I'm working my way through #VirtualMountTBR2025. Here's my current To-Be-Read List, and here's the list of titles I have read this year.
In April 2025
Books read: 8
Books I decided NOT to finish: 5
What She Ate: I only finished the first of 6 sections. I really thought there would be more on the actual food and foodways of the time/culture.
First Love: Eh. Tales of adolescent wildness rarely hold me; I don't relate. I thought there would be more variety in the short stories.
All Fours: Why is this on my list? Because some recommendation list told me so. Eh. *raspberry at "should"*
The Union: I wanted to get into this, but the story moved too fast, with huge stakes before I got invested in any of the characters. I wanted to know more about both the individuals and their world.
Persuasion: This was on the list from a colleague's recommendation more than a year ago, but I let it go.
Books left on the TBR List: 33 (plus 6 checked out/in progress; I put some back that I'd had checked out for a while but hope to read later)
Best book of the month: Ammonite
I learned three new words! That so seldom happens. And it didn't seem overwritten, like someone got hold of a thesaurus and used it irresponsibly. (Lambent, soughing, anther.) An interesting consideration how languages and cultures might develop in the presence of a single sex.
Worst book of the month: Legends
Hit-or-miss anthology.
