Tackling the TBR Week 42: Nov 8 - Nov 14, 2020

       

My TBR has been out of control for YEARS. Then in January of 2019 I started tracking weekly my true reading/acquiring habits, and voila! I have been able to keep on top of things a little bit better. I may never get below 1,000 books, but at least I won't be topping out over 5,000! When a book cover is linked, it goes to the review here on my blog.

I will be posting on the 7th, 14th, 21st, and the last day of the month. Feel free to join in if you'd like!

If a book is linked in the 'Books Read' section, you can click the cover to go to my review.

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Previous Week's TBR Total: 3,054

Currently Reading

Books Added to TBR

Books Removed from TBR: 1

Books Read

Books DNF-ed: 0

Duplicates Removed: 0

New TBR Total: 3,070

I don't know what happened. I was doing so well and not adding any new books to the TBR. Oops.

Any of these catch your eye? Have you already read any? Let me know!

Happy Reading!

Sarah

Stacking the Shelves #120

  

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly feature co-hosted by Tynga's Reviews and Reading Reality. It is a chance to showcase all the goodies you've collected throughout the week, whether they're bought on-line or in-store, an ARC or a final copy, borrowed from a friend or the library, physical or digital, etc.

NetGalley

Library Treasures

Happy Reading!

Sarah

Book Review | The Wife Between Us

Rating ⭐⭐

...and that's being extremely generous.

This is going to be one of those weird review/non-reviews because there is no way to really say anything without spoiling something and this book, I just don't have the energy for that kind of post tonight. I'll go low-key shade instead of rage-shouting like I did with This is How I Lied.

I actually liked the book to begin with. I was interested and not at all sure where it was going and then it suddenly dawned on me exactly where it was going and sure enough, around halfway through that's where we ended up. Even so, I kept going because I wanted to see what else was in store. The bigger twist at the end I did not see coming and when I first finished the book I thought this would be a solid 3-4 star rating. I didn't even think the twist at the end was necessary,

Then I actually thought about the book as a whole, and realized what both women did was extremely fucked up. The Replacement was justified in her own twisted way, because of what happened to her family, and before she knew all the facts about Vanessa.

But what Vanessa did to her? GARBAGE. She is genuinely a terrible human being for it, despite the fact that she pulled it off perfectly. Like, she needed an out, but come on. Ruining someone else's life in the process is not the way to go about it. Vanessa knew that everything that happened to her would happen to the next one. That's what makes it so terrible.

The more I thought about it, I realized that the surprise twist at the end with who the Replacement really was, THAT was what made the book worth two stars.

Otherwise, blech.

Get Your Chucks Ready

 

I Hope We Continue to Make Her Proud

 

We Did It!

There's so much work ahead, the next three months are going to be the worst yet, and there are a lot of ugly things we have to confront and come to terms with, but this first step is huge.

For the first time since Tuesday, I can breathe a sight of relief. I could not stop refreshing the AP results for the last five days, keeping a running total on a Facebook post that became a beautiful dumping ground for all the amazing memes that have come out of this endless election. We needed the humor when things looked bad.

I knew in the end we needed Michigan, Wisconsin or Pennsylvania. I didn't dare hope we would get all three.

But we did.

And even though not only did trump get the same number of votes as before, he got about seven million more, it wasn't enough. He is done.

We are ready to rejoin the world again, if you will have us.

Tackling the TBR Week 41: Nov 1 - Nov 7, 2020

      

My TBR has been out of control for YEARS. Then in January of 2019 I started tracking weekly my true reading/acquiring habits, and voila! I have been able to keep on top of things a little bit better. I may never get below 1,000 books, but at least I won't be topping out over 5,000! When a book cover is linked, it goes to the review here on my blog.

I will be posting on the 7th, 14th, 21st, and the last day of the month. Feel free to join in if you'd like!

If a book is linked in the 'Books Read' section, you can click the cover to go to my review.

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Previous Week's TBR Total: 3,052

Currently Reading

Books Added to TBR

Books Removed from TBR: 0

Books Read

Books DNF-ed: 0

Duplicates Removed: 0

New TBR Total: 3,054

The total only went up because two books I started to read I had to put back on my TBR because there is not time for them right until I get the ARCs done and reviewed that need to be finished. So, technically, I broke even. Yay, me.

Any of these catch your eye? Have you already read any? Let me know!

Happy Reading!

Sarah