Summer TBR

It's that time of the year again. People are posting their lists of books they want to read this summer. I felt like this was the perfect post for my blog, because I have a lot of books I want to get to in July and August. These are books I've been wanting to get to for ages or books I'm just really excited about. Let's dive straight in!

Stacking the Shelves #2

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted over at Tynga's Reviews. This meme is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in a physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks.

TBR Jar: Pick of the Week

This is a new weekly feature on Charlie Book Fanatic. Every week I will randomly grab a challenge from my TBR jar and based on that, the book I want to read. The week after, I will post a (mini)review, or if I have more to say; a whole review in a separate post, of the book I read in the TBR Jar: Pick of the Week from that week. 

Funnily enough, I got the best challenge ever this week because I bought some books last week that fit this one perfectly. So, this week's challenge is:

Read a classic romance.

I am soooo stoked about this. The two books I wanted to choose from:

Title: Emma
Author: Jane Austen
Series: Standalone
Publisher: Penguin Threads
First Publication: 1815
Genre: Classical romance
Synopsis: Emma Woodhouse is content with her being single. Interfering in the romantic lives of others is her number one delight. But when she attempts to arrange a suitable match for protegee Harriet Smith, everything unravels and her plans have consequences that she never saw coming.
Goodreads | Amazon

Title: Romeo and Juliet
Author: William Shakespeare
Series: Standalone
Publisher: Dover Publications
First Publication: 1597
Genre: Classical romance
Synopsis: Romeo and Juliet tells the story of two star-crossed lovers and the unhappy fate that befell them as a result of a long and bitter feud between their families.
Goodreads | Amazon


For this first week of TBR jarring (it is a word now), I decided to go with the shortest and easiest option. Thus, the book (play) I am going to read, is Romeo and Juliet. 

Honestly, I cannot wait to get started in this one. I already know the complete plotline of this play, but I never actually read it. Exciting!

Do you like classic romances? If so, do you have any favourites? 

Reading More Diversely #1: Indie Authors

Reading More Diversely is an original monthly feature on Charlie Book Fanatic. (That's me!) 

This feature is supposed to be a monthly reading challenge for myself. In this series of posts I will list 5 books/authors that have to do with diversity relating to the subject I chose for that month. In the month following the post I will try to read all of these books/authors. In the next post I will do some mini reviews of the books I read.

The ultimate goal is to look back at the end of the year and to see I have read more diversely. The definition of diversity is different for everyone. For me it is all kinds of things: Books with characters that have mental health issues, that are LGBTQ, that are of colour, switching it up with male/female perspective. The same goes for the authors. 

I do realise lots of people have already touched on this subject, but I never took it seriously. Now, I do and I want to actively expand my horizons and meanwhile maybe motivate other people to do the same with me. 

To go back to the subject of this month; Indie authors. Another term people fill in differently. What I mean by indie authors, are authors who publish their books outside of 'mainstream' publishing. To specify: Outside of the Big Five and other major publishing houses. 

This month I decided to pick 5 books that look interesting to me. So let us dive straight in.

Stacking the Shelves #1

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted over at Tynga's Reviews. This meme is all about sharing the books you are adding to your shelves, may it be physical or virtual. This means you can include books you buy in a physical store or online, books you borrow from friends or the library, review books, gifts and of course ebooks.

Review: Hooked - Allen Wolf

I received a free copy of Hooked by Allen Wolf from by Independent Book Publisher Association (IBPA) in exchange for an honest review.  

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Wow. This book turned out to be something completely different than I expected it to be. It mostly appealed to me because of the cover, but I do not regret reading this book. At all. It was heartfelt, honest and real. I maybe even shed a tear. Or two.

Shawn and his brother Collin have been raised by their grandparents because their actual parents couldn’t deal with Shawn’s autism. Now, Shawn is looking for the love of his life who can take care of him when his grandmother dies. This proves to be quite hard, until he meets the dazzling Violet. Shawn thinks he’s found a potential wife, but Violet turns out to be a prostitute. Because of Shawn’s autism, he doesn’t see that lovely Violet’s auditions actually are hook-ups with clients. And she sure as hell isn’t the one to tell him.