Sunday Summary – 2nd March 2025
Good evening all – welcome to this week’s Sunday Summary instalment! I hope you’ve had a good week?
If nothing else, mine has been a better one in terms of keeping up with blog commitments. My first post of the week was my book review of Becoming by Michelle Obama. I read this book a couple of years ago – that it coincidentally came around as due for review during Black History Month was ideal!
On Saturday, I shared my monthly wrap-up for February. I confess, reading this last month didn’t go as well as I hoped. If anything, the book I didn’t expect to love was one of my best pick-ups. What was more surreal to me was that I ended up DNFing half the TBR…
Books Read
A Promised Land
Listening progress with A Promised Land is up from last week’s two and a half hours. This week, I’ve knocked another 3 and a half hours of audio off the total time left.
I appreciate I’ve featured this book in quite a few Sunday Summaries now. However, it’s not a quick listen. Of the total 29 hours runtime, I have 11 hours and 20 minutes left. I envisage this book may feature for another couple of weeks; the closer I get to the end though, the more motivated I’ll be to get there!
Honestly, I wasn’t sure how I was going to get on with this book. That I’ve picked it up in audio format, and before Barack narrates it himself, makes it a more enjoyable listen.
The Da Vinci Code
I read another 10% of The Da Vinci Code last week before DNFing it ahead of our book club meet. As I shared in yesterday’s monthly wrap-up post, I didn’t like the tone and I felt the story too ‘clever’ and farfetched.
Children of Virtue and Vengeance
The final book I started this week is Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi. It’s the second book of her Legacy of Orisha series.
It’s been a long while since I picked up the first book, Children of Blood and Bone. As a result, I’ve not really gotten into the book that easily. The storyline is okay, but I’m not feeling the same love that I had for the first book. I’m about 20% in so far and I’m going to persevere a little longer. I just hope it picks up and doesn’t end up being my fourth DNF of the year…
Books Discovered
I’ve been good again this week – no news is good news!
Coming Up…
With the beginning of a new month comes a new TBR. Fingers crossed I have better luck with the list I set myself for March. If you want to find out which books I plan to pick up in the next few weeks, you don’t have long to wait.
On Friday, I’ll get to that Shelf Control post I missed a few weeks ago! It’ll be good to take a look at my TBR again and whittle down any books I’m not interested in anymore and feature one I am.
Finally, this time next week I’ll return with my next Sunday Summary. Hopefully I’ll have some more positive reading news to share…
That’s all for today’s Sunday Summary update! Have a good one and I’ll see you in the next post!
