TELL ME TUESDAY
NUMBER FOUR HUNDRED AND FOURTEEN
LAST. NOW. NEXT.
MAY READING WRAP-UP
*tidbits*
TELL ME TUESDAY is a floating feature, depending on your reading style, where you tell us what you read last, what you are reading now, what you will be reading next from your TBR pile, and why.
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I am curious why people read what they read, so tell me!
ONE BOOK A WEEK
I'm still trying to keep my reading down to one book a week
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For the last two years I have been trying to cut my reading back to one book a week, but this year I am seven books behind that goal. Life is a fickle thing.
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THESE "LAST" BOOKS ARE THREE MONTHS WORTH OF READING
★★★
(2.5)
HISTORICAL FICTION
STANDALONE
PARANORMAL
WORLD WAR I
Published February 13th 2024 - NetGalley ARC
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This book really let me down in the back half after loving the beginning. I also consider this "upper chick lit" it didn't quite reach Literary Fiction level for me.
★★★★★
LITERARY FICTION
STANDALONE
CLASSIC
Published 1847 - Own Ebook and Hardcovers
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Liis, from Cover to Cover, and I had our annual buddy re-read of Jane Eyre for Women's History Month. I read my Penguin Clothbound Classics edition because I bought it used, it isn't in good shape, and I wanted to annotate it.
★★★★
(3.5)
ADULT FICTION
COZY FANTASY
LGBTQ+
Published November 2023 - Libby Borrow
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I loved Legends and Lattes, but this prequel fell short of that. I liked it, though.
★★★★★
LITERARY FICTION
STANDALONE
CONTEMPORARY
STREAM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
DISABLED MAIN CHARACTER
Published 2018 - Hoopla Borrow
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This was my Diversity Month book.
It was a story about a man with cystic fibrosis. I haven't reviewed it yet because I have a lot of thoughts about the bad reviews it received for being "sexist". It wasn't.
★★★★
LITERARY FICTION
STANDALONE
HISTORICAL FICTION
WITCHES
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
Published 2022 - Hoopla Borrow
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. I really enjoyed this story and will most definitely be looking to read another book from this author.
★★★★★
MIDDLE GRADE
DUOLOGY BOOK TWO
CONTEMPORARY
FAMILY AND FRIENDS
BLACK CULTURE
PHYSICAL DIFFERENCES
ALZHEIMERS
Published 2021 - Hoopla Borrow
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I loved this book as well as the first one, Love Like Sky.
★
ADULT FICTION
STANDALONE
COZY FANTASY
WITCHES
Published 2022 - Libby Borrow
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I want to make it clear that I didn't give this book one star because it was a cozy. I always rate books on how well they function within their intended audience. I know the new Fantasy cozies can be done well because I loved Legends and Lattes and liked its prequel Bookshops and Bonedust. I also didn't mind The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune, although I considered that story more like Middle Grade reading level for adults, than a cozy. I saw this author compared to Klune over and over. The publisher even compared this book to The House on the Cerulean Sea. To me there was no comparison.
LITERARY FICTION
STANDALONE
SCIENCE FICTION - FANTASY
ALTERNATE HISTORY
DIVERSE CHARACTERS
COLONIALISM
Published 2022 - Own Ebook
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I haven't rated or reviewed this title because although I loved the author's writing style and the love of language theme... towards the end of the book there was a strong "all White people" sentiment. I appreciated the anti-Colonialism message, but making a claim that all White people supported, or ignored Colonialism because it didn't affect them, is false. It was strange because the Quakers were mentioned briefly in a sentence near the beginning of the book and she could have easily used their selfless humanitarian acts to temper the "all White people" claim. The story also portrayed all White people as only supporting strikes or rebellions if they directly benefited from them themselves. Again the word "all" being the problem. This new habit of "fixing" history by introducing falsehoods and half truths on the other side, is just as bad as existing exclusionary and sugar-coated history accounts. It also creates a negative atmosphere where no real progress can be made with race relations. There was a Twitter thread a couple of years ago where people were saying that White people had nothing to do with the Underground Railroad, and that part of history also needed to be corrected, but then who hid the escaped slaves along the way? Just because some history is skewed doesn't mean all history is skewed.
LITERARY FICTION
STANDALONE
HISTORICAL FICTION
JAMAICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE
JAMAICAN IMMIGRANT EXPERIENCE
FAMILY
Published 2022 - Libby Borrow
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This story is real and gritty. I'm almost finished and it's been a heart-wrenching and nerve-rattling ride. It's wonderful and insightful. This is my first book for Carib-A-Thon and also Caribbean-American Heritage Month.
ADULT FICTION
STANDALONE
MAGICAL REALISM
CONTEMPORARY
DOMINICAN-AMERICAN CULTURE
SISTERS
Published August 2023 - Hoopla Borrow
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I didn't know one of my favorite Young Adult authors had written a new novel, and that it's adult literature. She is also the best at narrating her books. This one has additional narrators, I'm supposing one for each sister. I hope they are as talented as the author. This will be my second book for Carib-A-Thon and Caribbean-American Heritage Month.
MAY READING WRAP-UP
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BOOKS READ
THREE
ARCS
NONE
PHYSICAL BOOKS
NONE
EBOOKS
ONE
AUDIOBOOKS
TWO
MANGA - GRAPHIC NOVELS - COMICS
NONE
MIDDLE GRADE
ONE
YOUNG ADULT
NONE
ADULT FICTION
TWO
NONFICTION
NONE
RE-READ
NONE
FAVORITE MAY READ
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2024
YEAR TO DATE TOTALS
BOOKS READ
15
(seven books behind schedule)
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NONFICTION 2/12
MIDDLE GRADE 1/6
NATIVE AMERICAN/FIRST NATIONS AUTHORS I/4
MUSIC 2/6
PLAYS 0/4
BACKLIST ARCS 0/4
CLASSICS 1/3
RE-READS 1/3
FREEBIES/99¢ KINDLE BOOKS 0/12
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MIDDLE GRADE - 1
YOUNG ADULT - 2
ADULT FICTION - 10
NONFICTION - 2
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GRAPHIC NOVELS/MANGA - 0
AUDIOBOOKS - 8
EBOOKS - 6
PHYSICAL COPIES - 0
BORROWED - 8
ARCS - 3
•tidbits•
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Harvard has removed the human skin from a book that has been in their collection since 1934.
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