This month’s favorite books were CITY OF GIRLS by Elizabeth Gilbert and YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT YOUR DESTINATION from Amor Towles. To sum up the month, I read a total of 8 books, of which 4 were ebooks and 4 were audiobooks. ✅ WHAT I FINISHED The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams (review here) City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert (review here)…
When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton
When We Left Cuba by Chanel Cleeton | Published April 9th 2019 by Berkley Books | 346 Pages | Goodreads ✅ REVIEW “If I’m going to have regrets in this life, I’d rather them be for the chances I took and not the opportunities I let slip away.” Compelling and evocative. I was eager to get…
The Whisper Man by Alex North
The Whisper Man by Alex North| Published August 20th 2019 by Celadon Books | 355 Pages | Goodreads ✅ REVIEW This was a chilling and dark read. It is impressive that it is a debut novel, the author did a great job developing the characters and the story. The recent disappearance of a child in a…
You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Forward Collection) by Amor Towles
You Have Arrived at Your Destination (Forward Collection) by Amor Towles| Published September 17th 2019 by Amazon Original Stories | 46 Pages | Goodreads ✅ REVIEW This is my favorite story of the FORWARD collection so far. They have all been excellent, but this one had a touch of humor that I loved. The story…
Summer Frost (Forward Collection) by Blake Crouch
Summer Frost (Forward Collection) by Blake Crouch| Published September 17th 2019 by Amazon Original Stories | 75 Pages | Goodreads ✅ REVIEW A game developer becomes obsessed with one of her characters after it breaks the script and becomes self-aware. This is a short fiction story that explores AI. The dialog and themes reflect on the…
Ark (Forward Collection) by Veronica Roth
Ark (Forward Collection) by Veronica Roth | Published September 17th 2019 by Amazon Original Stories | 39 Pages | Goodreads ✅ REVIEW This is a reflective short-fiction novel that takes place in the future. An asteroid will soon crash with planet Earth and life as we know it is not expected to survive. For years now,…
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher
A Boy and His Dog at the End of the World by C.A. Fletcher| Published April 23rd 2019 by Orbit | 365 Pages | Goodreads ✅ REVIEW “Dogs were with us from the very beginning. And of all the animals that walked the long centuries beside us, they always walked the closest.” Captivating, adventurous, and surprising!…
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert
City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert | Published June 4th 2019 by Riverhead | 470 Pages | Goodreads ✅ REVIEW “Never has it felt more important for me to tell stories of joy and abandon, passion and recklessness. Life is short and difficult, people. We must take our pleasures where we can find them. Let us not…
The Bromance Book Club (Bromance Book Club #1) by Lyssa Kay Adams
The Bromance Book Club (Bromance Book Club #1) by Lyssa Kay Adams | Expected publication: November 5th 2019 by Berkley | 352 Pages | Goodreads ✅ REVIEW This romantic novel focuses on the relationship between Galvin and Thea. He recently found out his wife had been faking it in the bedroom, which shocks and angers him…
Book Wrap-Up #15 (08/19) 📚 for August 2019
We have reached the end of the month, so quickly. Necessary People by Anna Pitoniak was my favorite read on August which was deliciously dark. To sum up the month, I read a total of 8 books, of which 2 were ebooks, 1 physical copy, and 5 were audiobooks. ✅ WHAT I FINISHED Things You Save…