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Hello Hello! How are you?
Itβs been a few days since Iβve posted on my blog, this week has been extremely busy, long, hot and just generally tiring for me, Iβve been struggling a bit but pushing through and hoping for a bit of a chill weekend. Luckily, I only have a 3-hour class this morning and then I can come home and get my pyjamas on!
Iβm really glad to be back for this post, itβs been two weeks since I had a purge as I think I kind of needed a break last week, but itβs good to be back! I think I might start doing a WWW post on my blog or some other meme, let me know what you think!
You know the drill if you havenβt ever read any of my Down the TBR Hole posts before but you want to find out why I started and what rules to follow to do your own TBR list purge on your Goodreads, head over to the first edition of this post to find out more!
This weekβs purge is starting with a total of 3,821 books on my Goodreads βWant to Readβ shelf, as usual, Iβm going to be working through the next 20 books on this list and today Iβm starting at #289. Iβm really happy and excited for this post, so wish me luck, I hope it goes well!
GOODREADS βWANT TO READβ SHELF
Catapult by Emily Fridlund
Well, we are already starting this week off with a short story collection. Iβve got no recollection of having consciously added this one to my list, so it must have been during one of my adding sprees (as you do). I have to say before I even read the blurb, Iβm such a sucker for covers with flowers, itβs one of my favourite things! Unfortunately, this doesnβt sound like a book I would usually go for, I donβt think I would be the intended audience so Iβm going to let this one go.
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Apprenticed to Venus: My Secret Life with AnaΓ―s Nin by Tristine Rainer
Itβs the first time Iβve seen an author with a surname thatβs super close to mine (same pronunciation, different spelling) and this time we have a memoir! Iβve not read many, I do want to read more, but I just have to find one that I know wonβt bore me, weβve all read a super boring memoir and thatβs just not my jazz. Iβm probably going to show myself up but I have no idea who AnaΓ―s Nin is and having read half of the blurb it just doesnβt grab me, so I think I will let this one go as well!
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Attrib. and other stories by Eley Williams
We have a book of short stories again, and what an absolutely coincidence that the authorβs name is Eley (again, same pronunciation, different spelling), this has never happened to me before aha! Last time I did this post, I came across a book that sounded so amazing, and this one is giving me the same vibes, Iβve got a degree in English studies and Iβm currently doing a Publishing Masters specialised in semiotics and language, so this book is 100% up my alley, I love the sound of it and how it seems to be a bit of mixed media. Iβm not used to this kind of short stories, but I really want to give it a go!
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The Maze in the English Park by Elizabeth von Witanovski
It doesnβt happen often, but this book does not have a genre list on Goodreads and that bugs me a lot. Iβve only read a few lines and I really donβt think itβs the kind of book for me, so Iβm going to remove it from the list!
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Mirror Image by Michael Scott
There is just some kind of connotation with the word βhorrorβ that literally scares me so much, Iβm not one to call myself a scaredy-cat because Iβm not really, but this gives me the creeps. I donβt mind spooky books, but this one focuses on a kind of haunted mirror and that scares me a lot, so I think I will let this one go.
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Unruly Creatures: Stories by Jennifer Caloyeras
More short stories, I must have been hitting the add button for ages! It kind of sounds like a good book, and itβs got some really good ratings and reviews, but it seems a tad on the weird side for me personally, I do like these types of narratives usually, but this one just isnβt pulling me in, so I will have to get rid of it I think!
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Snap by Belinda Bauer
Weβve finally changed bandwagons, this is a mystery novel and I feel like Iβve either seen this cover before or heard about it somewhere, so at least it isnβt totally unknown to me aha! As youβve probably heard from me before if youβve read my blog in the past, I am a very picky mystery reader and need some kind of murder or big mystery to really make me want to read it, this honestly sounds more like a thriller to me and Iβm not that much of a fan, the blurb doesnβt really pull me in, so Iβll take this one off and concentrate on the other mysteries Iβm keeping instead!
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Three Wishes by Liane Moriarty
Iβve had quite a few Liane Moriarty books on my list before and also taken them off during the course of these posts, they just donβt sound like the kind of books I enjoy reading now, and I donβt know whether this one will be the same or not. Unfortunately, itβs as I predicted, this doesnβt sound like what I read and enjoy, so this is an easy choice to make.
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Tonight the Streets Are Ours by Leila Sales
This is a YA contemporary, also something I donβt read much anymore. The premise is kind of cool and I like the writing and feelings dimension that this book seems to have, but there is something super weird to me about this whole plot, I donβt know what, but I donβt really fancy finding out, so Iβll let this one go too.
