I'm Back!
(Hopefully to stay this time.)
A lot has happened over the last couple of months. However, the list of things has not included writing blogs. Somehow this one item on my to-do list has masterfully evaded my attention (read: has masterfully been ignored by me). But here I am, more than two months since my last post, trying my best to get back into the habit of uploading regularly. I refuse to acknowledge the possibility of falling off the bandwagon once again, after all it is the intention that counts. Right?
Even though I have not been writing regular reviews on here, I have been reading a ton of really interesting books lately. Some have immediately made it on my list of all-time favourite reads, some have left me questioning the time I spent reading them, but all of them have undoubtedly been interesting. Now that I am back on the blogging ball, I am determined to write proper reviews for at least some of them (since promising to write reviews for the 20 books I have read since Best of Friends would be a stretch, even I’m not ready to commit to.)
To hold myself accountable and ensure I do not go MIA once again, here’s a list of books I want to write reviews for in the next few weeks, before we go back to regular programming. Consider this also my official return to the #30TubeReads challenge, which I horribly abandoned the last time. Am I going to risk setting myself up for failure by overcommitting once again? Yes, of course! I seem to be a store of bad ideas these days. So here goes nothing…
Long ago, on a blog that has hopefully been lost in the dark and ambiguous corners of the internet, I used to do a series of blogs that I had ‘imaginatively’ named #AroundtheWorldin180Books. I’m sure you must have gathered from the rather unique name that the aim of the series was to read at least one book from every country around the world. (Once again remember that it is the intention that counts since #AroundtheWorldin195Books did not have the same ring to it according to my 17 year old mind.) The series went on for a few years and I did read some very interesting books in the process. But as you might guess from my recent disappearance, I fell off that bandwagon at some point as life got in the way. This is my official announcement that I want to start doing that again.
Life will always have the tendency of sticking its nose where it has no business. But since I do really enjoy putting out my silly reviews about the lovely books I read for the few (but really precious) readers I have, I am going to try to work around life’s interferences.
So here’s the list of reviews you can look forward to in the next couple of weeks:
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin (#30TubeReads)
Dandelions by Thea Lenarduzzi (#AroundtheWorldin180Books)
The Forty Rules of Love by Elif Shafak
Three Rooms by Jo Hamya
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
Strangers I Know by Claudia Durastanti
The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak (#AroundtheWorldin180Books)
Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason
The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri
The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (#30TubeReads)
The Perfect Wife by J P Delaney (#30TubeReads)
Tin Man by Sarah Winman (#30TubeReads)
These are the 13 books that I want to review as soon as possible since we can then get back to regular programming, instead of trying to clear out the backlog. Here’s wishing me luck because I definitely need it!