To Read or Not To Read

Here's are the good, the bad and the ugliest books of 2016. THE GOOD: I read a grand total of 42 books this semester! Yay! And they were all good, for the most part. I'm not a super harsh critic on books (except for the ones that I really hate), but I like to think about this: books are entertainment and they are meant to make me happy. If they made me happy, then they did their job. I think all of the books this semester did that to some extent. I'll list a few of my favorites from this semester. This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills was such a fun read. The story follows Sloane, who just moved from New York to Florida, as she finds friends and then finds a reason to show them just how hard she'd fight for them. It takes her on an adventure to find something that her friends lost, and Sloane takes it upon herself to track it down, even if it takes her out of state. I really love this book because I loved the characters and how the adventure developed while Sloane di

I'm going to be quite frank: my to-read shelf has 437 books on it. That's a lot of books. Obviously. But there are definitely a select few I want to read in the very near future, but they're on the shelf for a reason: I still really want to read all of them. For now, here are five books that made the top of the list: The Last Beginning: Lauren James. I read the first book after I had it shipped from Australia because I wanted to read it so badly. Needless to say, I think I'll be doing the same thing for this book sometime in the near future because Lauren James is a British writer and the first book (The Next Together) hasn't even been published in the United States yet. (Um, hello? Publishers? Are you going to get on that please? I need all my other American friends to see how cute Katherine and Matthew are and how AMAZING this book is!) The Last Beginning is the companion to The Next Together, about a girl named Clove who is determined to find her lost re