Read This Summer

I didn't read classics, nor any from my TBR jar, this summer because I had to read 20 books for school... September was the first month for those^

May
1. Locke and Key, volume 3
2. Curtsies & Conspiracies (TBR)
3. Golgatan Kuningatar
4. Poison Study
5. Punainen pukee teitä
6. Pikku prinssi, reread
7. Neiti Peregrine…, reread
8. The Well-wishers
9. False Memory
10. Enna Burning
11. Kingsman
12. Assassins Curse

June
1. Dream a Little Dream
2. Dangerous (TBR)
3. The Nine Lives of Chloe King 1-3
6. Fairest
7. Every Day
8. The Forgotten Sisters
9. Pirate's Wish
10. The Fill-in Boyfriend
11. Waistocats and Weaponry
12. Half Wild
13. Neverwhere, graphic novel (In Finnish)
14. Delirium (In Finnish)
15. Iloisen lehmän runot
16. Punainen kuin veri

July
1. Saga volume 4, graphic novel
2. Sleeper and the Spindle
3. Ready Player One: romaani
4. End of Days
5. Nälkävuosi
6. Harmaata Valoa
7. Ystävyyden talo
8. Lasikellon Alla

August

1. Eikä yksikään pelastunut

2. Magian Väri

3. Red Queen

4. Locke and Key 5, graphic novel

2015 Reading Challenge

I know I haven't been posting anything, of which I'm sorry, but I'm not sure I'm up for it for a while either. But I decided to do this and see how it goes again.
            So in the beginning of the year I found this post on Tumblr and decided to try it out. Here is my progress:
(I'll be probably updating this, so don't wonder. And my ideas for those I haven't read are also written.)

1. Book with more than 500 pages CRESS
2. Classic romance GOOSE-GIRL
3. Book that became a movie CHRISTMAS CAROL
4. Book published this year I WAS HERE
5. Book with a number in the title THE ONE
6. Book written by a person under 30 ERAGON
7. Book with non-human characters FOREST OF HANDS AND TEETH
8. Funny book ANOMALY
9. Female author DEFIANCE
10. Mystery/thriller VEREN VIMMA
11. One-word title REBEL
12. Short stories, book of  THE MISSING GOLDEN TICKET AND OTHER SPLENDIFEROUS SECRETS (reread)
13. Set in a different country NIGHT CIRCUS
14. Nonfiction book WHAT IF?
15. Popular authors first book LAMENT
16. From an author you love (but haven't read yet) ALL FALL DOWN
17. Book a friend recommended ALIENATED
18. Pulitzer Prize winner KATHERINE PORTER
19. Book based on a true story WE SHOULD HANG OUT SOMETIMES
20. Book at the bottom of your TBR list PALACE OF STONE
21. Book your mom loves THE HELP
22. Book that scares you CITY OF HEAVENLY FIRE
23. More than a hunderd years old ROBINSON CRUSOE
24. Choose based on the cover THE LUCY VARIATIONS
25. You were supposed to read in school but didn't VESIPUUTARHAT
26. A memoir BELL JAR
27. Book you finished in a day DREAM A LITTLE DREAM
28. Antonyms in the title CURTSIES & CONSPIRACIES
29. Set somewhere you've wanted to visit AARRE (France)
30. Came out the year you were born SPEAK
31. Bad reviews SHIVER
32. Trilogy BEYOND THE SPIDERWICK
33. From your childhood PETER PAN
34. Love triangle KILLER INSTINCT
35. Set in the future BOOK OF IVY
36. Set in high school FALLEN
37. Colour in the title SCARLET
38. Made you cry QUEEN OF ZOMBIE HEARTS
39. With magic THE WELL-WISHERS
40. Graphic novel SAGA
41. Author you haven't read THE RAFT
42. Book you own but hadn't read THE DREAM THIEVES
43. Takes place in your hometown VEREN VIMMA
44. Written in a different language GOLGATAN KUNINGATAR
45. Set during christmas POLAR EXPRESS
46. Author with your initials DEFECTOR (Susanne Winnacker, I felt it was close enough to S.V.)
47. A play MACBETH
48. Banned book DRACULA
49. Based on/turnes to a TV show CITY OF HEAVENLY FIRE
50. Book you've started but never finished before ASSANSINS CURSE

