mini reviews – Belle Can Read

**I’m really behind on book reviews.**

Recently, I was scrolling through my notes app on my phone, where I type any thoughts I have while reading a story, and saw that I have notes from books I read back at the beginning of 2018. This is why I should just review books right after reading them 🤦‍♀️.

Related: Why I Don’t Always Review A Book

I’ve put off reviewing the books for one reason or another, but it’s truly just come to the point where even if I did want to review them, I can’t because 𝘐 𝘤𝘢𝘯’𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳 𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮. Of course there are the notes I made, but many of them are incomplete and wouldn’t be enough for me to write up a thorough or even mini review.

Hence, my shoddy solution: /modified/ mini review *posts!

*There’s just too many books I never reviewed, so I have to split these up into multiple posts 😬.

Here, you can read my bullet point thoughts as they are in my notes and any quotes I saved while reading each book. In this way, I can finally share the backlog of ~~half-baked~~ thoughts I have on these books, and you can… read them 😅? I’m not sure how this will benefit you all, but hopefully by reading how these books affected me, you’ll get a glimpse as to how these books may resonate with you.

It’s a shoddy solution, but it’s my shoddy solution 😤.:

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Last week (February 12-18), I participated in the Contemporary-A-Thon hosted by chelseadolling reads, Pages and Pens, and myreadingisodd.

I’ve attempted my own self-imposed read-a-thon before, but this was my first time trying to read as many books as I could in a set period of time with a community of people. This particular read-a-thon was unlike mine in that it had a theme—contemporary books—and optional challenges to complete within the week. The challenges were to:

Read the most recent contemporary that you purchased/acquired

Read a contemporary book with pink on the cover

Read a hyped contemporary book

Read a diverse contemporary book

Read a dark/taboo contemporary

Read a contemporary(ish) graphic novel

Read a contemporary book that has been recommended to you

I knocked out three books during the contemporary-a-thon ~~(one of them went one day over but shhh let me have this)~~ and accomplished four of the seven challenges. Even though it might not seem like much, I would call this read-a-thon a success; it dragged me out of my reading slump and allowed me to complete three, solid 4-star books. The books showed me how wide and diverse the contemporary genre is, and I have a new-found appreciation for it because of them. I’ll definitely be participating in more read-a-thons in the future ~~(maybe I’ll try hosting my own?)~~, and you all should join too!