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2021 Reading Challenge: An Overview of my Top Reads

I spent a lot of last year immersed in books. According to Goodreads, I read 91 books. Twenty of those books were for the 2021 Reading Challenge my friend and I decided to participate in since we had so much fun doing a reading challenge the previous year. For the 2021 Reading Challenge, not only did we have to read books that fit the listed categories, but we also added the extra task of looking for authors were not white, straight males. This really added to the diversity of topics and themes of the books that we read. I won’t go over all twenty here in this article, but I will tell you some of our favorite reads. I’ve been in a High Fidelity mood lately and making a lot of Top 5 Lists, so in no particular order, here are my Top 5 Reads from My 2021 Reading Challenge: […]

Your Next Read: TWENTY

Christina Ortega

If you could pick the time to leave this life, would you? If you said yes, and you had twenty days left to live, how would you spend your time? I was sent the book Twenty, written by Debra Landwehr Engle, in exchange for an honest review. I took my time before actually reading it. I posted the obligatory, “I got book mail” photo on my social media, but I kept finding other things to read. I’ve had enough loss in my life and like to use books as an escape from reality rather than another way to view reality. But Twenty isn’t just about dying. It’s about living. In Twenty, the reader meets Meg who, at the age of 55, has already lost her mother and daughter and is divorced. Years ago, while caring for her mother, a doctor gave her a bottle of pills that promised a “quick, […]