I'll admit that this week's prompt stumped me. books you can't believe you have read. There aren't really any books that looking back I can't believe that I read! Sure there might be one tragically bad book that I really should have just put down and not soldiered on to the end, but one book does not a list make.
I had resigned myself to just skipping this week's prompt and waiting till next week when I came across I Wish I Lived in a Library's post. She decided to interpret the prompt with books she can't believe she hasn't read yet-- and when I saw that, I realized it was the perfect interpretation of the prompt for me! So thank you to Katherine and without further ado I will shamelessly use her interpretation:
The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden : I've talked about wanting to read this book so often on my blog I'm almost sick of it. And somehow I haven't managed to read it? I'm 75% sure that I have a hold on the ecopy of this book at my library so maybe one day it will magically appear on my tablet and I will finally read it.
The Trespasser by Tana French: When I first saw this book on my TBR list on Goodreads I was like 'oh no that must be a mistake how can there be a Tana French book that I haven't read??' BUT turns out I haven't read it?!? Tana French is perhaps my all time favorite mystery author so this whole situation needs to be remedied quickly.
The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness: The reason I'm surprised I never read this is because I devoted like three weeks of my life to reread the second book in preparation for reading the end of the trilogy. However the second book was so obnoxiously long I was sick of the story by the end and never managed to pick up this next book....Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis: One of my favorite authors, a seminal book on Christianity, and somehow I've never managed to find the time? This will be a perfect read for my nonfiction reading challenge!
Austenland by Shannon Hale: Okay so I admit this book doesn't have the highest ratings on Goodreads per se. However it looks right up my alley. It's the sort of book that really could go either way-- interesting homage to Jane Austen, or a cheesy annoying ploy. Only time will tell!
That's it for me! Thanks again to I Wish I Lived in a Library's post for the inspiration for today's post :)
What about you? What are the books you can't believe you haven't read yet?
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