A detailed look at last week’s reading habits: Nine books read, including two re-reads, a recap of last week’s book review and my book plans with Sarah J. Maas’s latest release!
Updates
| Last Week’s Blog Updates | Last Week’s Goodreads Reviews |
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| 📖 Weekly Wrap: February 1st to February 7th 📖 Poignant and Impassioned: My Saving Grace by Melanie Moreland | 📚 None this week! |
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Weekly Review
What I’ve Read This Week
Key: 🔁 re-read| ❌ DNF | 📜 from my Up Next shelf | 📲 eARC
- Open Hearts by Eve Dangerfield ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Baby Talk by Eve Dangerfield ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- The Billionaire’s Wake-Up-Call Girl (Billionaires of Manhattan, #2) by Annika Martin ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Most Eligible Billionaire (Billionaires of Manhattan, #1) by Annika Martin ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Losing It All (Hellfire Riders MC, #11) by Kati Wilde 📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Hellfire Riders Vol 4-6: Jack & Lily by Kati Wilde ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- The Loyal Groom by Alexa Riley ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Ringing in the New Year by Alexa Riley ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔁
- Keeping Her Warm by Alexa Riley ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 🔁
My Reading Progress
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Last week I reviewed My Saving Grace by Melanie Moreland! It was my first featured blog review of 2021; I forgot how much I enjoy taking the time to discuss the nuances of the books I read. And, while My Saving Grace had a few pitfalls with the execution of its central conflict, I loved the Heroine, Grace. She’s so freaking awesome; she’s not afraid to be vulnerable or to stand up for herself. I can’t wait for the next books in the ABC Corp series; I wonder who’s next to get their HEA?
I completely forgot yesterday was Valentine’s Day until halfway through the 14th. Realizing the significance of the day made me wonder if my sudden uptick in re-reading HEA erotica romance subconsciously correlates to Valentine’s? I finally got around to reading Alexa Riley’s latest release: The Loyal Groom. It’s a childhood sweetheart romance that spans grade 10ish to the main character’s mid-twenties, as they navigate their Romeo and Juliette romance. It was a sweet read that set me off on a re-reading binge; I read Ringing in the New Year and Keeping Her Warm pretty soon afterward.
Up Next Shelf Progress
A reminder: my Up Next Shelf is comprised of all the unread books I want to read and have purchased.
The total number of books on my Up Next Shelf has increased from 92 to 98 books and my books read increased to 8 books.
Net Progress = Books Added – Books Read
My Net Progress increased to 6 books which means I added more books than I read last week. I’m planning on posting a February Book Haul soon!
– Total Books is the total number of books still waiting to be read on my Up Next Shelf. It’s important to recognize that when I finish a book, that book is immediately deducted from the total, meaning the total value decreases. It’s important because while the weeks of Nov 2-8 and Nov 9-15 look like my total books value hasn’t changed, it actually shows that I added a new book to my Up Next Shelf during the Week of Nov 9-15.
– Books Read is the number of books I’ve read from my Up Next Shelf in that week. The values are negative because finishing a book from the Shelf decreases the total value. Therefore, when looking at the Overall graph (the yellow line), you can see when the line is 0, the books I read and added cancel each other out. This week (Nov 16-22), the Overall value is below the 0-line, demonstrating that I didn’t add any new books to my Up Next Shelf, but I did finish a book from the Shelf.
Want to Read Updates
You will like Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo if you appreciate:
✨ Explores what it means to be a Black woman living in modern Britain
✨ Follows 12 women with interconnecting stories
✨ Collection of connected short stories
✨ LGBT+ Representation
You will like Myths of Gender by Anne Fausto-Sterling if you appreciate:
✨ Snarky attack on positivism and essentialism
✨ Unpacks the myth that science exists in a political vacuum
✨ How social constructions of gender inform our ‘truths’ of biological sex
✨ Nonfiction
The Upcoming Week
To Be Read
Of course, I’m still reading quite a few books right now. I never used to read more than one book at a time, but here I am, reading four books at once!
I’m really excited to get into Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit. This book is what inspired the term mansplaining. It’s a compact compilation of essays on the dynamics between genders resulting in women’s silencing, demonstrating why we need feminism.
I’m also slowly working my way through:
- Until We Are Free Edited by Rodney Diverlus, Sandy Hudson and Syrus Marcus Ware
- Memory Serves by Lee Maracle
- Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
- The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
To Look Forward To This Week
I’m ECSTATIC that the release date of A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas is finally here; it’s releasing tomorrow! I’m planning another buddy read to get through this hefty novel (it’s 757 pages!). I definitely appreciate Nesta, and I 100% believe that if a male character acted the way she did, the whole Maas fandom would be swooning. The only thing that will drag down this book is if it’s a love triangle – we all know who are the endgame, so any introduction of an OW to create jealousy will be a plot device, which is lazy writing.
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