Hello, hi, how are you? I hope you’re doing well.
I’m a huge mood reader and I feel that reading events like readathons stifle my ability to mood read. I recently found out about the backlist readathon and thought that if there’s a readathon out there for me that I can both start and finish successfully, it’s going to be this one.
While I have been acquiring quite an amount of newer books, I tend to gravitate towards backlists. I’m also trying to make it a goal to read as many of the books I already own so I can get that number down each quarter.
The prompts for this readathon seem to be pretty achievable, especially when I cheat and double up a book for two or more prompts.
There’s a couple of books that I know for sure that I want to get to:
I’m planning to reread “The Gilded Wolves” for this readathon because it’s a book that I’ve been meaning to reread and it intimidates me because it’s part of a fantasy series that I’ve been meaning to complete. Rereading the first book in the series leaves me no excuse as to why I shouldn’t continue on with the trilogy. I have no excuse to have this series sitting unfinished in my shelves. None, nope, zip, nada, no excuses.
“The Simple Wild” is another book that I want to read this readathon because it intimates me. I haven’t had the best of luck with romances in the past few months so it makes me a wee bit nervous to pick up a book that I have really high expectations for and have it turn out to be a disappointment. My answer to avoiding this book turning out as a flop is to not read it all, because then I’ll never be disappointed. I’m smart, I know. This book also has that beige, muted, green shade that I love. Is it called hunter green?
This year, I also accumulated quite a collection of tiny books. Most of these are poems or short story collections. The one short book that’s calling out to me is “Night Sky With Exit Wounds” by Ocean Vuong. This book is a poetry collection by the author of “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous”, one of my new favorite reads. Ocean Vuong is a poet and so I’m excited to dive into a work of his that’s purely poetry.
Another short book that I recently hauled that is short is Ernest Hemingway’s “The Old Man and the Sea”. I’ve been itching to read a lot more classics and Ernest Hemingway is a well known classics author. In my most recent trip to Barnes and Noble, I found this beautiful edition of a novel he had written called “The Sun Also Rises”. The plot summary of the book sounded really interesting so I thought that I’d sample some of his writing first before I invest in “The Sun Also Rises”. That led me to the used bookstore where I found “The Old Man and the Sea” which is a novella that I believe won quite a few awards. I don’t know anything about this book besides the fact that I assume there’s an old man who’s out in the sea. I think it’ll make for a cozy one sitting read which I think I’ll enjoy in the middle of reading the bigger books. It’s also a book that I hauled recently.