Didn’t finish it - They said was too long 🙄 I’m not doing this any more! 5 Stars ⭐️ 1. Apex Predator: Wolf Moon - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...2. Black Sun - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...3. Fruits Basket Collector's Edition, Vol. 3 - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...4. Rebecca - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...5. A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...6. Klaus - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...7. Something is Ki...

Every Rating & Review for 2021The Ickabog by J.K. Rowling(B+) 76% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐ – 01/06/2021Notes: Downright Grimm, it's a song of scams and scheming, too on-the-nose and twee for me but teeming deeper meaning.Catwoman, Volume 1: The Game by Judd Winick(A-) 82% | Very Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/08/2021Notes: Notably non-status quo, abundant blood and skin on show, not quite PG, and seems to me, it's less DC more Vertigo.Catwoman, Volume 2: Dollhouse by Judd Winick(B+) 78% | Good | ⭐⭐⭐⭐ – 01/10/2021Notes: A...

***Edited to include my top five reads of the year***Here was what I put here at the beginning of the year...READING GOALS FOR 2021Read some books. Hopefully some good books. Have zero goals about reading said books. The end.Well, here we are at the end of the year, and I'm happy to say...Nailed it. For those interested, here is my Year in Books thingamabob:https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_i...Spoiler alert: I read across a lot of genres, but let's be honest...I mostly read smut books. Here'...

Keywords for the year: 187 books, 55.126 pages, 1.650 friends, Advent of audiobooks, New to NetGalley, Return to graphic novelsDecember - 12 books - 4.436 pages II enjoyed Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty, a massive but very interesting read and Saga: Compendium One turned out to be a really good graphic novel, fortunately continuing into 2022. Matrix by Lauren Groff disappointed me and The Twilight Zone by Nona Fernández was harrowing.November - 17 books - 4.242 pagesDespite quite enjoyin...

Superlatives Challenge: 2021 Edition Best fantasy: Words of RadianceWorst fantasy: The Crown of Gilded BonesBest friendship: Nona, Ara, and Zole (The Book of the Ancestor)Best duo: Frances and Aled (Radio Silence)Best cast of characters: The Stormlight Archive/The Book of the AncestorWorst cast of characters: One of Us Is LyingBest character growth: Dalinar (The Stormlight Archive) / Nona (The Book of the Ancestor)Most inconsistent character development: The BetrothedBest ship: Shallan x Adolin

Best Lesfic/WLW/Sapphic Books of 2021 This is actually my 6th annual best of lesfic awards list. I started this because Goodreads doesn’t have an LGBTQ+ award category (and after 6 years it still doesn’t) and for the fact that there are always deserving sapphic books that get overlooked by others awards. Plus, it is just fun celebrating the books that gave me such joy during the year and I want all of you to be able to enjoy them too. (If you don’t want to read my ramblings skip down three pa

Don’t HesitateIf you suddenly and unexpectedly feel joy,don't hesitate. Give in to it. There are plentyof lives and whole towns destroyed or aboutto be. We are not wise, and not very oftenkind. And much can never be redeemed.Still, life has some possibility left. Perhaps thisis its way of fighting back, that sometimessomething happens better than all the richesor power in the world. It could be anything,but very likely you notice it in the instantwhen love begins. Anyway, that's often thecase. A...

Reading Goals 2021-Read 100 books ➼ Read 175Finish all Jane Austen’s Books ➼ Read all completed works & juveniliaRead more classics ➼ Read 17/175Write more spoiler free reviews ➼ Written 102/175Read 30 books in 30 days for some month ➼ Read 40 in SeptHardback(📙)Paperback(📚)E-book(📃)Audiobook(🎧)Re-reads(📖)Buddy Reads(👋)BOTM’s(📓) 2021 Releases(❤️)(Click on the links for reviews. GR didn't let me fit all of them.) JANUARY- Books- 291. Grandma's Bag of Stories★★★★📚📖2. Crooked Kingdom★★★★★📚 3. The...

