2025 May Books

Finished 5 books in May.  I started easily another 10 and three of these I wanted to not finish but I forced myself to slog thru them.  My favorite was Everything is Tuberculosis - it was so interesting I truly didn’t know anything about Tuberculosis. 

2025 April Books

In April I finished 6 books.  This was a mixed bag in terms of content but overall I enjoyed most of them.  My favorite was Everything I Know about Love by Dolly Alderton.   I think this brings my total to 17 for the year so I am ahead for the year.  

• Everything I Know About Love
• The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life in WWII
• Us Against You
• The Husbands 
• One Life 
• Just for the Summer 

2025 March Books

I finished 4 books in March at least that I logged in good reads I feel like actually finished another one too but I never logged it and now I can’t remember.  I started easily another 15 so 4 seems respectable when you abandon so many.  I most enjoyed Dinner for Vampires - I do enjoy reading and watching cult documentaries.  And Peggy and American Overdose were also interesting.  

2025 Feb Books

In February I completed two more books both easy reads.  One of these I started and abandoned like two years ago.  But it was recommended to me again and I saw the movie so I tried it again.  This brings the yearly total to 7.  

Onward.

2025 Books

One of my 2025 goals was to read 30 books.  I started probably 20 in January but I did manage to finish 5.  I had such high hopes for onyx storm after liking the first two books and honestly this was meh I felt like the end it was so blah.  But I really enjoyed Greenlights and The Ballard of Songbirds and Snakes was a good prequel I read it super quick and it made me think maybe jones would like hunger games. 

Onward and upward maybe I will finish 5 in Feb too although I have abandoned like 12 already.  

2 More Books

I finished signature of all things recently it was not really my favorite book but I stuck with it mostly because I abandoned like 45 books before this one.  I have much preferred some of Elizabeth Gilbert’s other books before this one.  Some of this one was really graphic.

And before that I read and finished this Christmas book Apple Cider Sleighing, it was really corny and not my type of book at all but it was a quick read and somehow I got thru it. 

So that’s two more for my 12 I counted up my good reads totals for 2022 which I think is 7.  Which all told is not really great but I am considering it a win because honestly I have literally started like 75 books I have not finished yet.

Book 4 - Slaughter House five

This was my pool read this summer.  And I was delighted to read at the pool this summer but I also found reading competing with socializing with many friends who we’d run into at the pool so this short book literally took me all summer to read and I barely finished it.  It wasn’t my favorite book, but I got it in the little free library and Kurt Vonnegut is from Indiana.  So it goes.  

Book 3 - The Last Garden In England

I have started soooooo many books in the last few months I actually just made myself finish this one.  This one i even read as an audio book.  the Last Garden in England by Julia Kelly was not really my favorite book it was a bit hard to follow because it’s following several womens stories and I kept being confused which women it was following and which time period it was.  But I made myself finish it.  Their stories kind of came together at the end.  I did enjoy the bits about the gardens I want to look more into English gardens.  

13 - Book 2 Cultish

Second book down - Cultish, Amanda Montell.   I finished this one up on spring break.  I enjoyed it although I felt myself wanting more on the topic.  Such an interesting topic.  

13 - Book 1 - The Vanishing Half

I have been in a real reading slump.  Starting maybe 10 books finishing maybe 1.  2022 has been not that different, I planned to read 12 books this year which doesn’t seem unreachable, but for me it might be.

This one The Vanishing Half I struggled with at first considered dropping it in the first few chapters but then I just committed.  It wasn’t bad,  I’d say it was a 3 star.  It jumped around a bunch in time and characters and that’s not really my fav.  But I appreciated the story although I felt a little like I needed a bit more in the end as well.

Not sure what’s next I have a bunch of books in my hold queue with the library.