Reviews of things I’ve consumed, mostly books.
It’s happened. I stayed mostly current on my book reviews for the summer and had to write only three more before posting this. Go me.
As usual, I’m reviewing only the books I like unless I have strong opinions about a book I dislike.
Guess what, dear readers: with this post going up, I’ve finally cleared my book reviews. Now let’s see if I can keep this up.
As usual, I’m only talking about the books I like unless I really have something specific to say about a book I dislike.
Remember last time when I thought I had been working on a book review post for awhile but it turned out I had posted one over a year ago? Well, the same thing happened again, but to a less extreme extent. I do have a reason besides forgetting–approaching burnout! Of the work variety, not (just) the existential kind that being a person in America is leading to right now. More on that in a future post.
Like last time, I’m including only the best/most memorable books in order to avoid scope creep, so these books are roughly from October 2024 to February 2025. I’m also starting the next round of book reviews now in the hopes of getting the next round up sooner and maybe even writing them sooner and not six months later? A girl can dream.
Time for some book reviews! Stupid excuse time: I thought I had been working on one of these posts for months… and then it turned out I posted my last one last year. Oops.
In case you don’t remember, my goal for 2024 is to read fifty books, but with a twist: read at least 50% fiction, no matter my final total for the year. As of this writing I’m at 46 total books and 23 fiction works, so I’m still on track, but barely. I’m currently reading two nonfiction books, one on audiobook and one I’m slowly chipping away at for work, so I need to make sure I stay on track the fiction books for the rest of the year. I suppose that’s one small perk of not doing NaNoWriMo for the first time in over twenty years: I had a little time to build up that fiction total.
So let’s get to it. I’m including only the best/most memorable books of what I’ve read this year unless I have something specific to say about something I disliked.
As of today I’ve read 43 books out of my original goal of 50 books and should finish at least one more before the end of the year. At the beginning of the month I thought I’d be lucky to reach 40 books, but a lot of errands and chores on foot during the last week helped me to blow through several audiobooks.
This is the first year I’ve fallen short of my book goal since 2012-2013, when I read two (yes, two) books in 2012 and zero books in 2013. I blame Game of Thrones. Yes, the book.
Since I haven’t written one of these posts in awhile, this review covers only the highlights. I’ve also excluded December’s books because even though there were some gems, this post has been a work in progress for months and I didn’t want to delay posting it for even longer.