June turned into a month of rereading, devouring audiobooks, and the quick gratification of short stories and novellas. In the end, I finished 9 books in June, totaling 3200 pages. This brings the average June book to 356 pages per book. Additionally, there was also 1 DNF. I put that book aside after 90 pages (28%). Fortunately, that was the…

May felt like a return to an old reading habit. Up until now, I hadn’t read many thrillers or mysteries this year, but that suddenly changed this month. In total, I devoured six books within those genres, five of them as audiobooks. Not all of them were equally successful when it came to ratings, but I genuinely enjoyed the experience…

April was a bit of a month of ups and downs on the reading front. When I look back on those weeks, I mainly remember many days when I barely read and, to be honest, didn’t really feel like picking up a book. Part of that was probably due to my resolution to finally take some older books off my…

March turned out to be an exceptionally strong reading month, and above all one filled with books that will stay with me in different ways. I started the month by finishing a buddy read of a book I had already read ten years ago. Once again, it proved to be a massive hit, which was also a lovely confirmation that…

After that ending of Wayward, it was immediately clear that the final book in this trilogy was going to be intense. My colleague and I didn’t hesitate for a second before diving into The Last Town. And yes, “intense” is definitely the right word! Blake Crouch – The Last Town (Wayward Pines #3) ★★★★ Genre: Science Fiction / Thriller /…

Sometimes it is not so much a question of whether you read a sequel, but simply when. After the complete WTF-ending of Pines, it was immediately clear to both my colleague and me that we wanted to keep going. We did have to wait a few days to get our hands on the sequel, but once we could start Wayward,…

Sometimes the best reading experiences happen entirely by accident. Pines was not on my immediate TBR at all, but when a colleague mentioned she had started reading it and became so engrossed that she nearly missed her train stop on the way home, my curiosity was piqued. I have had the entire trilogy sitting on my e-reader for ages, waiting…

Ever since I first read the Dutch translation of Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier years ago, I’ve been meaning to continue the Sevenwaters series. However, given how much time has passed since that first read, I wanted to revisit the story before continuing, this time in its original English. An impromptu buddy read with a few people online…

February turned out to be a somewhat more difficult reading month. Not so much because I didn’t read much, but mainly because several books I had chosen with fairly positive expectations ended up being more disappointing than enjoyable. As a result, I found myself deciding not to finish books quite often this month, sometimes even after I had already read…