As a child, you would rarely see me without a book in hand. I definitely played outside with neighbourhood friends and cousins, and as a teen, I would hang out online with school and internet friends. But at the dinner table, on my couch, in my bed, I was always reading.
And then I did my undergrad in English.
The amount of reading, and the level dissection of the texts, literally killed my joy of reading. While a degree in English can be rewarding because you learn to understand how text shapes our world, and vice versa, it made reading just for pleasure extremely difficult. It didn’t help that I spent like 234037423842080237432 years finishing up a 4 year degree.
I graduated 2 years ago, and it’s taken me some time, but I’m slowly getting back into reading more consistently. I’ve decided this year to track what I’m reading. I won’t necessarily do reviews on the books, because I’d like to review books I really want to recommend, however, I will share what I’ve read each month. I think this will keep me accountable to myself, and it’ll be a fun way to track my reading!
Without further ado, here are my January 2020 reads:
Clearly romance was in the air, pre-Valentine’s month. Guillory was like binging through a rom-com ecosystem, as characters would reappear from previous novels. Evanovich is known as a mystery author, however, Wicked Appetite is the first installment of a 7 book series and is classified as fiction. It was an extremely quick read and lacked the depth Guillory’s characters had. I felt that it was trying too hard to fit several different genres. Looking forward to sharing February reads in a few weeks — happy reading!