As of today, 08/27/2019, I have read 105 books for the year!
Goal this year was to get through some of my owned books. Between my book friends and I, we have been playing games that encourage us to shop our own shelves for books to read. I have found some real winners among them! I really enjoyed Below by Ryan Lockwood and White Hot by Sandra Brown. I also got to read several free books that were sent to me by publishers. Picture Us in the Light, slow start but had a deeper meaning that I was able to hook into eventually was one of those!
I got caught in the hype for some books like The Duchess Deal by Tessa Dare. I absolutely LOVED this book and raced to read the next one in the series, The Governess Game. They are historical romances and worth every drop of ink on their pages. I also picked up Saga series. If you read nothing else this year, read Saga. My heart is still in pieces.
Book club continued to pick some great reads! I was able to select Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng and was so very happy to get this one read. I enjoyed it immensely and cannot wait to pick up more by the author.
I discovered some new to me BookTubers and read Come As You Are, another five star read that I would recommend to woman and men to read. It does have a narrow focus on straight woman since that is the author but I think everyone can learn something from it.
I also read hyped books that were disappointing like 99 Percent Mine by Sally Thorne. I loved The Hating Game so much and had high hopes for this but...man on man. I could have totally skipped it.
Mid year the books fell this way and that. I had some amazing reads like The Bird King that came our of left field and then some duds like The Clockmaker;s Daughter that dragged on a little too long.
Overall the reading year has been fantastic and I cannot wait to see what the rest of the year brings!
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