Mid Year Progress
Well, the first half of this year kicked my ass health wise and along with it went all my beautiful plans of blogging, but such is life with a chronic illness. On the bright side, I got lots of reading done and a fair amount of knitting too. I figured I’d take a look at what I’ve read so far this year and see what I’ve enjoyed, what I’ve not enjoyed and see how I stand on my challenges.
- Belzhar – Meg Wolitzer 3.5/5 – BR Challenge – Read a book with a main character with a mental illness.
- Cupcakes, Trinkets, and Other Deadly Magic – Meghan Ciana Doidge 4/5
- Why We Broke Up – Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman 4.5/5
- Normal Gets You Nowhere – Kelly Cutrone 1/5 (DNF)
- Assassination Vacation – Sarah Vowell 3/5 – BR Challenge – Read a book about politics
- Amulet: The Stonekeepers – Kazu Kibuishi 3/5 – BR Challenge – Read a middle grade novel
- This is Where I Leave You – Jonathan Tropper – 5/5 – BR Challenge – Read a book adapted to a movie and then watch the movie. Debate which was better. I’m going with book, though the movie was quite good for this one, especially if you were a fan of Arrested Development.
- Illusions of Fate – Kiersten White 5/5
- Anatomy of a Misfit – Andrea Portes 4/5
- Trinkets, Treasures, and Other Bloody Magic – Meghan Ciana Doidge 4/5
- Me Before You – JoJo Moyes 2.5/5
- F*ck Love – Tarryn Fisher 4/5
- The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath 5/5
- Rebel Belle – Rachel Hawkins 3/5
- Warbreaker – Brandon Sanderson 4/5 – BR Challenge – Read a book over 500 pages
- Trigger Warning – Neil Gaiman 4/5
- Curio – Evangeline Denmark 1/5 (DNF)
- The Walls All Around Us – Nova Ren Suma 4/5
- The Good Luck Girls of Shipwreck Lane – Kelly Harms 3.5/5
- Shakespeare: The Word as Stage – Bill Bryson 3/5 – BR Challenge – Read a Biography
- One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies – Sonya Sones 5/5
- Everything I Never Told You – Celeste Ng 4/5
- Used and Rare: Travels in the Book World – Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone 3.5/5
- The Fireman – Joe Hill 5/5 – BR Challenge – Read a dystopian/post apocalyptic novel
- The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao – Junot Diaz 1/5 (DNF)
- The Sea of Monsters – Rick Riordan 4/5
- The Titan’s Curse – Rick Riordan 4/5
- The Battle of the Labyrinth – Rick Riordan 5/5
- Unbreakable – Kami Garcia 3/5
- The Disappearance of Melody Dean – Alexis Sugden 5/5 (There was a kickstarter for the printed trade paper book of this webcomic so I got to read the whole thing already :P ) – BR Challenge – Read a non Superhero Comic debuted in the last 3 years
Overall I’ve enjoyed most of what I’ve read so far this year, with only a couple books that I’ve given up on. I’m 30 out of 52 on my yearly goal of books read and only 8 out of 25 of the Read Harder challenges, so I guess I’m really going to have to step those up for the latter half of the year. I’m in the middle of a few more Read Harder challenges, but I’ve not gotten much reading done in the last couple weeks. I’ll do a more detailed breakdown on what I’ve read and my thoughts on the books in the next post!