Throwback Thursday - Book Reviews I Enjoyed Writing!!

Below are ten book reviews that I have enjoyed writing over the years. Many of the books provided a lot of information to ponder and/or discuss in my review. 

Click on the links to read my reviews of each of the books I've listed below.

1. Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Greg Lawrence

2. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids by Meghan Daum (Editor)

3. Asking For It by Louise O'Neill

4. The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

5. Cartomancy - Fortune Telling With Playing Cards by Julian Moore

6. Changing Laws: Politics of the Civil Rights Era by Judy Dodge Cummings

7. The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting by Joe Gillard

8. Dracula [Audible Edition] by Bram Stoker

9. The Vegetarian by Han Kang

10. The Story of Sushi: An Unlikely Saga of Raw Fish and Rice by Trevor Corson

Top Ten Tuesday - FREEBIE - My Ten Year Blogiversary Is Coming Up!!

 

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature/weekly meme hosted by Jana @ That Artsy Reader Girl. Top Ten Tuesday was originally created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

My ten year blogiversary for Captivated Reader is coming up on January 1, 2022!! I can't believe I've been blogging this long... Time surely has flown by faster than expected. 

I remember what an ordeal it was to even get started with keepinga  book blog. I'd wanted to have a blog for a few years prior to starting Captivated Reader, but I wasn't sure what to blog about initially. All I knew at the time was that I wanted my blog to be about a specific topic/subject as I didn't want to have a blog that covered everything and the kitchen sink that left readers trying to figure out what the theme was for my blog. I also wanted to post frequently to my blog to keep readers coming back.

After some deliberation, I chose to blog about books and anything bookish related. I never expected to blog this long or enjoy blogging as much as I have the past decade.

Below I decided to share some of the books I've reviewed over the past decade... The following books reviewed and shared below are ones that had me saying or sharing a lot more about them in my reviews than I thought I would. 

Click on the links below to read my reviews of each book.

1. The Little Book of Lost Words: Collywobbles, Snollygosters, and 86 Other Surprisingly Useful Terms Worth Resurrecting by Joe Gillard

2. The Vegetarian by Han Kang

3. Asking For It by Louise O'Neill

4. Jackie as Editor: The Literary Life of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis by Greg Lawrence

5. Tangerine by Christine Mangan

6. Dracula [Audible Edition] by Bram Stoker

7. Selfish, Shallow, and Self-Absorbed: Sixteen Writers on The Decision Not To Have Kids by Meghan Daum (Editor)

8. Turtles All The Way Down by John Green

9. The Rules Do Not Apply by Ariel Levy

10. Room by Emma Donoghue

11. Quirky Berkeley by Tom Dalzell

Happy reading!!

Yikes, I'm Behind On Writing Reviews!

I've been doing a lot of reading this month, which is fabulous!! But I'm behind on writing reviews of what I've read this month so far. 

Currently, I have a total of ten reviews I need to write and post to my blog. However, I seem to be in a review writing slump, which is unusual for me as I tend to write my reviews as soon as I finish reading a book. 

Normally, I wouldn't find myself worrying about delaying my review writing for a week or two, especially if I am on vacation. But, when I've read ten different books in the past ten days, I'm concerned that perhaps I may not write the best reviews when the time comes to do so. 

Additionally, eight of the ten titles I've recently read weren't that likable, so I'm not feeling that excited about sharing my opinions about them.

Anyone else encounter a review writing slump in the past? How'd you move forward and begin writing and posting reviews again?