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Happy Top Ten Tuesday over at That Artsy Reader Girl ! I'm a little late, but I'm so excited about a number of books coming out this fall, a lot of them sequels! I ESPECIALLY can't wait to get my hands on Wayward Son and Call Down the Hawk ! Top Ten Books On My Fall 2019 TBR 1. Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell 2. Call Down the Hawk by Maggie Stiefvater 3. City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert 4. Spin the Dawn by Elizabeth Lim 5. House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig 6. The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust #2) by Philip Pullman 7. The Name of All Things (A Chorus of Dragons #2) by Jenn Lyons 8. The Dutch House by Ann Patchett 9. The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix Harrow 10. Children of Virtue and Vengeance by Tomi Adeyemi

I finished The Testaments  by Margaret Atwood! I didn't ever expect to read a sequel to The Handmaid's Tale. Part of the book's strength is the mysterious epilogue at the end, placing Offred's testimony in the context of the short-lived Republic of Gilead. The suppression of the protagonist's voice is the point. However, The Testaments majestically balances the audience's desire for the continuation of Offred's story without sacrificing verisimilitude within the imagined historical context of Gilead. The three points of view remind me of the latter two books in the MadAddam trilogy. Each viewpoint is equally sharp, distinct, and converges masterfully to the whole. This time, we get a perspective from outside the Republic of Gilead, in Canada, and how that society has evolved and been influenced by its neighbor. The perspective within Gilead is that of a privileged child rather than a reviled Handmaid, and what sticks is that it is ultimately almost no ...

Books Read This Month 1. Man Fast by Natasha Scripture 2. You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero 3. Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan 4. Incarceron by Catherine Fisher 5. Walden on Wheels by Ken Ilgunas 6. And When She Was Good by Laura Lippman 7. Miller's Valley by Anna Quindlen, narrated by Brittany Pressley 8. The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9. Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey 10. Dear Mrs. Bird by A.J. Pearce, narrated by Anna Popplewell 11. Braving the Wilderness, written and narrated by Brene Brown Favorite Books This Month How I Did On My Summer TBR I finished four of the ten books on my summer TBR , and am currently reading a fifth, so not too bad! Of those on the list, I finished Stronger Than a Bronze Dragon by Mary Fan, You Are a Badass by Jen Sincero, Sweetbitter by Stephanie Danler, and Girls of Paper and Fire by Natasha Ngan. I'm currently reading Redemption in Indigo by Karen Lord. How I Did on My August Goals ...