1/12: First read of the year

It is the first of December! The church bell that rings every first day of the month went off about an hour ago. It's been a while since I heard it, because I've been working so much.

I decided to jump back into this writing thing again. I saw Malaysia on my blog stats, and my other half admitted it was him, and when he said "I just missed your writing" I thought it was a really sad thing to hear.

However I am not going back to my personal blog. Maybe not yet, maybe not ever, but who knows? Meanwhile, I am going to try writing as much as I did back then, and I shall start by doing the December Book Challenge here :)

1st December: First Read Of The Year

Maybe Someday! 
This was my first Colleen Hoover book. I bought it on my 19th birthday back in September last year and only got to read it on New Year's Day :p

Booktube has been raving about CoHo and her books since forever, and that was precisely why I picked it up. That, and because I'd wanted to try New Adult: books that have characters aged 18 to mid 20's, that cater to an audience of this age range too.

It was a new thing for me, as I usually read Young Adult, books set in high school, books with characters 17 or below. I am 20, and sometimes I thought the protagonists were too immature for me, despite just 3 years difference.

I really liked Maybe Someday, even though it is a book about music and I am not musically talented in any way. The romance wasn't sudden or random, if you know me and how much I hate books that have such.

There's also a soundtrack that goes with this book; the lyrics in it are lyrics of actual songs, which you could listen to while reading. If that doesn't make this book so unique and memorable I'm not sure what does :p

Also, tears.
This book gave me tears.

After reading this I bought all 3 books in her Slammed series, alas I did not like the first one as much as Maybe Someday. Maybe because Slammed came before Maybe Someday so her writing wasn't as good as the latter yet??? Who knows.

I followed Colleen Hoover on Instagram, and one day she was telling us 20 facts about herself or something, and she declared how much she hates cats. This is pathetic but I decided to just not read her books anymore after that eek.

There's been Ugly Love, Confess, November 9, and maybe a part of me wants to read them but sometimes the author as a person really affects my reading. Yes, this is really pathetic. But I'm not sure, maybe I'll try again with her newer books someday, but I won't exactly read them all :)

And there you have it! The very first book I read in 2015.

All this typing felt really good. I am looking forward to the next 30 days of this book challenge already :)