A detailed look at last week’s reading habits: My weekly wrap encompasses ten books read, including four from my Up Next Shelf and three new award-winning books on my want-to-read written in translation.
Updates
| Last Week’s Blog Updates | Last Week’s Goodreads Reviews |
|---|---|
| 📖 Weekly Wrap: October 4th to October 10th 📖 26 Diverting Reads in August | None last week! |
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Weekly Review
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Weekly Review
What I’ve Read This Week
Key: 🔁 re-read | ❌ DNF | 📜 from my Up Next shelf | 📲 eARC
- Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time by Fanny Fern ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Within Obsession and Lies (A Court of Gilt and Shadow, #1) by Stacy Jones and Harper Wylde ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Bewitching the Boss by Jessa Kane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Struck Love by Lucy Darling ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- How Sweet It Is by Dylan Newton 📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- The Dating Playbook by Farrah Rochon 📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Defending Nightmares (I.S.S., #2) by M. Sinclair ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Worse Guy by Ruby Dixon ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Phoenix’s Refrain (Legion of Angels, #10) by Ella Summers 📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark 📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
My Reading Progress
Last week was incredibly chaotic but I compensated for it by reading so many great books. I also posted my long overdue August Wrap Up. I read 26 books and my favourite read of the month was actually an advance-reader review, Age of Ava by Melanie Moreland.
One of the books I read has been on my Up Next Shelf since May: Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark. It was actually my first horror read! While it wasn’t super scary, I found Ring Shout very creepy; which makes sense, considering its specific genre is body horror. I loved the Heroine, Maryse and her magical sword. For such a short book, P. Djèlí Clark shows incredible skill in constructing relatable, empathetic characters.
How Sweet It Is by Dylan Newton was the opposites-attract romance novel I wish Beach Read was. It has a similar set-up where the Hero is a horror writer. But instead of the Heroine being a romance writer, she’s an event planner who specializes in weddings. Meeting the Heroine also inspires the Hero to write his first romance novel! It’s such a funny and sweet contemporary romance. And, the book features Halloween, so it’s a perfect Autumnal read.
I also made it over the 300 books read threshold last week! Only around 60 to go to meet my Goodreads goal.
Up Next Shelf Progress
A reminder: my Up Next Shelf is comprised of all the unread books I want to read and have purchased.
Want to Read Updates
You will like Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga if you appreciate:
✨ Classic Literature
✨ Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book in Africa (1989)
✨ Historical Fiction
✨ Centres women’s rights within the politics of decolonization
You will like The Beekeeper by Dunya Mikhail if you appreciate:
✨ Nonfiction
✨ National Book Award Nominee for Translated Literature (2018)
✨ Tells the heroic true story of Abdullah Shrem, as a beekeeper in Iraq
✨ Author “tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh” (ISIS) through interviews
The Upcoming Week
To Be Read
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates was part of my June minimum to-be-read list, and it’s still unread. So, I’m making it a priority since I’ve been gravitating to nonfiction books recently.
I’ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void that plagued me after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates. The language of Between the World and Me, like Coates’s journey, is visceral, eloquent, and beautifully redemptive. And its examination of the hazards and hopes of black male life is as profound as it is revelatory. This is required reading.
~ Toni Morrison (backcover)
To Look Forward To This Week
Bad Girls Never Say Die by Jennifer Mathieu is a gender-reversed retelling of The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton set in 1964 Texas. I’m so incredibly excited to see how Mathieu is going to tell this story from a feminist perspective. I’m also looking forward to the plot which explores gender-based violence.
This week I’m hoping to post my review of The Boss by Melanie Moreland. And before the month is over I’m going to post my September Wrap Up, making me finally caught up on my monthly wrap posts.
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