Sunday Post #49

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer (image above belongs to @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer). It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. 

Life

I've been ill this week, sore throat and bronchitis, so had to stay at home the entire week. Did not enjoy that. Now I'm feeling anxious to start work tomorrow, mainly because it such an exhausting day, I have to teach 8 hours of Dutch and in the evening 3 hours of Spanish plus I will have to be on trains for about three hours. Getting up in the morning around 5:40 a.m. and only getting home around 11:30 p.m. So, not looking forward to that. 

Blog and books

I didn't read anything this week, was too exhausted to concentrate on reading :(
I did post a Can't Wait Wednesday post and a Stacking the Shelves post this week!
Will catch up on comments later, I just didn't feel up to it.

Movies and TV Shows

What I did do this week was watching a lot of Korean dramas! I found a new favourite. Are You Human Too? is such an incredible show! It's about a robot who has to step in the shoes of his human counterpart so no one realises the human is in a coma. I highly recommend this show! It was the best! I'm still obsessed with it!

I also started watching When Stars Land, haven't finished it yet but I'm somehow not as gripped by that show as other kdramas have in the past. That's why I started watching Uncontrollably Fond yesterday and I'm really enjoying it!

What did you read or watch recently?

As always please leave some recommendations on what I should read or watch next! 

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Stacking the Shelves: Christmas and New Year's Eve Book Haul

Stacking the Shelves is a meme co-hosted by Reading Reality and Tynga's Reviews (the image above belongs to these blogs too). Each week bloggers share the books they got.

On New Year's Eve we exchange most of our presents. I did get one book on Christmas Eve, Michelle Obama's biography but sadly it was in Dutch (I hate reading translated books in Dutch) so I just let my mom have it instead. 

And I also received three Secret Santa books, two from my wonderful Broke and Bookish Secret Santa and one from my bestie!

1. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell 

2. Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami

3. The Surface Breaks by Louise O'Neill 

I got this gorgeous hardcover at my friends Secret Santa party which was a lot of fun!

Here are the books I got on New Year's Eve from my family along with Exploding Kittens:

4. Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

5. Skyward (Skyward #1) by Brandon Sanderson 

I'm really excited to read all of these! Thank you everyone for getting me these lovely gifts!

Which books did you recently get? Have you read any of the books mentioned above or are you planning to? Leave your thoughts down below!


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Can't Wait Wednesday: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors by Sonali Dev

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting On Wednesday hosted at Breaking the Spine.

Award-winning author Sonali Dev launches a new series about the Rajes, an immigrant Indian family descended from royalty, who have built their lives in San Francisco...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that only in an overachieving Indian American family can a genius daughter be considered a black sheep.

Dr. Trisha Raje is San Francisco’s most acclaimed neurosurgeon. But that’s not enough for the Rajes, her influential immigrant family who’s achieved power by making its own non-negotiable rules:

·       Never trust an outsider

·       Never do anything to jeopardize your brother’s political aspirations

·       And never, ever, defy your family

Trisha is guilty of breaking all three rules. But now she has a chance to redeem herself. So long as she doesn’t repeat old mistakes.

Up-and-coming chef DJ Caine has known people like Trisha before, people who judge him by his rough beginnings and place pedigree above character. He needs the lucrative job the Rajes offer, but he values his pride too much to indulge Trisha’s arrogance. And then he discovers that she’s the only surgeon who can save his sister’s life.

As the two clash, their assumptions crumble like the spun sugar on one of DJ’s stunning desserts. But before a future can be savored there’s a past to be reckoned with...

A family trying to build home in a new land.

A man who has never felt at home anywhere.

And a choice to be made between the two.

-- Goodreads.com description -- 

As you might know, I want to try and read more diverse books. I love Pride and Prejudice retellings, so this is exactly my type of book! It also doesn't hurt that the cover is absolutely gorgeous!

Have you read this book or are you planning to? Leave your thoughts down below!

Which books are you excited to read? Recommendations are always welcome!

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Sunday Post #48

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer (image above belongs to @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer). It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. 

