YA Addicted Book Club discussion

Still have a bunch of updating to do before I can post April stats! Love having the stats but have been so lazy about keeping up with them

Partly that's why I don't track stats anymore :D

Totally fair! Moving and starting a new job and everything has kind of stopped my extra time to do them! But Ill get there eventually

You started a new job, Brittany? How's that going?

Congratulations on the new job, Brittany :) Do you like it? Is it better than the previous one?

Congrats on the new job, Brittany!

Its crazy? Drove 20 hours to get to my new home, for awhile anyway. Needed to get away from things and get a change of scenery. New job is alright, some of the same issues but I am liking the people Im working with so that helps. Its good to see how other hospitals run also.

Oh wow. that's quite a ways away. I'm glad you like the people you work with though. Bad co-workers can make for a terrible job experience.

April:

11 books and 4548 pages read
5 audio, 5 physical, 1 ebook
1 five star, 4 four star, 4 three star, 2 two star

started and got up to date on one series. Made some progress on some other series as well.

Good stats! How do you like Yona? I started the first tome today and loving it :)

I quite liked the first one, not sure if it was a wrong mood for reading it but I didnt love the second one. Ill try at least one more volume though

Yeah, sometimes it's a roller-coaster with manga (also the same thing I'm experiencing with Korean doramas, recently I've been watching a couple but lost the interest and dropped half-way through).

Finally did a challenge update. Felt like it took forever!

How did you like Dead Silence?

It had a fantastic atmosphere but the book overall was only okay for me. I didn't care about the characters like at all. The setting though was perfect

I still need to update from the middle of June onwards.... the longer I put it off the more daunting it gets!

I felt like this Britt, I've only just updated mine.

Fair! I still haven't really done most of my updates. Its so bad!

Finally updated all my yearly challenges. Everything else I think I am letting go of. Well and I updated my stats and series stuff. Never want to leave it to 19 books again.... too many!

That's ok Brittany. Life is sometimes too busy for the challenges, especially when you started too many. I've also quitted some trackings/stats/updates at some point and felt much better just going with the flow and reading without worrying to update something after.

August

Month Total 3169 pages

How did you like These Violent Delights?

Oooh looks like a good month! What did you think of Girl of Nightmares?? I read that a long time ago, but I do remember that I liked the first book over this one.

I liked These Violent Delights, good narrator helped. Mystery was easy but I liked the flawed characters. Had a lot going on while trying to be a Romeo and Juliet retelling but it worked. Planning on listening to the next one shortly.

Girl of Nightmares was mediocre. The first one was so good. This felt unnecessary. Some interesting bits but not enough ghosts.

Right? I totally agree! I loved the first book so much more!

September Update


2 manga, 10 novels
4516 pages
2 five star, 3 four star, 4 three star, 3 two star

how was botanist's guide?

What'd you think of Blood Sugar? That one sounds really interesting!

How's the These Violent Delight Series? I'm always going back and forth about reading it.

HeatherH wrote: "how was botanist's guide?"

I didnt like it like at all. Took me a month to read, I was bored at 10% and should've just quit but it had potential and should've been something I loved. It just didn't work.

Liliana wrote: "What'd you think of Blood Sugar? That one sounds really interesting!"

So different and worth reading. 3.5 stars for me. Was a good audio too. I think you'd like it

✨ Brianna Raquel ✨ wrote: "How's the These Violent Delight Series? I'm always going back and forth about reading it."

The first one was good and interesting to listen to. The second one was repetitive and unnecessary.

I'm now sitting at 99 books read this year. Next one I finish brings me to my goal for the year

Wow! That's amazing Britt. Well done. I'm hoping to get to 100 this year. If I do it'll be the first time in about 8 years.

@Brittany Wow! That's amazing and there are almost 3 more months to go :)

Got to my 100 books of the year and at 34541/35000 pages wise so I'll take it!

That's awesome Brittany! Congrats!! I'm sure you'll hit your page count goal pretty soon here!

Congratulations! That's so great you hit the goal :)

In October I finished all of 4 books so quite a low reading month for me.

1902 pages
2 three stars, 1 four star, 1 five star
1 horror, 1 space opera/sci fi, 1 UF, 1 YA fantasy

We all have those months. But almost 2000 pages in a month isn't too bad! Which was your favorite? It looks like you enjoyed them all to one degree or another.

That we do! I had another one almost finished in October so its a little more reading but not a ton. Spooky things and video games took up some reading time!

Best book was Feed but all of them were solid books. Waiting on my hold for book two of Rivers of London, doing a series read with another group. Loved getting back to the Confederation books, was so excited to find Valors Trial and the next book at book sale. I don't love a lot of sci fi but I really enjoy this series, its military space opera type, not a ton of techno babble and just fun characters and species.

Feed!!! I love Feed so damn much. It was such an amazing book. It absolutely broke my heart.

Congrats on reaching your goal!

Kayleigh {K-Books} wrote: "Feed!!! I love Feed so damn much. It was such an amazing book. It absolutely broke my heart."

Right?! Its been awhile since a book made me want to cry that badly!

That's good to hear, Brittany! I'm excited to read that one after just having finished Into the Drowning Deep!

Though the list is not long, it's very diverse! Great choice of books this month and you all made me interested in maybe reading Feed, it's way out of my usual genres and seems to be really scary.

Thanks Elena! It was definitely a diverse group of books! I think you'd be okay with Feed, its horror because of zombies and well there are lots of those. But its also bloggers trying to get the truth out there and other representations of the news. And it has great characters that feel pretty darn real.

Great, I decided to add it to my TBR :)

Elena wrote: "Great, I decided to add it to my TBR :)"

I don't read horror and I loved Feed. I would say it more like an adult dystopia kind of book. That's what I logged it as on my blog.

Oh that's nice to hear from a person who also doesn't read horror. Thanks Kay.