I'm bailing on this book for now. It's too serious and too much for me in the current lockdown climate. I need escapism right now. I'm not totally abandoning it as it does seem like a good book from what I've read so far. It's just not the time.
This was my #bookspin selection for April.

🚀🚀🚀 I was 2 when Star Wars came out. I grew up with it and Princess Leia was one of my first heroes. So reading a book like this is tricky. How do you write a book about a character who has become an icon? I think it's incredibly difficult to do. This wasn't a bad book but it read like fan fiction. Really good fan fiction but it didn't fully hit the mark for me. This is possibly why I've never read Star Wars books until now. That cover though.

Instead of posting a list for @TheAromaofBooks #bookspin, I thought I would post a picture of my 20 books that are in the mix.

🏵️🏵️🏵️🏵️ I enjoyed this book. It's an interesting time period and I would like to read more about it.

This was my selection for March's #bookspin with @TheAromaofBooks

⚔️⚔️⚔️ This was my first 40k book. I was actually drawn to it because it was the first one I've seen that was written by a woman. It did not disappoint. It was action-packed and really fun. I didn't give it 5 stars for two reasons: I would have liked a bit more character development and interaction between the characters and I think that bits of the story were lost on me because I'm unfamiliar with 40k lore. I really enjoyed it though.

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 This was a really fun book. There are a lot of facts about the planets and moons in our solar system and it's conveyed in an entraining way; as though these places were actually holiday locations. Very imaginative and informative.

This is my list for the March #bookspin selection (hosted by the delectable @TheAromaofBooks ). (The tagged book was my February selection.) Looking forward to seeing which one gets picked. Are you participating this time around?

🍈🍈🍈 This was my #bookspin selection for February (run by @TheAromaofBooks). I usually love Stephen King but this book was kind of meh.

Absolute trash. This is a load of self-indulgent, self-congratulatory twaddle. I made it a third of the way through before I pulled the rip cord. I didn't realise that this was the same author who wrote Eat Pray Love. Had I known, I would have left it on the shelf. Thankfully, it was a library book so no money spent.

🐻🐻🐻🐻🐻 This book was beautiful. It's a wonderful story that's really well written. Looking forward to reading the next book.

🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 🚀 Another great book in the series. It really messed with my emotions. I've become so attached to the characters over 8 books so I'm always scared to read what's going to happen to them. This is probably my favourite series.

🦄 🦄🦄🦄 I'm not gonna lie. I love this series. This is the second book in the series and it is WILD. It can be tricky if the author has an idea that's out there as sometimes it doesn't work in the execution. But it works here. This is a quirky, yet cohesive story that is ridiculously entertaining.

These are the books currently in my tbr stack for #bookspin with @TheAromaofBooks

I'm pretty good at getting through my stack (although I constantly add to it). I'm not really a mood reader so I usually let my rpg dice app choose for me. I thought it might be fun to let someone else choose my bookish fate for me so here we are.

🐙🐙🐙🐙 This was an excellent and very original trilogy. I read the first one ages ago but decided to reread and then continue on with the other two books. I really enjoyed these stories. This book is pictured with my current crochet wip.
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🦢🦢🦢🦢 This was a lovely book. It was a bit slow going but I don't mind that when there are so many interesting characters. It reminded me of Karen Maitland's books; historical fiction with an air of otherworldliness that makes you question what is real. I really enjoyed this read.

🌾🌾🌾🌾 This was a great book to end 2019 with. There were a lot of good things in here although a few things I disagreed with (he kept telling me to not read so many books). It was also important to keep a bit of perspective. Yes, we should be happy with what we have but when that comes from a wealthy emperor who was probably rich, the advice misses the mark. Overall, I got a lot of of this book and highly recommended it.

🤖🤖🤖🤖🤖 This book was a fantastic way to end my reading year. My only complaint is that it's a very short book. I really identified with the SecUnit (main character) who is awkward around people and can't control its facial expressions.🤣 I'm definitely looking forward to the next one.

⛪⛪⛪⛪ This was a pretty decent story. As a child of the 80s, I enjoyed the nostalgia. It was missing something though and the ending didn't do it for me. It was pretty solid though.

🏡🏡🏡🏡🏡 This volume was so much better than the last. I was kind of disappointed with volume 7 so it made me happy that this one found the whimsy I felt the previous one had lost.

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Another amazing offering in this series. I love it I love it I love it

🐈🐈🐈🐈 I enjoyed this book however I didn't seem to be as emotionally affected by it as others seem to be. Perhaps people built it up too much for me but I think that part of the problem is that I'm not really drawn to contemporary books that have settings which are familiar to me. I prefer reading about the unfamiliar. It was a good story though .

🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️🏛️ This was a beautiful book in every way. The cover is stunning and I loved the story. I love stories about mythology so this was right up my alley.

🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟 This is my second Karen Maitland book and it is safe to say that I am a fan!

🐉🐉🐉🐉🐉 I was unprepared to like this book as much as I did. I thought that it would be a Tolkien-esque story but it was surprisingly unique. Even though it has humans, elves, and dwarves it had a different take on the genre. I loved it!

🗽🗽🗽🗽🗽 Sometimes I have a difficult time connecting with contemporary YA because I'm a golden oldie and am so far removed from high school that I couldn't even imagine what it's like to be a teenager these days. But I really enjoyed this book despite it being for a younger audience.

🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋 This was a fanatic read. I really enjoyed it. I always wonder, though, how the written is split up in collaborations like this. Particularly when I'm so familiar with an author's style. This read like a Stephen King book so I wonder what his son's input was or if he has the same writing style as his dad. I've never read any of his other work so I don't have a clue. It was a good book though.

⛩️⛩️⛩️⛩️⛩️ I loved this book so muuuuuuch! It felt as though I was reading a folktale and that's totally my jam. ❤️ This was a gorgeous read.

✒️✒️✒️✒️✒️ This was an excellent compilation of quotes from various writers on writing. I really enjoyed it and there was lots of good advice. I took a picture of a scarf I was making at the time because it matched the cover. 😄
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🐆🐆🐆🐆🐆 This book was magnificent and the cover is amazing! I loved everything about it. It was so original and imaginative. If you enjoy fantasy, I recommend this book.

👑👑👑👑👑 I've been following this guy's blog for a few years now so it was nice to read this in book format. I was also able to see ones that I missed on his blog. This book is so inspiring as sometimes it feels like men are the only ones who make history. There were so many of these ladies that I had never heard of. I highly recommend this to everyone!

🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷This was beautiful and terrifying. I can't imagine going through the things that happened during the holocaust. I feel that this is one of those books that should be read in schools.

🕰️🕰️🕰️🕰️ This was a defining book for me during my childhood. I can't tell you how many times I read this long ago. I decided to reread it as an adult and was a bit trepidatious in doing so as we change over time as does our taste in books. I'm happy to report that this book holds up (at least for me). I'm not sure if I like the story because of the writing or because of the nostalgia but I still love this book.

🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀 Such an amazing book and so relevant to current events. My heart broke when I read how shootings in the US inspired Thomas to write this book. It's unfortunate that the people who need to read books like this won't.

🛸🛸🛸🛸🛸 This book was fantastic. I wasn't really sure what to expect but it wasn't this. It was interesting in how it dealt with mental illness in a science fiction setting. The ending wasn't amazing but I forgave it because the rest of it was so good.

👑👑👑👑 I was surprised at how much I liked this book. It was quite charming. I generally don't like books that take place in the south east US. I lived there and it was the worst 14 years of my life (no offense to those of you who live there). I also hate beauty pageants so I'm not really sure what drew me to this book but it was really good. I'm glad I overcame my prejudices and read it.

📖📖📖📖 This book was a lot of fun. The author created a really interesting dystopian future. And I enjoy reading books about books so... 👍

Also, I just realised that I took this picture whilst wearing my boxers of the Paris metro. Sorry. 😅

💋💋💋 This comic was ok. I liked the premise but the execution didn't work very well for me.

☀☀️☀️☀️☀️ I liked this book much better than Everything Everything. It was quite sweet.

🏥🏥🏥🏥 This book was good. It was really well written but the denouement was problematic and that bothered me. I did like the book though.

🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️🗡️ Another excellent book by Rowland. This is the 3rd in the series and it kept me on the edge of my seat. The stakes were really high in this one!

Pictured with my current WIP. I fell in love with this yarn and I'm currently trying to make a scarf in all 31 colours. This is scarf number 13. #hookersoflitsy

🐁🐁🐁🐁 I was a bit disappointed by the first book but this one was definitely way better. There were different characters and not as many clichés. This story took place way before the first book and it was really entertaining. I think I'll carry on with the series.

⛩️⛩️⛩️⛩️ This is the 2nd book in this series and I really liked it. This is turning out to be a pretty solid series. I got number 3 from the library and am looking forward to seeing how this samurai detective gets on.

🖤🖤🖤🖤 This wasn't the best of this series but I still love these characters.

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀 I love this series so much. It just keeps getting better with each book. This one gives us a bit more background on each of the characters which is what I've been waiting for. So good. 💕

🗡️🗡️ I think I've fallen out of love with Joe Abercrombie. I just haven't really enjoyed these books. So I'm going to leave him alone for a while. The women in his books don't feel like actual people to me and I find myself being really frustrated as I read. On to other things.

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 This. Was. Epic. I've been meaning to read this book for such a long time and now that I've read it I can't believe it took me so long to get to it! I don't really even know what to say about it except that it is a work of art. I will be adding the next one to my tbr stack immediately.

🎨 🎨🎨 I read this book for Cityread London and I must admit that I didn't find it amazing. I didn't engage with any of the characters and I found it a bit of a chore to get through. It just wasn't for me. http://www.cityread.london

👸👸👸👸👸I loved this book. It looks like some people didn't like this book because it wasn't scholarly enough and I can see that. It was dramatised somewhat but I liked that about it. It probably wouldn't have been as great if I was using it for research but it was a fun way to learn about an era that I'm not very familiar with.

💎💎💎💎This was a wild ride. It had a cast of thousands and everyone had a story which was connected with everyone else. The Count was OP and at times I had to suspend my disbelief a bit further than is comfortable but overall this was a really good story. I wasn't happy with the ending but I guess we can't always be. It was a long read (a few pages longer than War and Peace actually) but well worth the read.

🌳🌳This was a whole lot of meh for me. I don't really remember how this book got on my tbr list. Probably from one of those listsicles (that I love) on bookish sites that I follow. The story wasn't cohesive and I didn't like any of the characters. I kept reading because I was curious as to how it would turn out but it was really disappointing.