My 2019 Reading Wrap-Up

Over the past couple of years, I have documented every film that I have watched and reviewed them all using Letterboxd. As a way to motivate myself to read more, I thought I would do the same for what books I have been reading, using Goodreads as a way to set myself a reading challenge every year.

After doubling my goal of 10 books last year (since I went on honeymoon and managed to read a book a day!), I thought I would keep my goal to 20 books this year. However, just missed out on this target, but I was ever so close to making it.

Here’s how my 2019 challenge went, with a short review and rating for each of the books that I read:

Book Review: Everything, Everything

“In the beginning there was nothing. And then there was everything.”

Written by Nicola Yoon and published in 2005, Everything, Everything follows Maddy, a teenage girl who suffers from a rare immunodeficiency disorder which makes her allergic to the world. Having spent her whole life confined to her home, she is cared for by her mother, Pauline, and her carer, Carla, the only two people she has regular contact with. But one day, a moving truck arrives next door. This is when Maddy meets Olly, a tall, lean boy who likes to wear all black. As she begins to communicate with him online, her life begins to change as Olly introduces to her a world full of colour and feelings that she has never experienced before. For the first time ever, she wants something, everything; everything that the world has to offer.

My 2016 Reading Wrap-Up

Over the past couple of years, I have documented every film that I have watched and reviewed them all using Letterboxd.

As a way to motivate myself to read more, I thought I would do the same for what books I have been reading, using Goodreads as a way to set myself a reading challenge.

So, this year I set myself a challenge of reading 18 books, and for the first time since doing so, I have managed to exceed my target, hooray!

Here’s how my 2016 challenge went, with a short review and rating for each of the books: