Checked in on my 2025 reading goals today. I had wanted to read 30 print books and listen to 30 audio books. I have met my audio goal, I'm at 30 but only at 22 print books with a month to go... I know I'll finish two print books this month (one of them tagged) but I also have a lot of mahjong to play, so I'll just take the L. 🤣
Started
Reading for the first time in memory of the Czech-English playwright, who died Saturday.
pickSooo so good! 5 huge stars. A quiet story, for slow reading. The language was lovely and piercing, the story was captivating. It just got inside of me and expanded until I felt like I would burst. Agnes‘ grief over Judith‘s sickness and then losing Hamnet felt so real that it could have been my own grief. The ending is superb.
I can‘t recommend the audio enough on this one, especially the one with Jessie Buckley narrating. Beautiful accent!
I pulled this one off my shelf because I wanted to read it before seeing the movie when it comes out next week. But it looks like the movie isn‘t coming to theaters in my town😭😕
Anyway, I‘m 1/3 thru and listening to the audio when I drive or cook or clean. I‘m listening to the one narrated by Jessie Buckley-her accent is so gorgeous. It‘s a much slower book than my regular holiday reading, but the writing is wonderful and I‘m riveted.
so-soSpot the sociopath!
Well, everyone has to start somewhere…
pickPretty cute retelling of The Taming of the Shrew, with a good side dish of spice!
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