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from the 2022 ONTD Reading Challenge group.
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I couldn't find a Norwegian book that I felt drawn to, so I'm hitting pause on the challenge for a minute and started Piranesi after someone in an ONTD book post called it eerie / mentioned something about the architecture being eerie? idk lol.don't remember who that was but if you see this, thank you, cause I LOVE it so far.
Lea wrote: "RIN. ☾ wrote: "I completely forgot I'd already picked out The Mercies for this month even though I only decided that about a week ago lol oops."Sorry, RIN, the author is British."
Oh no! lol okay back to the drawing board, thank you!
edit: Okay, so I struggled finding something I was interested in; I considered The Way Through the Woods: Of Mushrooms and Mourning or The History of Bees but idk, I'm not in the mood for those right now? So I might go with The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am because it's short and weird lol.
I completely forgot I'd already picked out The Mercies for this month even though I only decided that about a week ago lol oops.
Gonna try for multiple a few times cause I'm a dumb idiot.JANUARY — South Korea
- If I Had Your Face : ★★★★☆
- tbr: Flowers of Mold
- tbr: The Hole
- tbr: Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982
FEBRUARY — Argentina
- Tender Is the Flesh : ★★★☆☆
- In the Dream House : ★★★★☆
- tbr: Little Eyes
MARCH — Norway
- lol idk
APRIL — Zimbabwe
- tbr: Nervous Conditions
MAY — Ireland
- tbr: The Thief on the Winged Horse
- tbr: Milkman
JUNE — Iran
- tbr:
JULY — Poland
- tbr: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
AUGUST — Egypt
- tbr:
SEPTEMBER — Jamaica
- tbr: Frying Plantain
OCTOBER — India
- tbr:
NOVEMBER — Australia
- tbr: A Room Called Earth
DECEMBER — Phillippines
- tbr:
I'm starting with If I Had Your Face.Depending on how much motivation I have, I might look into something by Han Kang (I read The Vegetarian last year and I hated the first two thirds but really liked the end lol.)
I finally read Normal People after putting it off all of 2019 out of fear of being disappointed and I liked it a lot! Rooney's writing style is really lovely and I've bumped Conversations with Friends up on my tbr.
I'm going to finally read Boy, Snow, Bird after buying it strictly due to the cover being gorgeous a billion years ago.
Lyn wrote: "I did The Turn of the Screw and I ended up just getting through it. It's one of those things where I would probably love an adaptation but I hated how it was written."Oh god; that was my original pick and I ended up putting it down in favour for Normal People because it was taking me so long to get through. I had to like, decipher & analyze the writing to know what was going on half the time. Idk if I'm gonna go back.
Jan 10, 2020 10:21PM
I've been chipping away, slowly, at The Turn of the Screw and I like it but it doesn't lend itself well to reading in snippets, which is what most of my reading is during the week. Probably gonna go off theme for a bit to get back into the swing of things.
JANUARY - Adaptation- Normal People : ★★★★☆
FEBRUARY - My Cousin Just Moved to Nigeria to Discover New Talent
- Boy, Snow, Bird
MARCH - Everyone Was Dad
- Ghost Wall : ★★★☆☆
APRIL - Scandal
- My Dark Vanessa : ★★★★☆
MAY - Real Housewives Yelling at Cat
- tbr: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
JUNE - Ok Boomer
- The Long Walk : ★★☆☆☆
JULY - Surprised Pikachu Face (plot twists)
- tbr: Dead Girls
AUGUST - Sparks Joy / Re-read
SEPTEMBER - Old Man Yelling at Cloud (grumpy character)
- tbr: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
OCTOBER - Time for the Urn (death)
- tbr: The Butchering Art: Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine
NOVEMBER - Hindsight is 2020 (flashbacks)
DECEMBER - 2020 Award Winner
JANUARY - 2019 Adaptation- We Have Always Lived in the Castle : ★★★☆☆
- NOS4A2 : ★★★★☆
FEBRUARY - Love is Lit
- The Pisces : ★★☆☆☆
MARCH - IJAF
- How to Murder Your Life : ★★★☆☆
APRIL - What year is it
- Neverworld Wake : ★★☆☆☆
MAY - Never been to Luxembourg
- Convenience Store Woman : ★★★★★
- The Psychology of Time Travel : ★★★★★
JUNE - My friend with a bike
- The Paper Wasp : ★★★☆☆
JULY - Posted
- Little Darlings : ★★☆☆☆
AUGUST - u in danger, girl
- The Treasure of Death Valley (lol)
SEPTEMBER - I have to laugh
- DNF'd Equal Rites at 70%
- Sourdough : ★★☆☆☆
OCTOBER - Some people have war in their countries
- The Penelopiad : ★★★☆☆
NOVEMBER - ONTD doesn't read
- Tomie
DECEMBER - 2019 Award Winner
- tbr: Normal People
After a brutal reading slump last month, I picked up Equal Rites last night and wowowowowowow. I love it.
I downloaded Lock Every Door by Riley Sager and No Exit by Taylor Adams; gonna start with the first one. I haven't read in almost a month but I really miss it so I'm cautiously optimistic.edit: I just realized these are both male authors and I'm displeased by this revelation lol.
Wilder Girls ruined my goddamn month.I got bored + annoyed with it so I kept putting it off and ended up not reading for half the damn month. Probably didn't help that I got an iPad so all I want to do is draw.
Before that though, I did read Little Darlings for the theme. And I didn't like it. 🙃 July sucked. 🙃
I read Little Darlings which is apparently a take on the whole "faeries took your baby" / changeling folklore and it was disappointing lol.I started Wilder Girls the other day though which someone called a "feminist Lord of the Flies" and idk how accurate that is but I'm enjoying it a good amount, especially considering I don't usually fuck with YA.
lol I'm a mess this month.I finally started my themed book - The Paper Wasp - a few days ago cause my cheap ass was like, I'm not dropping $18 on an ebook by an author I've never heard of so I read her first book (The Wonder Garden) first and it was so good.
It's a long weekend though and my plans are just read + draw and Paper Wasp isn't too long so I'm HOPEFUL.
F i n a l l y finished Why We Broke Up, so I'm f i n a l l y starting on this challenge with The Secret History.
lol my first book for this is supposed to be The Secret History but I've been so busy with life / work that I haven't even finished my "quick" off-theme read that I started on June 1st yet.
