Book 40/30. My rating: 3 of 5 stars I like to start and end my reading challenge on a high so for my first and last reads I always pick books I’m likely to love. Going into this I was pretty sure it would be my seventh!!!!!!! 5 star read of the year because the … Continue reading The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett
Month: December 2021
What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
Book 39/30. My rating: 2 of 5 stars If I were to describe this book in one word it would be drawn-the-fuck-out! This book had no business being longer than 200 pages from the reviews at the beginning to the readers guide at the end, yet it’s a whopping 459 pages!! I bought this book … Continue reading What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
December 13 2021
Dear mum, Four years today. 2021 has been a difficult year for me and I was completely unprepared for how deeply I would feel your absence this year. My mental health was in the pits for a large chunk of the year and I ended up falling out of love with so many things that … Continue reading December 13 2021
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Book 38/30. My rating: 3 of 5 stars I hadn’t read a Pulitzer Prize winning novel in a couple of years and this served as a reminder of why I tend to stay away from them as I really don’t understand why the prose of Pulitzer Prize winning novels has to be so… unfriendly. My … Continue reading The Road by Cormac McCarthy