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2024 End of Year Book Survey

Posted January 7, 2025 by Haze in Book Tags / 3 Comments

I found Jamie’s End of Year Book Survey through Jana @ The Artsy Reader Girl last year and decided to do it again this year! Please feel free to do this too and leave a comment with your link so I can check out your answers!

Here’s my 2023 End of Year Book Survey if you’d like to check it out. I’m late with my 2024 book survey but I got it done! I was still logging in some of the books I read in 2024 because I wasn’t up to date, and there are several reviews for 2024 books I haven’t written yet. The 2024/2025 end of year season was a really hectic one for me and I haven’t been very present in the blogosphere but hopefully I’ll get things squared away soon. I’ve missed visiting with everyone!

2024 Reading Stats

Click here to check out My Year In Books in detail. You can also use it to check yours.

Number of books you read: 172

Number of re-reads: 20! So many this year for some reason!
1. Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
2. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
3. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
4. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
5. The Rook by Daniel O’Malley
6. The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
7. Anne of Green Gables Books 1-5 by L.M. Montgomery
8. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
9. Cujo by Stephen King
10. The Shining by Stephen King
11. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
12. The Outsider by Stephen King
13. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
14. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
15. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
16. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Number of books you DNFed: I didn’t keep track of them this year!
Number of pages you read: 62,076
Most read genre: Fantasy at 80 books
Number of new-to-you authors you discovered: 69

Firsts and Lasts

First book you read: Holly by Stephen King
Last book you read: A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers
First 2023 release you read: The Improbable Meet-Cute series by various authors

Best In Books

1. Best book you read in 2024:
There were so many amazing books this year it’s honestly hard to choose. I did make a list for the top ten best books I read in 2024, but they did not include rereads. If I had to choose one new read, it’d be the Heartstopper series. If I could include rereads, it’d be The Count of Monte Cristo.

2. Book you were excited about & thought you were going to love more but didn’t:
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt was a disappointment. It sounded so good and there was so much praise for it, I thought I was going to like it a lot more. To be fair, it wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t as good as I thought it was going to be.

3. Most surprising (in a good way or bad way) book you read:
Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan, and the Super Powereds series by Drew Hayes. I didn’t have very high expectations for both; I thought they were a couple of generic YA stories that would be somewhat entertaining but not memorable. I am happy to be proven wrong for both! They are very entertaining! And also very memorable!

4. Book you “pushed” the most people to read (and they did):
Interestingly, Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster. Someone was looking for a book to fit a prompt and I recommended this book. Before I knew it, it became a buddy read, and I got twelve people to read it! Plus, one more person from my irl bookclub! And another bookblogger who read my review! So altogether 14 people? Not too shabby!

5. Best first book in a series you started in 2024. Best sequel of 2024. Best series ender of 2024.
Started: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
Sequel: Doctor Sleep (The Shining #2) by Stephen King
Ender: Super Powereds Year 4 by Drew Hayes

6. Favorite new-to-you author you discovered in 2024:
I read so many new-to-me authors in 2024 and I enjoyed so many of them, but I have to go with Drew Hayes on this one. I read his whole Super Powered series, and also Fred, the Vampire Accountant, and I have to say they’re just so much fun to read, plus his characters are all so wonderful!

7. Best book from a genre you don’t typically read/was out of your comfort zone:
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. I listened to it on audio, but it’s listed as poetry and it sounds very poetic while I was listening, that’s for sure. I don’t typically read a lot of poetry, so this was definitely out of my comfort zone, but it was so beautiful to listen to and very emotional.

8. Most action-packed/thrilling/unputdownable book of the year:
The Super Powereds series by Drew Hayes! I couldn’t put them down and it was just one thrilling thing after another! I love the relationship dynamics, the action-packed challenges they had to go through, the storyline. It was four books with a total of approximately 160 hours on audio and I breezed through them because they were so fun!

9. Book you read in 2024 that you are most likely to re-read next year?
Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and/or Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. For the “simple” reason that they’re both first books in a series that have quite a complicated world-building and I listened to them on audio. I’m probably going to have to refresh my memory for these books before moving on with the rest of the series. Oh, also Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, for the same reason.

10. Favorite cover of a book you read in 2024:
The Emily Wilde books! I read both the first and second book in 2024 and they are both gorgeous!

11. Most memorable character of 2024:
Boris from The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. I don’t necessarily like him as a person, but he’s very memorable as a character! Here’s what I said in my buddy read discussions for the book;

“He is the most exasperating, annoying, toxic, incredible, idiotic, brilliant, CRAZY person, and I think I wouldn’t have any idea what to do with a friend like him. You gotta love him but you also gotta hate him. And I think I’d stay far far away from him and his antics, he’d drive me to an early grave!”

12. Most beautifully written book read in 2024:
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. It was such an experience listening to this book on audio. Such painful topics told so lyrically, so beautifully, in such an expressive voice. It was incredible.

13. Most thought-provoking/life-changing book of 2024:
Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown. It’s basically an encyclopedia of emotions, which doesn’t seem like it would be life-changing, but the definitions really got me to understand my own feelings and why I was feeling them. It was very validating and still makes me think.

14. Book you can’t believe you waited UNTIL 2024 to finally read:
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. There was a lot of talk about it when it came out and I was very curious. It’d been in my TBR since but I hadn’t read it until 2024!