Goal: 100 books.Final count: 119 books.Avg: 2.82 LMAO.Overall: I guess it was a good year, except towards the end because I was (am) on a huge reading slump and the uni had my mental and emotional health hanging by a thread. I enjoyed a lot of my books and hope the next year they'll be better! (and let's hope that I don't add more books to my "big hype, big lie" shelf, lmao)January:♡ A Court of Blood and Void by Meg Xuemei X. 1 star.♡ Firelight by Sophie Jordan. 3 stars.♡ Tower of Dawn by Sarah

Thank you, my Goodreads friends, for another wonderful year sharing together the world of books.This year it was the 1st time I thought I could set myself the goal to read 100 books which I succeeded to accomplish. It came naturally because I somehow managed to read more this year. However, I do not plan to attempt reading so many books in the future. My plan for 2022 is to read more of the books that I own, especially some of the ones over 500 pages. These years I favoured shorter books and I g...

A toast to the wonderful Goodreads community, particularly those who take the time and trouble to write the reviews that can influence what we read, on what has once again been a globally grim and traumatic year for so many. The pandemic is far from over, and in the UK we are once again facing a restricted Christmas and New Year with the rise of the new variant shutting down much of the country. When will it ever end? Reading has come into its own in these precarious times with many turning to b...

Welcome to the awards for 2021. The glittering celebrities have all arrived and are already sneering, the lights are dimmed so let’s crack on.THE 2021 AWARD FOR THE BOOK THAT STAYED ON MY ACTUAL BOOKSHELF IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD LONGEST BEFORE BEING READ Middlemarch by George EliotNOVEL OF THE YEARMiddlemarch by George EliotTHE DON DELILLO AWARD FOR THE HIGHLY PRAISED NOVEL I SHOULD HAVE LIKED WAY MORE THAN I DIDGuest presenter : Karl Ove Knausgard(Expect an excruciatingly detailed 400 page novel

I moved two daughters, two dogs, one cat, and 2,500 books across the United States of America this year, and right around the time I was involved in that lunacy, I decided I was going to take on a 1970s reading project, as well: “70 from the 70s.”My goal: to read or reread 70 books, of all genres, that were published in the 1970s (must have a publication date in the 70s, not a book about that time period).The origins of this project were part-nostalgia, part-denial for me. It's been a difficult

Community provides a safe space for encouragement —fondness—respect and appreciation.The Goodreads community has been an instrumentally valuable part of my life…. ….with moments of extraordinary meaningful connections, I have benefited from the many contributions made —-THANK YOU……each and everyone of you whom I’ve had contact with.Old and new friends have warmed my heart. It was a great year of reading. …. I often found myself captivated — deeply moved - getting educated - becoming more aware

2021 was a strange, arduous year but at least the books have been great. I’ve been happily back to really diving into a lot of books and reviewing and I’m thankful for all of you with whom I’ve been able to chat books, share recommendations and just generally make up a cool community on here. Looking back I’ve read quite a few books that skyrocketed up into my favorites, such as The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin, or No One Writes Back by Jang Eun-Jin. Mieko Kawakami also became a favorite au...

The second year of Covid draws to an end, with the Omicron variant surging. I’ve changed job, but I’m still working from home. Not what I was expecting when I wrote a prequel to this a year ago, now at the bottom of this review. We still need those lucky charms (and not the breakfast cereal). I’m grateful for books and GR, but the extra time hasn’t transposed to extra reading, even though I read a lot of short stories. Focus is a real problem for me these days. There was no overall theme or patt...

I could not start this review until 2021 is officially over as there was reading through the last day, after all. But now it’s time. 2021 was an odd year in real life, full of stress and often unpleasantness, and some health issues which luckily by now seem to be pretty much under control, and some changes that I hope will bring a much better 2022.Book-wise though it was another good year. According to My Year in Books, my average rating for books this year was 3.8, which is pretty decent. Odd...

Ahoy there, my fellow bookaneers!I spent most of 2021 writing and releasing a novel (In the Shadow of Time), while also caring for my wonderful father-in-law (since departed), so had genuine reasons for only reading eleven books. That isn't to say that the unread novels in my house didn't object to my desertion. Some came to me in the dead of night in hollow-voiced dreams, while others flapped their pages and chirped at me as I hurried by. Nevertheless, these are the books that did grab my atten...

Here are the 4.5 stars and 5 stars books that I read in 2021January February March April May June July August September October November December

My sincere thanks to those I have engaged with through our shared love of reading and a special thanks to those I have connected with on a personal level. Wishing you all a happy and healthy new year filled with many great books. I had a good number of favorites this year, so I’ll list my MOST favorite, beginning with the most recently read . These Precious Days: Essays - a gift to Patchett’s readers in so many ways.The Island of Missing Trees - imaginative and beautifully written.Geographies of...