Reading challenge of 2017

Link for it here http://www.helmet.fi/fi-FI/Tapahtumat_ja_vinkit/Vinkit/Helmetlukuhaaste_2017(115505) . Scrolling it down you can find the list in English, Swedish and Russian as well which is very cool.

I'll probably gear my reading list towards this challenge since I'm hoping to broaden my book horizon. I'm used to reading safe books I know I'll love and I miss being a kid who just devoured everything. With the list everyone can join me and share tips for what books you feel fills which categories. Politic one I thought was going to be hard for me but my dad gave me a book to read about our old president, Kekkonen. He was an avid fisher and hunter so that is what the book focuses on but there should be some tidbits of what was happening in Finland from mid 50s to early 80s.

Some will be tricker than others of course and lots of books can fit more than one category. Kekkonen for example could fit the part of book with pictures as well. I was hoping to read my pictured Narnia chronicles for it though, it's been on my bookshelf for years now. I might also have to finally read Sofia's choice as it's from a writer I've only read one book from before.

All this just gets me excited for the New Year. May it be better than 2016 as it was quite tough for us when it comes to losing our icons. Hopefully personally New Year is going to be amazing for everyone. I'll be seeing you all when I'm done reading my first book of the year, whether it's the book about late president or magical world of Narnia, hopefully it's a great one to start of the reading adventure!

Blog update

This is a different kind of post as my normal book reviews but it's been a while since I posted anything here so figured I'd update it a little. Around the time of my last book review my books started piling up and after a while I knew I'm not going to review all of them. Just no time or interest really. I didn't know which books to do though so I kept pushing it back and back and you can see what happened. I read a lot of lovely books this years. If you want to see my full list my username on Goodreads is also Kupari. I challenged myself there to read 52 books this year and only managed 41. I'm still happy because most of the books I finished were great. I also managed to weed out books I'll never read again which means little less chaos on my bookshelves.

This year I'll take part on another book challenge. On 30th so in two days, book list will be announced and I'll try reading as many books as I can that fit the list. It's organized by certain Finnish library group I think and this is my first year participating. To give you a better idea here are few things from this year's list.

1. Book about food
2. Book were people fall in love
3. Book that is not written in your mothertongue.
4. Book about libraries.
5. A play
6. A children's book
7. Book written by African writer

List goes on to 50 so there is lots of themes and books that will broaden my reading world. All I know from the 2017 challenge is a teaser that showed a bride so maybe we'll have read a book about marriage? Will be interesting to see. I hope to bring you guys with me to this journey and maybe I can even get book recommendations for some of the tough parts of the list.

In any case I hope everyone has a happy new year and we'll see again next year!