Update on the Reading Thing

A while back I said that my plan for this year would be to read 50 books, and review all of them on here. You may have noticed that I haven't posted a book review here for several months, and the reality of that is not that I haven't been bothering to post those reviews*, it is simply that I haven't been reading nearly as much as I should have been doing. I'm not trying to make excuses, but things have been occupying my time a lot more than I could have predicted (exams, love life, life in general, laziness, etc.) so  I've not really had that much spare time to actually sit down with a good book (or indeed a terrible book) and read.

*I admit that I have not posted reviews for Catching Fire and Mockingjay from the Hunger Games Trilogy. I did read them, I did enjoy them, but they weren't anything to shout about and I didn't feel like giving a bad review. Also, I'd borrowed the books from a friend so I had to give them back pretty soon after I read them.

 However, my inability to sit and read has changed over the past few weeks. After my last exam, I was able to finish school to go on a supposed study leave with the rest of my year. Since I have nothing to revise for now and usually only one day a week that I tend to spend socialising, I have more free time which I have already taken advantage of. I was given two books for my birthday (thank you!!) which I have already finished and will be reviewing later on today. First though, I need to explain what is going to be happening with this book thing.

Books I've read this year so far: 

• The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
• The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson
• The Abused Werewolf Rescue Group by Catherine Jinks
• The Bermudez Triangle by Maureen Johnson
• Let it Snow by Maureen Johnson, John Green and Lauren Myracle
• The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
• Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
• Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
• Will Grayson Will Grayson by John Green and David Levithan
• Looking For Alaska by John Green**
• An Abundance of Katherines by John Green**
• Paper Towns by John Green**
• 13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
• The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson

** - Books read around Christmas and New Year that I can't remember if I read this year or the very end of last year but I'm counting anyway just in case. 

Books I've bought and intend to read soon: 

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Dracula by Bram Stoker
• Rupture by Simon Lelic
• Birth of a Killer by Darren Shan
• Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
• Click by Bill Tancer***
• Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry***
• Star Trek: Vanguard by David Mack
• Star Trek: Deep Space Nine by Una McCormack
• Nudge by Thaler and Sunstien***
• Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
• Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen 
• Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
• Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy
• Tess of the D'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy
• Summer Fling by Sarah Morgan
• Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth
• Jane Slayre by Charlotte Bronte and Sherri Browning Erwin
• Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
•  Fallen by Lauren Kate 
• Torment by Lauren Kate
• Thud by Terry Pratchett
• Hogfather by Terry Pratchett

*** - Books I've started but not yet finished due to the distraction of other books.

I'll update this list whenever I finish a book.