I'm working my way through #VirtualMountTBR. Here's my current To-Be-Read List, and here's the list of titles I have read this year.
In October 2023
Books read: 8
Books I decided NOT to finish: 3
Notes from a Young Black Chef: It wasn't that I don't like food memoir. It wasn't that I have anything against young Black chefs making it big on the D.C. scene. It wasn't even the idea of anyone spending hundreds and hundreds of dollars on a single restaurant meal (although this didn't help). Mostly it was the reflective syntax that held up ideas and then negated them, repeatedly.
Curious Toys: I guessed the identity of the villain about halfway through, and couldn't sit through any more chapters of his creepy perspective. I skipped ahead to confirm a few plot points, and returned it.
Tiger Daughter: I picked it up at work and intended only to flip through it, but ended up reading about a third of the text to figure out what happened in the story. Enough to make note!
Books left on the TBR List: 42
Best book of the month:
Nettle & Bone was good for a while, but didn't feel resolved. It had been built up a lot from reviews (so much so that I put it on hold even though it was not on the TBR list) and it just wasn't all that I'd hoped.
Worst book of the month:
Meh. Nothing really.
