2020 Reading: Love in Vein II

#20 A book with a pun in the title

Of course I had to put something by Poppy on here. I can't go very long without reading one of his books. Plus the pun in the title just makes it so much better. I know the stories aren't really by him, but there are some good ones in here, including the story by Neil Gaiman that I read the graphic novel for last year about Snow White being a vampire. Good story.

2020 Reading: Long Story Short

Okay, this book was hilarious. It was kind of like that book I read a while ago that boiled down books into tweets and texts but even funnier because these are visual and just so spot on about this classic books. The one for Dracula had me laughing so loud that my coworkers had to come over and see what I was doing. I think the whole book only took me about 8 minutes to read during my lunch break and it was so worth it.

2020 Reading: Jack the Ripper The Casebook

#5 A book set in a city that has hosted the Olympics

What better book to read about London than a book about Jack the Ripper, huh?! This book didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know (because look who you're talking to here) but it was fun to look at all the memorabilia that they added in to make it interesting. They had little newspaper clippings and police reports, that I mostly could NOT read because the hand-writing was terrible and tiny.. they even threw in some of the notes that the police received during the murders that they believed came from the killer. Quite the little treasure trove for a little murderino like me. I like little things like that. I have one for Jim Morrison and one for Salvador Dali as well.

2020 Reading: Choke

#34 A book you picked because the title caught your attention

I suppose it was the title added with the cover that really caught my attention, but that's not the point. I pretty much new exactly what this was about before I even read the description or opened the book. I think there is something like this in every school all over the country (at least there was in my school and those in the counties around ours when I was growing up) and you would hear stuff about it all the time on the news. While I never really participated in this particular type of paraphilia, I know that it exists and that it can be dangerous. This book just further proves that point. I hope that more people read this, especially younger people, and learn the dangers. God, that makes me sound old, but I just want people to kink responsibly.

2020 Reading: The Conference of the Birds

#1 A book that's published in 2020

Just when I think that this might be the last of this series of books, they have to end on another cliffhanger like that. I honestly don't know where the story could go from here, but I'm kind of excited to see. There are some aspects of the story that I saw coming (not going to spoil anything, but they deal with certain relationships) but then there were others that I did not. I some times put my thoughts in the place of the children and think if I would like to be where they are and stay young forever and I would just hate the idea. Never growing up and being treated as children even if you were nearing a hundred years old. No thank you. But if that was all they knew... I don't know. I haven't heard much of another book, but if there is one, I hope I don't have to wait too long for it.

2020 Reading: Free to Fall

#29 A book about or involving social media

This book surprised me greatly. I really had no idea what it was about when I picked it. I admit that I looked on an online list when choosing for this category (I though it was fitting given the prompt) and this just happened to be a book that our library was getting rid of so I snagged it before it was thrown away and decided to use it as my choice. I was pleasantly surprised to find that I enjoyed it very much. It struck on points of a future that could very well happen where people are too reliant on social media and technology in general and fail to actually look around them and use their instincts. I'm hesitant to use the phrase "it really makes you think" because that sounds cliche but it does bring some things to light about our own lives as they are now.

2020 Reading: A Map of Days

This book was sort of a middle ground because I needed to read the book that came after it for the challenge this year, not to mention I was supposed to read the one before this last year... It just needed to be read. I don't know what it is about this series exactly, but I really enjoy reading it. Maybe it's the coming-of-age aspect or even the feeling different aspect of the characters that's mingled into it, but it definitely makes the story unique makes you want to keep going on the to the next and the next every time a new one comes out.