The Top Ten Tuesday topic for June 19th was “books on my summer TBR,” and I pledged to read the following:
So, what did I actually read?
On the list…
- The Broken Vow by Scott Westerfeld
- Dead Girls: Essays on Surviving an American Obsession by Alice Bolin
- I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
- Inferno by Dan Brown
- Ms. Marvel, vol. 9: Teenage Wasteland by G. Willow Wilson
- Notes from My Captivity by Kathy Parks
- Vox by Christina Dalcher (a DNF failure but, still, I tried)
Not on the list…
- Artemis by Andy Weir
What I missed…
- Breakout by Kate Messner
- Herding Cats by Sarah Andersen
- A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey
- Night Film by Marisha Pessl
- There, There by Tommy Orange
- The Towering Sky by Katharine McGee
Did any of you have a summer TBR? Did you stick to it? Let me know!
thewasofshall.me 
I read Dead Girls this summer—and the first half of Comey’s book in a bookstore. It doesn’t add much that we didn’t already know, so it’s probably worth skipping. There, There is on my TBR list as well. I’m excited to read it, but I haven’t had the chance yet.
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How did you like Dead Girls? (It was kind of a disappointment for me.) I’ve only heard good reviews for There, There – one of these days I’ll actually get around to reading it!
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It was also kind of disappointing for me! I was expecting a lot less Joan Didion/L.A., but I did like the first essay and the ones on Britney Spears and reality tv. I got the sense that the author wasn’t fully in control of how her book was marketed, but it still felt misleading.
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Definitely. I had it in my head that it was going to be /about/ dead girls and/or our obsession and reaction to said girls. (Which some of the essays did cover – just not enough.)
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