The Sunday Post #229

The Sunday Post is a chance to recap the past week, talk about next week, tell you what I’m reading, and share news. I’m linking up with The Caffeinated Book Reviewer, Readerbuzz, and Book Date.

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The Sunday Post #229

On The Blog Last Week

• On Tuesday I chose my summer reading list.

On The Blog This Week

• On Tuesday I show you some upcoming releases that I hope to read.
• On Saturday there’s a book haul.

In My Reading Life

Last week, I finished Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck. I think it’s marketed as a historical thriller, but it’s so slow paced that I’d call it literary fiction. Or literary mystery. Nothing thrilling happens until the very end, where there are a bunch of brilliant and surprising plot twists. The story is set in remote Sweden in the 1700s. A man is found dead in a small town. At first, people think he was killed by animals, but soon it’s discovered that he was murdered, and everybody in town becomes a suspect.

Overall, I was invested enough in the mystery that I enjoyed the book, but it does take a lot of patience to get through. You spend most of the story getting to know the characters. Some points-of-view are more intense than others. I didn’t always understand the characters’ motivations. But, the ending made the book worth reading for me. I didn’t guess the identity of the murderer!

Then I read The Wicker King by K. Ancrum. I really liked this one! It’s written in vignettes, so it’s super quick to read. It’s also a mixed-media book. There are photos, drawings, music playlists, and different colored pages. I loved the reading experience. It’s about two teenage boys who have a bizarre, abusive friendship. One of the boys develops a disease that causes him to hallucinate, and the other boy treats the hallucinations like they’re real-life events. The side characters badly need more development, but the weird relationships are so thought-provoking that I didn’t care. I’ll definitely be reading the author’s other book.

Right now, I’m listening to Becoming by Michelle Obama and reading Don’t Call Us Dead by Danez Smith. So far, they’re both fascinating.

In The Rest Of My Life

Five things that made me happy last week:

1. It was an excellent book week. My library (finally) got more copies of Becoming, so I (finally) got off the billion year waitlist. Then my dad surprised me with a copy of the new Hunger Games book. I don’t usually get brand new books. It’s so pretty! And completely lacking mystery stains!
2. I’ve been getting up at 5 AM and walking several miles. At dawn, there are tons of animals and very few humans outside. I almost got trampled by a deer that was galloping down the path, which was rude, but it’s worth it.
3. I’m hopefully going to start taking a virtual photography class. Will this motivate me to take photos? I don’t know.
4. There are no more books from 2018 on my TBR shelf! All of my unread books were bought last year or this year. My current “oldest” book was bought on March 15, 2019.
5. I reached my Goodreads goal! When I set the goal, I didn’t expect that I’d be spending so much time trapped inside my house.

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