What’s on Your Nightstand is a monthly meme hosted by 5 Minutes for Books that summarizes what you’ve read for the month, what you’re currently reading, and what you plan to read next. It’s basically a wrap-up, though not as detailed depending on how you structure your reading wrap-ups. The meme is held the fourth Tuesday of every month. (I assume that means the last Tuesday of a month that has 5 Tuesdays.)
I’m still trying to work out how to format this because I don’t want it be too similar to my quarterly wrap-ups. For this post, I’ll do as before and list what I recently read, but I’ll also give a sentence or two on how I reacted to the book.
Books read:
The Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief audio book was the first thing I completed this month. Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy as much as I did when I first read the physical copy. I didn’t like how it was narrated or the voice used for Annabeth, which sounded kind of whiney to me. If I continue to reread the series, I will return to the physical books instead.
This is the most surprising book I read this year because I didn’t expect to like it. Despite all the hype, I thought I would give up on it because it is way outside my comfort zone. But Mark Watney’s voice pulled me in. I liked his sarcasm and optimism, which kept me reading and hoping for his survival. The scientific technicalities dampened my interest a little but the characters’ personalities and my curiosity about how the story would end kept me reading.
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