2023 Reads | Week 51 [CC]

This week I made progress on my end of year reading list, with mixed success.

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Intro
0:19 No One Will Come Back for Us
2:57 The Hearing Trumpet
5:21 The Broken Kingdom
7:59 Big
9:10 Starter Villain

BOOKTUBERS MENTIONED

Angela @LiteratureScienceAlliance
Kristen @KristenelleSFFReader
Freddie @SluggishReader

BOOKS MENTIONED

No One Will Come Back for Us by Premee Mohamed

The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

The Broken Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin

Big by Vashti Harrison

Starter Villain by John Scalzi

CONTENT WARNINGS

No One Will Come Back for Us: death, death of a child, death of a family member, body horror, injury, loss of bodily autonomy, animal death, war, torture, trauma, cannibalism, child runaways, violence, gun violence, grief, illness, blood sacrifice, pandemic, fire

The Hearing Trumpet: sexism, ageism, toxic family relationships, violence, injury, body horror, grooming, natural disaster, death

The Broken Kingdoms: violence, injury, torture, death, death of a family member, body horror, medical experimentation, genocide, natural disaster

Big: bullying

Starter Villain: death of a family member, violence

CONNECT WITH ME

[SluggishReader]

It was super fun reading The Hearing Trumpet with you! I'm glad you enjoyed it too 😁 Carmella is just awesome! 💰☢️

[LiteratureScienceAlliance]

Between you and liene reading broken kingdom lately it makes me really want to prioritize a re-read of the series

[actual-spinster]

aah glad u enjoyed reading the hearing trumpet ! its a lot of weird fun :)

[ReadBecca]

Such a great mix of things winding down the year. I remember being intrigued by The Hearing Trumpet from someone talking about it previously and I saw Freddie was reading it recently, so you've definitely piqued my interest further.
Big looks so good! I have been slacking on searching out picture books, so I need to make time to do that.

[zixaz]

Happy new year! Hope you had a great holiday, whatever you may celebrate.

The Hearing Trumpet sounds really interesting, and right up my alley! I'm in my weird books era lol so I think I'll try to read that sometime this year! Thanks for sharing--I had never heard of it before.

[OliviasCatastrophe]

It can be tricky with short story collections when some of them are better than others! I usually struggle with that more so with anthologies but sometimes that can happen with collections all by one author as well. Yay for trying NK Jemisin! I do tend to love her books so eventually I want to get to the broken kingdom myself. Her world building is immaculate. I also have starter villain and I think I am going to like the worldbuilding and concept. I will struggle with flat characters although fingers crossed I like the humour a bit more.

[karinabarbee]

Sorry I fell off from consistently watching your weeklies in 2023, going to do better this year.
Might put Hearing Trumpet on a late Feb tbr

[MsReadsAlot]

I need to try NK Jemison again. Hmm.. intense though. We will see!