15. Favorite quote from a book you read in 2024:
Omg, I have so many! But I’ll narrow it down to these few, for now!

“I’m one of those people who doesn’t really know what he thinks until he writes it down.” – 11/22/63 by Stephen King

“It’s been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will.” – Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery

“Science is not the truth. Science is finding the truth. When science changes its opinion, it didn’t lie to you. It learned more.” – Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown

16. Shortest and longest books you read in 2024:
Shortest: Drop, Cover, and Hold On by Jasmine Guillory (40 pages)
Longest: Super Powereds Year 4 by Drew Hayes (1981 pages)

17. Book that shocked you the most:
Don’t Call It A Cult by Sarah Berman. The things they did were horrendous and unbelievable. You never think you’d be susceptible to being influenced into joining a cult, but you never know. It’s that whole slow boiling the frog thing, and I honestly can’t say for sure I wouldn’t fall for it. It’s scary.

18. OTP of the year (you will go down with this ship!):
Nick and Charlie from Heartstopper by Alice Oseman, hands down! I love them and I would die for them!

19. Favorite non-romantic relationship of the year:
Carl and Donut from Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. I love their dynamic, I love their chemistry, I love the way they work together, I love how hilarious they are! I love them!

20. Favorite book you read in 2024 from an author you’ve read previously:
The Fox Wife by Yangsze Choo. It was such a magical, whimsical fairy-tale that made me feel like I was transported to a whole other existence while reading it. I love the MC and how mysterious she is. I loved how the story unfolded and how we find out more about her and her life. It’s a beautiful story.

21. Best book you read in 2024 that you read based SOLELY on a recommendation from somebody else:
The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster. So many recommendations by so many of you, but yes, I only read it because it was so highly recommended and I trust your judgments!

22. Newest fictional crush from a book you read in 2024:
Carrie Soto from Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid. She’s so strong and inspiring, and I’ve got a thing for strong, inspiring women. She also has her moments where she can be a little abrasive, but I think seeing her weaknesses and vulnerabilities only makes me love her more.

23. Best 2024 debut you read:
Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer. I think it was the only 2024 debut I read; I would’ve had others but I didn’t get to them in time, and now I’ll have to read them in 2025!

24. Most vivid setting you read this year:
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. I don’t know why but it really stood out to me. Every scene was so vivid and descriptive to me, I could imagine it all so clearly.

25. Book that put a smile on your face/was the most FUN to read:
Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan. I was cackling gleefully while reading it because it was just so unexpectedly good! I also want to say Dungeon Crawler Carl, but it’s been praised so much already so I wanted to give Long Live Evil a mention.

26. Book that made you cry or nearly cry in 2024:
There were several books I read this year that made me cry or almost cry; The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, and Carrie Soto Is Back made me sob like a baby.

27. Hidden gem of the year:
I’ll admit that I’m not very up-to-date on what’s being hyped up out there in social media, but I haven’t heard a lot of hype around Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan, and I also personally didn’t expect much from it and was pleasantly surprised.

28. Most unique book you read in 2024:
Oooh, maybe I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. It’s an interesting format with an interesting premise, but I really enjoyed it.

39. Book that made you the maddest (doesn’t necessarily mean you didn’t like it):
This year it was the non-fiction that made me mad; The Woman in Me by Britney Spears, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot, the injustice and exploitation of both these women for albeit different reasons just really gets to me.

My Blogging/Bookish Life

1. Favorite review that you wrote in 2024:
I don’t know, I wrote so many I can’t remember them all! Possibly the ones with additional discussion and notes because I had so much more to say about them!

2. Best discussion/non-review post you had on your blog:
I really enjoy doing my Sunday Posts, but I’ve been missing them for a couple of months now. I’m still trying to catch up with regular life stuff at the moment. I hope I’ll be back soon.

3. Best event that you participated in (author signings, festivals, virtual events, memes, etc.):
My in-person bookclub’s road trip to The Royal Tyrrell Museum in conjunction with our Book of the Month, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte! It was the most fun book-related event in 2024!

6. Most popular post this year on your blog (whether it be by comments or views):
I don’t really look at my stats (not sure how?) so I had to check manually but my Top Ten Tuesday Most Anticipated Books for 2024 Jan-Jun has 58 comments.

8. Post you wished got a little more love:
I’m pretty happy with the love I got, and very grateful for all of it!

9. Best bookish discovery (book related sites, book stores, etc.):
It might be a little basic but it’s Audible for me. I know it’s been around for a while, and I had definitely heard of it before, I just didn’t know how it worked and how much fun I would have with it. I got a year’s membership for a discount and it includes a lot of free audiobooks I would otherwise have never listened to or learned about. I’m really happy with it so far!

10. Did you complete any reading challenges or goals that you had set for yourself at the beginning of this year:
I finished all my reading challenges in 2024 except two – I signed up for ten. I’m pretty happy with how I did on the challenges, but I definitely felt overwhelmed a couple of times. I’m cutting down on challenges in 2025 and hoping to take it easier!

Looking Ahead in 2025

1. Book you are most anticipating in 2025 (non-debut):
I have a few books I’m anticipating in 2025 and I made a Top Ten Tuesday post about it. I’m very excited about a lot of them actually; Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros, Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins, Never Flinch by Stephen King, but I think I’m most excited about TJR’s Atmosphere because I loved the last book I read by her and this one sounds really good!

