Summer Biannual Bibliothon 2016

I want to participate in the Summer Biannual Bibliothon 2016. It is a read a thon which will last from july 3 to july 9. You can find all the challenges and rules here . 

I have not participated in many read a thons before, and this is my first Biannual Bibliothon. I don’t think I can finish all of the books on my list. But I will try to read at least two books. We will see. I’m really looking forward to participate in the read a thon.

 

• 1 Read The Group Book – The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

I want to participate in the group read, but I don’t own this book and I don’t really want to read it. So I will skip this challenge. Because I can’t read 5 books in one week.

• 2 Free Choice/ Wild Card Book

Golden Son by Pierce Brown

This is the book I am currently reading. And I want to finish it.

•  3 Read a Book Off of the Host’s List of Recommendations

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

I choose More Happy Than Not from the list. I have wanted to read this book for a while. I hope I have time to start this book.

 

• 4 Read a Book With Your Favorite Mythical Creature

The Moorigad Dragon by Debra Kristi

I had to choose a book I already own. And this was on my kindle. It is free on Amazon. I think this book has something to do with dragons, because of the title. Dragons are cool. All mythical creatures are my favorite, I can’t choose just one.

• 5 Read a Book You’ve Been Putting Off Picking Up

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

So I have been wanting to read this book for so long. It will be starting the read a thon with this book.

• 6 Read a Book from an Author You’ve Never Read Before

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera

I doubled this challenge and chose More Happy than not. It is Adam Salveras first book. And I think it is the only book that is out from him.

• 7 Read a Book in a Different Format than You Usually Read

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman & Jay Kristoff

I doubled this challenge too. I often read both paper books and on my kindle. And I am not new to audiobooks either. So I choose Illumina because how this book is written is different from what I have read before. Every page looks different. And the layout of the book is really cool and  interesting.

2016 The year of big books

I feel like 2016 is going to be the year of big books. This is a list of big books that i want to read in 2016. For me, big books is books that is over 500 pages long. 

Big books I have read so far in 2016:

• Carry on – 528 pages: I feel that this book was not that long, but it is over 500 pages. It was an easy fun read.
• Winter – 824 pages: This is the longest book I have read so far this year. And I loved it.
• City of heavenly fire – 725 pages: I finished this book, but it took me months because I was in a reading slump.

 

Big books I really want to read in 2016:

• Outlander – 896 pages: I’m currently reading this book. I’m really enjoying it.
• Illuminae – 599 pages: I really want to read this book as soon as possible. It looks so interesting.
• Tatiana and Alexander – 559 pages: I want to read this book this summer. It will be on my TBR for July.

• Lady midnight – 698 pages: I want to read this some time in the fall.
• Mistborn The Final Empire – 541 pages: I also want to read this in the fall.
• The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet – 518 pages: I also want to read this in the fall.

 

Big books I might not manage to read in 2016:

• The name of the wind – 662 pages: I have this book on the list. Because it has been sitting on my shelves for so long. And everybody says it is amazing.
• Harry potter and the goblet of fire – 734 pages: This will be a reread for me. I want to read at least one or two HP books every year. I read nr. 3 earlier this year.
• The bane chronicle – 507 pages: This is a collection of eleven short stories. Maybe I’ll read a few of the short stories in 2016 and the rest in 2017.

Review: Red Rising – Pierce Brown

Norwegian: Rød Revolt

Published: 28 January 2014

Genre: Science Fiction, Young Adult, Dystopia

Pages: 382

Rating: ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

English:

Red Rising is a dystopian book where society is divided into groups by color. The highest group The Golds have all the power and control of the lower colors. There are strict rules each group must live by, and they have little free choices in life.

16 year old Darrow is a Red. He has lives his entire life underground on Mars. Where he must work in the mines to dig for Helium-3. They have to mine enough each day to make the quota so that the society is happy, otherwise there will be consequences.

