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
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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
January Wrap-Up
Reading Life: Total books Read: 15 (!) Total books read for comfort and self-care because 2018 is feeling shockingly like 2017: 13 (the others were ARCs for review... and very good) Weirdest of the Month: The House at Mount Char and Annihilation were both head-scratchers for me. I loved the latter's views of marriage more than the… Continue reading January Wrap-Up
2017 Wrap Up
Reading Wrap-Up: Nonfiction and Memoir: Total read: 23 Best of the year: Hunger by Roxane Gay, Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann, Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson Graphic Novels/Memoirs: Total read: 9 Best of the year: John Lewis's March trilogy and Pashmina by Nidhi Chanani SciFi/Fantasy Reads: Total read: 35 Best of the… Continue reading 2017 Wrap Up
October Wrap-Up
Reading Life Total Books Read: 17* *(please note some of these were middle-grade and one of them was a graphic novel. Still, pretty happy about making to-read stack progress this month.) Scottish time-travel novels I finished reading that I have a lot of opinions on: 1 (if you want to hear them, I'd be more than happy… Continue reading October Wrap-Up
September Wrap-Up
Reading Life Total Books Read: 12 Audiobooks: 7 Books outside of my typical genres: 7 Best of the Month: The Belles by Dhonielle Clayton (forthcoming in 2018 and oh so worth putting on your to-read stack) and The Collapsing Empire by John Scalzi. Also adored meeting Flavia de Luce in The Sweetness At the Bottom of the Pie. This month I tried… Continue reading September Wrap-Up
August Wrap-Up
Reading Life Total Books Read: 15 ARCs: 4 Audiobooks: 6 Books I read this Month that I can't stop recommending: Ready Player One by Ernest Cline and Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson Best of the Month, which I also highly recommend: The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin-(I can't believe this trilogy is over!) and And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini… Continue reading August Wrap-Up
July Wrap-Up
Reading and Writing Life Number of books read this month: 11 Number of books read this year: 90 Best of the Month: The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, Exit West by Mohsin Hamid, and When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon Number of books bought this month: redacted for embarrassment reasons I have little self-control where my books are concerned I'm reading… Continue reading July Wrap-Up
