I just finished Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. It was really enjoyable and had me hooked! I've never seen the movie and am pretty excited to watch it now.
Now I'm reading King of Assassins by RJ Barker (book 3 of The Wounded Kingdom trilogy). This whole trilogy has been a bit rough around the edges but has some very unique world building. Over all I've been enjoying it.
Would baby wipes work? I don't use wipes to remove makeup but I've heard of people using them and if they're formulated for babies they might be more gentle?
Not quite. I've been mostly alternating with books for my book club.
Oh interesting! I'm on season 4 now and have been bothered by River's inconsistent levels of competency. I wonder if he's more consistent in the books now.
How fo the Slow Horses books compare to the show? I've been curious to give them a try since I'm enjoying the show so much.
It was probably my favorite book I read last year. I highly recommend it!
I am reading Rhythm of War by Brandon Sanderson (Stormlight book 4). I'm really enjoying this one, it may be my favorite in the series so far!
Thank you for running this! It was really fun to track through the year!
I didn't go out of my way to try to complete squares, just tracked what I read and what squares it would count as through the year. Overall, I finished with 19 squares completed and 34 total books read in the challenge timespan.
1A: Older Than You Are - Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare -
1B: Water, Water Everywhere - Tom Lake by Ann Patchett -
1C: What’s Yours is Mine - The Liar's Key by Mark Lawrence -
1D: Family Drama - The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah -
1E: It Takes Two - The Gathering Storm by Robert Jordan, Brandon Sanderson -
2B: Plays With Words - Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin -
2D: Bookception - The Paris Bookseller by Keri Maher -
2E: Disability Representation - Age of Assassins by RJ Barker -
3A: Eazy, Breazy, Read-zie - Hex Education by Maureen Kilmer -
3B: Stranger in a Strange Land - Endurance by Alfred Lansing -
3C: FREE SPACE: One Less - I Am Legend by Robert Matheson -
3E: LGBTQIA+ Lead - Chain-Gang All-Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah -
4A: Now a Major Motion Picture - Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman -
4C: Award Winner - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver -
4D: Mashup - Piranesi by Susanna Clarke -
4E: Local to You - Small Mercies by Dennis Lehane -
5A: Debut Work - Educated by Tara Westover -
5D: Minority Author - Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride -
5E: Among the Stars - Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
He's great! I saw that Sanderson is planning to write a novella about him in a year or two.
I'm just continuing with Sanderson's Stormlight Archive. I finished Oathbringer and Dawnshard and will start Rhythm of War next.
I finished Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. It follows two friends and video game devs from childhood into adulthood. This author did some really interesting things and I intensely loved parts of the book. At the same time though, parts of the book really frustrated me, pulled me out of the story and made we want to stop reading it entirely. I've never been so conflicted about how I feel about a book.
Now I'm continuing to read Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson (Stormlight book 3). It's been very slow going but I am really enjoying it.
I finally finished Wind and Truth by Brandon Sanderson (Stormlight book 5). I feel a bit divided about this book. There was a lot that I liked but also a lot that didn't really work for me. I might have enjoyed it more if I had read certain other cosmere books first.
After that I wanted to read something short, so I've been binging The Impossible Times series by Mark Lawrence, which is YA scifi set in the 1980s. Book 1 was awesome, book 2 less so, and so far book 3 is somewhere in between. Overall a good change of pace!