Penny Thoughtful: All Things Books and Running

No readathons this month but still a bunch of books that I plan to read. I think this will be the last monthly TBR with all of my book subscriptions on it since with this TBR, I will catch up with Inkstone and probably one other. 25 in 25 Priority Series + Continuing Series Buzzwordathon…

[Even though All the Fighting Parts and Lasagna Means I Love You appear in the thumbnail, I will not include the reviews here. When designing the image, I forgot that I have separate reviews for all of my SCASL books. Whoops.] I have started to approach my book box books with a bit of hesitation…

Years ago I read many of Napoli’s works and enjoyed them. This one, however, I did not. The fantastical side of the main character being a mermaid but also easily able to transform into a “regular” human had no explanation. Of course, her plight – controlled by the awful “Neptune” – engenders sympathy. Unfortunately, that…

The complexity of the world these authors have created continues to keep me engaged and immersed. With the reveals and events of book one, the narrative has moved on from the con and fully into the macro-plot which cleverly expands the already intricate magic systems. Even though I will keep this review brief to avoid…

This is the first book from this author that did not completely knock it out of the park for me. I still think that she did an excellent job with the narrative. This particular story, though, had a pretty big hill to climb. This book is set in Amsterdam during Nazi occupation just at the…

This is not something easy to build a TBR for but I managed to do it. I tried to do hard mode for as many of the prompts as possible but a couple of them I’ll have to settle for easy mode.

I knew from the title and subtitle that I would enjoy this book and thankfully it lived up to my expectations. I had just one disappointment and that was the narrator. I had to slow my listening speed down significantly because of his lack of distinction between words. I did love his accent though. At…

I really enjoyed this graphic novel entry on the list. The main character, whose name I have as usual unfortunately forgotten, is just starting school in her dad’s home town where they moved once his military service ended. She feels desperate to fit in, especially since it seems that everyone knows her dad while she …

This episode covers the same amount of time but far fewer books. A combination of benchmark tests and other schedule oddities meant less time for classroom reading. I did not realize when first reserving this book that it connected to the Lunar Chronicles series. As soon as I opened the first page and found out,…