Hello and welcome to my monthly Wrap Up / Recap / Round up post!
BOOKS I READ
I actually think I did pretty good this month! I read 7 books and all of them were ranging from pretty good to excellent.
The Maze Runner by James Dashner | 3.5 stars
Broken Arrows by Chelsey Butler | 3.5 stars (review coming soon)
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas | 5 stars
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins | 4 stars
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins | 4 stars
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins | 3 stars (review coming soon)
Poison by Sarah Pinborough | 3.5 stars (review coming soon)
BOOK HAUL
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
Before I go to sleep by S. J. Watson
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher
Matched by Ally Condy
Forever by Maggie Stiefvater
Ultraviolet by RJ Anderson
FUN STATS
Rating average: 3.79
Goodreads Challenge: I’ve read 18 of 52 books and am therefore 1 book ahead of challenge! Yay!
Books Read: 7
Total number of pages read: 2488
Total number of posts: 29 (wow!)
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DNF Reviews | Wherein I say my opinion on DNF Reviews
Cover Changes {The Movie Edition} | Wherein I compare several movie covers to their original book covers
Followers | Wherein I talk rant about the importance of followers
BOOKISH/BLOG NEWS
In case you haven’t noticed, I did the A to Z Blogging Challenge this month! And I completed it! It was actually harder than I expected. When we were at letter O or something, I actually thought that the alphabet would never end… But it was also a lot of fun to do!
This month I also did my first buddy read! Or is it read-a-long? I’m no sure… What’s the difference? Anyways! I read the whole Hunger Games trilogy with Christine over at Readerly Musings. It was so much fun! And it turns out buddy-reading is a great motivation to read some books you might be having difficulties with. And we were both scared of the hunger games hype, so we ended up reading them together.
Because of the A to Z Challenge I didn’t do any memes this month and it turns out, I really miss some of them! I can’t wait to do a top 10 Tuesday this week and maybe even a couple of others!
PERSONAL NEWS
The new Uni semester has officially started. It’s kind of exciting, but also kind of boring, like always… The fun part of the new semester is that I started a bunch of new activities. Actually all of them have to do with dancing by some weird coincidence… So I started Jazz dance, Latin dance and I’m going to my first Salsa class today! Excitement!
This semester I have also set a goal of becoming more social. I have been socially awkward all my life and I am actually fine with spending most of my evenings alone at home, but the fear of dying alone has grown stronger! Ok, I’m overreacting. A bit. So I’ve decided from the beginning of the semester that I will be more sociable and this last week I actually managed it! I went to a party with someone I barely knew and a bunch of other people I had never seen in my life and at that point it hit me. Nobody knew me at that party and nobody would judge me, think I’m acting ridiculous etc etc, whatever I did. So I tried to push myself to talk to a lot of people and dance and whatnot, and it turns out… I actually had fun! Didn’t expect that one! So I went to two more parties (in one freaking week!) and I tried to keep this act which has led to me meeting a whole lot of new people and having fun. Plus having ridiculous anxiety problems every day, but I hope these will go away… So, yeah! I hope to keep this up in the weeks to come!
How was your (reading) month?
Nadia Reads 
Well done for going to the parties. I have problems with social situations and anxiety too, so I feel for you! I’ve just bought Throne of Glass, so I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
Haha! Lol! I feel kind of weird getting congratulations for a party, but I really am always really really shy at parties… And I hope you love throne of glass!!!
Yay! We’ve completed the A-Z Challenge! *throws arms in air* My month was really good. I’ve posted 66 times on my blog, and I don’t know how many books I read, *laughs* but I do know that it was a lot. I see you’ve read some amazing books! ;D
Wow! 66 posts! You probably continued with your normal blog schedule alongside the a-z challenge! Congrats! I didn’t manage to do that.. too much for me.