Hello everyone! Today I come to you with an update. I finished my really short TBR pile for July and since it’s the last day of July I’m posting my TBR list for August! (I probably use way to many exclamation points, but I really am excited XD ) Also one of the books on my TBR list, I’ll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson, I filmed a review for it 2 weeks ago, but since my wifi didn’t work I wasn’t able to post it. When this blog post is online you should be able to watch it on my BookTube channel. With that out of the way lets go on with August’s TBR list!

Kellie’s August TBR List:

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 

Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder

Landline by Rainbow Rowell

Okay, I admit that this TBR list incredibly short once again, but War and Peace is so long and I knew that it would take a really long time. It has always been on my bucket list to read a novel by Leo Tolstoy before i dies. That sounds horribly morbid, but it is true and I’m really looking forward to reading it. Sophie's world is a book that I received for christmas and I though that now would be a good time to take it off the shelf where it was collecting dusk and actually start reading it. Landline is one of the books by Rainbow Rowell that I haven't read so I'm really looking forward to reading it.

A reason why my TBR lists are become shorter than usually lately is that I have had so many school commitments that have taken up so much of my time. Such as the school play and homework. I still need to find time for reading though, so I’m squeezing in some reading sessions whenever I have time, which I admit has not been that much lately. 

So that was my TBR list for August! I hope you liked reeding it and i would love to hear about what is on yours. :)

Lots of love,

Kellie

Reading emotional books

Hello! I've been feeling really bad lately that I haven't been posting that much. I've just finished Percy Jackson's Greek Gods by Rick Riordan and I'm half way through The Importance of Being Earnest and I feel swamped, but I wouldn't help myself from posting something. I'm currently reading I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson and that was part of the inspiration for today's post.

As a reader, I've read many different kids of books and one of the common ones I have read are emotional ones. Even though I read many of them, I'm always affected by them. I have to read a chapter and have a break (about a minute or so, sometimes a couple of days) to process it. I never seem to be able to get over this even though like I already stated I read a lot of them. Even though they are fictional characters and situations, the tears are real. That's the beauty of books. They can illicit an abundance of real emotions. That is both a pro and a con of reading. For now I know that I need to have a little break before I continue to dive into this emotional book.

I don't know if this only happens to me or other readers. I believe that I can be quite an emotional person, but I don't think that that is the reason I feel the emotions so strongly. Books are just so special to me and whenever I read them everything feels so real to me that I have to consciously remind myself that what I'm reading is a made up story, but that doesn't stop the onslaught of emotions.

If you're reading an emotional book, good luck! :)


Lots of love,
Kellie

TBR Pile for July

Hello everyone!
Today's blog post is going to be a short one and its my TBR (to be read) pile for July. I don't even know if I should call it a TBR pile when there are only three books and one isn't even technically a book. I will probably read more books this month, but the two that I need to read are:

• I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
• Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods by Rick Riordan.

I've been meaning to read I'll Give You The Sun ages but now I'm definitely going to read it now. I'm so pumped to start reading it and I have sort of high hopes, because all of the good things I've heard of it. 

I also need to The Importance of Being Earnest for school. I don't know much about it because it's a play and it's quite old. I'm looking forward to it because Oscar Wilde is one of those names I've heard a lot about, so I'm excited to have a read of his play. 

Percy Jackson and the Greek Gods is a book I'm really looking forward to. I've already started a couple chapters and I love it. Percy's jokes make me laugh out loud and I feel very nostalgic reading the series because I read the first one so long ago and I just love the series. It helped me get into reading and I'm looking forward to finishing it.

I hope you like this TBR pile/list. When I finish them I may post a review or post a video on my BookTube, so keep a look put for that. :)

Lots of love,

The Girl With Her Head in The Clouds

aka Kellie