Kind of a spring book haul

I know it's not even May yet, but I'm still going to call this haul a spring one, partly because I don't think I'm going to buy more books before summer. And partly because it's kind of snowing here in Finland right now. I have bought only four books since my birthday in January, which I'm really happy about actually.

I bought the Fifth Wave and All the Bright Places in March, because I had a couple of gift cards and my local bookstore had 15% off of everything. So yeah, I got books, that I didn't really have to pay for at all. Happy days.

The Fifth Wave by Rick Yancey is a science fiction novel about Earth after I'd presume aliens have invaded it and killed almost all of humanity. The only way to survive is to trust no one, which is what Cassie is trying to do. Then she meets Evan, and has to decide whether she'll trust him to help her find her lost little brother or not. This is all I really know of this book, in addition to the 4,16 average rating on Goodreads, and was all I really had to know to want to read this. It seems interesting, and it was cheap, so I thought I'd give it a try.

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven is about a boy called Finch and a girl called Violet, who meet on the ledge of their school's bell tower, and save each other from jumping. This is a love story, but that's all I want to know. I'd rather see for myself what this is about. A lot of people have been buying this book lately, and I really want to read it soon because of that.

And then, today I went to see if I could use the last 6 euros on my gift card and buy perhaps two books. I actually had a different one I was going to buy than those I ended up buying, because when I found George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four (or 1984), I had to get it instead. I've tried to find this for a while, not too actively searching, but still searching, because I haven't read it and I really want to. It's about a man who lives in a totalitarian world, where everything you do is controlled and watched, Big Brother style.

Then I also got the Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman, which is the reason why I was at the bookstore today. I saw this a while ago when I was just browsing, and went to get it today. It's about a spy, who works for a mysterious Library, which harvests fiction from different realities. The main character, Irene, goes to alternative London, but the book she's after has already been stolen, and she has to find it. I don't know, for some reason this seemed really interesting to me. And the cover's really pretty.

And last, do you want an update on how my annotating books has been going? Well, I'm loving it. I'm currently reading the last Harry Potter book and Red Rising, and underlining and commenting has been so much fun. I'd really recommend for everyone to at least give it a try, because it really makes your books your books. With your comments and thoughts. It's amazing. Though, I know it's not for everybody, and if even the thought of writing in your book gives you anxiety, I'm not going to say you have to do it. :)

The pictures will be unedited for a little while, because my laptop is living its last moments and I had to remove everything from it to get it to work, so I don't have an editing program at the moment. I am planning on getting a new one maybe next summer, though, so it won't be like this for too long I hope.