2. 2025 debut you are most anticipating:
A Language of Dragons by S.F. Williamson. I have no idea if it’s going to be good, but it sounds good and I’m really excited about it!

3. Sequel you are most anticipating in 2025:
All Hail Chaos by Sarah Rees Brennan, the sequel to Long Live Evil, which I absolutely loved! It’s expected to be released September 16, 2025, a long wait, but I’ll be ready for it!

4. One thing you hope to accomplish or do in your reading/blogging life in 2025?
I want to be more present on the blog. I am starting out this year very frazzled and behind on everything! I have been contemplating cutting down on book clubs, book challenges, and buddy reads, and even blogging, because of irl stuff getting busy, but I would be very sad if I had to do any of that. I’m hoping that it’s a temporary thing while I adjust and I’ll get better and more organized in time.

What are your answers to these questions? If you do this survey, let me know so I can visit your post and check out your answers. You can also leave your answers in the comments!

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Monthly Wrap Up | December 2024

Posted January 2, 2025 by Haze in Monthly Wrap Up / 2 Comments

Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.

December 2024 Wrap Up

Happy New Year 2025, everyone!!

I’ve been so frazzled and disorganized these last couple of months that I haven’t been very present on the blog at all, or in other areas of my life. Things haven’t settled down yet and I’m still catching up but I’m trying to be a little more organized. I’m also cutting down on reading challenges this year because I got so overwhelmed last year with more than ten of them!

At this point, I’m still just trying to catch up, so I don’t have a complete picture of my goals and plans yet, but I’ll get there eventually! Thank you for being patient with me!

My December 2024 TBR Intentions

Well, the good news is that I read 5 out of 7 of the books on my TBR in December! Yayy!

  1. The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
  2. In A Holidaze by Christina Lauren
  3. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  4. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
  5. The Outsider by Stephen King
  6. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
  7. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Books Read in December 2024

  1. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
  2. Bloody Acquisitions (Fred, the Vampire Accountant Book 3) by Drew Hayes
  3. The Fangs of Freelance (Fred, the Vampire Accountant Book 4) by Drew Hayes
  4. Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson
  5. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
  6. Deadly Assessments (Fred, the Vampire Accountant Book 5) by Drew Hayes
  7. The Outsider by Stephen King
  8. The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
  9. Undeading Bells (Fred, the Vampire Accountant Book 6) by Drew Hayes
  10. In A Holidaze by Christina Lauren
  11. Out of House and Home (Fred, the Vampire Accountant Book 7) by Drew Hayes
  12. Posthumous Education (Fred, the Vampire Accountant Book 8) by Drew Hayes
  13. A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers

Notable Books This Month

I ended up spending most of the month reading Drew Hayes’ Fred, the Vampire Accountant series! They were so fun and enjoyable, and I really loved reading about Fred and his friends. I’m a huge fan of found family stories, and Hayes really has a talent for writing interesting characters. I was so sad when I finished the last one, but I found out there’s going to be a Book 9, so I’m eagerly waiting for its release!

I also really loved The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance by Brandon Sanderson, and I’m completely invested in the story and intend to read the rest of the series.

The Outsider and A Closed and Common Orbit are both rereads, but worth mentioning because they’re both still so good the second time around.

And finally, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks was such an eye-opening read. I’m glad I finally got around to reading it, I learned so much and it made me feel so many things. I’m also very curious about the movie and I’ll probably want to watch it sometime soon.

Reading Challenges

I’m going easy on the reading challenges in 2025 because I got a little overzealous last year. These are the ones I’m committing to this year:

  1. The 52 Book Club 2025 Reading Challenge – I’m doing this one again this year because I enjoyed it so much last year!
  2. The Stephen King Constant Reader Challenge – My own personal challenge because I’m a fan of SK but have plenty of his books I haven’t read yet. No time limit, and everyone is welcome to join me if you’d like.
  3. The Classics Club – This is a 5-year challenge and I’m on Year 2.
  4. Reading From My TBR Challenge – Also a personal challenge because I figure I should be at least trying to read from my TBR, but I haven’t figured out the parameters yet so I’ll come back to this later.

January 2025 TBR Intentions

I’m just taking it one month at a time. I hope to read these books in January! What about you?

  1. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  2. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
  3. Captain Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres
  4. ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
  5. The Terror by Dan Simmons
  6. Vicious by V.E. Schwab

How was your month in December? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful 2025 with lots of great books!

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The 52 Book Club’s 2025 Reading Challenge

Posted December 23, 2024 by Haze in Reading Challenges / 0 Comments

I finished the 52 Book Club’s 2024 challenge and really loved the prompts and how it made me read out of my comfort zone, so I’ll be doing it again in 2025! There were some books I loved, and some I didn’t like so much and only read because of the challenge, but that’s the fun of it and the reason I want to do it again! You can find a list of 2024’s prompts and the books I read for each of the prompts here.

The 52 Book Club’s annual reading challenge is made up of 52 unique prompts. The goal is to match one book to each prompt, for a total of fifty-two books over the course of the year. Prompts are related to everything from specific titles, to cover designs, authors, genres, settings, themes, characters, etc. (Think of it like a giant bookish scavenger hunt!) We encourage participants to try books outside of their regular reading comfort zones and push themselves to read more, read differently, and get creative with it!

