24 Festive Tasks - New Year's Eve / St. Sylvester's Day Task 2

2:36 pm 29 December 2019

Task 2: The reading year in review: How did you fare – what was good, what wasn’t?

 

It was a great reading year. I'm at over 340 books for the year and a lot of those were good.

 

Some of my highlights were:

The Wicked King - Holly Black  Famous in a Small Town - Emma Mills  Red, White & Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston  The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town - John Grisham  Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do - Jennifer Lynn Eberhardt  She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement - Jodi Kantor,Megan Twohey  

Not Even Bones (Market of Monsters) - Rebecca Schaeffer  Blackout - Mira Grant  Charged: the New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration - Emily Bazelon  Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman - Lindy West  Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger - Rebecca Traister  The Witches Are Coming - Lindy West  

SHOUT - Laurie Halse Anderson  Little White Lies - Jennifer Lynn Barnes  

 

And some of the not so great books:

Watch Us Rise - Renée Watson  Super Sons: The PolarShield Project - Ridley Pearson,Ile Gonzalez  Super Sons: The Foxglove Mission - Ridley Pearson,Ile Gonzalez  The Third Wife - Lisa Jewell  Sophia, Princess Among Beasts - James Patterson,Emily Raymond  We Know It Was You - Maggie Thrash  

The Magicians - Lev Grossman  A Night to Surrender - Tessa Dare  99 Percent Mine - Sally Thorne  

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