Chaotic Reading Reviews

In no particular order, my favorite fiction reads of 2019: Follow me on Instagram The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai “But when someone’s gone and you’re the primary keeper of his memory—letting go would be a kind of murder, wouldn’t it? I had so much love for him, even if it was a complicated love, and where is all that love supposed to go? He was gone, so it couldn’t change, it couldn’t turn to indifference. I was stuck with all that love.” Who wants to ugly cry? You will read over and over how this is a beautiful, poignant, heart-wrenching book. It is all true, but it is also bigger then that. Set in 1980's Chicago, focused on a group of Gay men in the epicenter of the AIDS epidemic, this novel gives voice to the horrors, the frustration, and the love that was that time. This book makes you think about how badly this community was treated, it makes you realize that they had to pull together and overcome to take care of each other, because the president, the...

Do you find that some years you just gravitate more to one topic?  I don't think I have ever read this many biographies in one year before.  Most were (a bit trashy) celebrity autobiographies, of comedians, actors, and TV personalities.  Some where outstanding, some where fine, and others were mediocre at best. Of the 19 I read here is a list of my favorites this year.  You can find my complete year wrap up here . This lists is only in chronological order of how I read the books this year, not which I loved the most. Photo Credit ALX Community Phoebe Robinson - Everything's Trash, But It's Okay  I was not overly familiar with Phoebe before I picked up this book.  I knew she was a comedian, that she had a pod with Jessica Williams from The Daily Show (2 Dope Queens) and that was about it.  This book had me manically laughing - on the train.  There were weird looks all around.  I listened to this on audio because I prefer to list...

Hello December  #Goals So here is the start, going to try again to get this blog up off the ground.  Fair warning, some posts maybe just be copies of my Goodread reviews and vice versa.   Going into December I am at 106 books read.  And hoping with the 8 above to finish out the year!     Before now that largest amount of books I have read in a year was 84.  So we are coming a long way along with that though is a lot of duds.  I am hoping to post some round up blog posts about the year throughout the month. Lets get to reading. Up first will be Mullumbimby  which is by one of Australia's leading Indigenous voices  Melissa Lucashenko .  And Shrill by Lindy West.  Super excited to dive in and tell you all about them. Happy Reading!