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.
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.
The beginning of 2021 has been excellent for reading, not just for the quantity but the quality as well. In fact, the time since my last book review post — written around the time I started my current job — has been full of good books with few true flops. Since there are so many books to cover I’ll just summarize the books with the highlights… even if that means most of the books.
I’m finally getting my book groove back after hardly reading any fiction in 2019. That is one thing the pandemic has been good for: Now that some of my life’s big time commitments are gone, I finally have a little more time to read. At first I had big dreams of zooming through a bunch of series that I’ve been meaning to read for years, but then I got preoccupied with Wikiwrimo updates, especially some of the large-scale ones that I finally had time to do.
One thing I’ve been trying to do is read less fiction by straight white dudes. I haven’t extended this to nonfiction due to the topics I like to listen to, my preference of listening to nonfiction, and the difficulty in obtaining audiobooks on those topics to start with, especially on a budget.
Since I haven’t written any book reviews in over two years, let’s just go through the highlights of this year’s books. All my books and their star ratings are on my Goodreads profile, but let’s just start from the beginning of the year and go through my favorites.