Rainy Day Reads

September was way better than August, but there is definitely room for improvement still. I finished five books and currently reading 8…! That’s a lot for me to have going all at once and I do admit that a few of them aren’t really being read right now.   I had to delete one book, so now my TBR is at 270.  Books finished Invictus by Ryan Graudin American Panda by Gloria Chao Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson (TBR book) Easy by Tammara Webber (reread) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (TBR book) Books added to my TBR King of Scars by Leigh Bardugo Books currently reading The Joy of Tax by Richard Murphy (TBR book) Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science and the World by Rachel Swaby All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater Three Dark Crowns by Kendare Blake (TBR book) Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng (TBR book) Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (TBR book) Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë  ...

August was ROUGH! I had an exam to resit and then a 3 week course on the other side of the country for my trainee position. Having school and classes all day and being away from my home comforts my brain was not wired for reading too much when the evening rolled around, so I only managed to get a couple of books off my TBR by reading them. I had to delete 4….but I’m pretty happy about the situation now and just hope September will be better. So now my TBR stands at 275 books.   Books finished La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman Tyler Johnson Was Here by Jay Coles (TBR book) Emergency Contact by Mary H.K. Choi (TBR book) Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner  The Rules of Persuasion by Amity Hope Books DNF’ed None…But I will admit that some of them are lingering a bit on my Currently Reading list… Books added to my TBR None! Wooo go me! Books currently reading The Joy of Tax by Richard Murphy (TBR book) He...

I decided to try and do something to organize my reading for the new year and I thought reading topics for each month might be fun. I usually enjoy Non-fiction November, so why not expand that idea to the rest of the year. These are the topics I came up with and some books I should like to read for each topic. I don't necessarily plan on reading all the books for each month, but it's fun to have something to start with. Feel free to join me on this topical reading quest and if you have any recommendation please leave them in the comments. JAZZY JANUARY (historical fiction from the jazz age) FEMINIST FEBRUARY MOTIVATIONAL MARCH The Girls at the Kingfisher Club by Genevieve Valentine We should all the feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Getting things done by David Allen The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald Girls will be girls by Emer O’Toole Start b...