I'm working my way through #VirtualMountTBR2024. Here's my current To-Be-Read List, and here's the list of titles I have read this year.
In October 2024
Books read: 7
Books I decided NOT to finish: 3
Low-Demand Parenting: This is useful info in general, especially for parents and people who work with kids, but it was most relevant to the foster kiddo who's recently left our house. I'm going to let it go.
Model Home: See below about Rivers Solomon.
She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat: I realized that my library system only had one volume available, and it wasn't the first one. I didn't want to read this manga badly enough to seek it out from interlibrary loan.
Brown Girl in the Ring: I don't know why. I've previously read excerpts and it just doesn't sound so appealing anymore.
Books left on the TBR List: 45
Best book of the month: Bloodchild and Other Stories
Yummy, chewy morsels of Octavia Butler's work, with an accompanying author's note on each one.
Worst book of the month: An Unkindness of Ghosts
*sigh* This is the second Solomon book I've not connected with, and at this point I'm not up for reading another. There's so much character development and interesting worlds/life circumstances, and you start to really care about the characters' choices, but then what happens in terms of plot? Is there resolution? No! Very unfulfilling.
