Writing Wrap-Up Total Books Read This Month: 9 Total Books Read this Year: 105 Best Books of the Month: Can I say all of them? Becoming by Michelle Obama was a balm that I chewed through in two days, I adored Premee Mohamed's ghost-ish novella The Apple-Tree Throne (check that out here). Also The Secret History ruined me for… Continue reading December (and 2018) Wrap-Up
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November Wrap Up
Reading Wrap-Up Books read this month: 10 Books still behind in my GoodReads Challenge: 9! I was aiming for 115 this year, and I'm almost at 100. I need to roll up my sleeves and do some serious reading in the next 31 days... Best Books of the Month: So many great ones this month that… Continue reading November Wrap Up
October Wrap-Up
Reading Life: Total Books Read This Month: 6 Best Books Read This Month: Less was incredible, and just finished and enjoyed The Gilded Wolves (due to be released next year) Creepiest Book This Month: Affinity by Sarah Waters creeped me out, and then just like a typical Waters, flipped a switch in the last act. I had sipped… Continue reading October Wrap-Up
September Wrap-Up
Reading and Writing Life Books read this month: Only 3! I have two very close to finished, but it's been a self-care via comic books kind of month this month, meaning not a lot of "trackable" reading Books so far this year: 79 As far as writing, been polishing up a novel and have sent it to… Continue reading September Wrap-Up
August Wrap-Up
Reading Wrap-Up Total Books Read this month: 11 Most swoony book of the month: The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory Books that kept me up at night: Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie Dao and Give Me Your Hand by Megan Abbott Best audiobook of the month: Circe by Madeline Miller Best print book: There There by Tommy Orange Books so far… Continue reading August Wrap-Up
July Wrap-Up
Reading Life Total books read this month: 9 Books so far this year: 65 Mysteries read: 4 (including progress on working my way through the entire works of Sherlock Holmes) YA Read: Finished Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass by Meg Medina and Dread Nation by Justina Ireland (who I interviewed on here about 2 years ago). Loved them both,… Continue reading July Wrap-Up
June Wrap-Up
Reading Wrap Total number of books read this month: 10 ARCs: 2. Illegal and Kill the Farm Boy. I recommend both! Illegal is a graphic novel about immigrant siblings from Ghana. Kill the Farm Boy is a zany adult fantasy which upends practically every fantasy trope in the book. Very enjoyable! Number of people I purchased The Belles for this month: 2.… Continue reading June Wrap-Up
May Wrap-Up
Reading Wrap-Up Percentage jealous of everyone at Book Expo right now: 1000% Books finished this month: 8 ARCs finished: 2, and one in progress. Mysteries read: 4! The ARCs were both recommended mysteries. First, Hollywood Homicide by Kellye Garrett, which was a fun second-in-the-series to the has-been actress turned amateur PI theme Garrett has going. Very voicey,… Continue reading May Wrap-Up
April Wrap-Up (With Baby Pics)
Reading and Writing Wrap Up Books read this month: Mouse and the Motorcycle series with the kiddos) Best reasons to stay inside and read this month: TERRIBLE WEATHER! I don't know where all of you are located, but we had snow all the way until the third week of April this month! Best of the month: The… Continue reading April Wrap-Up (With Baby Pics)
March Wrap-Up
Reading Wrap-Up Total books read this month: 14 ARCs read this month: 3 (including this one) Nonfiction: Educated by Tara Westover and The Secret History of Wonder Woman by Jill Lepore (loved them both) Best of the Month: Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan and Educated by Tara Westover. Both were about complex families. Beautiful writing for both. Side note: Saw Ready Player One yesterday… Continue reading March Wrap-Up
