Books of 2020- Installment #1

Oh, it's a new year, and boy do I want to leave the last one behind! The good news is I ended the year with an awesome book and began this one with an awesome one!! Yay!! Yay!!

1. The Bookshop on the Shore by Jenny Colgan
I read her book The Bookshop on the Corner and loved it. But I don't think I loved that one as much as this one!! OMG!!! I was hooked from the first line to the last! I loved it! I cried like a baby! Zoe is in need of some love and man oh man does she barely get any. I just felt for her! Love this book!! Love this book!!

2. The Widow of Rose House by Diana Biller
Okay, so this was an incredible book to read after The Bookshop on the Shore! I was so happy and sad for the main character, Alva, just like I was Zoe! This book featured a strong woman, a beautiful romance, and GHOSTS!! Yay!!! So good!! So very good!!

3. Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell
This is the third or is it the second in the Simon Snow series. These characters are so fun and it's great to get back into their world. Rainbow is a wonderful writer and I'm always so happy to read one of her books.... Though I think Eleanor and Park will always be my favorite!!

4. The Unkindest Tide by Seanan McGuire
Toby Daye. Finished. That's all I need to know. MUST. READ. Devour!! I love being with her and her family. It's like how I feel about reading Phryne Fisher books. I love being here!!

5. Miracle by Connie Willis
I have really enjoyed Connie Willis's Christmas stories and her novella I Met a Traveller in an Antique Land, so I had to read this collection of Christmas stories. Okay, so I had already read most of them. That's okay!! I still love reading her Christmas stories!!

I read 5 books and 5 were by woman, 0 by men, and 0 were translations. My year of reading lots of women and at least 12 translations is going well so far!

2019- An Overview

Here's a look at the books I read in 2019!

Trixie and the Moai 2019 Awards

It is time to announce the winner's of the fourth annual Trixie and the Moai awards.

It's always hard to pick just 5 favorites from my year's reading. And the most recent books almost never make it onto the list because they're so fresh I can't actually judge if they are the kind of book that's going to stay with me. Kinda makes me sad. I also rarely pick a book that is in a series because somehow that feels like I would always pick the book in a series because if I keep reading the series it's because I looooooooooove it!!!  

Here are this year's honorees- in the order I read them!! (And for some reason they seem to have dark covers for the most part!!)