Im Moment dreht es sich verständlicherweise überall um die besten Bücher des ersten Halbjahrs 2013. Hier könnt ihr meine Top Ten finden, die Krone aber bekommt Jellicoe Road von Melina Marchetta …

Since Pyras and Dracas have spent three months on my tbr-list and I failed to read them, I had a book-buying ban in May. This is my worst imaginable punishment because I’m totally addicted to buying books. Still, somehow I sort of managed to stay true. Three of the following books I had pre-ordered, the other one, my only slip, I got at a flea market …

Coincidentally, there are exactly ten books on my first reads favourites 2013 shelf. They are listed according to the date I read them from January to June …

Momentan steht noch der Juli mit dem stundenlangen Lernen und all den fiesen Klausuren zwischen mir und meinem Urlaub. Da ich nicht so der Typ fürs lange Vorausplanen bin, sondern mich mehr auf das konzentriere, was gerade im Moment am wichtigsten ist, habe ich auch noch überhaupt nicht richtig über meinen Sommer nachgedacht …

I tried to like it. I really did, but The Host also failed to win me over on my second attempt to finish this book. The idea itself had the potential of becoming a gripping, fast-paced sci-fi action thriller, but the execution emphasised all the wrong aspects turning it into an often boring and lengthy tale that focuses on a questionable love triangle propped by flat characters and a story that sometimes seems to move rather backwards instead of getting anywhere at all. The ending could have saved the novel by breaking through my wall of indifference – if the novel had actually ended there.

In May, there was music in the air. The task was to read one book each that somehow fits one of the following media: record, cassette, CD, and MP3. How we interpreted the connection was pretty much up to ourselves, as long as we could come up with somewhat of a decent explanation …

There are so many books that I’d love to read over the summer! Here are the top ten books I just have to read in the next couple of months …