For the past couple of years, my yearly average rating has been in the gutter. I'm talking averages of 2.6, 2.8, just VERY ugly. Books I was excited about disappointed me, every book I was reading just for entertainment would entertain me just as much as it would frustrate me. It was a very dark time and I don't remember half of these books because not a one of them was good.

We're halfway through this year, and my average rating is a 3.55. Almost an entire star higher than what it was just two years ago. I would be a fool not to credit this lovely space for part of this glowup, I have been encouraged to pick up some real gems because of how you all spoke of some of these works.

But I have been doing a little project for the past two months that has also helped. For every book that disappointed me (2 stars or below/DNF), I would read something off my five star predictions shelf. Surprise surprise, half of the books I picked up were not five stars. But most of them were works I really valued, and that encouraged me to pick up more of those books naturally, without being bound by this fake rule I created. In the last two months, my average went up by .1 and I have 17 five star reads under my belt (9 being rereads)!

I'm having a great reading year so far, but how are your reading years going? Have you been struggling to find a good book recently? Do you have a game plan to change up your reading year, or are you just seeing where your mood takes you?

Do people actually like this book? & if so, how? I want to enjoy it, but the main character is insufferable. Will it get better?

One of my favorite things about a book is when it makes me feel and getting to do that within first 5 pages is definitely an achievement! I really hope it lives up to my expectations now

I thought this was fantastic satire. I miss satire that isn't so in your face farcical, and really has a story and investible characters. I get the criticisms about not making significant points, but Blake even says in the acknowledgements, she just likes to ponder things.

I thoroughly enjoyed it. I laughed out loud, was surprised at moments. Gosh I'm glad I didn't listen to the ratings on this one.

I read 8! it might not seem like a lot but i'm quite proud because 2 of them are over the 700 hundred pages witch is something that i didn't managed to do since i was about 14 probably, and the book i'm currently reading is also like 700 pages why do i do that to myself?.

The good thing is that i liked almost every book i read so far, for the second half of the year i would like to read more of my physical tbr and finish some of the books i have paused.

So far my favs have been the two bricks, Royal Assasin and Assasin's Quest by Robin hobb (and i'm loving East of eden witch im reading right now ) and my least favourite would be Lapvona (i'm sorry guys)

You're free to tell me about your half year wrap up if you want to! i would love to hear it from you!!