2021 reading wrap ups

JANUARY- 22 books (favourite to least favourite)

- the archive of alternate endings: 5
- the seep: 5
- luckenbooth: 5
- cat person and other stories: 5
- so we can glow: 5
- the prophets: 5
- what girls do in the dark: 5
- grimoire: 5

JANUARY PT.II

- the tourist butcher: 4
- strange little girls: 4
- tell me who we were: 4
- my sister the serial killer: 4
- arctic fury: 4
- golem girl: 4
- the dangers of smoking in bed: 3.5
- the divines: 3.5
- the rain heron: 3

JANUARY PT. III

- mouthful of birds: 3
- the thirty names of night: 3
- ruthie fear: 3
- love and other thought experiments: 2
- the signature of all things: 2
- the fair fight: DNF

FEBRUARY- 16 books

⁃milk blood heat: 5
⁃four hundred souls: 5
⁃the women of brewster place: 5
⁃honey girl: 5
⁃the upstairs house: 5
⁃the centaurs wife: 4
⁃paradise block: 4
⁃milk fed: 3.5
⁃the memory theater: 3.5

FEBRUARY PT.II

- the beguiling: 3
⁃we can only save ourselves: 3
⁃self portrait in green: 3
⁃cormorant lake: 3
⁃gingerbread: 3
⁃in the garden of spite: 3
⁃what big teeth: 2.5
⁃all the bad apples: DNF

MARCH (23 books)

⁃modern nature: 5
⁃last house on needless street: 5
⁃reasons she goes to the woods: 5
⁃past lives future bodies: 5
⁃the death of vivek oji: 5
⁃the most precious of cargoes: 5
⁃sanatorium: 5
⁃a still life: 5

MARCH PT. II

- the discomfort of evening: 4
⁃nothing to see here: 4
⁃piercing: 4
⁃freshwater: 4
⁃the fact of a body: 4
⁃all that remains: 3.5
⁃the knowing animals: 3.5
⁃adorable: 3.5
⁃exquisite corpse: 3

MARCH PT. III

stay and fight: 3
⁃the cipher: 3
⁃last days: 3
⁃in the house upon the dirt between the lake and the woods: 3
⁃twisted clay: 3
⁃the tiger flu: 2.5 (too sci-fi heavy for me but amazing writing!!)

APRIL (16 books)

⁃things we lost in the fire: 5
⁃mrs death misses death: 5
⁃the enchanted: 5
⁃ghost wall: 5
⁃unclean jobs for women and girls: 5
⁃eliza and the bear: 5
⁃disability visibility: 5
⁃the girl aquarium: 5

APRIL PT.II

- modern times: 4
⁃eileen: 4
⁃empty houses: 3.5
⁃come closer: 3.5
⁃cantoras: 3.5
⁃true crime: 3
⁃what it means when a man falls from the sky: 3
⁃tampa: 3
⁃getting it in the head: DNF
⁃dead inside: DNF

i meant to do quarterly wrap ups in this thread too but we’re a third of the way in now so here’s every book i read january - april 2021 i guess