so-soSo I managed to read this entire thing—all 600+ pages. It was fine. I don‘t love fantasy, and this book is full of witches, shape shifters, trolls, etc. You find out some things, there is lots of violence, and it all sort of circles back around to the beginning. Just not my thing. #camptob #tournamentofbooks #fantasy
#camptob books complete!! June: Bowlaway (2.5⭐️) vs ✔️Daisy Jones & the Six (3⭐️) July: ✔️Lost Children Archive (5⭐️) vs Trust Exercise (4⭐️) August: ✔️American Spy (4⭐️) vs Black Leopard Red Wolf (3⭐️). Overall winner: Lost Children Archive🎉🎉🎉🎉. #tournamentofbooks #summerreadingchallenge
pickA little gimmicky, but this novel is the perfect beach, poolside, or airplane read. It‘s fast, easy, and pulls you forward. This is the story (in interview format) of a fake 70s band based in Los Angeles. #camptob #tournamentofbooks
Using #24in48 to catch up on some #TournamentOfBooks reads. That‘s what I love about the #ToB - discovering some gems like this that I would not otherwise have picked up. I‘m at 5 hr 41 min so far.
pickShockingly, this is the first Ondaatje I‘ve ever read. I also recently read Kate Atkinson‘s Transcription, to which many of my friends compared this book with this the winner. I do think in purely literary terms, this book is the “winner,” but I could read thousands of books about spy craft and the British in and just after #WWII, so they‘re both worthwhile for me. In any case, this is beautifully done. Painful, deliberate, gorgeous, complex.
panNot for me. Beautiful language but a chore to finish. #TournamentOfBooks
pickNafkote Tamirat's The Parking Lot Attendant is another book that I wish I'd read to pick up all of the details (rereading for clarification is SO much harder on audio). Anyway, I enjoyed The Parking Lot Attendant for its development of character and the insidious way that the unnamed narrator is drawn into a system that is beyond her capacity. ⠀
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New note: after reading some reviews on Goodreads, maybe the things I missed just weren't there?
Here's my February wrap-up:⠀
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27 books (2 nonfiction, 4 audiobooks, 1 graphic novel, 1 novel in verse, 1 graphic novel, 1 short story collection, 10 YA, 2 middle grade)⠀
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Here are my ⭐️⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ reads for the month: Darius the Great Is Not Okay, Winter of the Witch, Parkland, Dumplin', Speak: The Graphic Novel, Blood Water Paint, The War That Saved My Life, Circe⠀
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I had a ton of four-star reads, too--I read some amazing books this month!!!
Almost at 9 hours for the #24B4Monday readathon. This #TournamentOfBooks #ToB2019 selection was a good fit for the #BlackHistoryMonth theme. It‘s a powerful coming-of-age and coming-out story.
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I‘m starting with this one for the #24B4Monday Readathon!
#ToB2019 #TournamentOfBooks
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