This month was a whirlwind of reading for me! I give all the credit to the OverDrive app which allows you to borrow eBooks and audiobooks from your local library using your library card. If you’re not using it yet, you are seriously missing out! It’s my new obsession.
I am an avid reader with my TBR list only continuing to grow, so with the coronavirus outbreak shutting down most public libraries or severely limiting their hours I’ve been frustrated. I like to keep my collection of fiction books fairly small, plus I don’t like to spend my entire budget on ordering books that I plan on only reading once. This is where the OverDrive app really saved the day.
After April’s thriller/suspense extravaganza, this was a slow month of reading for me. But I did still manage to read three vastly different books.
Last month was all about non-fiction, this month seemed to be all about thrillers and suspense. Wall of Silence by Tracy Buchanan Wall of Silence starts with a mom, Melissa, returning home to find her husband on the floor bleeding profusely and her three kids standing around him silent. The big mystery surrounds why he was stabbed– and could her kids really be responsible? And if they are, what will she do about it? While I liked the premise of…
March was a great month of reading for me and included what will probably be my favorite book of the year– Atomic Habits by James Clear.
This month wasn’t as productive as last month in terms of reading, but I still managed to get in 3 books. (Well, technically, two and a half.)
To help encourage myself to read more and remember what I’ve read, I’m starting a new monthly post. Each month I’ll share what I read and my honest thoughts about it.
First up, ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’ by Amor Towles.
As someone that dreams of writing a book (or several), I always seem to find myself coming up with excuses for why I can’t write or why what I’ve written isn’t good enough. But, in the past year, I found myself overcoming at least some of these hurdles and managed to get down 23,000 words on a novel I’m working on. Some of that was just sitting in a chair and putting in the work, but I believe a big part was finding the right inspiration.
I love to talk about books– what I’m reading, what I want to read, and so on. But I have this problem, that when someone asks what I’ve been reading lately or my favorite genres, I draw a complete blank.