I thought last year with planning my wedding was going to be a slow reading year. this year has by far been my slowest reading year in a long time.
First trimester of pregnancy demanded comfort reading while I tried to survive nausea, so I read a bunch of old books on my kindle.
**Rereads
Cress by Marissa Meyer 3.5/5
Winter by Marissa Meyer 4/5
Graceful by Wendy Mass 3/5
13 Gifts by Wendy Mass 4/5
Disney After Dark by Ridley Pearson 4.5/5 Read aloud with the husband 🙂
But don’t worry I have managed to get some New Reads in too.
New Books:
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
“What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.”
Woolf’s novel goes through the lives of the Ramsey family and their guests, all centered around their holiday home on the Isle of Skye. As time moves on the challenges they face may change, the home may change, but the ever present view of the Lighthouse in the distance and what reaching it represents remains.
While this book took me a while to get through, as much of the prose demands to be pondered on, I did enjoy it. It was nothing like I thought it would be and I can clearly see why this is one of her most praised novels. I recommend it to those who like novels about the human condition throughout life. 3.5/5
Alchemised by SenLinYu
“There’s no one left for you to save.”
A journey through over a 1,000 pages that I should’ve got off of after the first 200 but once you’re 500 pages in, what’s another 500?
At least that’s what I told myself as I reluctantly trudged through this beast of a book.
I have come to learn that Dark Fantasy Romance is just not the genre for me. I can see why many people enjoyed this novel but I just couldn’t do anything more than sit through waiting to see if we ever got the context for the world building that this novel deserved. It did not. The dark romance was the main plot and the novel could have been cut back by 600 pages easily for it to have been a well written fantasy. 1.5/5
Sourdough by Robin Sloan
My Favorite New Read of the year so far.
Sourdough by Robin Sloan includes a San Francisco Software Engineer, a Robot Arm, a potentially magical Sourdough Starter, and a secret market trying to infuse food and technology.
I was hooked from the beginning and loved watching our Main Character Lois go from the mundane of a solo life of takeout and coding to discovering life where she never imagined it could be, even within the microorganisms of bread.
Just a happy read that’s perfect for anytime. 4/5
Currently Reading:
The Complete Father Brown Mysteries by G.K Chesterton. Half way done, I shall finish!
Heart of a Samurai by Margi Preus.
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