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Mid-month Reading Wrap Up, feat. new favorites and TBR progress | Jan. 2019

On January 14, 2019January 14, 2019 By Kristan @ Lit ListeningIn Wrap UpsLeave a comment

Happy Monday, fellow bookworms. It’s time for my first wrap up of the year!

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Vacation time! I’m heading to NYC for the week, and besides seeing the Cursed Child tomorrow, I have few plans. I’m hoping to get visit as many of the bookish hotspots as I can, so hit me up with your favorites! . . I didn’t want to bring too many books with me, so my only train read is this poetry collection, Dark Sparkler by Amber Tamblyn. Roxane Gay’s blurb sold me: It’s “an elegy, a eulogy, a rhapsody, a rage.” The poems center on American starlets of the past century, the adored and the disappeared. • #vacation #poetry #ambertamblyn #currentlyreading #bookstores #darksparkler #readersofinstagram #bookstagram #trainread #travelreads #poetrycollection #bookish #bookrecommendation #readyourshelf #instabooks

Anyone else on a romance kick recently 🙋🏻‍♀️💝? 💢 A few times this past week, I’ve found myself having just finished a book before settling down for bed and needing a new audiobook to fall asleep to. And romances have been filling that void. They’re easy to get into, not hard to follow along with and just the kind of brain candy I need at night. 💢 My current read is The Wedding Dats by Jasmine Guillory. I have to say I’m not madly in love with this one as much as I was with The Kiss Quotient or the Alyssa Cole Reluctant Royals series, but it’s cute enough. The miscommunication trope is just too strong in this one so far. Anyone else just want characters to talk to one another??? 💢 Anyway, I hope everyone has a great Thursday, whether you recognize Valentine’s Day or not 😻

Happy Galentine’s Day, Bookstagram! Here’s the book the lovely @daniellelrosen sent to me for the #bookstagramgalentinesday book exchange; I’m so excited to read it! Not pictured are all the amazing goodies she sent along that have already been consumed and/or are in the laundry. • In the spirit of the holiday, who’s your favorite literary heroine? 💝 Mine is usually Lizzy Bennett/Hermoine (because obviously) but after my recent read of The Expanse series, Chrisjen Avasarala might put up a good fight. She’s legit badass grandma goals. • #galentine #galentinesday #valentine #feministlitfeb #newbook #sff #readersofinstagram #literary #bookstagram #bookish #booklife

Pride, the Pride and Prejudice Remix that I wish wasn’t. ✨Book Review✨⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ • When I started thinking about this book, before I had even finished listening to it, it came down to its basic premise. Take Pride and Prejudice out of 1800 England and drop it down into modern day Brooklyn. I was all for that, hook line and sinker, as soon as I heard the book talked about online. But now that I’ve read it, I wish the story had stood on its own two legs and strayed from the original a bit more. • Here’s the thing: This book is an incredibly fun and fast-paced story and also has a lot to say. There are themes of growing up, family, gentrification, race, resistance, and more that I’m probably forgetting. I just wish those aspects were played up and the P&P elements toned down. • Our main character Zuri Benitz is passionate and, like her predecessor Lizzy Bennett, has a lot of pride in her abilities and in her neighborhood. But every other comparison to the Austen novel seemed to drag the story down. Every time the story had to change direction to hit a certain plot point, it felt rushed and unnecessary – because Ibi Zoboi hits all of the highlights, even the minor ones. I wish the story was given time to breath, to let Zuri find herself and learn about Darius Darcy in her own time – a character study of a modern black girl from Brooklyn (and all that entails) rather than a strict retelling. • All in all, I enjoyed this story – I think I’d enjoy most P&P stories tbh – but I’ve decided to judge it separately from its intent. This is a fun coming-of-age romance (with some great shoutouts to DC’s @busboysandpoets), so it doesn’t have to be a perfect retelling. . #bookreview #retelling #pride #prideandprejudice #janeausten #ya #YAcontemporary #romancebook #austen #brooklyn #audiobook #funreads #bookish #readersofinstagram #bookstagram #bookworm

Happy weekend Bookstagram🥳 This week seemed like it took a month to be over, so I’m glad I have a couple days to chill out and hopefully not have anxiety dreams about work emails. We cool, Brain 🧠? Cool. I’m also really excited because I go on vacation to NYC in 10 days, so that anticipation will fuel me through next week 🏙 • As for what I’m reading this weekend, I’m starting my first Sylvia Plath book! I’ve read some of her poetry before but never her prose, so here goes nothing. From my friends’ reviews, this is pretty beloved, except by those who find the Catcher in the Rye similarities. I’m hoping I’m in the other camp, because I really didn’t jive well with CitR. Have you read The Bell Jar? Does it live up to the hype? Or has it not aged well? • I hope everyone has an awesome or restful weekend 🎇 What are your reading plans today? #weekendreads #currentlyreading #amreading #sylviaplath #thebelljar #reading #tbr #unreadshelfproject2019 #readyourshelf #bookishfeatures #bookstagram #bookish #modernclassic #readersofinstagram #bookworm #booklife

The Trauma Cleaner 🧽 Book Review 🧽 • First things first: Ignore all your preconceptions based on the cover and subtitle of this book. When I was browsing the Goodreads reviews, I saw most of the negative reaction centered on the fact that they were expecting a book about trauma “cleaning” not a book about the “cleaner” herself. So no, you will not get in depth discussion about how to remove blood stains after a murder or all the gruesome details marketers apparently wanted you to expect. • But what you will get is a fascinating character study of Sandra Pankhurst, said trauma cleaner, with a bit of trauma cleaning thrown in as set dressing. • Sandra Pankhurst is a trans woman who, while now is focused on cleaning up everyone elses’ scenes of trauma, has experienced more than her fair share of trauma: an abusive childhood, extreme acts of violence and prejudice, and some pitfalls of her own making. It’s that life that has allowed her to see the humanity in the people she’s taking care of – even when that humanity has created mold and rat-infested hoarder dens that take days to clear away. It’s also that life that has taught her to wall off her emotions to suit her own needs. • What author Sarah Krasnostein manages to do in this book is tell a completely human story, full of the nitty gritty darkness and lightness. She sees the person behind all the filth when we’re shown the various cleaning cases Sandra deals with. And she tells Sandra’s story without judgment (mostly), even when she does terrible things, but without putting her up on a pedestal (mostly*).

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