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

The Sunday Post #302

On The Blog Last Week

• On Tuesday, I talked about the worst (and funniest) thing I've done to a book.
• On Wednesday, we looked at upcoming April book releases.

On The Blog This Week

• On Tuesday, I wonder why books spend so long sitting on my TBR shelf.

In My Reading Life

Last week, I reconfirmed my belief that most series don't need to be series. I read You Love Me, which is the third book in the You series by Caroline Kepnes. The series follows Joe, a stalker and serial killer. In each book, he becomes obsessed with a different woman and kills everyone in her life until she catches on (or doesn't). In You Love Me, Joe moves to an island in the Pacific Northwest and starts volunteering at a library. There, he meets Mary Kay, who becomes his newest target. It sucks to be Mary Kay.

The first book in this series is brilliant. It's creepy and tense. I couldn't stop listening to the audiobook because it's like a nightmare. I wanted to know what Joe would do next and if his target would figure out that he's a murderer. I highly recommend the first book if you enjoy being terrified. The second two books were pretty "meh" for me. Maybe the novelty wore off? The plots are becoming far-fetched, and the murders are getting repetitive. I guess even serial killing gets boring if you do it too many times.

You Love Me is entertaining enough that I never wanted to give up on it, but I don't think it'll stick with me like the first book did. I know there's a fourth book coming out eventually. I'm undecided if I want to read it. I think You could have been a perfectly awesome standalone. Why did we need sequels?

Reading all 3 You books so quickly put me in a reading slump. I'm currently having a hard time staying interested in anything, so I'm partway through two books. One of them is Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead. It's a thick historical fiction brick about a female pilot during Prohibition. So far, it's not holding my attention at all. The other book is Orange World And Other Stories by Karen Russell. It's a collection of fantasy stories. I'm having much better luck with Orange World.

In The Rest Of My Life

Five things that made me happy last week:

1. It was National Burrito Day. Of course, I celebrated with a burrito.
2. Also, caramel popcorn. It wasn't caramel corn day, but I pretended it was.
3. Deep cleaning my rooms. I hate cleaning, but I'm much happier without all the dust.
4. Week 3 of Spanish lessons went well. The lessons feel more like a review than learning. I guess I still have a lot of my childhood Spanish buried in my brain meat.
5. I had a lot of fun writing my post about the worst thing I've done to a book. I'll love you forever if you read it.

Read My Nonsense; Feed My Ego

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