I read at a much slower pace than usual in February, mostly because I started reading The Power   by Naomi Alderman, which I really disliked, but then I got too far in to abandon it. And being too far in to abandon it, did I then race through to the end to try to get it over with? No I did not. I just stopped reading in general because I didn't want to keep reading The Power, and again, I felt too far in to give up, and I can't read two books at once any more because YAY MENO

Here's my January wrap-up: THE CITY AND IT'S UNCERTAIN WALLS by Haruki Murakami (not pictured) I didn't love the Murakami -- but I don't need to rehash all that as I already covered all my thoughts on that here. -- RUTH by Kate Riley This was a great read for the start of the year, a thoughtful and funny story about a woman with a real independent streak who spends her whole life living in an Anabaptist community in the States and Canada. It asks, what makes a life full, is

I want to preface this by saying I use "Book Review" in a very loose sense. This is probably more of a vibe check than anything else. Which is alright because honestly this whole book is kind of one extended vibe check and it's not really my vibe. I've never been a huge Murakami fan. I think I started and stopped with The Wind Up Bird Chronicles, a million years ago, which I only read because the guy I was dating whose other favorite book was The Rachel Papers told me I shoul