24in48 Readathon: July 2019 TBR

I’ve been excitedly awaiting the next 24in48 readathon (coming up the weekend of the 20th) thinking I was going to have a lot of reading to catch up on for my Goodreads challenge but it turns out I’m well ahead of where I need to be, which is a great excuse to bust out all the fun books I’ve been waiting to read (for no particular reason) and just go crazy.

So far I have copies of Ms. Marvel vol 10, and Last Pick as my graphic novels for the weekend and I also have holds on Women Talking (Miraim Toews) and the audiobook of Wild Embers (Nikita Gill). I’d been hoping to get a physical or at least an ebook copy of the latter since I prefer my poetry that way, but my library doesn’t have it. I’m also waiting to see which of the following are available: The Wish Child (Catherine Chidgey), Before She Sleeps (Bina Shah), and Resurrection Bay (Emma Viskic).

In terms of audiobooks, which were the bulk of my 24in48 last time, I’m going to try and finish up the Red Word (Sara Henstra) and start The Echo Killing (Christi Daugherty) since Buried Angels the next Fjallbacka book isn’t available at my library.

This TBR is pretty heavy on the mystery front which is a little unusual for me, but I’m hoping that the suspense will keep my interested and motivated, particularly since I don’t have any pressing nonfiction reading to break everything up.

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