My Head Is Full of Books: Two Little Brags

"Outside a dog a book is man's best friend, inside a dog it is too dark to read!" -Groucho Marx========="The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." -Jane Austen========="I don’t believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."-JK Rowling========"I spend a lot of time reading." -Bill Gates=========“Ahhh. Bed, book, kitten, sandwich. All one needed in life, really.” -Jacqueline Kelly=========

Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Two Little Brags

Brag #1: Back in July feeling overwhelmed because of being 16 reviews behind I set myself a little challenge to catch up by mid September. I did it! I finished the 16th past due review today and stayed current at the same time. in other words, I didn't catch up on one side to fall behind on the other.

Here are the books I finished, all hyperlinked. If you want to check any of them out, please do!

1. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

2. Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach

3. The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

4. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

5. Brazen: Rebel Ladies Who Rocked the World by Penelope Baglieu

6. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi

7. Artemis by Andy Weir

8. Force of Nature by Jane Harper

9. Truth Like the Sun by Jim Lynch

10. The Leavers by Lisa Ko

11. The Place Between Breaths by An Na

12. Hillbilly Elegy: a Memoir Of a Family and Culture In Crisis by JD Vance

13. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides

14. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

15. Thunderhead by Neal Shusterman

16. The Bear and The Nightingale by Katherine Arden

Past Due Book Reviews

16 / 16 books. 100% done!

COMPLETE!

Brag #2: I am completely caught up on reviewing the books read so far this year that meet one of these three criteria: 1)book club selections, 2)Printz-possible YA titles, and 3)SH/JH nonfiction books. I also have a few favorites I have thrown in for good measure. All together I've reviewed 65 of the 85 books I've read so far this year. At a 76% completion that is some kind of record, I'm sure. I don't review all the books I read, nor would you want me to. Ha! (Some would be boring..."Um, the books wasn't that good, actually it was boring." or "I liked this poem, which I expected but didn't understand that poem." I'll spare you the tedium.) So until I finish another book, I have no reviews waiting to be written. Woot. Woot. In my nine years of blogging I have NEVER been here before!