Happy Monday!
It’s July and we’ve already entered the second week. Time is flying by and I’ve got only two months left of summer and one month left in my internship. There’s so much to do in so little time. This list of books I want to get to this month is still in the making. I’m still in my weird reading funk so I’m just going to pick up whichever book calls to me first.
Another thing to note is that this month is when the Reading Rush Readathon (previously booktubeathon) starts! The books I’m going to mention in this post aren’t part of my Reading Rush Readathon TBR. These are some reads I’m hoping to get to before that readathon starts. If you want to know what I’m going to be reading for Reading Rush, I’m working on a post that’ll go up sometime next week.
“Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating” is one of my favorite reads this year. This book made me so happy and I really want to experience that feeling I felt after finishing the book again, hopefully with another Christina Lauren book.
I want to find myself another Christina Lauren book that I can love with the vigor and passion I have for“Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating”. I read “Love and Other Words”by Christina Lauren a few days ago and didn’t really love it. It wasn’t bad by any means but it wasn’t what I was looking for when I picked up the book.
I’m hoping that “The Unhoneymooners” will be a fun read that’ll have me hooked from page one. I heard that this book has the “haters to lovers” trope which I absolutely love. I haven’t come across this trope in a while, especially one that’s been done well, so I’m hoping this book will deliver. I’m also intrigued by the whole premise of this story. I don’t remember much of the details but what I do remember is that an entire wedding party came down with something and became violently ill? So the bride’s twin sister and a member of the groom’s party whom she strongly dislikes are sent to Hawaii?
I don’t like knowing too much about a book going in so I apologize if it’s too vague of a description but for me, it has the right amount of the crazy factor to have me hooked.
This book has been the highlight of many people’s TBR’s the past month of June, aka Pride month. I felt that it was only apt to pick it up in June and managed to start it but time got to me and I haven’t gotten around to finishing it. This book is pretty much my June leftover read that I’m going to try to finish this month. As mentioned a multitude of times, I think that reading a nice YA contemporary novel will be help kick me out of this book slump.
I love fantasy. I love finding myself a little group of characters and getting way too emotionally attached to them. Sadly, this summer, I haven’t been able to pick up fantasy the way I want to and those that I do pick up are just meh reads. This book has been on my watch list for a long time and once I saw that it was available in my library, I decided to pick it up. It seems to have easy to read short chapters and the back of the book says it’s “a lightning-fast tale of loyalty, love, and finding one’s destiny.” A “lightning-fast tale” is exactly what I need. “Snow Like Ashes” seems like basic YA fantasy that has the right formula to get me back into reading fantasy.
Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, Jodi Meadows: “Reader, there will be murder. Mayhem. Conspiracy. And, of course, romance.”
Me: Give it to me baby.
I love myself a witty, humorous book and I’m about 99% sure that this is exactly what this book is going to be. I remember reading “Jane Eyre” during my senior year of high school and really enjoying analyzing its literary significance. I’m interested to refresh my memory on the original classic and see what twists these trio of authors have added to their rendition. I have the memory of a goldfish when it comes to details of things so I’m excited to see how much I remember of the original story while reading this book. I’m also looking forward to see how the romance in this book is going to play out. I remember everyone gushing about Mr. Rochester and Jane Eyre but I never really was fond of the two? I didn’t hate them, but I didn’t care for them either. Since it was a school assigned read, I didn’t go into the original classic with the mindset of expecting a romance. When this book first got popularity, I vaguely remember someone mentioning that this book is the product of Jane Eyre meeting the Ghost busters. I’m so ready for this book.