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

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

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

Book 37/30. My rating: 2 of 5 stars I can’t believe I’ve wanted to read this ever since I shelved it on my Goodreads TBR shelf on January 23, 2017 because yikes this was so fucking mediocre 🥴🥴🥴 The final sentence of this book’s synopsis reads – But destiny is a funny thing, and in … Continue reading Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern

Book 36/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsI had no idea this was John Grisham's first book until I read the author’s note at the beginning of the novel and all I can say is the talent is real! This was a well-written, relatively fast paced legal thriller that did not read like a debut … Continue reading A Time to Kill by John Grisham

Book 35/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsThis was no Homegoing 😅 but I still enjoyed it all the same.The main reason Transcendent Kingdom gets 3 stars from me, unlike Homegoing which I gave 4 stars, is the heavy focus on religion in this book. The book spends a lot of time quoting the Bible … Continue reading Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

Book 34/30. My rating: 1 of 5 starsMy third 1 star read of the year 🥴🥴🥴I’d never heard of Jenny Lawson before coming across this book, but it was on sale for KES 200 (less than $2) and after reading this glowing review from Patrick Rothfuss I decided to buy the book as I was … Continue reading Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

Book 33/30. My rating: 5 of 5 starsI'll make him an offer he can't refuse.This was my third time reading this and wow it’s still a solid 5 stars 🤩The Godfather is 595 pages long but the pages just breeze by because of how well paced the book is. In fact the only reason it … Continue reading The Godfather by Mario Puzo