Visit The 52 Book Club to find out more and join the challenge!

Below is the 52 Book Club’s list of prompts for 2025. These prompts are linked to Goodreads Lists of books that fit each prompt. I copy and pasted them from here, for easy access, and so I can link to each prompt with the books I finish.

The 2025 Goodreads Lists:

  1. A pun in the title
  2. A character with red hair
  3. Title starts with letter “M” – The Measure by Nikki Erlick
  4. Title starts with letter “N”
  5. Plot includes a heist
  6. Genre One: Set in Spring
  7. Genre Two: Set in Summer
  8. Genre Three: Set in Autumn
  9. Genre Four: Set in Winter
  10. Author’s last name is also a first name
  11. A prequel
  12. Has a moon on the cover – Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann
  13. Title is ten letters or less
  14. Climate fiction
  15. Includes Latin American history
  16. Author has won an Edgar award
  17. Told in verse
  18. A character who can fly
  19. Has short chapters
  20. A fairy tale retelling
  21. Character’s name in the title
  22. Found family trope
  23. A sprayed edge
  24. Title is a spoiler
  25. Breaks the fourth wall
  26. More than a million copies sold
  27. Features a magician
  28. A crossover (Set in a shared universe)
  29. Shares universe with prompt 28
  30. In the public domain
  31. Audiobook has multiple narrators
  32. Includes a diary entry
  33. A standalone novel
  34. Direction in the title
  35. Written in third person
  36. Final sentence is less than 6 words long
  37. Genre chosen for you by someone else
  38. An adventure story
  39. Has an epigraph
  40. Stream of consciousness narrative
  41. Cover font is in a primary color
  42. Non-human antagonist
  43. Explores social class
  44. A celebrity on the cover
  45. Author releases more than one book a year – ‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King
  46. Read in a “-ber” month
  47. “I think it was blue”
  48. Related to the word “puzzle”
  49. Set in a country with an active volcano
  50. Set in the 1940s (Books that do NOT include WWII) / Set in the 1940s (Books that includes WWII) – The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
  51. 300-400 pages long
  52. Published in 2025

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The Stephen King Constant Reader Challenge

Posted December 23, 2024 by Haze in Reading Challenges / 0 Comments

I’m not normally a reader who feels the need to read an author’s full catalog, but I’ve read and enjoyed so many of Stephen King’s books and I feel like if I was going to do it, his catalog would be the way to go. I’ve actually already read many of his books, but for the sake of this challenge, I will be re-reading them again. They are considered done when I’ve written reviews for every single one of them here on my blog.

I’m not putting any time limit on this challenge. It’s just a personal challenge for myself that I want to have fun with, but also keeping in mind that the list is probably going to grow the longer I take, because Stephen King is going to keep churning out those books!

Feel free to join me if you’re a fan of SK and want to do the challenge too! Post a comment with a link to your challenge page/reviews and I’ll check them out!

  1. Carrie (1974)
  2. ‘Salem’s Lot (1975)
  3. The Shining (1977)
  4. Rage (1977)*
  5. Night Shift (1978)
  6. The Stand (1978)
  7. The Long Walk (1979) [by Richard Bachman]*
  8. The Dead Zone (1979)
  9. Firestarter (1980)
  10. Roadwork (1981) [by Richard Bachman]*
  11. Danse Macabre (1981)
  12. Cujo (1981)
  13. The Running Man (1982) [by Richard Bachman]*
  14. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger (1982)
  15. Different Seasons (1982)
  16. Christine (1983)
  17. Cycle of the Werewolf (1983)
  18. Pet Sematary (1983)
  19. The Eyes of the Dragon (1984)
  20. The Talisman (1984) with Peter Straub
  21. Thinner (1984) [by Richard Bachman]
  22. Skeleton Crew (1985)
  23. IT (1986)
  24. The Dark Tower: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
  25. Misery (1987)
  26. The Tommyknockers (1987)
  27. The Dark Half (1989)
  28. The Stand: The Complete & Uncut Edition (1990)
  29. Four Past Midnight (1990)
  30. The Dark Towe: The Waste Lands (1991)
  31. Needful Things (1991)
  32. Gerald’s Game (1992)
  33. Dolores Claiborne (1992)
  34. Nightmares & Dreamscapes (1993)
  35. Insomnia (1994)
  36. Rose Madder (1995)
  37. The Green Mile (1996)
  38. Desperation (1996)
  39. The Regulators (1996) [by Richard Bachman]
  40. The Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass (1997)
  41. Bag of Bones (1998)
  42. The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon (1999)
  43. Hearts in Atlantis (1999)
  44. Storm of the Century (1999)**
  45. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (2000)
  46. Dreamcatcher (2001)
  47. Black House (2001) with Peter Straub
  48. Everything’s Eventual (2002)
  49. From a Buick 8 (2002)
  50. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger: Resumption (2003)
  51. The Dark Tower: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
  52. The Dark Tower: Song of Susannah (2004)
  53. The Dark Tower: The Dark Tower (2004)
  54. Faithful (2004) with Stewart O’Nan
  55. The Colorado Kid (2005)
  56. Cell (2006)
  57. Lisey’s Story (2006)
  58. Blaze (2007) [by Richard Bachman]
  59. Duma Key (2008)
  60. Just After Sunset (2008)
  61. Under the Dome (2009)
  62. Blockade Billy (2010)
  63. Full Dark, No Stars (2010)
  64. 11/22/63 (2011)
  65. The Dark Tower: The Wind Through the Keyhole (2012)
  66. Joyland (2013)
  67. The Dark Man (2013)
  68. Doctor Sleep (2013)
  69. Mr. Mercedes (2014)
  70. Revival (2014)
  71. Finders Keepers (2015)
  72. The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (2015)
  73. End of Watch (2016)
  74. Charlie the Choo-Choo (2016) [by Beryl Evans]
  75. Hearts in Suspension (2016)
  76. Gwendy’s Button Box (2017) with Richard Chizmar
  77. Sleeping Beauties (2017) with Owen King
  78. The Outsider (2018)
  79. Elevation (2018)
  80. The Institute (2019)
  81. If It Bleeds (2020)
  82. Later (2021)
  83. Billy Summers (2021)
  84. Gwendy’s Final Task (2022) with Richard Chizmar
  85. Fairy Tale (2022)
  86. Holly (2023)
  87. You Like It Darker (2024)

