Still reading, but buying way too many books
I admit it, I got overwhelmed, and then I avoided updating this. It’s a personal flaw, and I own it. BUT when I was updating my list of read/to be read books, I realized something disheartening: I am buying too many books. I’ve read 38 books since my last post that I had to add to the list, versus 34 books that were on my tbr that I can now take off. So that’s 38 more books I could have reduced my tbr number by, that I didn’t. Ugh!
The one good thing is that I have been doing really well this year in NOT reading books just for the Goodreads challenges. They were fun, but now there are just too many of them. So if I have a book already that is on one of the challenge lists, I will read it, but I won’t get a book from the library or buy something just for the challenge. As a completionist, it was hard for me to not tick every box, but I’ve just let it go, at least until I get my tbr taken care of.
Now, let’s catch up:
Week 31
H: The Story of Heathcliff’s Journey Back to Wuthering Heights by Lin Haire-Sargeant – Fiction: Not Worth It
Final rating: 2 stars
Hemingway vs Fitzgerald by Scott Donaldson – Biography: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
The Peacekeeper by BL Blanchard – Mystery: Not Worth It
Final rating: 1 star
Week 32
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf – Novel: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
The Restoration Garden by Sara Blaydes – Historical Fiction: Not Worth It
Final rating: 3 stars
Week 33
A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms by George RR Martin – Fantasy: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
The Siege by Arturo Perez Reverte – Historical Thriller: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie – Mystery: Worth It!
Final rating: 5 stars
The Kill Clause by Lisa Unger – Thriller: Not Worth It
Final rating: 3 stars
The Secret of Chimneys by Agatha Christie – Mystery: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Week 34
House of Glass by Sarah Pekkanen – Thriller: Not Worth It
Final rating: 3 stars
The Last Father-Daughter Dance by Lisa Wingate – Short Story: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
French Conversation and Composition by Harry Vincent Wann – Language: Worth It!
Final rating: 5 stars
Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins – Dystopian Fiction: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Week 35
We Ate the Dark by Mallory Pearson – Horror: Not Worth It
Final rating: 2 stars
The Last Tycoon by F. Scott Fitzgerald – Novel: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
The Heart of Everything by Marc Levy – Domestic Fiction: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Week 36
I Remember Nothing by Nora Ephron – Memoir: Worth It!
Final rating: 5 stars
Fountain’s Edge by Paul M. Salvatore – Fantasy: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Elizabethan Demonology by Thomas Alfred Spalding – Non-Fiction: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
The Haunted Mansion by Lauren Clauss – Children’s: Worth It!
Final rating: 5 stars
Sacred Hoops by Phil Jackson – Memoir: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Harrington Street by Jerry Garcia – Memoir: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Week 37
The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald – Novel: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
A Charlie Brown Christmas by Charles M. Schultz – Children’s Holiday: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Week 38
Our Violent Ends by Chloe Gong – Historical Fantasy: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Death at the Chateau Bremont by ML Longworth – Mystery: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
James Herriot’s Cat Stories by James Herriot – Memoir: Worth It!
Final rating: 5 stars
Week 39
A Crown for Elizabeth by Mary M. Luke – Biography: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Week 40
The Librarian of Burned Books by Brianna Labruskes – Historical Fiction: Not Worth It
Final rating: 3 stars
An Unwanted Guest by Shari Lapena – Thriller: Not Worth It
Final rating: 3 stars
Week 41
The Air Raid Book Club by Annie Lyons – Historical Fiction: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Land of Dreams by Gian Sardar – Historical Fiction: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
The Invited by Jennifer McMahon – Horror: Not Worth It
Final rating: 3 stars
Week 42
People of the Book by Geraldine Brooks – Historical Fiction: Not Worth It
Final rating: 3.5 stars
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie – Mystery: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
New Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko – Fantasy: Worth It!
Final rating: 5 stars
Week 43
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt – Southern Gothic Mystery: Worth It!
Final rating: 4.5 stars
Book of Cats by Ursula K. Le Guin – Poetry: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo – Fantasy: Worth It!
Final rating: 4.5 stars
Murder in the Rue Dumas by ML Longworth – Mystery: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak – Thriller: Not Worth It
Final rating: 3 stars
Week 44
Complete Hypnotism by A. Alpheus – Non-Fiction: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Week 45
The World of Ice & Fire by George RR Martin – Fantasy: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley – Fantasy: Not Worth It
Final rating: 4 stars
Week 46
The Moving Finger by Agatha Christie – Mystery: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie – Mystery: Not Worth It
Final rating: 3 stars
The Voynich Manuscript by Unknown – Non-Fiction: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie – Mystery: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Week 47
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz – Mystery: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
The Murder at World’s End by Ross Montgomery – Mystery: Not Worth It
Final rating: 2 stars
Week 48
Love and Freindship by Jane Austen – Short Story: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Week 49
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen – Novel: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Week 50
The Last Labyrinth by Gwendolyn Womack – Science Fiction: Not Worth It
Final rating: 2 stars
Sleepytown by Donna Tartt – Memoir: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
The Price of Honey by Liane Moriarty – Science Fiction: Not Worth It
Final rating: 3 stars
Something Ends, Something Begins by Andrzej Sapkowski – Fantasy: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Leave It Up To Love by Kristy Woodson Harvey – Romance: Not Worth It
Final rating: 2 stars
Amelia Bedelia Goes Back to School by Herman Parish – Children’s: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Helping the Wright Brothers by Suzanne Tate – Children’s: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen – Novel: Worth It!
Final rating: 5 stars
Week 51
Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen – Novel: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
Week 52
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen – Novel: Worth It!
Final rating: 5 stars
The Atlas of Languages by Bernard Comrie – Non-Fiction: Not Worth It
Final rating: 3 stars
Week 53
Emma by Jane Austen – Novel: Worth It!
Final rating: 5 stars
Lift Me Up by Milly Johnson – Romance: Not Worth It
Final rating: 2 stars
Persuasion by Jane Austen – Novel: Worth It!
Final rating: 5 stars
The Watsons by Jane Austen – Novel: Not Worth It
Final rating: 3 stars
Ada and the Wild Duck by Edith Brecht – Children’s: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
The Yellow House Mystery by Gertrude Chandler Warner – Children’s: Worth It!
Final rating: 4 stars
The Secrets Below by Camilla & Vivica Sten – Young Adult Supernatural: Not Worth It
Final rating: 3 stars
And to sum up where we are now:
And until next time, happy reading!
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