Finished This Month
- What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen
- Ghostly Echoes by William Ritter
What Happened to Goodbye is a book that I first saw several years ago when I was in early high school. The premise intrigued me, mostly because there aren't many YA novels about kids who move a lot, and having grown up as a military brat I thought maybe it could be something I'd relate to. I didn't read it that first time, though, and years passed before I even saw it again. The copy I now own was found at a Salvation Army for a dollar or two, and it sat on my TBR from January 2015 to January 2018, when I finally picked it up to read. The story was good, if a bit cliche. I learned a lot about both basketball and restaurants. I could relate to the main character in some ways. There were a couple of characters I didn't care for. But the most fascinating thing about reading this was that it was both a trip down memory lane and relevant to my life today in a different way than it would have been back then. If I'd read it both the first time I saw it and again now, the experience would have been entirely different each time. It's really cool when a book can do that.
Just as a reminder: I will do a full review of the Jackaby saga when I've finished the fourth/last book (which I'm planning to read in April).
Currently Reading
- To the Castle by Dorothea Malm
- The Comic Book Story of Baseball by Alex Irvine (ARC) (I'm having some download difficulties with this one; there may or may not be a review for it in the future, depending on if I can finish it.)
- Crimson Ash by Haley Sulich (ARC)
- The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
- The Girl of Fire and Thorns by Rae Carson
WRITING
My Pitchaplooza entry did not make it into the final 20, but that's okay. It was fun to try. The books that won the Book Doctors' Choice and the Fans Choice are both really interesting, and I wish both authors all the best!
April 1 marked not only Easter and April Fool's Day this year, but the beginning of the first session of Camp NaNoWriMo, which I am once again participating in. My goal - as usual - is 10,000 words, this time toward finishing "The Dimension Keepers" over on Wattpad. The story is progressing kind of slowly right now; I only got a couple of chapters out in March, as in February. That's one reason I want to power-write the rest of it, because I'm extremely hopeful I'll be able to release the next book in June (for reasons I'll explain when I get there). The couple of chapters I wrote this month were received well, as there was a huge character introduction that everyone seemed really excited about. Next month at this time I hope to report that I've released most of the rest of the story, if not the entire rest of it. Fingers crossed!
March End Stats:
857 reads
87 votes
32 comments
See you guys next time! :D