*collected in The Bachman Books
**screenplay

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Monthly Wrap Up | November 2024

Posted December 3, 2024 by Haze in Monthly Wrap Up / 0 Comments

Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.

November 2024 Wrap Up

November was a hectic month for me and I missed several weekly posts and didn’t write a single book review. I also haven’t replied comments here or visited other book blogs. I have so much to catch up on! I’m also feeling a little pressured because there is one more month in 2024 left, and I haven’t read so many of the books I listed on my 2024 tbr, and I don’t think I can.

December is probably going to be another hectic month, and I’m already thinking of all the ways I want to slow down for 2025. Unfortunately, I already committed to some things that will go on into 2025, but I’ll do my best to lock it down!

My November 2024 TBR Intentions

I did relatively well on my November TBR intentions, but The Glass Chateau has been on my TBR the longest out of all the others listed, and it’s the one I don’t think I’ll be able to get to until next year! But let’s just focus on the wins, okay? 😅

  1. Super Powereds: Year 3 by Drew Hayes
  2. Super Powereds: Year 4 by Drew Hayes
  3. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
  4. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
  5. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  6. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
  7. The Glass Chateau by Stephen P. Kiernan
  8. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
  9. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Books Read in November 2024

  1. Super Powereds: Year 3 by Drew Hayes
  2. Super Powereds: Year 4 by Drew Hayes
  3. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
  4. Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan
  5. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  6. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
  7. The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
  8. The Utterly Uninteresting and Unadventurous Tales of Fred, the Vampire Accountant by Drew Hayes
  9. Undeath and Taxes by Drew Hayes
  10. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
  11. Carl’s Doomsday Scenario by Matt Dinniman
  12. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak

Notable Books This Month

I was super surprised with Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan! I didn’t expect to love it as much as I did, but it was just fun and so enjoyable to read. It’s isekai, apparently (I just learned the term isekai recently!), and I love it!

There were a couple of heavy books this month but because of stuff happening in my personal life, I ended up reading a lot of light and fun books this month because they were all I could do. Specifically I loved:

  • The Super Powered series by Drew Hayes
  • Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Fred, the Vampire Accountant series by Drew Hayes
  • Dungeon Crawler Carl series by Matt Dinniman

There are many more books to go in the latter two series and I am so hyped up about them! I had to pause on them because there were other books with deadlines I had to finish, but I’m totally going back to them whenever I can!

Reading Challenges

All done with challenges this year. Time to think of new challenges for next year! I’m going to slow it down and go a little easier on myself next year, hopefully.

December 2024 TBR Intentions

Most of the books listed below are December BOTMs or buddy reads with a December deadline. I also fully intend to continue with the other series I’m reading now; Fred, the Vampire Accountant, and Dungeon Crawler Carl.

  1. The Night She Disappeared by Lisa Jewell
  2. In A Holidaze by Christina Lauren
  3. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  4. The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson
  5. The Outsider by Stephen King
  6. The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
  7. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

At this point, there are several books I listed on my TBR since the beginning of the year that I still haven’t gotten to and don’t think I’ll be able to get to before next year. Oh well. There have also been so many books I didn’t intend to read this year, but did and loved, so it totally balances out!

December is the last month of the year; I hope you all reach your reading goals this year, receive all the bookish gifts and wishes you make, and have the most wonderful holiday season and a happy new year!

How was your month in November? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful December with lots of great books!

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Monthly Wrap Up | October 2024

Posted October 31, 2024 by Haze in Monthly Wrap Up / 2 Comments

Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.

October 2024 Wrap Up

October wasn’t a very good reading month for me; I had two DNFs and a few books I wasn’t quite satisfied with. I was in a general funk and sulking about the DNFs and sub-par books, and I spent a little too much time on the DNFs trying to decide if I should finish them or not. You’d think I’d have learned my lesson by now but it’s really not easy to let go! 😭

I did have a few great books though! And I’m choosing to focus on them. I read two Stephen Kings, which are always great! And I’m currently obsessed with the Super Powered series by Drew Hayes.

