Penny Thoughtful: All Things Books and Running

This narrative, unfortunately, lacked quite a bit of the things from the first book that endeared the series and characters to me. In fact, this conclusion to the series read like it had little connection to that first book. All of the academic fussiness that seemed to form a fundamental part of Emily’s entire being…

Yes, I know it’s now June. I was not able to participate when the gym actually occurred in April because of a scheduling conflict (I think it was the Cooper River 10k) so I chose a day in late May and made that my gym day. Here are the four books that I read to…

With this installment, I have caught up as far as I can in the series since my local library does not have a physical copy of the fourth book. The series continues to delight. I loved the addition of Henry, an uncle of sorts, who finds himself stuck in panda form after a romantic rejection.…

Wilkerson crafted a stunning debut with rich layers of character development. The narrative alternates between a more contemporary (but still in the past) timeline where two estranged siblings meet for the reading of their mother’s will and unexpectedly learn life-changing truth from a story their mother recorded and left to be played after her death…

This month I plan to read quite a few books so I decided to break up my recent reads according to the various legs of the readathon, a readathon modeled after one of my favorite reality tv shows, the Amazing Race. (One side note: I will not be reviewing my SCASL project books in this…

I’ll try to keep these write ups short and sweet for these three books. For the first two, I do not remember much, just enough to know that these were not the books for me. Oh, all of these DNFs came on the same day. Both of these had something within the first five percent…

Unfortunately, this one time when my title for the post hits the nail on the head. Towards the end of May, I opened up one of my book box subscriptions that had this gorgeous book in it and remembered that I had had this book on my May TBR originally but had taken it off…

I have to get better at keeping up with these reviews, especially since I have highly ambitious plans for the number of books that I want to read this month (June). I will do my best to write as comprehensive of reviews as I can but time and potential information overload may make some of…

Do not let the cover deceive you like it did me. This is not a middle grade graphic novel. I also think that the author took a fascinating premise brimming with potential and squandered it. The story throws readers into the deep end at the start – a common technique – but never back sup…