I started this blog in the beginning of 2016 and have been loving every second of it. Sharing my favourite reads with you and hopefully making more people enjoy them.
Throughout this year, I tried to step outside my comfort zone, reading more books that I wouldn’t have read otherwise. I also read a lot of South African authors, something that I am ashamed to say, I never did before.
I read 51 books, completing my goal of 50.
The longest book turned out to be Anne of Green Gables at a whopping 634 pages, and what a delight that was. Anne was a favourite of mine when I was young, and I am glad to report that is still the same.
The shortest book that I read was a short story by a local author, My name is Simon is by Melissa Delport, it is a companion book to Rainfall by the same author. The original story was heartbreaking and I can confirm My name is Simon, somehow just ties up the story very well.
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| Anne of Green Gables |
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| Rainfall - Melissa Delport |
I devoured every book in the Recoil series by Joanne Macgregor, another local author. This dystopian came when I truly thought I am done with them, there isn’t a spin any author could put on them that would get me interested again, and then came Recoil. I loved it, the twists, the turns, the characters. Everything about this series just worked for me.
There were books that broke my heart into pieces, and nothing I could do could put it back together, leaving me feeling empty and lost and with book hangovers (What better kind is there?)
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| Me Before You |
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| Losing Emma |
Can’t have a book wrap up without my favourite genre, Contemporary Romance!
This was the year where I tried to read this genre as little as possible because I would just read this and nothing else if I didn’t watch out. Hate to sound like a preppy teenager, but there were books that “gave me all the feels” and was very heartwarming, just the thing after a book that breaks your heart.
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| Scarred - Joanne Macgregor |
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| The Trouble with Flying - Rachel Morgan |
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| PS You're Mine - Alexa Riley |
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| A Piece of my Heart - Cindi Page |
I also read a couple of memoirs, this used to be a daunting thing, reading someone else's experiences and knowing it happened to a real person, but as I got older, and maybe a little wiser, I learned that this is the best way to learn from someone else's experiences.
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| The underachieving ovary - J.T. Lawrence |
I have to be honest I started this blog thinking I will attract a lot of fellow book lovers and will have so many reads that I won’t keep up, that has not been the case, but after reflecting on it, I decided it does not matter, even if just one person likes the same book or started reading the same author, I am happy.
Here’s to another great year of reading, and thank each and every one of you for sticking around.
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