Happy Tuesday everybody! It’s been a while, but I just wasn’t feeling the last couple of prompts (I don’t have a bucket list and I couldn’t think of ten books that described me). I’m cutting it a little close, but I really wanted to participate this week!
Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly post currently hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl. It celebrates lovely lists, wonderful books and the bookish community. This week’s topic is April Showers. It’s a very open prompt, and can be anything from rainy day reads, to books that made you cry, to books that wash away a bad reading experience.
I’m going with Books That Washed Away a Not Great Reading Experience. And by this I mean: books I DNF-ed, books I read but didn’t like, or books I didn’t hate but were very slow for me to get through. (I consider a book feeling too slow to be a bad reading experience for me personally; even if sometimes I end up thinking the book itself is alright (around three stars) after the fact.)
Anyway, without further ado, let’s get into it! From most recent to least recent.
- Don’t Let the Forest In by CG Drews: I didn’t really enjoy the book I read before it.
- How to Defeat a Demon King in Ten Easy Steps by Andrew Rowe: It took me a while to get through the last two books I read before this one, even though I ultimately thought they were alright. It was a real slog for me to get through them though, and I was in a slump for a bit until I read this.
- Dark Moon, Shallow Sea by David R. Slayton: I DNF-ed the book I read before this one.
- This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone: I didn’t hate the book I read before this one, but it irritated me a lot. This book being so good helped turn my mood around.
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke: I DNF-ed the book I read before this one.
- A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers: I didn’t really like the book I read before this one.
- White Trash Warlock by David R. Slayton: I didn’t really like the two books I read before this one.
- The Chalice of the Gods by Rick Riordan: I really didn’t enjoy the two books I read before this one.
- In the Lives of Puppets by TJ Klune: The book I read before this one was a slog for me to get through. This was a real pick-me-up.
- In Deeper Waters by FT Lukens: I really didn’t like the book I read before this one.
What did you do for April Showers? What books washed away your not-so-great reading experiences?
As always, thanks so much for reading, and I hope that you have an amazing day/night!
See ya ~Mar
