Books in Bed

Reading in July

It was a better month for reading but not nearly as good as I’d hoped. The RNC and DNC got in the way, darn it. Also, the social life. Goodness, the social life!

I read 9 books.

1 was an audiobook
2 were non-fiction
4 were middle grade/YA
3 were Cybils

In August, we’re doing a fake #readathon and that should help. Hopefully.

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The Last Bookaneer

It took me AGES to read this book, partly because of the RNC and the DNC but also because the damn thing was SLOW. The premise was good. The characters were interesting. But good lord, it could have been about 100 pages shorter and been a much better book. By the time I got to the end, I no longer cared about The Last Bookaneer or any damn bookaneer at all. I didn’t even care about Robert Louis Stevenson.

Darn it.

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Serafina and the Black Cloak

Serafina and the Black Cloak is another book I have a love/hate thing with.

It was on my TBR list FOREVER and TW ended up getting it during one of our recent library visits, which is good since my list is long and I may never have managed to check it out. I liked it a lot but I didn’t want Serafina to be a magical creature. I wanted her to just be a little girl. (which is probably a spoiler? maybe? oops!)

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Everything, Everything

We listened to Everything, Everything on audio and we enjoyed it.

I have a little love/hate thing with it. I didn’t want it to be the book it ended up being… I mean I liked it well enough but I didn’t want what happened to the mom to actually happen. I also kind of didn’t want the happy little ending, though it was obvious that it was going to end that way — once the whole situation with the mother went the way it went. Which makes no sense, I know. You just have to read it to understand.

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The Complete Book of Home Organization

Oh look, another book by a blogger I love! I’ve been reading A Bowl Full of Lemons for a very, very long time. So of course I was going to read her book, The Complete Book of Home Organization.

Like her blog, her book is super pretty and useful. I enjoyed it quite a lot. And, I even re-organized my kitchen a little bit after reading the first few pages on kitchen organization.

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The Gap of Time

Look at me finishing another book! I’m not sure it 100% counts though since I started reading The Gap of Time right before we leave Illinois. I only got about 50 pages into it because the beginning was slow and I hated all of the people and also because the last week before we moved was NUTS.

I like Winterson enough that I was willing to check it out from the library again and keep going. I’m glad I did. It will never be my favorite Winterson novel and I’m not really a fan of ‘The Winters Tale’ but I did end up enjoying the book and it really was the first 50 pages that were rough.

(I also like the video game idea… that’s pretty interesting. Someone should build that game.)

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