Life

I've been ill this weekend, terrible throat ache and headaches. I hope to get better soon! Last week has been stressful but I do enjoy teaching, even if it's Dutch.

Blog and books

I read a chapter of Artificial Condition and I posted a Cant' Wait Wednesday post. I didn't have the time to do much else.

Movies and TV Shows

I watched Pinocchio last week a Korean drama about becoming a reporter and what being a reporter actually means. I also started watching Doctors and Good Morning Call.

What did you read or watch recently?

As always please leave some recommendations on what I should read or watch next! 

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Can't Wait Wednesday: The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted at Wishful Endings, to spotlight and talk about the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. It's based on Waiting On Wednesday hosted at Breaking the Spine.

A sweeping historical novel about a dancehall girl and an orphan boy whose fates entangle over an old Chinese superstition about men who turn into tigers.

When 11-year-old Ren's master dies, he makes one last request of his Chinese houseboy: that Ren find his severed finger, lost years ago in an accident, and reunite it with his body. Ren has 49 days, or else his master's soul will roam the earth, unable to rest in peace.

Ji Lin always wanted to be a doctor, but as a girl in 1930s Malaysia, apprentice dressmaker is a more suitable occupation. Secretly, though, Ji Lin also moonlights as a dancehall girl to help pay off her beloved mother's Mahjong debts. One night, Ji Lin's dance partner leaves her with a gruesome souvenir: a severed finger. Convinced the finger is bad luck, Ji Lin enlists the help of her erstwhile stepbrother to return it to its rightful owner.

As the 49 days tick down, and a prowling tiger wreaks havoc on the town, Ji Lin and Ren's lives intertwine in ways they could never have imagined. Propulsive and lushly written, The Night Tiger explores colonialism and independence, ancient superstition and modern ambition, sibling rivalry and first love. Braided through with Chinese folklore and a tantalizing mystery, this novel is a page-turner of the highest order. 

-- Goodreads.com description -- 

This sounds like a diverse and original story and I would like to read more Asian inspired books this year, so this looks like a good book to start with.

Have you read this book or are you planning to? Leave your thoughts down below!

Which books are you excited to read?

I'm in need of Asian literature recommendations!

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Sunday Post #47

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer (image above belongs to @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer). It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. 

Life

Life has been crazy this week, absolutely insane! Everything I had planned had to be changed. I'm part of a new project which requires me to substitute teachers in three schools, when no one I can substitute is ill, I co-teach in one school. So, on Monday, I had a new co-teaching schedule which I was really happy to start but during my third lesson I was pulled out of class and had immediately had to go to another school to start teaching Dutch the next day, fulltime until the end of the schoolyear. I knew something like this could happen but not so soon and not only Dutch lessons (as you know I studied English and Spanish). This means I have to put a lot more time and work in my lesson preparations. I had to contact the teacher I have to substitute and that turned out the be the most problematic of all. I had to go to her house which can't be reached by public transportation and is about an hour away from my home. When I got there I received a huge stack of tasks that still needed correcting dating from September, October, November and December. She just told me I had to do it. This will take me several days to correct while I didn't even give the assignment in the first place. I let the school know and the principal will decide on Monday what I have to do with that.

Also, the fifth and sixth grade do not have books but only chapters they receive from the teacher with as little text as possible on it. I didn't receive corrections of her course and was told to look it up on the internet.

On Monday I have to teach 8 hours of Dutch and then I have to hurry and go teach my Spanish evening class, will be home at 23:30. I'm so not ready to that, urgh!

Blog and books

I didn't read anything this week but I did post my December book haul in my latest Stacking the Shelves post!

Movies and TV Shows

I forgot to mention I watched and loved Still Alice and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri last week.

This week I watched the kdrama W and LOVED it! Such an amazing show about cartoon characters that get involved in the real world. I highly recommend this one!

I started watching the kdrama Pinocchio and I believe I will enjoy this as well. The only movie I watched was Mamma Mia 2 and I didn't enjoy it as much as the first one, it didn't really have a story to tell.

What did you read or watch recently?

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Stacking the Shelves: December 2019 Book Haul

Stacking the Shelves is a meme co-hosted by Reading Reality and Tynga's Reviews (the image above belongs to these blogs too). Each week bloggers share the books they got.