My October 2024 TBR Intentions

I think I’ve learned my lesson with setting my tbr intentions. The DNFs were kind of demotivating, but I need to learn to move on and focus on the books I loved.

  1. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
  2. The Shining by Stephen King
  3. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
  4. Never Whistle at Night by various authors – DNF
  5. The Glass Chateau by Stephen P. Kiernan
  6. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  7. I Fell in Love With Hope by Lancali – DNF

Books Read in October 2024

  1. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
  2. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  3. The Mother-In-Law by Sally Hepworth
  4. Exhalation by Ted Chiang
  5. The Shining by Stephen King
  6. The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 9 by Nagabe
  7. The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 10 by Nagabe
  8. The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 11 by Nagabe
  9. Super Powereds: Year 1 by Drew Hayes
  10. Super Powereds: Year 2 by Drew Hayes
  11. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
  12. The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

Notable Books This Month

Super Powereds by Drew Hayes
This series was the highlight for me this month. Almost every other book I’ve read this month is either horror and/or have heavy themes, and I think this series was just so fun and enjoyable to read. The books are huge, and so many hours on audiobook, but they’re so entertaining and easy to get through. Once again, I have to comment on the amateurish writing because I don’t want to hype it up without giving this heads up, but it’s come to a point that I almost feel the writing is deliberate and becomes part of the fun of reading the books – you can have drinking games out of pointing out how many times the author uses a few particular phrases!

I also had three very good rereads:

  1. The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet by Becky Chambers
  2. The Shining by Stephen King
  3. Pet Sematary by Stephen King

I loved the Becky Chambers books the first time I read it and I feel like I got more out of it the second time around, especially reading it as a buddy read and seeing what other people thought about it and what stood out to them. I’m also planning to read the next books in the series again some time soon.

I had also read both Stephen King books some time ago and enjoyed them but it has been decades since I read them and they both hit differently this time. I’m paying more attention to some of the details this time even though I’m sure there’s still a lot I’m missing. I’m definitely noticing Stephen King’s genius a lot more this time.

Reading Challenges

I have finished every challenge I signed up for this year except two:

They are both related to finishing series and even though I don’t have very many to go, I have decided to let go of both these challenges because they no longer resonate. I have been reading many series this year, actually, and even finishing them(!), but they don’t count based on the parameters of these challenges and I realized that these challenges don’t work for what I originally wanted them for and it’s okay to let them go. I’ll be more mindful of the challenges I sign up for next year!

November 2024 TBR Intentions

Definitely wanting to continue with the rest of the Super Powered series, and I’m also looking forward to Dungeon Crawler Carl. It’s good knowing that these two fun series are in there among the other heavier books.

  1. Super Powereds: Year 3 by Drew Hayes
  2. Super Powereds: Year 4 by Drew Hayes
  3. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
  4. The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
  5. The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
  6. Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
  7. The Glass Chateau by Stephen P. Kiernan
  8. Doctor Sleep by Stephen King
  9. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

Even though many of these are heavy, I’m still excited to read them. Some of them have been on my TBR for ages!

How was your month in October? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful November with lots of great books!

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Monthly Wrap Up | September 2024

Posted October 1, 2024 by Haze in Monthly Wrap Up / 2 Comments

Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.

September 2024 Wrap Up

It was a pretty good reading month! I read from my September TBR, and I finished all my reading challenges except two! I’m not sure that I’ll finish the other two though; they’re both about finishing series, but series that we started before this year, and I’m currently embroiled in new series and I’m not sure what to do! 😅 I can’t resist the shiny new books!

My September 2024 TBR Intentions

I read all the books in my September TBR Intentions! Woot! I was kind of conservative with it with only five books on the list, and I do have more motivation when they are buddy reads and BOTMs, but still!

  1. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
  2. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
  3. Cujo by Stephen King
  4. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
  5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

I’m just realizing that all of them are darker-themed and there were several other dark books I read in September too. Setting up my intentions for next month, I’m going to try to get in more balance for the light and the dark. I know ahead of time there are some horror stuff coming because October is Halloween season, but I can definitely add more fun stuff to my book diet too!

Books Read in September 2024

  1. After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid
  2. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
  3. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
  4. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
  5. The Girl from Rawblood by Catriona Ward
  6. I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
  7. The Girl from the Other Side Volume 8 by Nagabe
  8. Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
  9. Goddess of the Hunt by Tessa Dare
  10. Surrender of A Siren by Tessa Dare
  11. One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig
  12. Cujo by Stephen King
  13. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
  14. The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center
  15. Expiration Dates by Rebecca Serle
  16. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
  17. The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
  18. The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer

Notable Books This Month

Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
I’m very proud of having finished this chonker! I’m not sure that I liked it, but at least I finished it!

Born A Crime by Trevor Noah
This was amazing and might be my favorite book this month! I love listening to Trevor Noah’s stories and I love his humor and wisdom.

Cujo by Stephen King
This is a reread, and I think I got a lot more out of it this time around than I did the first time. I love the buildup of the story, and I love the insight we get into such different characters in the book. Stephen King is truly a master at his craft.

Reading Challenges

October 2024 TBR Intentions

It’s October and that means Halloween, and guess what? My irl bookclub’s BOTM is Pet Sematary by Stephen King. And my online bookclub’s BOTM is The Shining by Stephen King! I’m not complaining, because I love Stephen King!

