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This started strong and has a great concept. A mix of reality tv, choose your own adventure and It‘s a Wonderful Life. Sounds fun right? It was actually not at all fun. The twist was ok but all three possible endings were highly unsatisfying. I didn‘t DNF it because I was engaged, but I would not strongly recommend. 2.5⭐️

At the start of the last 4 years, I've taken a picture of my TBR shelf to track how it's changing over time. It's clearly expanding for one thing 🤔 And there is some overlap between years: even though it's not too much to read in a year, there's still e-books and others I read right away for challenges or readalongs. I try to read everything within 2 years, but Jim Crace's The Devil's Larder has remained for 3, so I'll have to get to it soon!

Catching up with the last couple weeks of joys since I pivoted to a full year of joys last week.
1. I finally visited a local Amish market & bought some yummy muffins & other baked goods.
2. We got about 7.5 inches of snow & one of my neighbors made the world‘s most pathetic snowman.
3. Our friends from NJ came to visit with their sweet collie.
4. I got a new Billy bookcase & did a little rearranging.
5. Local teams in the playoffs.
#5joysfriday

The zombie apocalypse has begun! You have an SUV and a baseball bat. Where are you going first?

Picked up one of these Choose Your Own Adventure books a few weeks back and me and my boyfriend had a mini date night going through it. We had to switch our choices one or twice to prevent from dying but we had a lot of fun. We‘re going to go with the alternate first choice later to see where the story would go. #cyoa #datenight

Would save for younger readers. I like the fact that it touches on social emotional factors.

Second half of my #bookhaul! Can't wait to dive into these! (Except actually I can cause the book I'm reading now is really good -- nice problems to have 🙂)

Marsh finds herself the contestant on a reality show with a quantum bubble that allows her to test out different lives (and we get a choose your own adventure component), but things start to get a little odd. I found this book wildly creative and really enjoyed it for the most part, but the CYOA component really didn‘t work by the end for listening straight through, as it caused a lot of repetition.

I read this book before seeing the author speak at the National Book Festival in DC. The concept is intriguing--a game show that allows you to change key moments of your past via "quantum bubbling"--but the story itself was a bit messy. The changes become increasingly frantic and the mechanism or rules involved don't seem entirely clear.The "choose your own adventure" aspect was promising but didn't quite pay off. Still, an inventive read.

If you had the chance to change your life to make it exactly the way you want it, would you?
This is a fun, fast moving book about life choices.
Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance copy.