rowan's library

I read two books in September. I've accepted that, at this point, I'm not going to meet my ambitious reading goal of sixty books this year, but that's okay. I'm currently at 27 books  and hope I can get to about 35-40. This is a reminder that your goals can be dynamic, and it's not a bad thing to change them!  Although I've been unemployed for most of this year, it hasn't led to my reading lots like I thought it would. Maybe it's the anxiety about money and finding a new job?  Overall, I enjoyed the two books I read this month, so here's a little recap.  The first book I finished was Sounds Like Love  by Ashley Poston. I'd previously read The Seven Year Slip , which quickly became one of my favourite contemporary romance books, so I was really excited to read another of hers. Unfortunately, I didn't enjoy it as much, but it's still one of the better contemporary romances that I've read. It was a very average read for me, a nice enough...

 I turned twenty-nine two days ago, and I've seen a lot of people make "30 before 30" bucket lists. I started making one only to realise it was mostly books I am really eager to read, so I decided to turn mine into a mini book bucket list.  I can read about 30-50 books in a year, so I should be able to get through this list with room for mood-read picks in between. It is a mix of "bucket list" classics (the ones you find on those  everyone should read once in their lifetime  lists), nostalgia picks and some contemporary choices by authors I've previously read and enjoyed.  If you want to follow my progress, I'll be ticking them off as I go on my listography ! War and Peace  and Anna Karenina  by Leo Tolstoy War and Peace  is the ultimate bucket list book for me. But it's so long I feel like I'll never actually sit down to read it unless I put it on a list like this! On a good month, I read around this number of pages anyway, so I'm trying to ...