30 May 2018
I usually only do monthly wrap-ups but I thought since I’d read (or attempted to read) all the books on the women’s prize shortlist it would be nice to make a post with all of my reviews in one place. I think the shortlist was split half and half for me. I absolutely loved When I Hit You and Home Fire, I enjoyed Sing Unburried Sing (except for the ghost story) but the rest were kinda meh for me. In terms of a winner I think I’d personally pick When I Hit You but it’s definitely a close call between that one and Home Fire. So here’s the reviews ranked by preference for the books I finished and then the one I didn’t at the end:
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April was an average reading month, while I read a fair amount of books (9 total), most of them were 3 stars or lower even though I had really high hopes for at least 4 of them, so hopefully May will be better in that regard, even if finals approaching means I don’t get to read much, I’d rather read a couple of books I love than a lot that were just ok.
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The second half of March was sadly not as good (both reading-wise and otherwise) as I expected but I still managed to bring the total number of books read this month to 15!
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As I’m having a really good reading month so far and spring break is coming up (which in theory means more time to read) I decided to split March into two posts, this one covers what I read between March 1 and 15 and the next will cover the rest of the month.
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Welcome to my February wrap-up. February was definitely a crappy reading month, I read 2 books in total so there isn’t really much to wrap-up but here it goes.
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