I started reading again in December and I purchased a lot of books as well!

1. The Dry (Aaron Falk #1) by Jane Harper 

2. The End of the Affair by Graham Greene

The next five books are e-books:
3. Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren

4. Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley 

5. To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before #1) by Jenny Han

6. The Old Kingdom Collection (Sabriel, Lirael, Abhorsen, Clariel) by Garth Nix

7. Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway

8. The Boy on the Bridge (The Girl With All the Gifts #2) by M.R. Carey

9. Melmoth the Wanderer by Charles Robert Maturin

Love this editions!

10. Shadow of The Fox (Shadow of the Fox #1) by Julie Kagawa 

11. Birdsong (French Trilogy #2) by Sebastian Faulks

12. Inside the O'Briens by Lisa Genova

13. Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly 

14. Dreams of Joy (Shanghai Girls #2) by Lisa See 

15. All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries #1) by Martha Wells 

Loved this novella, which is why I immediately got the second e-book as well!

16. Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries #2) by Martha Wells

17. Bright We Burn (The Conqueror's Saga #3) by Kiersten White 

18. The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) by N.K. Jemisin 

Which books did you recently get? Have you read any of the books mentioned above or are you planning to? Leave your thoughts down below!


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Sunday Post #46

The Sunday Post is a weekly meme hosted here @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer (image above belongs to @ Caffeinated Book Reviewer). It’s a chance to share news ~ A post to recap the past week on your blog and showcase books and things we have received. Share news about what is coming up on our blog for the week ahead. 

Life

This is the first Sunday Post of the new year! I hope everyone is having a great 2019 so far! My grandmother was able to join us on New Year's Eve after all but we did experience some trouble getting her here. She lives with her sister on the third floor of an apartment complex and the elevator didn't work on New Year's Eve, so they wouldn't have been able to get down. Luckily the problem was fixed in about 30 minutes but I did panic at first.

I can't say the Christmas holidays have been as relaxing as I hoped they would be and tomorrow I have to start teaching again. I wish I had another week where I could just read and relax without having to deal with any problems but that's almost never the case.

Blog and books

I finished The Mad Ship by Robin Hobb and I loved it! I haven't read anything else this week but I did manage to post my top ten favourite books of 2018 and most anticipated reads of 2019.

I also started to catch up on comments and commenting back, I still have a lot to go through but I did make progress! I'm sorry it's taking me so long to get back to you but life just gets in the way. I miss the free time I had while I still studying.

Movies and TV Shows

I am currently watching and enjoying She Was Pretty. Netflix put a lot of kdramas online this week and I'll have a lot to watch in the future!

I also watched some Netflix Christmas movies and the three Hobbit films as I had only watched the first one before. The first one is still my favourite, I somehow wasn't that impressed with the second and third instalments.

What did you read or watch recently?

As always please leave some recommendations on what I should read or watch next! 

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Top Ten Most Anticipated Books of 2019

Lots of amazing books will be released in 2019. This is the top ten of my most anticipated books this year! These are in no particular order

1. King of Scars (Nikolai Duology #1) by Leigh Bardugo 

Nikolai was my favourite character in the Grisha trilogy! Glad to read more of him!

2. 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne

The Hating Game is one of my favourite books and my perfect comfort read. Can't wait to read Sally Thorne's next book!

3. Bloodwitch (The Witchlands #3) by Susan Dennard

Aeduan is my favourite character in the series, so happy to read his story next! I ship him and Iseult so much!

4. The Wicked King (The Folk of the Air #2) by Holly Black

5. Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle #3) by Jay Kristoff

Love this series so much! Can't wait to read this book!

6. The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War #2) by R.F. Kuang

7. The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

8. The Kingdom of Copper (The Daevabad Trilogy #2) by S.A. Chakraborty 

9. The Bride Test by Helen Hoang

10. Unmarriageable by Soniah Kamal

I can never resist a Pride and Prejudice retelling!



What new releases are you looking forward to reading this year? 

As always please leave some recommendations on what I should read or watch next! 

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