Last month, I read a horror book that really left a bad taste in my mouth. It was The House of a Hundred Whispers by Graham Masterson. I really expected to like it, but it just grated my nerves the whole time. I think I need to give horror a pass. I like some literary horror, scary fantasy or sci-fi, and old-fashioned ghost stories, but horror or weird fiction leaves me cold and I'm tired of it. ***Spoilers all over the place***This book was nearly 400 pages. About 300 p

Goodreads list: Haig, Matthew- The Midnight Library Nonfiction: Didion, Joan- Let Me Tell You What I Mean Stretch: Dickens, Charles- Great Expectations First, The Midnight Library: am I the only person who couldn't stand this book? I wouldn't have finished it if it wasn't a challenge book. I had to fight the urge to throw it across the room more than once. Already, in month 2 of my challenge, I've read two books that I would have ditched if I hadn't set myself a challenge

Last summer, my attention span dwindled down to almost nothing. I was a little worried about it, but I kept seeing other people on Twitter making jokes about experiencing the same thing, so I laughed it off. I thought that things would get better after the election, but the number of cases kept going up, taking my stress level with it. Watching or reading the news was misery, but I couldn't stop trying to keep up with everything going on. After the election, I began to fe

Megan Hunter- The Harpy Kevin Wilson- The Family Fang David Leavitt- Shelter in Place Karen Swan- The Paris Secret G. M. Malliet - Wicked Autumn Megan Hunter- The Harpy: I read two books last year named The Furies, so I thought, great, a harpy, maybe I'll find a book about a hydra next. This was really well-reviewed, but I thought it was just miserable. I didn't get very far into it. There was something dreary about the writing; I don't know. Kevin Wilson- The Family Fang

I'm going to try to cover one of my favorite books from childhood each month for awhile. The Newbery, Caldecott, Printz, and other American Library Association prizes came out recently, and it got me thinking about some of the books I loved so much when I was a kid. Most of them are pretty standard, except that they are really, really old now. They've been on my mind and I've made a list to write about. It's really stirring up memories of poking around in the kids' section

Alphabet challenge "A": Attenberg, Jami- All This Could Be Yours "B": Berg, Elizabeth- Tapestry of Fortunes Nonfic: Cheever, Susan- American Bloomsbury Goodreads: Wilson, Kevin- Nothing to See Here My easy challenges are an alphabet challenge, in which I check out a book from each alphabet section in adult fiction twice a month, a book from my Goodreads list once a month, and a nonfiction/YA/junior book once a month. I didn't start one of my harder challenge books this mont