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Turning Inward: The Practice of Introversion for a Calm, Joyful, Authentic Life

Ross Rayburn

DID NOT FINISH: 9%

I like his yoga and meditation classes on Peloton but this book just isn’t working for me 

Poor Deer

Claire Oshetsky

DID NOT FINISH: 57%

I really wanted to love this one since Elizabeth Barnhill recommended it, but it’s just not working for me. 

I think this is one might have worked better for me as a novella or a short story? 

I liked the concept but at 57% I expected more 

Lock the Doors

Vincent Ralph

DID NOT FINISH: 14%

52 pages in and a lot of the very short chapters felt repetitive. The chapters may be short, but the plot wasn’t moving as quick to go with how quick the chapters were. I’m guessing this is a big reason of why the book is so long 

The Other Side of Night

Adam Hamdy

DID NOT FINISH: 36%

DNFing, nothing is bringing me to want to pick it back up

Wild Spaces

S.L. Coney

DID NOT FINISH: 20%

I got spoiled and apparently the dog dies so I’m done

Also I was bored 

48 Clues into the Disappearance of My Sister

Joyce Carol Oates

DID NOT FINISH: 13%

Not every book from a prolific writer will be great. This is one of those 🫠

Death of a Bookseller

Alice Slater

DID NOT FINISH: 16%

For being a supposed stalker story, I’m not finding any character interesting enough to stalk 

You Should Have Known

Rebecca Keller

DID NOT FINISH: 10%

I am bored

Interesting Facts About Space

Emily Austin

DID NOT FINISH: 11%

Well if Emily Austin is going to put “Avoid Mallory, too” in a conversation about baby names, then I’m going to avoid Emily Austin

Sincerely, Mallory

Twenty-Seven Minutes

Ashley Tate

DID NOT FINISH: 77%

I picked this one up for my most recent flight and was hoping to get sucked into a thriller, but sadly that’s not what happened. 

Even at 77% into the story, nothing remotely mysterious or thriller has happened. The story switches between past and present POVs of Becca, Wyatt, and Grant surrounding the death of Grant’s sister, but doesn’t give us much. Each character comes off as one note and each does stupid things.  Additionally, each character is even more annoying than the last.