Hi friends! I’m doing pretty good with my 2021 Reading Challenge so far and I’m loving all of the books that I’ve selected🥰 If you haven’t checked out my challenge yet, be sure to do so because it’s my favourite way to keep expanding my reading horizons!

Unfortunately I didn’t finish all of the books I wanted to in February- I’m still working on The Light Between Oceans which I like a lot! You can check out a short summary for that one in my February 2021 Reading List. It’s set in Australia, which is how it fits into my reading challenge.

So after I finished The Light Between Oceans I will endeavour to finish both the books on my reading list this month, because I want to eventually have time to read Game of Thrones😂

The books on this list are also a part of my challenge, and both look really good! One is a kind of an adult fantasy novel written by a teen fantasy novelist, and the other is translated from Arabic. So we’ve got an interesting selection going on. I can’t wait to read these! Hope you gather some good reading ideas- and if you ever want more take a peek at the “Books” tab on my site! This is where I keep all of my reading lists and book related posts.

Ninth House

This novel is written by Leigh Bardugo, who also wrote the Shadow and Bone series which I read the first book of and thought it was decent but not amazing, and also the Six of Crows duo-logy, which I LOVED. Those books were more in the Teen category, but this novel was in the adult section so I’m curious to see how her writing will be different. Ninth House follows the story of Alex, a high school drop out who finds herself in a hospital bed after being involved in a multiple homicide. When she’s offered a full ride at Yale university, she finds herself looking for the catch- and is soon given the task of keeping tabs on Yale’s secret societies and their sinister activities by her mysterious benefactors. Stephen King said this was the best fantasy novel he’s read in years, so we’ll see how it goes! It has a map in it so that’s how it fits into my challenge.

Women of Sand and Myrrh

I’m a bit conflicted about this book because I was doing research on books translated from Arabic, and just kind of went with this one. Later I was looking at more books and saw that this isn’t the author’s most acclaimed or best work, and there was another one by her that looked more interesting. But this one was already shipping and I couldn’t return it so we’re going to give it a try! Women of Sand and Myrrh is written by Hanan al-Shaykh, who is one of the most prolific contemporary female Arabic writers. That was a mouthful. It features four very different women who are each facing the oppression of an unnamed desert state, and how they deal with it. Looking into it more I found that it does deal with some sexuality, so I’m hoping it’s not super explicit, but I will definitely let you guys know how it reads!

I’m going to go hard this month and get these books done! Make sure you’re following my Instagram @mydayisbooked_blog for book updates.

Yours Truly,

Olivia:))