Top 5 Wednesday

April 29
Favorite Series Endings

Apparently I never posted this and was still here... So tadaa *jazz hands*

1. The love-hate relationship I talked about: Allegiant
2. And the love-hate relationship with Champion
3. United We Spy
4. Alphas 4: Top of the Feud Chain
5. Emerald Green

Book Haul

America

Dream a Little Dream
Dangerous
The Nine Lives of Chloe King 1-3
Fairest
An Ember in the Ashes
Red Queen
False Future
False Sight
Forest Born
River Secrets
The Forgotten sisters
Pirates Wish
Snow Like Ashes
A Court of Thorns and Roses
Anna and the French Kiss
The Fill-in Boyfriend
Every Day
Waistocats and Weaponry
The Heir
Miss Mayhem
Magic Study

Q&A

>1. Where do you live?
Finland
>2. Random Fact
I uh, huh I don't know. I used to sing in a choir.
>3. Favourite memory
I was a volunteer, for a day, at a camp for disabled children and we had some great fun (ex. a good old big paint fight)
>4. Favourite time of day
Evening, I guess? During weekends maybe morning though...
>5. Three countries I want to visit
Brazil, Ethiopia and Japan, and Paris... and Venice. See they aren't countries so that's fine, right?
>6. How do you organize your books?
Alphabetically (by languages and classics seperately) and my TBR books are in order in which I bought them.
>7. Favourtie strength you have

Problem-solving

>8. Offer a favorite sentence from any author

I'll go with the quotes I like, which I listed and just made a post of. So you'll find it on my blog.

>9. Suggest a good book for someone only staring to read

Depending. I think I made a post about that.

Anything: Harry Potter

Classic: Pride and Prejudice

Chick flick: Anna and the French Kiss

>10. How did you find the book you are currently reading?

Did you mean as in from where did I hear about it or where did I buy it from?

I am currently reading Assassin's Curse. I bought it from London, on a class trip. I usually discover books on "BookTube" or Goodreads.

>11. How did you start reading?

Almost everyone in my family LoVes reading, so from them I guess.

>12. Variations of: How many books do you own/read/TBR/classics/red books (love the question)...

You can see all those from my goodreads:

https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/17392796-salla

but own: 200ish

read: 340ish

TBR: 40ish

classics read: 40ish, depending on what one thinks is a classic

red books: around 11?

>13. Do you use the library at all?

Yes, quite a bit actually.

Happy summer vacation everyone!

Top 5 Wednesday

May 20th
Debut Novels

1. Looking for Alaska
2. Hobbit
3. Anna and the French Kiss
4. HP and the Phiolosphers Stone
5. Divergent

Quotes & Lists

I kinda like quotes. Like a lot. Here's some

>Stars can't shine without darkness
>A negative mind won't give you a positive life
>Don't dream your life live your dreams
>Happiness is a journey not a destination

>Books are a uniquely portable magic
>A smile is the prettiest thing you can wear
>A reader live a thousand lives before he dies

>No two persons ever read the same book
>Creativity is intelligence having fun
>Pray hardest when it's hardest to pray
>Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it

I also really like lists. So here are some ideas for you:

-Fictional places I would love to ovisit
-List your essentials
-Thing that feel like home
-Childhood and current dream jobs
-A to Z list of things you like and don't like
-Thankful list
-Makes me happy/sad
-Best decisions
-Ways to relax
-Things I find beautiful
-Proud of
-Questions for life
-The never list
-Do and Don't to live by
-Worry list
-House rules
-I wish this existed
-To do with someone I love
-Things I love in colors
-I look forward to...