Book 27/30. My rating: 5 of 5 starsMy third 5 star read of the year 🤩This was sooo good!!! Twists on twists on twists!!! I had a shitload of fun reading this and after also giving The Silent Patient 5 stars back in May I can now say psychological thrillers are one of my absolute … Continue reading Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney

Book 26/30. My rating: 1 of 5 starsMy second 1 star read of the year 😒😒😒 Wow! This was realllllllyyyyyy horrible. This is the first time I’ve ever read a book in 24 hours not because of how good and unputdownable it was, but because of how bad it was. I couldn’t think of anything … Continue reading Are You There, Vodka? It’s Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler

Book 25/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsI added this book to my Want to Read shelf on Goodreads on August 30, 2015 after Emily May gave it SUCH A GLOWING REVIEW!!! I finally got my hands on it a few months ago and couldn't wait to dive into it as I had been wanting … Continue reading Lockdown by Alexander Gordon Smith

Book 20/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsWow!! Who knew Amy Poehler is so fucking wise. Lol.I was expecting this to be funny, and it was. Maybe not laugh out loud funny, but still funny nonetheless. What I was not expecting was for it to be wise AF. If I were the type of person … Continue reading Yes Please by Amy Poehler

Book 19/30. My rating: 1 of 5 stars Welp! My first 1 star read of the year 😐This was so soo sooo fucking BORING!!!!!!!!!! The blurb on the front cover by Independent on Sunday describes this book as 'WONDERFUL...EXQUISITE...DEVASTATING' I knew I was in trouble a few pages in when I noticed I was reading … Continue reading On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan

Book 18/30. My rating: 3 of 5 stars **teeny tiny spoilers below**3.5 stars.For the first three chapters I was so damn sure this would be my fourth 2 star read in a row because I was not feeling the author’s writing style AT ALL!!! On the back cover the prose is described as “vibrantly alive … Continue reading Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff

Book 17/30. My rating: 2 of 5 starsMy third 2 star read in a row 😒😐🙄 Wow! This was just so utterly unremarkable 🥴Enyewe, I have been duped by one too many books because they have “Oprah’s Book Club” written on the cover. Man this was more boring than I thought it would be. The … Continue reading Drowning Ruth by Christina Schwarz

Book 16/30. My rating: 2 of 5 starsMe right now trying to figure out how the hell this is the same author who wrote The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry:This is my third Gabrielle Zevin book, my first being the aforementioned The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry which was a solid 5 star read. I … Continue reading Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin

Book 15/30. My rating: 2 of 5 starsSighhh!!! I thought I would like this much, much, much more than I did. I watched the movie adaptation starring Reese Witherspoon a few years back and I rather enjoyed it so I was confident I would enjoy the source material as well.Nonfiction is clearly NOT my thing … Continue reading Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed

Book 14/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsThis is my fourth Kristin Hannah read (after The Nightingale, Firefly Lane and Night Road, in that order) and it is the first of her books that doesn’t get a 5 star rating from me and I’m realllllllyyyyyy feeling some typa way about that.Similar to The Nightingale, Winter … Continue reading Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah