Read It or Leave It Follow Up--
At the end of 2020 I had 8 books on my physical TBR and decided to create a challenge for myself. I had to read or DNF all of the books on this list by the end of 2021. I had been working to scale down what felt like an enormous TBR shelf and this was just the books left over from that.
I can proudly say that I did complete this challenge pretty early in the year. I read all but one of these books which I DNF’d in February during the giant Texas Snowstorm. Because why force yourself to read something you don’t want to while you’re shivering in bed and your house is at 44 degrees? Here are the books:
1. Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi– Legacy of Orisha #1. I read this one in May and rated it 3 stars.
2. The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson– Fire and Thorns #1. I read this one in June and rated it 3.25 stars.
3. The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. I DNF’d this one in February.
4. Red Sister by Mark Lawrence– Book of the Ancestor #1. I read this one in January and rated it 3 stars.
5. Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan– Girls of Paper and Fire #1. I read this one in January and rated it 2.5 stars.
6. Strange Fire by Tommy Wallach– Anchor & Sophia #1. I read this one in April and rated it 2.25 stars.
7. The Young World by Chris Weitz– The Young World #1. I read this one in June and rated it 2 stars.
8. Blood Red Road by Moira Young– Dust Lands #1. I read this one in July and rated it 3 stars.
Overall, not a huge success with this project in that I didn’t love much of what I read. But I did manage to finally read some of the TBR veterans that have been sitting on my shelves.
