Goals update time! I’m still working on my goal of reading 100 books this year, though things have slowed down a bit since my last update. As much as I wish I’d been able to keep up with my reading pace, I know that I’ve been busy doing other things (important things) and that’s why I’ve read many fewer books. I read about six books in April (since my last update), which is way fewer than I read in March but I’m going to take every book finished as a win.
I also did something new in April. I decided that I didn’t have to finish books I didn’t like. So I had about three nonfiction books–mostly memoirs–come in off of library hold and I read probably 20ish pages in each of them before just coming to the conclusion that I wasn’t really in a memoir kind of mood. So I hit that return button on the library app and sent them all along to the next person on the hold list. I’m not going to name the books because I didn’t stop reading them because they were bad and I don’t want you all to think I’m anti-recommending them. I just wasn’t feeling it. So that’s another reason why my book number is lower this month.
All of these were ebooks from the library except for The Immortalists. There’s a (relatively) new Politics and Prose shop in Union Market and one day I stopped in and spent way too long wandering through the stacks trying to decide what to buy. My mental list has about 100 books and cookbooks on it and most of them were in stock in the store so it took a lot of self-control to only walk away with one. But I’d been hearing about The Immortalists for what felt like ages and even had it on hold at the library (I was months away from getting it) so I chose it. I’m so glad I did. It’s amazing. It’s heart-wrenching and the perfect balance of real life and magic and I cannot recommend it enough.
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