A Bookish Update

Note: I just want to say a quick thank you to everyone who commented on my last post! You all were so encouraging and helpful. I appreciate it so much!


At the beginning of this year, you might have seen this reading challenge floating around:

I thought it was pretty awesome, so I've been tackling it this year. I've read 12 books, and each of them let me check something off of the list. Here's what I've done so far!

A Book Set in the Future: The Death Cure by James Dashner

 FUTURE. This is the last book in The Maze Runner trilogy. Even though it wasn't my favorite out of the three, I still really enjoyed it. And by "enjoy", I mean I was hyperventilating the majority of the time. I love this series, y'all.

A Book More than 100 Years Old: Tales from Shakespeare by Charles Lamb & Mary Lamb

This was written in 1807, so it's over two-hundred years old. It's a collection of Shakespeare's plays that have been simplified and re-written as prose. I loved it! It's a perfect introduction to Shakespeare's plays. I feel so much more educated now...

A Book that Became a Movie: Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers

This is such an adorable children's classic! So witty and imaginative. The movie is still #1 though, for me. Because Julie Andrews.
 
A Nonfiction Book: Think Biblically by John MacArthur

This book goes through a lot of different issues, and shows what the Bible says about each of those topics. Really great.

A Book Published This Year: Fairest by Marissa Meyer

This book was published in January. Man, who would have believed that such a little book could be so EMOTIONALLY SCARRING?

A Book You Finished in a Day: The Ordinary Princess by M. M. Kaye

On Valentines Day I wanted to read something cutesy, so I picked up this favorite of mine. It's such an adorable little fairy tale! 

A Book Written by Someone Under 30: It Took a War by Emily Ann Putzke

My lovely blogging buddy, Emily, is not only under thirty, but she's also under twenty. #Impressive. This book is so wonderful! I wholeheartedly recommend it.

A Book a Friend Recommended: On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness by Andrew Peterson

A sweet friend in my church and I often do "Book-Swaps", and last month she gave me this one. I was sososo impressed with this book. I'm dying to read the rest of the series!

A Book You Started by Never Finished: Christian History Made Easy by Timothy Paul Jones

 

I've had this book for years, and I've even started it up a couple times, but I never finished it until just recently. It's an incredibly thorough yet simple book on Church History. Really awesome.

A Book that Scared You: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Okay, so this poem didn't scare me, but it was a very eerie and strange story. I had to read it for school, so naturally I thought it was going to be super boring, but it actually rocked.

A Book with Nonhuman Characters: Watership Down by Richard Adams

The characters are very nonhuman in this. Goodness gracious, Watership Down is such a such a great story.

A Book with a One-Word Title: Divergent by Veronica Roth

*FANGIRLS MANIACALLY* I'm laughably late to this band wagon (I even watched the movie first, oops) but wow, guys. Just. Wow. What. (I finished this book today so that's what's wrong with me.)


What are some books that you've read this year? Are you working on a reading challenge, too? Do tell.

love,
Hannah