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At the start of 2017 I set a goal to read 40 books by the end of the year. In February I hit 20 so I increased my goal to 65 with hopes to reach 100 by the end of December. This a record of what I’m reading.

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March Reading Round-up! Books Read: 18 Total books read in 2020: 62 ✨ There were a few great 5⭐️ reads in this mix... I had great hopes for Emily St. John Mandel's newest, The Glass Hotel, but ultimately felt that the narrative lacked focus and I just didn't care about any of the characters or their outcomes... anyone else feel the same about The Glass Hotel? ✨ 5/⭐️ Night Sky With Exit Wounds by Ocean Vuong Good Talk by Mira Jacob Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli Goodbye Vitamin by Rachel Khong 4/⭐️ Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite (audio) 3.5/⭐️ The Glass Hotel by Emily St. John Mandel (audio) Mouth of Birds by Samantha Schweblin 3/⭐️ The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce (audio) Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson (audio) The Grammarians by Cathleen Schine Night Town by Timothy Hallinan 2.5/⭐️ In Five Years by Rebecca Serle (audio) 2/⭐️ Second Sight by Aoife Clifford Elegy for April by Benjamin Black The Break Down by B.A. Paris (audio) Landline by Rainbow Rowell (audio) 1/⭐️ The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen (audio)

I’m so excited about this #tbr stack but I’m hesitant to start any of these books because I’m irrationally worried about running out of reading material... Read any of these beauties??

Anyone else been thinking and talking about #stationeleven as much as I have been these last few weeks?? I’m not sure I can recall any scenes or images from all the other books I’ve read the way I can from Station Eleven. The cars on the highway leaving the city. The full plane on the runway. If you’ve read it, you know... #postapocalyptic #pandemic

#currentlyreading Valeria Luiselli’s dense and profound novel about a family’s road trip from New York to the Arizona border. Luiselli packs in so much, a family in the process of disintegration, stories of children crossing the border into the U.S., the lost voices of the Apache, a soundtrack of music and books and information... elegant and multi-layered, political and personal. It’s wonderful. ✨ Have you read it? What did you think?

February Reading Round-up! ✨ Books Read: 19 Total books read in 2020: 43 5/⭐️ A Fortune For Your Disaster by Hanif Abdurraqib Weather by Jenny Offill 4/⭐️ Why We Can't Sleep by Ada Calhoun The Regrets (audio) by Amy Bonnaffons The Body Lies by Jo Baker 3.5/⭐️ A Kind of Freedom by Margaret Wilkerson Sexton What Belongs to You by Garth Greenwell Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid Oona Out of Order (audio) by Margarita Montimore 3/⭐️ Evvie Drake Starts Over (audio) by Linda Holmes Blood On Snow by Jo Nesbo The Bear (audio) by Andrew Krivak 2.5/⭐️ You Are Not Alone (audio) by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen 2/⭐️ When We Were Vikings (audio) by Andrew David MacDonald The Water's Edge by Karin Fossum The Roxy Letters (audio) by Mary Pauline Lowry The Hiding Place by C.J Tudor 1/⭐️ Bring Me Back (audio) by B.A. Paris Furyborn by Claire Legrand

There were so many pages in Ada Calhoun's Why We Can't Sleep that I dog-eared, eager to return to in my upcoming book group discussion about the book. Many passages rang true to me, mainly because the book was written for a Gen X woman much like myself: American, white, middle class. Calhoun grapples with various tenets of Gen X womanhood, the anxiety and near-constant fear of everything from making decisions to parenting to finances, the often-overlooked female midlife crisis, the impossible crux of "doing it all," and night sweats and mood swings of perimenopause; she incorporates cultural touchstones as examples (tv shows, music, events, etc), dives into the similar ways in which we were raised by our Boomer parents (hello, fellow latchkey kids), and supports her arguments with quotes from women she interviewed around the country. It's a quick, engaging read that speaks clearly to the depression, anxiety, and pressures felt by some (again: American, white, middle class) Gen X women. ✨ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Loving my current TBR stack... What are you reading next??

“i suppose there is also intimacy in the moment when a lover becomes an enemy, though it is tougher to say when it happens. probably when there is a song you can’t remember them living inside of anymore, even if both of you curled your lips around the words in a car at some impossible hour of morning, driving away from the place you met. i like my agony threaded together by the same chorus. not everything is Sisyphean. no one ever wants to imagine themselves as the boulder.” ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I loved Bernardine Evaristo's gorgeous and well-crafted Booker Prize-winning book Girl, Woman, Other. The novel follows 12 diverse black girls and women in Britain as their stories intersect, as their narratives take shape, as they change/love/hide secrets/are assaulted/give birth/experience loss/persevere and become more and more themselves. ✨ Also, is anyone else pleased that the Booker Prize judges finally chose to award the prize to a WOC, but dismayed that Evaristo was made to share the prize with a white woman? Yes the white woman was Margaret Atwood, who previously snagged the prize for The Blind Assassin, but should not have co-won the prize for The Testaments...