Giving #BookSpin another, well, spin in 2026! 🌀
Dropped in some options for #FoodAndLit2026, #AuthorAMonth, and Book Riot's Read Harder challenge to help me choose. 😂
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Giving #BookSpin another, well, spin in 2026! 🌀
Dropped in some options for #FoodAndLit2026, #AuthorAMonth, and Book Riot's Read Harder challenge to help me choose. 😂
A peek at (part of) my physical TBR. My biggest goal for 2026 is to tackle this monster, and also to try not to buy anything on too much of a whim. (Some things, I know I‘ll buy because I have the rest of the series/have some must-buy authors/etc. But I‘m going to try not to just buy something for the sake of buying something.) So, here we are! 🤣 #mounttbr #nofilter #pleasedontjudgemeatleasttheyrestackedneatly #featuringthebobs
pickThe best book of March was this one, about the first all female climbing team to tell up Nepal's Annapurna. Read for Food & Lit, I had ZERO knowledge of mountain climbing. It was interesting how much work and preparation went into the planning phase, then how tenuous those plans are once they were on the mountain. This year, a few chosen on a whim to fill a challenge were among the best of the year.
#12Booksof2025 @TheEllieMo
pickCharming book about a homeless man who gets a job at a convenience store, working the overnight shift. Quick read, redemptive.
I wasn't expecting quite so much detail about classic cars....
pickEven more amazing than the decision to cycle from Ireland to India as a solo female traveler in 1963 is the even-tempered, almost dismissive tone with which Murphy describes the series of harrowing situations she encountered along the way. She has a natural, deadpan comic sensibility that's quite endearing, even if unbelievable at times given the gravity of some of the things that happened to her. She's the best kind of traveler- open-minded...
Where I find the best book. I don't want to return it to Mum, but I must. Many thanks to Alice Pung for sharing your polished words in Unpolished Gem.
https://www.suzs-space.com/unpolished-gem-by-alice-pung/
Have you made your Christmas wishlist yet?
https://wildwoodreads.com/2025/12/05/books-on-my-christmas-wishlist-2/
so-soTold in three storylines: an American vet with PTSD returning to Vietnam to heal & find his wartime girlfriend and their child, a man who was orphaned during the war trying to get to America due to him being the child of a GI, & a farm girl who moves to Saigon to work at a bar & is coerced into sex work.
It had a slow start but it was otherwise well written & researched, & about things that aren‘t talked about enough, but it wasn‘t for me.
