Alli the Book Giraffe

Hello readers! It’s the last Thursday of August and also the last day. We are approaching Autumn and I can’t wait. I really don’t enjoy anything about summer. I hate being hot so much. My house stays at 68 degrees at all times. That’s 20 degrees celcius for anyone wondering.

The Good Intentions Book Tag was created by Lynn’s Book Blog. The creator took resolutions that most people have good intentions to achieve, but most of the time do not.

Let me know if you’ve done this tag and I’ll check out your post!

Exercise More: This is a book that is a real chunkster, in fact, you will need help to even pick this book up.

This book is the biggest one on my physical TBR. As a matter of fact, most of the books on my phyiscal TBR are huge. I have started this book, but I have no clue when I’ll finish it. I kind of just read it here and there.

I seriously cannot hold this book up while reading it. I have to sit at a table because my wrists start to hurt.

Lose Weight: A book that is not a chunkster; a short story or novella. A book you could probably read in one sitting.

Every writer take notes! T. Kingfisher can write a short book without it feeling like something was missing! So few words, yet so much detail. One of my biggest grievances with short books is how they just feel unfinished.

What Moves the Dead is a retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher. She did an amazing job at recreating the story without it being too close to the original and it didn’t feel too short.

I recently heard we are getting a sequel to this book and I will absolutely be tuning in for that. Be weary of this book though if you have trouble with body horror involving decay and such. I was able to read it as someone who can’t do body horror, but everyones levels are different.

Eat Healthy: A book that is good for you. This is a book that made you feel so happy that you wanted to give it a big hug.

The entire Bromance Book Club is amazing, but I thought I’d go ahead and pick the last book in the series for this prompt. This one has the grumpy sunshine trope between a country music star and a lawyer. What’s not to love?

Fulfill Your Ambitions: A book that has a lot going on. Plenty of different threads, POVs, and action, but everything eventually comes together in a very satisfactory fashion.

Finders Keepers is the 2nd book in the Bill Hodges trilogy. There is so much going on in this book that the MC doesn’t show up until about 40% through.

There was so much backstory to build up from 3 decades ago to a few years before the book takes place. Lot’s of characters and stories to tell, but it all came together in the end.

Spend More Time With Family: A series of books that you love and that has developed more than you ever anticipated.

Okay, hear me out. Yes, this series was longer than it needed to be. There are for sure some books in there that could’ve been combined or skipped altogether.

However, the last book that was added on a few years after the series was done was the best in the series. It made me genuinely sad to see this series gone from my reading. I was trying to just get through it to see what happens to Becky in the end and the Christmas book was so heartwarming!

Tick Off An Item From Your Bucket List: Reduce the TBR. Choose a book from mount TBR that you would like to read this year.

Ya’ll, I promise I will get to this book in 2023 if it’s the literal last book I read. I am excited for it, I’m just excited for a lot of things all at once. The hard thing about TBRS is they never seem to get smaller.

Save Money: A book that was an absolute bargain – you would have to be crazy, in fact, not to have bought this book.

I never planned to read anything else by this author. However, I found Rumble Fish for only a dollar at Books a Million one day and had to grab it. How often in today’s time do we find a book for a dollar at a big chain bookstore?

I ended up reading it pretty soon after and I have to say, it wasn’t the best book I’ve read. It was sort of similar to The Outsiders, as it centers gangs, but nowhere near as good. SE Hinton could not possible outdo The Outsiders!

Get Organized: A book with a glossary, maps, useful words, lists of people – this book is one helpful book, it wants you to know all of the things and it’s not afraid to use footnotes and other devices to help you do so.

If you have read or own this book, you will know there is about 50 pages in the back of all the characters and how they are related. It’s a good amount of info to have on hand, even if you only watched the show. There are like 100 (or more?) characters in this series and there is no way anyone is keeping track with just their brain.

Start a New Hobby: A book that is outside your comfort zone. Perhaps everyone was raving about this book, maybe it was overhyped. You hesistated to pick it up, in fact, but when you did – you loved it.

Maame was a book that I saw only good things about before reading and I’m glad I did. It would’ve been in my Reading the Book Communities Best of 2023 post if I hadn’t read it right before that. So many people added this on their favorites list of the year and I can see why.

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