May Wrap-up part 1

So this month's been quite succsessful in terms of reading. I've finished 7 books (wow) and I'm reading 8th one, which is The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden.
 The first book of the month May was The Winger by Andrew Smith. I gave it 5 stars out of 5 on goodreads and added it to my favourites shelf so i don't need to say how i loved it. This is not a review so I won't go into details, but i'll just say one thing: don't judge a book by it's cover. And by that I mean just don't! And prepare yourself for a big shock!

The second book was The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz. It's about a boy called Oscar who is a overweight nerd Dominican living in New Jersey with his mom and sister. He belives that his family is haunted by the fukú - a curse that's been in his family for several generations. I liked this book, but the problem was that there was a lot of Spanish which I can't speak and also the writing style was quite hard for me to understand, but as I got deeper in the book I got used to it and by the end I was actually enjoying it! I gave it 3 stars, but I think that if i read it in czech I'd give it more (At least it made me realize that my english is not as good as I'd like to think ;) )

After that I read a duology called If I Stay by Gayle Forman. The first book's narrator is seventeen ­year-old Mia, who's the only survivor of a car accident. Both her parents and her brother died and as she's having an out-of-body experience she has to decide whether to stay or go. The sequel called Where she went is narrated by Mia's boyfriend Adam who tells what happend after the first book. I know that this is a spoiler but as the second book was already released it's quite obvious that Mia survived ...

 

I almost forgot to say that a movie based on the first book is going to be released on 22nd of August (directed by R.J Cutler).
That's everything for today - I decided to split it in two parts, because it would be a long post :)
Have a great time!