Earl Grey Books

I’ve been a Swiftie since Taylor’s first album in 2006, so when I saw that T.K from Genie in a Novel had created a reading challenge to celebrate 1989 (Taylor’s Version), I knew I had to join.

I’m going to link T.K’s announcement here which has all the information regarding dates, prompts, the StoryGraph link and the graphic (which I’ve used here). If you’re interested in joining in, definitely go have a look at her post.

Today’s post is just to share that I’ll be joining in, as well as to mention a few of the books I think I’ll read this month to mark off particular prompts. So let’s get into them.

Welcome to New York – a book set in New York

For this one, I’ll be picking up Endpapers by Jennifer Savran Kelly. It’s set in New York in 2003 and follows a genderqueer conservator who finds a decades-old love letter and becomes obsessed with finding its writer. This is a book club read, I’m just waiting on my library copy and then I’ll be starting it immediately.

Blank Space – a book with the character’s name in the title

I honestly wasn’t sure what to pick for his one until I realised it was a good excuse to finally read Carrie Soto Is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid. I absolutely hated Malibu Rising so I needed a little time to be ready to trust TJR again. Well, it’s been eight months so I think it’s finally time.

Clean – one-word title

I thought this would be one of the harder prompts to fill, but I actually have six possibilities just from the books I want to read between now and the end of September. I’m not going to go through all of them, but I think it’s going to be a toss-up between Hunger by Roxane Gay and Warriors by Kathryn Moon. Both of them are for posts in September so it’s really going to depend on which one ends up getting read first.

I Wish You Would – a book that you wish you could read again for the first time

This comes at the perfect time. Touched by Fire by Kel Carpenter was one of my favourite rereads of last year but I didn’t get around to continuing the series at the time. I’m extremely bad at remembering things so I’d planned to reread this one this month as a refresher.

Those are the ones I’m going to highlight for now. I’m not really sure how I’m going to approach this challenge—maybe I’ll do an update in a few weeks once I’ve read some of these but we’ll see!