About Lids Reads

Call me Lids. I read about 100 books a year and I have opinions about all of them, so here they are.

Part of my reading challenge this year is reading everything from the library: physical, ebook, or audiobook. I have several library cards and I use them all very frequently!

What I love: weird, dark, smart books about women who don’t quite fit where they’re planted. Translated fiction. A sad little uplift. Horror that actually means something. A main character who is kind of awful. History and crime.

Favorite authors: Mona Awad, Ann Patchett, Donna Tartt, Tana French, Claire Keegan, Maggie O’Farrell, Ling Ma, Paul Tremblay.

What I hate: a misleading comp, darkness with no point, and adults just plain communicating poorly.

I have an entire English Literature degree and somehow never read A Room of One’s Own until this year, so take all of this with a grain of salt.

How I rate

Stars	Meaning
★★★★★	Nearly perfect. I’ll be thinking about it for a long time.
★★★★	Really good. I’m telling people to read it.
★★★	Fine, maybe even good. Something didn’t land.
★★	Not my jam.
★	Terrible. I’d recommend it to no one, in good conscience.

Every book, not just the good ones

Every book I finish shows up on the home page with my stars, even before I’ve written the review. The numbers are on the Stats page.

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