unstable, and anything-but-boring world of Culver Creek Boarding School, and his life becomes the opposite of safe. Because down the hall is Alaska Young. The gorgeous, clever, funny, sexy, self-destructive, screwed-up, and utterly fascinating Alaska Young, who is an event unto herself. She pulls Pudge into her world, launches him into the Great Perhaps, and steals his heart.

After. Nothing is ever the same.

Just started this book and I love John Green after reading The Fault In our Stars so I'm pretty happy to be starting this book!

So those are my new reads, tell me down in the comments some of the books you've recently got and whether you've read any of these books before.

Friday Reads 07/05/13

SUMMERR!

Let me know what you're are going to be reading this weekend:)

 -It was actually brighter than it looked!:)

June Wrap Up & July TBR - Booktube-A-Thon Reads!

A wrap up for June and my TBR list for July:D

& also the books I'm planning to read for the Booktube-A-Thon!

I would love to know what you guys are planning to read! Comment down belowwww:D

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