The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood fulfilled the category “Book Randomly Chosen from Your TBR List” for the PopSugar 2021 Reading Challenge. I had a whole pile lined up for this one. Then I read this title, and it was a no-brainer which novel to blog about. (And I know, EVERYONE is blogging …
Sweet Entanglement by Jean C. Gordon fulfilled the category “Work with Less than 1000 Reviews on Amazon or Goodreads” for the PopSugar 2021 Reading Challenge. Amazon currently has eighty-four reviews with an average of a 4.5-star rating. Goodreads has 125 reviews with 4.35 stars. Sweet Entanglement is Book Twelve of the Indigo Bay series. …
Freddy and the Spaceship by Walter Rollin Brooks fulfilled the category “Book that has been on your TBR list the longest.” I had quite a few other titles for this one, including The Witching Hour by Anne Rice, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski, and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll. …
The Banishment by Marion Chesney (MC Beaton) fulfills the category “Book from Your TBR List You Associate with a Favorite Person, Place, or Thing” for the PopSugar 2021 Reading Challenge. I bought this title on a trip to Portland, OR to see my husband’s bestie. The two have known each other since the Navy …
The Rook by Daniel O’Malley fulfilled the category “A DNF from your TBR List” for the PopSugar 2021 Reading Challenge. I received a recommendation for this title at least five years ago. I started it but put it away for some reason. A quarter of the way into the novel, I realized why I …
Want by Cindy Pon fulfilled the category “Book about a Social Justice Issue” for the PopSugar 2021 Reading Challenge. I also read The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett after I finished the first title. I’d hoped for a less obvious plot. The novel was good. But if I reviewed it, I’d be rehashing topics …
Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley fulfills the category “Book Written by an Indigenous Person” for the PopSugar 2021 Reading Challenge. This novel was written by a member of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Michigan. The title was not my first choice for the category. I’ve read a couple of other …
An American Marriage by Tayari Jones fulfilled the category “Book that Has Won the Woman’s Prize for Fiction” for the PopSugar 2021 Reading Challenge. It won in 2019. This book illustrates the reason I do not read literature. It was good but didn’t seem deserving of such an honor. Let me give you some …
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo fulfilled the category “Book with a Black and White Cover” for the PopSugar 2021 Reading Challenge. The title fills half the cover with white outlined black letters on a black background. A black snake slithers through the letters of the title and author’s name. It was not my first …
Into the Wild by John Krakauer fulfilled the category “Work Set Mostly Outside” for the PopSugar 2021 Reading Challenge. The nonfiction title follows the story of a man determined to live off the land. It wasn’t my first choice. Again, I had a hard time finding one I loved. I started Beauty Queens by …
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