People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry Hello! How’ve you been? These are the first days of March, which means winter is almost over!! It was in the mid-70s out here in Utah so that’s pretty gosh darn warm. I’m really hoping the trees in my garden are confused by this temporary warm spell and start blossoming a little earlier this year so I can actually see them before heading back to California! Anyways, speaking of warmer weather, this…
Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney Okay, this is Sally Rooney’s latest book and the winner of the 2021 Goodreads’ Fiction category. Fiction is a pretty broad category so I was kind of ready for anything. Sally Rooney’s a very popular author (in recent years) and I hadn’t read any of her work so I didn’t know what to expect. Right off the bat, the writing and the overall tone of the book really reminded me of Anxious…
Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Hi! This is a new and different review, this time the winner of the Memoir & Autobiography category for the Goodreads 2021 Choice awards. Honestly, I’m a little biased against memoirs and autobiographies so I tend to stay away from reading them. I think I probably read a few when I was younger that just didn’t resonate with me and I’ve always thought that autobiographies were a little narcissistic. I mean, it’s one…
Billy Summers by Stephen King Okay, this is the third and final book on the Goodreads’ Mystery & Thriller list that I’m reading this year (or at least as part of my read all the Goodreads’ best books spree) and it was definitely different from the first two on the list. Billy Summers is a gun for hire with a knack for sniping targets learned from his days in the Marines. He’s ready to retired from the assassin life but…
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides Hello! This is my second review and is fittingly on the second most popular 2021 Goodreads’ Choice Awards novel in the Mystery & Thriller category! To start off, I like it better than The Last Thing He Told Me (you can read my review on it here). I mean this was a THRILLER and it kept me guessing until the last moments. And the reveal, oh it’s a reveal alright. Maybe I just need to…
The Last Thing He Told Me by Laura Dave What a banger to start this blog! But this did win Goodreads’ Mystery & Thriller book of 2022 so there’s no surprise there. I’ve committed myself to reading the top three books from from each category of Goodreads’ choice awards (though I will skip a few like Poetry and Middle Grade & Children’s, they’re just not quite up my alley) this year and am starting this blog to chronicle my progress….