  1. Pet Sematary by Stephen King
  2. The Shining by Stephen King
  3. Dear Enemy by Jean Webster
  4. Never Whistle at Night by various authors
  5. The Glass Chateau by Stephen P. Kiernan
  6. Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
  7. I Fell in Love With Hope by Lancali

I’ve got so many books I hope to read this October, some have been on my TBR for ages. Let’s hope I can get to them all!

How was your month in September? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful October with lots of great books!

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Monthly Wrap Up | August 2024

Posted September 1, 2024 by Haze in Monthly Wrap Up / 6 Comments

Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.

August 2024 Wrap Up

I completed The 52 Book Club’s 2024 Reading Challenge! Yayy! So proud of myself.

I finished the challenge relatively early in the month, so I tried to make a dent in my other reading challenges and I managed to complete my Classics challenge as well! Technically, The Classics Club challenge is reading 50 classics in 5 years, so I just decided to read 10 classics a year (which I just completed), but if I wanted to do more, I could! We’ll see.

My August 2024 TBR Intentions

My TBR Intentions for August was to knock out the 52 Book Club 2024 Reading Challenge, and I did that! I had five more prompts to go, which were:

  • 13. An academic thriller
  • 17. Nominated for the Booker Prize
  • 37. Palindrome on the cover
  • 42. Author debut in the second half of 2024
  • 48. The word “secret” in the title

And the books I planned for them were as listed below, but subject to change as long as they fit the prompts:

  • If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • The Women by Kristin Hannah
  • Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer
  • The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett

I managed to finish the challenge, and the only book I switched out was The Secret Garden for The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches. I still want to read it eventually but I was happy to read The Secret Garden too. I’m so happy the challenge is done!

Books Read in August 2024

  1. The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  2. The Women by Kristin Hannah
  3. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  4. Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer
  5. Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  6. Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster
  7. Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery
  8. Anne of Avonlea by L.M. Montgomery
  9. If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
  10. 11/22/63 by Stephen King
  11. The Girl from the Other Side Vol. 1-7 by Nagabe
  12. Crime and Poetry by Amanda Flower
  13. Prose and Cons by Amanda Flower
  14. Murder and Metaphors by Amanda Flower
  15. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
  16. Wordhunter by Stella Sands
  17. Anne of the Island by L.M. Montgomery
  18. Anne’s House of Dreams of L.M. Montgomery

Notable Books This Month

I loved The Women, Oryx and Crake, and Children of Time, but the highlights for me this month were the rereads.

Daddy-Long-Legs, and the Anne of Green Gables series were some of my favorite childhood books and I just love all the memories and vibes they brought back.

11/22/63 is also a reread, even though it’s more recent, but it’s such a great story and I love it so much more this time around because I think I got more out of it.

Reading Challenges

September 2024 TBR Intentions

Most of these are buddy reads I signed up for and bookclub books. The ones with end-of-September deadlines will take priority but I think I can finish most of them, even if I interperse them with other reads in between. I find I do a lot better sticking to my TBR intentions when I have buddy reads and deadlines, so let’s do this!

  1. Perfume by Patrick Suskind
  2. Dark Places by Gillian Flynn
  3. Cujo by Stephen King
  4. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
  5. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

How was your month in August? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful September with lots of great books!

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Monthly Wrap Up | July 2024

Posted July 31, 2024 by Haze in Monthly Wrap Up / 10 Comments

Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.

July 2024 Wrap Up

July was another hectic month, but for positive reasons this time. June was hard and it made me realize I needed to change certain things and build better habits. Obviously, things don’t change overnight, but I think I made a good effort this July to get things started.

I started waking up at 6.30am in the mornings and go for a walk/run (alternating because I’m not quite in good shape yet). Some days are harder than others, but the important thing is that I showed up. I’m also looking into continuing education classes I can take and I’ve been doing some research and legwork on that. I’ve organized and reorganized my workspace and workflow, purged some things in my life that no longer served, and am trying to prioritizing the important stuff.

To be honest, I’m still floundering and some days I’m full of self-doubt and throw out everything I thought I was clear on the day before. We also had a heat-wave this month and some days were so bad I couldn’t bring myself to do anything except lie down on the cool floor and not move.

Still, it was a good month overall, even though I haven’t been very present here on the blog and in the blogosphere. I’ve missed visiting with all of you, and I’m trying to figure out how to manage my time better so I can still do the things I love.

My July 2024 TBR Intentions

  1. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
  2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  3. Feeling Good by David Burns
  4. The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
  5. Frequency by Penney Pierce
  6. The Enchanted Life by Sharon Blackie

I only read two of my TBR intentions this month, but the good news is that my broader intentions were to read more nonfiction and books I own, and I did that! Out of the 12 books I read this month, five were nonfiction, and eight are books I own! So I did pretty good!

Books Read in July 2024

  1. The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo
  2. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
  3. Network Effect by Martha Wells
  4. Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
  5. Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky
  6. Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey
  7. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  8. Clockwork Boys by T. Kingfisher
  9. The Wonder Engine by T. Kingfisher
  10. Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
  11. The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown
  12. Braiding Sweetness by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Notable Books This Month

I got lucky again this month because almost every single book was great! The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs was a bookclub read, and our bookclub went for a road trip to the Royal Tyrrell dinosaur museum after that, so it added to the experience. It was so much fun and I love spending time with these people!

