Penny Thoughtful: All Things Books and Running

I continue to enjoy how Shannon has built this story over these first three installments. She has taken the plot and characters quite far from the original setting of book one and has done so in a believable way. Sometimes when the plot transforms over the course of a series it can feel like a…

This graphic novel deals with deep, potentially triggering topics. While I do not avoid recommending the book for that reason, I do not recommend the book. The narrative serves as a way for the author to recount a fictionalized version of her own experiences. I will never discount that. I hesitate to recommend this book…

I still have a majorly ambitious TBR. Thanks to still technically being on vacation, I may be able to read all of these books. With an international trip taking up the first 8 days (so excited!) and a four day training week, I definitely will not read as much in July as June but…the amount…

Books like this lay bare a lot of uncomfortable truths. It takes a skilled author to handle these truths and the fallout from everything involved. Sawyerr is one such author. My words pale in comparison to the actual narrative so I will direct you there. I highly recommend this book. I really appreciated this narrative…

Once again, I read another large number of books over a 48 hour time period. Since I have so many books to review, I will not write as much as normal, hopefully. As is my usual MO for these weekend readathons, I read several of these comic collections back to back. Some worked better (sometimes…

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…