27 in 27 - update

It's been two months since I had my birthday and I started working on my 27 in 27 list. High time to give you guys a little update! I made some progress with a couple of things (mainly reading and buying books) and I've even managed to finish two of the challenges on the list!

Do the 50 book challenge: 15/50

I've read 15 books these past few months. I've put them in a little list below and added some hearts as a quick rating system. Some of them I have reviewed, some of them I really would like to review here, but I'm unsure if and when that will happen. For most of these books I did write a short review on Goodreads and I've added the links to those reviews to the list below. I you like, you can follow my reviews by following (or befriending) my Goodreads profile.

• Quidditch Through the Ages ♥♥♥
• Vicious ♥♥♥♥♥
• Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them ♥♥♥
• Kiss of Deception ♥♥♥♥
• The Darkest Partof the Forest ♥♥♥
• Seconds ♥♥♥♥
• Locke & Key, Vol 1: Welcome to the Lovecraft ♥♥♥♥
• Through the Woods ♥♥♥
• Old Man's War ♥♥♥♥
• Saga Volume 2 ♥♥♥♥
• Saga Volume 3 ♥♥♥♥
• Saga Volume 4 ♥♥♥♥
• Brave New World ♥♥♥
• Flowers for Algernon ♥♥♥♥
• Graduation Guide for Design Students ♥♥♥

Buy a book in a local/independent bookstore every month

I really like this challenge! It gives me an extra reason to look for new (to me) independent bookshops in Ghent!

The first book I bought was Les Contes de Beedle le Barde (The Tales of Beedle the Bard) by J.K. Rowling. I bought it in french, because I've been wanting to read a french book for ages, but I didn't know what level I can handle. So, I thought reading a children's book was a good idea. I bought it in Limerick, a lovely indy bookshop not far from Ghent-Sint-Pieters train station. So if you missed your train and you have an hour to spare, you should pay it a visit. They have a wide collection Dutch & English books, both fiction and non-fiction and they even had a book case with Swedish books!

The second book I bought was "Joe Speedboot" by Tommy Wieringa at the Paard van Troje yard sale. Normally I don't read much Dutch books, but I want to change that, so I picked up a book I've been meaning to read since for-ever. Language diversification, here I come! ;)

If you know a good indie bookstore somewhere in Belgium or know a book I maybe should buy, let me know in the comments!

Do a 365 days project

This one isn't going so well, mostly because I just don't have the time for making sketches. I've made about 30 sketches, I think, but then I got overwhelmed with other projects and sketching just slipped my mind. I think I will re-phrase this challenge to: make 365 sketches or drawings. This way when I have more free time later this year I can number all my individual sketches and drawings even if they're made on the same day. I also think this would still make a cool project and a nice collection.

Find a day planner that works for me

I've made myself a day planner and after almost three months I'm still very happy with it. I've put this planner together myself and wrote a DIY post about it a while ago.

Watch all the Star Wars movies (marathon style)

I've watched four of the six Star Wars movies, although I didn't marathon them. We've watched the first tree (Episode IV, V & VI) one after the other in February. I did enjoy them and we watched remastered versions so the special effects didn't look too shabby. We recently watched the fourth one (Episode I) and although I liked it when I was 12, I didn't like it this time. I'm not looking forward to seeing the other two movies...

Learn how to silk screen

I've learned how to silkscreen! I took me a while to write about it, but last Wednesday that blogpost finally went online. It's only in Dutch though, sorry! I really liked learning how to screenprint, both semi-automatic on print-screen machines and manual when we printed on textiles. Hopefully I'll be able to do it again somewhere in the future. I think it would be fun to come up with cool t-shirt designs or with a nice art-print (or maybe to print a whole mini-zine in one go! *ideas*).

I'm not doing too bad, I think, considering I've had two very busy months. I hope I can put a little bit more effort in my hobby's and my plans during my internship or at least afterwards during july and august. :)