Current Song: "Shiny Happy People" by R.E.M.
My reading goal was 40 books this year and I made it to 43! Here is a list of the books and the ratings I gave them on Goodreads (out of 5 stars). I started to review books on Goodreads around the summer time so if you would like to see my reasoning for any of the ratings my Goodreads account is here. Peep those bookshelves (also as a warning, I suck at reviewing books so I apologize in advance).
1. Coraline by Neil Gaiman (this was a reread).
5 stars
2. Matilda by Roald Dahl (a reread)
5 stars
3. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark by Alvin Schwartz (a reread)
5 stars
4. Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
4 stars
5. American Gods by Neil Gaiman
4 stars
6. Collected Poems by Emily Dickinson
4 stars
7. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (the ending to this made me so angry omg)
3 stars
8. Charlie and the Grandmothers by Katy Towell
5 stars
9. The Girl in the Red Coat by Roma Ligocka
4 stars
10. The Tales of Beedle the Bard by J.K. Rowling
5 stars
11. What's Eating Gilbert Grape by Peter Hodges (if you've seen the movie and not read the book, I'm just going to warn you that Gilbert is a fucking dick in the book, Becky is 15, and the ending is different)
3 stars
12. Everything is Illuminated by Jonathon Safran Foer
5 stars
13. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
5 stars
14. Bambi by Felix Salten
5 stars
15. Hawkeye vs. Deadpool
3 stars
16. Bambi's Children by Felix Salten
4 stars
17. A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks (I am ashamed of how much this book made me cry)
5 stars
18. The Best of Me by Nicholas Sparks
4 stars
19. Trame: A Contemporary Italian Reader
3 stars
20. Ordinary Heroes by Scott Turow
4 stars
21. Le avventure di Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi (my first novel in Italian)
5 stars
22. Toys by James Patterson
2 stars
23. I Can See in the Dark by Karen Fossum
4 stars
24. The Drowned Boy by Karen Fossum
5 stars
25. Assassins of Athens by Jeffrey Siger
2 stars
26. Zoo by James Patterson
3 stars
27. The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling (I cried so hard at the ending of this)
4 stars
28. The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War 2 Soldier by Walter Dean Meyers
2 stars
29. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket
2 stars
30. Fantastic Mr. Fox by Roald Dahl
3 stars
31. Judy Moody Goes to College by Megan McDonald (I got really nostalgic while at the library)
5 stars
32. House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
4 stars
33. The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
4 stars
34. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2 stars (I'm so upset I didn't like this book)
35. Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (reread)
4 stars
36. World War Z by Max Brooks
4 stars
37. The Whalestoe Letters by Mark Z. Danielewski (make sure you read House of Leaves first)
5 stars
38. Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead
1 star (way too listy, not enough stories, plus there's too many conspiracies and apparently some of the facts are wrong)
39. Fallen in Love by Lauren Kate
3 stars
40. Unforgiven by Lauren Kate
4 stars
41. The Help Kathryn Stockett
5 stars
42. Italian Cinema by Peter Bondanella
2 stars
43. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
1 star (I know you're supposed to like this because it's a classic but I just couldn't get into this).
I kept track of the pages as well and from Jan. 1 to today I read 12,883 pages. I'm currently reading Evicted by Matthew Desmond and I'm about halfway through it. I actually want to stop reading since it's a bit boring (I already knew some of the facts I read about and the other facts I could've figured from living in Chicago). I'll just push through.
2016 is leaving us and 2017 is coming. Honestly, 2016 was actually shit. Sure, Leonardo DiCaprio won an Oscar and the Chicago Cubs won the World Series but oh my God the rest is just no. First of all, the friend I was basically in love with told me he doesn't feel the same and then in July we had a fallout (for another reason) and haven't spoken to each other since. I tried saving his life so I'm the bad guy in this situation. It's my fault I feel the way I do. He refuses to fix himself even though I'm not the first person who stopped being his friend because of this. I'm probably about the fifth person who talked to him about the situation. And then all that wondering if my friends from last year liked me, getting into an argument with one of my neighbors (he told my friends he knows certain jokes piss me off so he purposely made them to make my angry. I got angry, and then he got angry at me for being angry. Bruh, I literally gave you what you wanted). My unwanted thoughts are growing worse. Now there's some family drama and Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds are dead. So I'm pretty much done with this year.
Some resolutions are to get my ass to a psychiatrist and to read at least 50 books this year. If I follow my current list, the books are:
1. Evicted
2. The Picture of Dorian Gray
3. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
5. The Kite Runner
6. Dracula
7. The Nightmare Before Christmas
8. Les Miserables
9. The Bad Beginning (I know I only gave it 2 stars, but then I found out that book 13 has an open ending that you either hate or love so now I gotta read the entire series. I got the box set for Christmas)
10. The Reptile Room
11. The Wide Window
12. The Miserable Mill
13. The Austere Academy
14. The Ersatz Elevator
15. The Vile Village
16. The Hostile Hospital
17. The Carnivorous Carnival
18. The Slippery Slope
19. The Grim Grotto
20. The Penultimate Peril
21. The End
22. Old Yeller (reread)
23. Savage Sam
24. Maus I
25. Maus II
26. The Handmaid's Tale
27. Blindness
28. Winesburg, Ohio
29. The Woman in Black
30. The Da Vinci Code
31. Angels & Demons
32. The Lost Symbol
33. Inferno
34. Stranger in a Strange Land
35. The Martian
36. Left-Hand of Darkness
37. Slaughterhouse 5
38. The Tale of Rawhide and Bloody Bones
39. An Ocean at the End of the Lane
40. The Girl Who Slept with God
41. Room
42. Lucifer's Son
43. The Eye of the Abyss
44. Penpal
45. Stolen: A Letter to My Capture
46. Brave New World
47. Flowers in the Attic
48. Petals on the Wind
49. If There Be Thorns
50. Seeds of Yesterday
51. Garden of Shadows
Added a book to finish the series. So that's about it.
Happy New Year everyone! Ciao a tutti!
Current Song: "Senza riserva" by Annalisa
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