The picture isn’t very good, unfortunately, but we couldn’t take too many because it was pretty crowded and there were other people wanting to take pictures too.

I also really loved Women in Science more than I expected. It features so many amazing women and their contributions in history, and all the important information is presented so interestingly and succinctly. I loved reading every single one of them.

Project Hail Mary was a reread – I read it a while ago on print, but I keep hearing about how it’s so good on audio, and I really wanted to experience that. I’d been listening to audiobooks through Libby and my library all this time, but PHM was only available through Audible so I finally signed up for it just for this book. That’s how they get you! But hey, so far it’s been worth it. I loved listening to PHM on audio, and I’m enjoying so many other audiobooks on the Audible Plus catalog as well.

As I said, I loved almost every book I read this month, but I’ll leave the rest of the gushing to reviews I’m planning to write for them!

Reading Challenges

I achieved a few of these challenges a couple of months ago, but instead of marking them done I upped the challenges instead. I’m now rethinking that decision, because I haven’t done well in some of the other challenges and I think I should focus on the unfinished ones instead of adding to the challenges I already finished.

August 2024 TBR Intentions

This month I’d like to try knocking out the 52 Book Club 2024 Reading Challenge. I only have five more prompts to go, and I’ve got a couple of books I’m excited to read that would fit the remaining challenges, so I think it would be very doable.

The prompts are:

  • 13. An academic thriller
  • 17. Nominated for the Booker Prize
  • 37. Palindrome on the cover
  • 42. Author debut in the second half of 2024
  • 48. The word “secret” in the title

I’m planning to read, respectively for each prompt, but subject to change:

  • If We Were Villains by M.L. Rio
  • Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
  • The Women by Kristin Hannah
  • Four Weekends and a Funeral by Ellie Palmer
  • The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna

I do have some other books in mind for some of these prompts so I might end up changing my mind, but the goal is to finish the challenge so as long as I read books that fit the prompts, I’m good!

How was your month in July? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful August with lots of great books!

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Monthly Wrap Up | June 2024

Posted July 3, 2024 by Haze in Monthly Wrap Up / 2 Comments

Welcome to the Monthly Wrap Up hosted by Nicole @ Feed Your Fiction Addiction to share our monthly wrap-up posts that summarizes our month in books, our favorite books of the month, what we did on our blogs, and anything noteworthy we want to share.

June 2024 Wrap Up

June was a difficult month for me for a few different reasons and I wasn’t able to do a lot on the blog. I didn’t read very many books compared to last month, but I did spend a lot of time escaping into books, which was good. I’ve been emotionally exhausted and haven’t wanted to post on the blog at all, but I get hesitant about reading more books if I’ve left a lot of books unreviewed. I also needed to get this monthly update done because I’d feel like something was missing if I didn’t!

I’m just doing the bare minimum for now, so please bear with me. I’m trying to sort myself out and I’ll be back to normal as soon as I can. Also, I know I have a lot of blog visiting to catch up on. I’m sorry!

My June 2024 TBR Intentions

  1. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
  2. The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
  3. Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  4. Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  5. Dragons of Spring Dawning by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  6. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  7. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  8. Nina the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  9. The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan
  10. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
  11. Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

Books Read in June 2024

  1. Hello Stranger by Katherine Center
  2. Heartstopper 2 by Alice Oseman
  3. Heartstopper 3 by Alice Oseman
  4. Heartstopper 4 by Alice Oseman
  5. Heartstopper 5 by Alice Oseman
  6. Last Argument of Kings by Joe Abercrombie
  7. Dragons of Autumn Twilight by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
  8. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
  9. Far From You by Tess Sharpe
  10. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
  11. You Like It Darker by Stephen King
  12. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Voung

Notable Books This Month

Almost every single book I read this month was great!

I think my favorites were the Heartstopper books, which really surprised me because I didn’t think I’d be interested in reading about teenage boys, but it was the most wholesome, happy, cute book and I loved all the characters!

You Like It Darker by Stephen King was another favorite, but no surprise there, I knew I was going to love anything he wrote. Every single one of the stories were great, and I really just keep wanting more!

Another book that did surprise me is On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong. I went in not knowing much about it but ended up finishing the book in one day because it was just so lyrical and beautiful and I couldn’t stop listening.

Hello Stranger and David Copperfield were amazing too, but there were too many strong contenders this month! I think Hello Stranger is my favorite Katherine Center book so far, and David Copperfield is just so good especially after reading Demon Copperhead.

It’s not my intention to list every book I read this month, just the notable ones, but it’s not my fault that they were all so good!

Reading Challenges

July 2024 TBR Intentions

This month I want to try to make a dent on more nonfiction and books I own. I’ve neglected them for years, so I want to at least try to get some read!

  1. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs by Steve Brusatte
  2. Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  3. Feeling Good by David Burns
  4. The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
  5. Frequency by Penney Pierce
  6. The Enchanted Life by Sharon Blackie

I still want to read fiction and books I listed for last month’s TBR, but I want to try to prioritize these for the month.

How was your month in June? What were your most memorable bookish moments? I hope you have a wonderful July with lots of great books!

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