The Goodreads Book Tag
Hello,
Happy Wednesday,
Today I am doing the Goodreads Book Tag.
Who tagged me? No one, I tag myself.
Enjoy.
The Goodreads Book Tag
Can I Do I A Tag When I Was Never Tagged?
I wasn’t tagged, but today I am doing the Goodreads book tag.
Do you record or track your reading progress on Goodreads? I do, I joined in November 2014 and I started to track my reading in 2015.
What was the last book you marked as ‘read’?
The Mitford Murders (Mitford Murders #1)
It’s 1919, and Louisa Cannon dreams of escaping her life of poverty in London, and most of all her oppressive and dangerous uncle.
Louisa’s salvation is a position within the Mitford household at Asthall Manor, in the Oxfordshire countryside. There she will become nursery maid, chaperone and confidante to the Mitford sisters, especially sixteen-year-old Nancy – an acerbic, bright young woman in love with stories.
But then a nurse – Florence Nightingale Shore, goddaughter of her famous namesake – is killed on a train in broad daylight, and Louisa and Nancy find themselves entangled in the crimes of a murderer who will do anything to hide their secret.
Rated: two-stars. This book had its good moments but what bothered me was that this is based on an actual person’s life and the supposed murderer in the whodunit is also a real person. This isn’t OK to distort someone’s life this way and fictionalise it isn’t right and I wish I knew this before I read the book.
What are you currently reading?
I never read one book at a time. Presently, I am reading eight books.
Yes. Eight books. I move between books, I read a chapter here or there and sometimes I dedicate a day to a book. This month however, I feel as if I am not making progress in reading. I may pause these books soon and select new ones to read.
What was the last book you marked as TBR?
The City of Brass (The Daevabad Trilogy #1)
Nahri has never believed in magic. Certainly, she has power; on the streets of 18th century Cairo, she’s a con woman of unsurpassed talent. But she knows better than anyone that the trade she uses to get by—palm readings, zars, healings—are all tricks, sleights of hand, learned skills; a means to the delightful end of swindling Ottoman nobles.
But when Nahri accidentally summons an equally sly, darkly mysterious djinn warrior to her side during one of her cons, she’s forced to accept that the magical world she thought only existed in childhood stories is real. For the warrior tells her a new tale: across hot, windswept sands teeming with creatures of fire, and rivers where the mythical marid sleep; past ruins of once-magnificent human metropolises, and mountains where the circling hawks are not what they seem, lies Daevabad, the legendary city of brass?a city to which Nahri is irrevocably bound.
In that city, behind gilded brass walls laced with enchantments, behind the six gates of the six djinn tribes, old resentments are simmering. And when Nahri decides to enter this world, she learns that true power is fierce and brutal. That magic cannot shield her from the dangerous web of court politics. That even the cleverest of schemes can have deadly consequences.
After all, there is a reason they say be careful what you wish for.
What book do you plan to read next?
I don’t know for sure. But this month one of new books is Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha #1) by Tomi Adeyemi.
Do you use the star rating?
Yes. Yes. Yes. I sometimes feels unsettled by a book and I find it hard to rate and I don’t. But most of the time, I do use the five-star rating system.
Are you participating in the 2018 reading challenge?
Yes. This year I am being realistic and I am aiming to read 50 books. So far I am doing pretty good.
And, I’ve read 25 books so far.
Do you have a wishlist?
Yes, I have a couple of wishlists on Book Depository. This isn’t a wishlist that I share with the hope that someone will buy me a book. But is a plan and want to buy list.
I have monthly lists (to date I have my lists up to July 2018, and special book categories such as cookbooks, classics, Caribbean literature, journals and notebooks and a special Toni Morrison wishlist. I need to eventually own every Toni Morrison novel.
What books do you plan to purchase next?
This is perfect. So for my May 2018 to buy list I have four books. I will be buying The Mothers by Brit Bennett, The Wedding Date by Jasmine Guillory, The Child by Fiona Barton and Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell.
I may also throw in a cookbook.
Are you a member of any Goodreads groups?
No. I was a member of a couple of groups but then I never followed up and participated in any activities.
Who are your favourite authors?
Toni Morrison is my favourite author. Other authors whose work I enjoy are Megan Miranda, Nicole Blades, Vivian Conroy, Silvia Moreno-Garcia, and Mary Kubica. There may be others that I am forgetting now but those ladies write really entertaining books.
And that is the end of the tag.
I am terrible at blogging consistently. Life gets in the way.
I get into my own damn way. I feel as if at this point my apologies for not blogging are empty. I still want to keep MJV going, my reasons are vague and too confusing to list here.
Predominately, I am struggle to keep interested in this space, there is this lofty fantasy MJV that I dream of but unless I put in the work, we will never get there.
Am I book blogger? Do I want to transition to lifestyle? I am still very confused about the directions to take.
Anyway the blog continues even if the posts are this sporadic.
Tell me in the discussion section, what you are currently reading?
Until next time (whenever that may be), happy reading!
Chantel DaCosta
Chantel DaCosta is a storyteller, editor and lifestyle blogger. She is passionate about mental health awareness and Jamaican women's own-voices stories.