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Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders
Finally, a book I have heard about and seen before, yay! I actually came across this book I think last year when one of my friends read it and told me all about it, I read the blurb and immediately added it to my list and itβs been in the back of my mind ever since. It sounds quite emotional and meaningful, but those are two things that sometimes turn books into my favourites (I bawled my eyes out reading Les MisΓ©rables), so I am definitely looking forward to this one and can hopefully get to it soon!!
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Sea Prayer by Khaled Hosseini
I added this book to my list after I saw it in one of Books and Lalaβs videos on BookTube, I think she was reading it with her son and she made it sound like a really good book. This sounds like another one that going to have me in tears throughout, but I think itβs also a really important book to read, so this is staying on my list and I hope that I will be able to read it in the not too far future!
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Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Oh, we finally have some historical fiction, itβs been a while and I had missed it aha! Just reading the word βslaveβ I immediately wanted to read it, I love (that sounds weird for the topic but I think you know what I mean) reading books about slavery or set during slavery time. This book sounds absolutely amazing, I canβt believe that I have no recollection of adding it or having heard about it, I am so excited to read this book, I think Iβm going to really love it.
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Between Us and the Moon by Rebecca Maizel
This has turned into a really eclectic week actually, which I wasnβt expecting. Again, YA contemporaries are not really my thing anymore and I donβt know about you, but that cover really puts me off wanting to read it for some reason. Definitely not my type of book after reading the blurb, I would probably have read it if I was younger, but itβs not my thing anymore.
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First There Was Forever by Juliana Romano
Another YA contemporary, this sounds like a friend backstabbing another one and I really donβt care for those type of plots, itβs just something I hate in real life so I definitely do not want to read about it in a book, this is an easy choice.
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Kissing in America by Margo Rabb
Iβve never heard of this book before either, oops. Another YA contemporary, I donβt know why, but I just do not seem drawn to contemporary novels, and Iβm not feeling it with this one either. I do usually like road trip books, but I donβt fancy this one at all and Iβm going to let it go.
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The Devil You Know by Trish Doller
I seem to be on another YA contemporary bandwagon apparently, which makes sense because its what I predominantly read when I was younger, but I donβt really like this genre that much anymore. It sort of also sounds like a bit of a thriller and has a road trip, I mean, it sounds kind of good and I would definitely have read it as a younger Ellie, but I know I would probably not enjoy it as much now, so Iβm going to take it off the list.
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Rules for 50/50 Chances by Kate McGovern
Another YA contemporary on the list, the book cover looks really cool though! I wouldnβt have thought that I would want to read this book, but it has some themes of illness that I find really intriguing and as someone which a few chronic conditions, I have to say that illnesses arenβt really a focus in my usual reads, so I think I might give this one a shot, it seems both meaningful and fun.
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Love Fortunes and Other Disasters (#1) by Kimberly Karalius
Iβve not heard of this book before, its YA romance and the cover is so freaking cute, right? Again, this is the kind of book I would have read and most assuredly adored when I was a teenager, and I still kind of want to read it as it sounds fun, but Iβm not very drawn to it right now, so I think I will get right of it for the time being and maybe add it again later!
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Devoted by Jennifer Mathieu
Another unknown book to me, it would be interesting to keep a tally of how many of these they are (or maybe that would be terrifying actually). NOPE, NOPE, Iβm not even going to read this blurb as it starts with βdevoted to Godβ, Iβm not a religious person and I just donβt do books with religion (not a judgment at all, everyone can believe what they want, I just personally donβt), so Iβm going to take this one off my list.
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Truest by Jackie Lea Sommers
And we are finishing this week with a YA contemporary again. I donβt really know what this book is about but I can tell that from the blurb and the cover, itβs not my kind of read, so Iβm ending this week on yet another easy choice, I think Iβm on a roll now!
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So, out of the 20 books that I went through in my list today, I was able to remove a total of 15 books, itβs not my best but it is really good and Iβm really proud of myself and how strict I am every week, I donβt think I would see the end of this list otherwise aha!
My Goodreads βWant to Readβ list is now down to a total of 3,807 books and I will be starting next week at #294. I hope Iβll do okay again!
Thatβs all for now, I hope you enjoyed this post, see you soon, stay safe,
Ellie xx
Well done removing 15 books Ellie! You’re making really good progressing sorting through your TBR π
Thank you so much Sarah! π
Wow! You did great this week!
Thank you! π
Looks like you had a good week going through your list.
β₯ Mae
Thank you! π