Emma Denwille: 2017

Sunday, January 1, 2017

Book challenge 2017

Happy New years guys!!!

I hope this year brings you only joy and happyness, and just everything you want.

And for those who made a list of goals to achieve till the next 31st of December - good luck to you all!

Well, I am certainly the kind of girl who makes couple of challenges for herself. While I'm still finalising the list of my must-do things, I present to you one challenge I always take up - the book challenge.

Now a thing about me - I absolutely love reading books, and I absolutely love buying books. I have almost 400 books of my own! I seriously can't be let in a cheap bookstore - the last time I did it only proves this fact. I had extra twenty minutes before my meeting, so I decided to look through one cheap bookstore in hope to find a travel book for my aunt. As soon as I came inside, I saw books which were sold for one euro, two, and even thirty euro cents! So I started searching for great deals, and I only woke up when five minutes were left, and I was standing with five books in my hands... Well, I quickly made a decision and walked out with three new books....

Unsurprisingly, a pretty big chunk of the books I own I haven't read. And some of them I have tried multiple times to, but failed. So every year I make a list of twelve books I have owned for more than a year and still haven't read. And, well, try to fix that!

Here is the list for this year, and heck, it will be pretty rough:

*as I will be reading some of them in Lithuanian, I can't exactly tell you the correct name of the novel

1. Jeannette Walls - The Glass Castle

2. Susanne Mischke - Nixenjagd (The Mermaid Hunt)

3. Markus Zusak - The Book Thief

4. Gaynor Arnold - Girl in a Blue Dress

5. Michael Barbery - Elegance of a Hedgehog

6. Malgorzata Saramonowicz - Lustra (Mirrors)

7. Tom G. Palmer - Peace, love and liberty

8. Alberto Varquez Figueroa - Tuareg

9. Herta Müller - The Hunger Angel

10. Jean M. Auel - The Clan of the Cave Bear

11. Michael Connelly - Lost Light

12. Sébastien Japrisot - Trap for Cinderella

So that is it for today! I hope you enjoyed my post and I encourage you to make your book challenge list,

xoxo Emma

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"There is darkness in light, there is pain in joy, and there are thorns on the rose"

- Cate Tiernan

"People cry, not because they're weak. It's because they've been strong for too long"

- Johnny Depp

"It's not the face, but the expressions on it. It's not the voice, but what you say"

- Stephenie Meyer, "The Host"

"Being good is something that one must choose over and over again, every day, throughout the day, for the rest of one's life"

- Cate Tiernan, "Immortal Beloved"

"You don't love a girl because of beauty. You love her because she sings a song only you can understand"

- L. J. Smith, "Secret Vampire"

"You need to know it's your actions that will make you a good person, not desire"

- Matthew Quick, "The Silver Linings Playbook"

"If you believe in people, people come through"

- How I Met Your Mother

"They say important things in life isn't the destination. It's the journey. The challenges you face along the way, the unexpected twists and turns. The disappointments you overcome"

- Modern Family

"Or that I couldn't stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too. Is that love?"

- Jennifer Echols, "Forget You"

"If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart, I'll stay there forever"

- Winnie the Pooh

"Life is about courage and going to the unknown"

- The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

"Unfinished. Gaudi to his credit never gave up on his dream, but that's not usually how it goes. Usually, it isn't a speeding bus, that keeps church from being built. Most of the time it's just too difficult, or too expensive, or too scary. It's only once you stopped that you realize how hard it is to start again. So you force yourself not to want it. But it's always there. Until you finish it, it will always be.... unfinished"

- How I Met Your Mother

"Perhaps there could be no joy on this planet without an equal weight of pain to balance to balance it out on some unknown scale. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached"

- Stephenie Meyer, "The Host"

"If clouds are blocking the sun, there will always be a silver lining that reminds us to keep trying. It hurts to look at the clouds, but it also helps, like most things that cause pain"

- Matthew Quick, "The Silver Linings Playbook"

Mary Elizabeth Frye "Do not stand at my grave and weep"

Do not stand at my grave and weep

I am not there. I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.

I am the diamond glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.

I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you awaken in the morning's hush

I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circled flight.

I am the soft stars that shine at night.

Do not stand at my grave and cry;

I am not there. I did not die.