Monday, November 30, 2020

Read in November

 Ah, November. The month I actually got really back into reading, and read a surprising amount, too. 

This month I kind of discovered audiobooks for the first time in my life; I signed up for an audio book service which I have been using religiously. I've been listening to audio books when I've been cooking, cleaning, doing laundry, walking to work..basically I've neglected all music I normally listen to for these audio books, haha. I have no regrets though because I've realized I tend to vibe with this way of consuming literature in general, I guess. This explains the number of books in Swedish I've read this month, by the way, as this service is only available in Swedish/for Swedish books.

Also, I realized that not having an actual TBR is making me feel less stressed about reading which is always a good thing, especially since I tend to stress too much about things in my day-to-day life anyway.

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 # of books read: 10

-  Vi mot er (Björnstad #2) by Fredrik Backman*
Record of a Spaceborn Few (Wayfarers #3) by Becky Chambers
En man som heter Ove by Fredrik Backman
Duktig pojke! by Inger Edelfeldt
Juliet Takes a Breath by Gaby Rivera [ARC]
Fine by AmyLea Murphy [ARC]
Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt by Fredrik Backman
Under The Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta
Britt-Marie var här by Fredrik Backman
- Allt min son behöver lära sig om världen by Fredrik Backman
* = reread

Best book of the month: I'm not going to pick Vi mot er since I've technically read that one before. Instead, I think I'm going to go with Britt-Marie var här because in my mind, I kind of saw it like Björnstad except funny which turned out to be right up my alley.

Worst book of the month: I didn't read any book that was straight up awful this month, so that's good. However, if I had to pick something I think I'm going to go with Fine because of its slightly preachy tone and the problems I had with the story in general - I don't want to give too much away though as my review will be up shortly.

Monday, November 16, 2020

Review: Juliet Takes a Breath [ARC]

 


TITLE: Juliet Takes A Breath
AUTHOR: Gabby Rivera & Celia Moscote
RELEASE DATE: December 1st 2020              

RATING: 4/5 

  

REP: Puerto Rican MC, fat MC, lesbian MC, latinx side characters, LGBT side characters. 

TWs: racism/whitesplaining, homophobia

Genre: young adult graphic novel

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E-ARC kindly provided by the publisher.

 

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