Reviews From A Dreamer

Title: Roomies

Author: Christina Lauren

Format: Ebooks/ Scribd
Publication Date: December 5th, 2017

Marriages of convenience are so...inconvenient.

For months Holland Bakker has invented excuses to descend into the subway station near her apartment, drawn to the captivating music performed by her street musician crush. Lacking the nerve to actually talk to the gorgeous stranger, fate steps in one night in the form of a drunken attacker. Calvin Mcloughlin rescues her, but quickly disappears when the police start asking questions.

Using the only resource she has to pay the brilliant musician back, Holland gets Calvin an audition with her uncle, Broadway’s hottest musical director. When the tryout goes better than even Holland could have imagined, Calvin is set for a great entry into Broadway—until his reason for disappearing earlier becomes clear: he’s in the country illegally, his student visa having expired years ago.

Seeing that her uncle needs Calvin as much as Calvin needs him, a wild idea takes hold of her. Impulsively, she marries the Irishman, her infatuation a secret only to him. As their relationship evolves and Calvin becomes the darling of Broadway—in the middle of the theatrics and the acting-not-acting—will Holland and Calvin to realize that they both stopped pretending a long time ago?

In 2017 I did a reading resolutions and I didn't complete a single one of them. Where 2017 was a bad year for me, 2018 was even worse. And I can't promise 2019 will be any better, but I am going to try. I miss reading and blogging. Now, these may seem a bit steep and some might even say I am setting myself up to fail, but away we go...

Reading Goals:

Read 50 books this year - Though my goodreads says 40, I just hate seeing it say that I am *insert number* books behind. It gives me anxiety, so I set it lower than I am wanting to do. This may not seem like a challenge for some of you, but for me it is 40 more than I read last year. Yes, I only read 10 books last year.

Read at least one classic this year -This has been on my reading resolutions forever and I have yet to actually do it. I am not going to lie. Classics don't appeal to me. (please don't shoot!) I know I would probably enjoy it once I got there, but I can't force myself to actually try. I am going to this year. Try that is. Emma maybe. Not Little Women. I know that movie is coming out, but by now I know the entire story inside and out without even having to read it.

Read 2 non-fiction a month -So this is split into 2 parts. One of these books must be a writing book. Something to import my writing skills. The second can be anything from a self improvement books, a health book, a biography, anything as long as it is listed as nonfiction.

Read at least 5 books with 500+ pages - So this list is mainly a copy of 2017, but this one still stands. I have so many books that I won't pick up because they re massive.

Finish up at least 5 already started series - I might do another blog post listing said series that need to be finished. I am on so many last books and some I am expecting to abandon, just because its been so long.

Blog Goals:

Review at least one book a week - I would like to get back to posting reviews on Thursdays.

Back into memes - I love to Top Ten Tuesdays and Waiting on Wednesdays. But there for awhile it was all I was doing, without any reviews, and it felt like a cop out, so I stopped. So with the reviews back, I do plan on getting the memes back as well.

Comment on at least 5 reviews on different pages a week - I am REALLY bad at this. I read reviews on other pages all the time, but rarely do I ever comment. And as a blogger I know that we love comments! Chalk it up to me being a shy introverted person or whatever, it needs to stop. I want to connect with my fellow bloggers more.

Connect with more authors - This one isn't just for here. I would love to do more author interviews and things like that. But I have begun writing a book and have an author website I am working on. Connecting with more authors would really help with that process.

That is all I have for the resolutions for right now. I am going to list the challenges I will be doing in the year 2019:

Join Hot Listens and Caffeinated Reviewer for the 7th year of audiobook fun. Whether you are new to audiobooks or a junkie like me, I hope you join us for the 2019 Audiobook Challenge.

This is another one that I tried back in 2017 and 2018 and failed each time. Though I did finish 8 in 2018 I aimed too high for 15-20.

I am not making that mistake this year. Though I do want to do the 15-20, I will be aiming for Stenographer which is 10-15. I tend to listen to auidobooks when I do other things, like workout or play video games, I am writing a lot more and that is one task I cannot listen to an audiobook to do.

This is a reading challenge that is for the New Adult Book Club on Goodreads. I am doing the easy verison, which is reading/listening to one book of the alphabet, which they have the categories for the letters listed in the book. I will probably do a list of the ones I have chosen to do when I actually read some of the books for it.

Ok, so that is the only ones I am doing for right now. Now I do plan to participate in read-a-thons, when I can, but those will be in a separate post.