A detailed look at last week’s reading habits: My weekly wrap details the eight books I read last week, my newest book purchases and the three historical novels on my want-to-read list.
Updates
| Last Week’s Blog Updates | Last Week’s Goodreads Reviews |
|---|---|
| 📖 Weekly Wrap: November 22nd to November 28th | 📚 Meant to Be by Jenika Snow 📚 Big Bad Doctor by K.C. Crowne 📚 Christmas and the Sheriff by C.M. Steele [DNF @ 34%] |
Contents
Weekly Review
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Weekly Review
What I’ve Read This Week
Key: 🔁 re-read | ❌ DNF | 📜 from my Up Next shelf | 📲 eARC
- Skyward (Skyward, #1) by Brandon Sanderson ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Tutoring the Delinquent by Jessa Kane ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Big Bad Doctor (Big Bad Daddies, #1) by K.C. Crowne 📜 ⭐️⭐️
- The Royals Next Door by Karina Halle 📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey 📜 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Blindly Indicted (Blindly, #1) by Katie May 🔁 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Heiress and the Cowboy (Justice, #2) by Ella Goode ⭐️⭐️⭐️
- Christmas and the Sheriff (The Force Family, #3) by C.M. Steele ❌
- Meant to Be by Jenika Snow ⭐️⭐️
My Reading Progress
After another stressful week, I allowed myself to go to the bookstore and left with seven books! If I don’t read them all this month, I have the makings for another book haul. Since all of the books I bought are Young Adult, which has been my reading mood lately, I’m hoping to get through them all though.
One of the books I read immediately when I got back to my place was Skyward by Brandon Sanderson. I was not expecting to love it as much as I did; while I enjoy sci-fi, it’s not a favourite genre of mine. But, I loved the character growth of the main character and the AI spaceship, M-Bot, who’s having an existential crisis was hilarious. I can’t wait to continue the series.
I read Window Shopping by Tessa Bailey on the first day of December. I wanted to start off the month with a holiday read and I’ve been counting the days until I could read this book since I bought it back in October! I loved how Window Shopping is a grumpy-sunshine romance where the Heroine is the grump. Despite being such opposites, there’s tangible and believable chemistry between the main characters. I especially enjoyed how far gone for the Hero was for the Heroine.
I’m excited to read more holiday romances this month.
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 Song of Blood and Stone by L. Penelope if you appreciate:
✨ Historical Fantasy
✨ Challenges xenophobia, racism and homophobia
✨ New Adult Romance
✨ For fans of Fairy Tales and Fantasy Romance
You will like Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead if you appreciate:
✨ Historical Fiction
✨ Dual Time-Line
✨ Epic Sage of 600+ pages
✨ a “story of a daredevil female aviator determined to chart her own course in life”
The Upcoming Week
To Be Read
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams is one of the books I picked up last week! It’s fulfilling my need for character-driven plots. Also, I’m a sucker for books about books. I especially love the message behind The Reading List: how books provide a bridge of connection between people and bring joy.
I’m also still reading Theory by Dionne Brand which needs to be finished by Thursday. It’s taking me a bit longer to read since I’m annotating it at the same time for my essay.
To Look Forward To This Week
Amanda Gorman’s collection of poems, Call Us What We Carry, was released today (December 7th)! In 2022, one of my reading goals is to read more poems and I’ve decided this book will be a good place to start.
Towards the end of the week, I’ll be posting my review of the epilogue novella of the Steel Demons MC series by Crystal Ash: Endless. I’m also hoping to post my November Wrap and finally be caught up on my Monthly Wraps just in time for 2022!
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