… I think I may have lost track. I do know I started several books, and put them aside, because I Just Couldn’t. I stress that it wasn’t Them, it was Me. I don’t think I actually finished anything before I finally did manage to settle into a re-re-re-&C-read of The Goblin Emperor, so that’s where we’ll pick up the tally.
15 The Goblin Emperor, Katherine Addison (e) (re-re-re-read)
14 Hen Fever, Olivia Waite (e)
13 Unmasked by the Marquis, Cat Sebastian (e) ( re-read)
12 A Duke in Disguise, Cat Sebastian (e) (reread)
11 Heart of Stone, Johannes T. Evans (e)
10 West with the Night, Beryl Markham (e)
9 A Song to Drown Rivers, Ann Liang (e) (netgalley)
8 Bookstores and Bonedust, Travis Baldree (prequel) (e) (library)
7 We Could Be So Good, Cat Sebastian (e) (library)
6 Thorn Hedge, T. Kingfisher (e) (library)
5 Wild Seed, Octavia M. Butler (e) (library)
4 In Our Stars, Jack Campbell (Doomed Earth #1) (pre-pub) (e)
3 Legends and Lattes, Travis Baldree (e) (library)
2 Heart of the Sun Warrior, Sue Lynn Tan, (Celestial Kingdom #2) (e) (library)
1 This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone (e) (library)
I admire your persistence.
In my time of loss I could not read *anything*. Recognized words refused to form into ideas that I could follow from one sentence to the next. I had to give up reading for months. Inane TV series was pretty much what replaced reading until I could re-read two familiar book series: all the Liaden stories and books and then all the Cadfael books. Gradually, I was able to begin reading new-to-me books again.