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Overbooked

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I love to read. I have ever since I was little. It was second grade when I began to read solo, but still would enjoy my mom reading to me. The books that captured my imagination as a little kid were: The Faraway Tree series by Enid Blyton, The Little House series, The Moomins series, and of course Dr. Seuss books.

Discovering Booktube was life changing. The first Booktuber that caught my attention was Sasha Alsberg. Her love of reading, books and wait she gets sent books to review? I want book mail. I created a book blog, read 5 books and posted reviews, then searched out companies looking for reviewers.

Fast forward 3 years and I have over indulged. I know I review not merely for NetGalley, but a number of other PR companies. I have a challenge saying, “No,” to requests since I’m already over my head in my ARC TBR, but that one that got away haunts the back of my mind. What if the book I decline to review, is my fave book for 2020?

I do need to be more selective and whittle down my TBR. I’m thankful to be a book blogger. I just don’t want to loose my love of reading because of it.

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Reading Goals 2020

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This year I’ve decided next to reviewing the ARCS I receive and get approved for I will read CLASSICS. I haven’t read very many and I want to change that. My Good Reads goal is only 80, bud I want to split that down 40/40. I want to read 40 classics and 40 books on spirituality. The spirituality books that are outside my vanilla Christian comfort zone.

Here are my list of classics I’ve decided on:

Classics 

1 Pride and Prejudice 
2 One Hundred Years Of Solitude 
3 One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest
4 1984
5 Middlemarch
6 Women In Love
7 Ferienheight 451
8 A Clockwork Orange
9 Northanger Abbey
10 The Bell Jar
11 The Sound And The Fury
12 Man’s Search For Meaning
13 The Handmaiden’s Tale
14 The Color Purple
15 Meditations by Marcus Orelius
16 Picture Of Dorian Gray
17 Beloved
18 Emma
19 A Room Of One’s Own
20 The Golden Notebook 
21 Rebecca
22 Never Let Me Go
23 As I Lay Dying
24 The Sound And The Fury
25 Lolita
26 Ethan From
27 The House Of The Seven Gables
28 The Poisionwood Bible
29 The Chosen
30 Their Eyes Were Watching God
31 The House On Mango Street
32 Death Of A Salesman
33 Slaughterhouse Five
34 The Bluest Eye
35 A Prayer For Owen Manning
36 Kindred
37 The Naked and the Dead
38 A Tree Grows In Brooklyn
39 The Haunting Of Hill House
40 Bleak House
What reading goals do you have this year? Any genre goals? Have you read any of these classics? I’m still compiling my 40 spirituality books. I’ll post those once I’ve got my list together.
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July Library Haul

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When you haven’t been to the library in over a year and get the craving. I splurged and probably will read maybe 4-5 out of the 18 I got. I like having plenty of variety. I miss going to the library and have missed it. My local libraries are alright. The one closest to me has a great YA section.

Do you like your local library? Do you prefer the library or bookstore? Have you ever decided to strictly get library books and then choose from there what is own worthy?

Have you read any of the above books? If so which ones (without spoiling it for me) are worth reading?

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It Started With 5

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For a few months I watched Sasha Alsberg’s booktube channel. She’d do unboxing videos of getting ARCs from different publishers. I was intrigued. I wanted free books to review. I started a blog and reviewed five books I’d recently read. I, then started searching for book blogger review opportunities. I was thrilled to discover NetGalley,  Blogging For Books and TLC Book Tours. All three of these companies have been gracious in giving me an opportunity to get to review for them. My TBR is quite scary thanks to all the lovely books I’ve been approved to review. If you love to write and read, then think about starting a blog today. It only took 5 book reviews to be accepted to review for the above 3 companies. I always get excited when I see book mail from HarperCollins.