Stay Home Reading Rush TBR

Like with the other spontaneous readathons seeing us through this time at home I wasn’t sure if I was going to participate in the Stay Home Reading Rush, but since I’m behind in my O.W.L.s reading for the Magical Readathon and for the month in general I figured I’d give it a go.Running over the next four days (the 16th through the 19th), the readathon has four prompts: a book with a house on the cover, a book you read in one place/room, a book set somewhere you’d like to go and a book that made you smile.

Doubling up on prompts for the Magical Readathon I’m planning on reading Revolver Road by Christi Daugherty for book with a house on the cover and book set on the coast/at sea, Otherbound by Corinne Duyvis for book that’ll make you smile and a book outside my favorite genre. Then for a book read in one place I’m planning on finishing either Heart by Sandeep Jauhar (book with a heart on the cover) or Vessel by Lisa A. Nichols (book read at night), both of which I’ve been reading at night in bed. And lastly, for book set in a place I’d like to visit I picked It Would Be Night in Caracas by Karina Sainz Borgo because the other two books on my TBR are less likely candidates: Olivia Gatwood’s poetry collection Life of the Party and The Morning They Came for Us by Janine di Giovanni.

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Teaser Tuesday - April 14th

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