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Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl invited us to share “Books on My Spring 2023 To-Read List” this week. I’m a mood reader but I have found that these seasonal TBRs help me stay on top of my reading challenges and get to some books that have been lingering on my to-read shelf entirely too long. This list is subject to change but here’s what’s catching my eye today.
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Lore Olympus: Volume Two by Rachel Smythe (An easy choice because I’ve already checked it out from the library)
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown (For the Monthly Motif and Nonfiction Challenges)
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch (For the Monthly Motif Challenge)
Eye of the Shoal: A Fishwatcher’s Guide to Life, the Ocean and Everything by Helen Scales (For the Monthly Motif, Nonfiction, and Gaia Challenges)
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (For the Classics Reading Challenge)
How Do You Live? by Genzaburo Yoshino, translated by Bruno Navasky (For the Classics and Books in Translation Challenges)
The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper (For the Classics Reading Challenge and Classics Club)
Mr. Midshipman Hornblower by C. S. Forester (For the Classics Reading Challenge)
The Family Gene: A Mission to Turn My Deadly Inheritance into a Hopeful Future by Joselin Linder (For the Nonfiction Challenge)
Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster (For the Epistolary Challenge)
That’s my list! Have you read any of these? Which books did/would you choose? Link up every Tuesday at That Artsy Reader Girl!
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I really enjoyed How do you Live? I’ve read it to be ready when Miyazaki’s anime on it comes out.
Bu as you didn’t like The Screwtape Letters because of its “philosophical ideas”, you may not enjoy this one either, which is also full of philosophy and wisdom.
You are probably going to find it too slow going.
https://wordsandpeace.com/2022/01/27/book-review-how-do-you-live/
Good to know!
Boys in the Boat is one of my all time favorite books. The story has stuck with me for years!
Good to know! I’m looking forward to reading it.
DARK MATTER is a great read! It’s my favorite Crouch book. I hope you love it and all these others.
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
After all this high praise for Dark Matter, I expect to enjoy it!
I hope you enjoy all of these!
My TTT: https://jjbookblog.wordpress.com/2023/03/14/top-ten-tuesday-411/
Thanks!
Daddy long legs ! 😀 is a cute and fun story, happy reading
Isn’t there a movie too? I haven’t even seen it. It seems like my kind of classic though.
Dark Matter is one of my favorites. Enjoy!
Dark Matter is a popular choice from my list!
I LOVED Dark Matter
I seem to have a chorus of commenters all saying the same thing about Dark Matter! 🙂
It’s my favorite of his books by far (although I haven’t read everything he’s has written m) but it’s just so trippy
My older daughter read Boys in the Boat a few years ago, and enjoyed it. Which is impressive, because she’s not a reader. But she loves history, especially WWII, so that could be why it worked so well for her. I hope you enjoy reading all of these when you get the chance.
Pam @ Read! Bake! Create!
https://readbakecreate.com/spring-2023-tbr-ten-books-i-hope-to-read/
I don’t even remember what made me add this to my TBR but it fits a monthly challenge theme for a contest of some sort. I’m glad to know your daughter liked it!
I wasn’t expecting that Boys in the Boat would be as good as it was for me. I’m not a sport-y person, so I tend to stay away from books like these, but I really loved this book.
I’m not a sports person either but I do like the Olympics and I like the rowing machine at the gym. This seems like a surprisingly good fit for me.
I enjoyed The Last of the Mohicans. I hope you like it as well! Here is our Top Ten Tuesday. Thanks!
The Last of the Mohicans is the one I’m most unsure of from my list. I’m glad to hear you liked it!
I saw an interview with the daughter of one of the guys from The Boys on the Boat. It sounds very interesting. I hope you love it.
I don’t know how I came across it but the ratings are fantastic. Fingers crossed!
These look like good picks! Awesome that they fit your reading challenges, too. I’ve read DARK MATTER and I found it to be a fast read, so hopefully that one goes smoothly for you, too. And I own the first two LORE OLYMPUS volumes but haven’t read either of them yet! I’ve read some of the early pages as a PDF sample, though, so I know I’ll like it when I (eventually) get around to reading it… Happy reading!
My TTT: https://bookwyrmknits.com/2023/03/14/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-spring-2023-to-read-list/
I really liked Volume 1 and think you will too.
I have had Dark Matter on my shelf at home for the LONGEST time and have yet to pick it up even after hearing many good things!
If you want to see what’s on my spring TBR, here’s my TTT
I’d never even heard of Dark Matter before my husband read it. Then I listed it as one of his top three books of the year here just for fun and everyone has been raving about it!
I love Oscar Wilde – i need to read more by him. And I want to check out the Lore Olympus graphic novels.
Lauren @ http://www.shootingstarsmag.net
The first Lore Olympus was great so I have high hopes for the second one. I love the little of Oscar Wilde I’ve read too. I’d forgotten that I bought that collection of fairy tales last summer. I was searching for a classic fairy tale collection for one of my classics challenges and saw that one on my GoodReads shelf. It’s a perfect fit for the challenge!
I’ve never read The Last of the Mohicans. I hope you like it!
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-spring-2023-to-read-list/
That’s the one I’m unsure about. I put it on my Classics Club list a while back and it fits a different classics challenge to read a book after I’ve already seen the movie but we’ll see. The GoodReads reviews are mixed.
I still need to read Lore Olympus v.1! It looks so cute.
My TTT: https://www.mollysbooknook.com/top-ten-tuesday-6-books-from-ku-i-immediately-downloaded/
It is cute!
Dark Matter! What a engrossing read. I loved it. (Reviewed here)
I wasn’t as impressed as other readers with Boys in the Boat, which I listened to on audio. (Reviewed here)
Ooh, good to know about Boys in the Boat. I usually have to read nonfiction in print anyway, but I’ll be sure to read that one instead of listening to it, just in case that was the problem.