Quarterly Wrap-Up // October-December 2018

Happy holidays everyone! These past three months have been rather stressful. I'm in my final year of university and have a dissertation to write alongside other essays and assessments, and I don't feel ready. I know I will get it all done and that I will do well, but the difficult part is always the journey of getting there.

Reading Wrap-Up

Links will take you to my review of that book 😊

I read so many good books in October and November, some of my favourites being Broken Things, Astrophysics, the Sidekick Squad series, and the Villains series. My December books were less enjoyable, probably due to a combination of winter blues and having started my uni reading for next semester. But on the whole it's been a good few months. 

• Broken Things by Lauren Oliver - ★★★★★
• An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro - ★☆☆☆☆
• Not Your Sidekick by C.B. Lee - ★★★★☆
• City of Ghosts by Victoria Schwab - ★★★★☆
• Not Your Villain by C.B. Lee - ★★★★☆
• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson - ★★★★★
• Vicious by V.E. Schwab (re-read) - ★★★★★
• Vengeful by V.E. Schwab - ★★★★☆
• Stardust by Neil Gaiman - ★★★☆☆
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman - ★★☆☆☆
• Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen - ★☆☆☆☆
•  The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe - ★☆☆☆☆
• William Wilson by Edgar Allan Poe - ★☆☆☆☆
• The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe - ★★★★☆
• The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy - ★☆☆☆☆
• Paper Girls Vol. 5 by Brian K. Vaughan - ★★★☆☆

Post Wrap-Up

• Big Books That You Can Speed Through Effortlessly - Like many people, I'm often put off by a book when it is really big. But for this Top 10 Tuesday post, I talk about some big books where I found the pages absolutely flew by.
• Creepy Books That Aren't Too Scary - As a human marshmallow, I cannot tolerate the horror genre. But for some reason, I LOVE it when my books get creepy. For this post, I talk about my favourite dark (and only mildly unsettling) books.
• Books I'm Voting for in the Goodreads Choice Awards 2018 - The results are finally out! But if you were wondering which lovely books had my vote for this years' Goodreads Choice, check out this post where I share my favourites.
• Favourite Fictional Siblings - Sibling angst is probably my favourite trope. I love reading books that have strong and messy relationships at their core, but for some reason, if those characters are siblings I am instantly sold. In this post I talk about some of the best sibling dynamics I've seen in books, TV, and in podcasts.
• Latest Love // Favourite Films of 2018 - I am far from a film expert, so don't judge me if my tastes seem weird and varying. But I thought December would be the perfect time of year to share some of the best films I've watched in 2018.
• 2018 Book Haul - I bought far too many books this year oops. I broke all of the restrictions I set myself and hoarded as many as I could. I was an unstoppable force. Hopefully I will actually stick to my budget next year.

What have you been reading lately? Have you found any new favourites? Have you read any of the books I read or are any of them on your TBR? Tell me your thoughts!