His wife Eo has a secret dream of rebelling against the society. And after she was hanged for singing the forbidden song, it was Darrow who got involved with the resistance group Sons of Ares. He gets the task to infiltrate The Golds. The gods of the society. And the Red is now Rising.

Thoughts :

I like dystopian books, it is one of my favorite genres to read. It was interesting how the author has built up the society, and how it works. In the beginning it was difficult to get into the book. Many new words and names, which made it difficult to distinguish people and places. It also took some time before I realize how the hierarchy worked and how the different colors fit in the society.

This book was very exciting to read, and you never knew what was going to happen on the next page. I buddyread the book with a friend. We talked almost every day about it, about what had happened and what we thought was going to happen.

Red Rising is really an action full book with political and tactical games. I really liked this book.

This was me ….

…. every time this was happening!

 

Norsk: Rød Revolt

Red Rising er en dystopisk bok hvor samfunnet er delt opp i grupper etter farger. Den høyeste gruppen The Golds har all makten og kontrollen over de lavere fargene. Det er strenge regler hver gruppe må leve etter, og de har lite frie valg i livet.

16 år gamle Darrow er en Red. Han har levd hele sitt liv under jorden på Mars. Hvor han må jobber i gruver for å grave etter Helium-3. De som bor der er nødt til å mine nok for kvoten hver dag for samfunnet, ellers får det konsekvenser. Det er et hardt og slitsomt liv.

Hans kone Eo har en hemmelig drøm om opprør mot samfunnet. Og etter at hun ble hengt for å synge den forbudte sangen, er det Darrow som blir fanget opp av motstandsbevegelsen Sons of Ares. Og han får oppgaven om å innfiltrere The Golds.

Tanker:

Jeg liker dystopiske bøker, det er en av mine favoritt sjangere å lese. Det var interessant hvordan forfatteren hadde laget  samfunnet, og hvordan det var bygget opp. I starten var det litt vanskelig å komme inn i boken. Mange nye ord og navn, som gjorde det litt vanskelig å skille personene og stedene. Det tok også litt tid før jeg skjønte hvordan hierarkiet fungerte og de forskjellige fargenes plass i samfunnet.

Denne boka var veldig spennende og du visste aldri hva som kom til å skje på neste side. Jeg leste boka med en venn. Vi snakket nesten hver dag om den, om hva som hadde skjedd og hva vi trodde kom til å skje.

Red Rising er virkelig en action full bok med politisk og taktisk spill. Jeg likte virkelig boken.

June Reads – TBR

1) Finish Read Rising by Pierce Brown

I want to finish reading this book. It is a science Fiction and Dystopian Young Adult book. In the future where the world is not like it is today. And people are living in strict social casts.

Norsk: Rød Revolt

Jeg vil lese ferdig denne boka. Det er en science Fiction og dystopisk bok. Handlingen er i fremtiden der verden ikke er som den er i dag. Og mennesker lever i et strengt samfunn bygd på et kastesamfunn.

 

 

2) Golden Son and Morning Star by Pierce Brown

Book two and three in the Red Rising trilogy. I don’t know if i will finish reading both of these books in June. But I hope to finish book 2.

Norsk: Den Gyldne Sønn

Bok to og tre Rød Revolt trilogien. Jeg vet ikke om jeg kommer til å lese ferdig begge bøkene i juni. Men jeg håper på å lese ferdig bok 2.

 

 

3) We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

This is a book about a boy named Kevin, who murdered 9 people in his high school. The book is written in letter format from Kevin’s mom to his father. Two years after the terrible event.

This book sounds so interesting and dark.

Norsk: Vi må snakke om Kevin oversatt av Kjell Olaf Jensen

Boken handler om Kevin, en gutt som drepte 9 mennesker på sin videregående skole. Boken er skrevet i brevformat fra moren til Kevin til hans far. To år etter den forferdelig hendelsen.

Denne boka høres spennende og mørk ut.