Slightly different from my mid-year favorites, these are books I rated well, but did not make it onto my favorite list. Fiction Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri These short stories sat with me, and I remembered them well after reading them. They had weight and sometimes inspired lots of thoughts. I very much look… Continue reading Mid-Year Highly Rated Books
Mid-Year Favorites
"This is so weird." - Me, about 1,000 times while reading the first quarter of Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon James. And it is. So weird. And the writing style definitely takes some getting used to. (And also James is blunt with his writing. I did not find it to be gratuitous, but I… Continue reading Mid-Year Favorites
Middle Grade March Update
I read zero of the books from my previous post. *sigh*
Middle Grade March
I've heard a rumor some people regard March as a good month to read Middle Grade books. It sounds good to me too, so I am hoping to read a bunch of middle grade books this month. 🙂 What follows is a potential list. Guardians of the Taiga - Stacy Plays Nevermoor: The Trials of… Continue reading Middle Grade March
February Wrap-Up
So how did I do with my TBR? I started The Bear and the Nightingale, Born a Crime, and Pride and Prejudice. I'm reading The World According to Narnia as part of a book club, and it moved slowly, so I will be reading that for a bit. This is a fair bit better than… Continue reading February Wrap-Up
February TBR
I think I'm going to hope for reading like 10% of my TBRs. Haha! We'll, here's my list for February anyway. 🙂 The Poet X - Elizabeth Acevedo King of Scars - Leigh Bardugo The One and Only Ivan - Katherine Applegate The World According to Narnia - Jonathan Rogers The Bear and the Nightingale… Continue reading February TBR
January Wrap-Up
January started of very well. (See my mid-month update here.) I read four 5-star reads and one 4-star read in the first two weeks. So, that's awesome. I think it created a little book burn-out because I started A LOT of books, but I couldn't quite commit to anything. So I'm currently in the middle… Continue reading January Wrap-Up
January (Sort-of) Mid-Month Update
Mid-Month Stats Books Read - 9 Pages Read - 2,361 Last year in January I read The Cruel Prince and loved it, so I was very much looking forward to The Wicked King. It did not disappoint, but now I have to wait another year for the final book in the trilogy. *sigh* I… Continue reading January (Sort-of) Mid-Month Update
18 Favorites from 2018
These are my top 18 read of 2018. I tried to put them in some sort of order, but I often like such different things about each of them it's hard to rank them. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer Charming. I loved the quirky nature of all the… Continue reading 18 Favorites from 2018
2019 Around the Year in 52 Books
A book that was nominated for or won an award in a genre you enjoy A book with one of the 5 W's in the title (Who, What, Where, When, Why) A book where the author’s name contains A, T, and Y A book with a criminal character (i.e. assassin, pirate, thief, robber, scoundrel etc)… Continue reading 2019 Around the Year in 52 Books
Caryn Considers 