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 July 2025
Books read: 2
Books I decided NOT to finish: 3
Little Rot: I keep intending to read more Emezi (I really got into Pet and the prequel, Bitter, which are for younger audiences), but this time around decided I didn't need a dose of "poison of power, sexual violence, murder, betrayals".
Sideshow: This one has been on the list for a while, and I was going to save it for October, but it's since left the library collection and I didn't care enough about reading it to track it down with interlibrary loan.
These Is My Words: I couldn't hang with the audiobook. When I checked the time and found I was only two and a half hours in (with eleven more to go!), I immediately noped out.
Books left on the TBR List: 31 (plus 5 checked out/in progress)
Best book of the month: Never Flinch
No surprise here. I waited on the library hold list for a month (and it would have been longer but I placed holds on multiple editions and got a large-print version while I was still #5 on the list for the standard one).
Worst book of the month: The Bog Wife
I am learning that Gothic looks cute in fashion but it's really not my literary genre. I have sufficient looming dread in my life already, thanks. This Appalachian Gothic tale dragged on and just seemed to get more depressing without answering my questions. I had a whole backstory and twist anticipated that turned out to be entirely unfounded, and I wish this book had been that one.
I didn't read any books the entire first week of the month, although I could've downloaded something from Hoopla or Libby. I just scrolled a lot and watched some TV I don't usually get a chance to see (The Gilded Age is back for a third season!) and idly wished I had books in front of me. *yawn* Lazy summer. Then I started a lot of new books/audiobooks and didn't like any of them much. THEN Stephen King came through!
