A month ago, I decided to try my hand at the monthly subscription box called Book of the Month. Last month, I ordered just one book but this month, I ordered three and I wanted to show them off!
How Book of the Month works is that every month, there are five books for you to choose from as your BOTM. These can be new releases for that specific month or early releases through BOTM! On the first of every month, the choices are announced and you as a member can choose which book you want shipped to you or you can skip that month. You also have every single book they’ve ever come out with previously at your disposal and can add up to two for $9.99 each. It costs $14.99 each month to be an active member outside of these extra books.
Below are January’s selections; when you click on the book you will be able to read why the judge chose this particular book, a synopsis and a chapter sampler. As you can see, I chose Red Clocks by Leni Zumas as my January Book of the Month.
Red Clocks Summary:
Five women. One question. What is a woman for?
In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom.
Ro, a single high-school teacher, is trying to have a baby on her own, while also writing a biography of Eivør, a little-known 19th-century female polar explorer. Susan is a frustrated mother of two, trapped in a crumbling marriage. Mattie is the adopted daughter of doting parents and one of Ro’s best students, who finds herself pregnant with nowhere to turn. And Gin is the gifted, forest-dwelling homeopath, or “mender,” who brings all their fates together when she’s arrested and put on trial in a frenzied modern-day witch hunt
I chose this book because as a Women and Gender Studies major, the subject matter really interests me. I’m always looking for literary fiction like this that sheds light on important topics such as reproduction rights.
I chose two extra books to add to my box this month….
The first being Beasts of Extraordinary Circumstance by Ruth Emmie Lang. I’ve heard a lot of praise about this book and the synopsis sounds very interesting…it’s a little bit of The Jungle Book meets magical realism and I’m excited to read it!
Summary: Orphaned, raised by wolves, and the proud owner of a horned pig named Merlin, Weylyn Grey knew he wasn’t like other people. But when he single-handedly stopped that tornado on a stormy Christmas day in Oklahoma, he realized just how different he actually was.
The second book I chose this month was also a book I’ve had my eye on for a while. I also bough The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne. I’ve also heard a lot of amazing things about this book and it won the 2017 Book of the Year award.
Summary: Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that’s what his adoptive parents tell him. And he never will be. But if he isn’t a real Avery, then who is he?
Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community and adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun, Cyril is adrift in the world, anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous and dangerous Julian Woodbead.
At the mercy of fortune and coincidence, he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself and where he came from – and over his three score years and ten, will struggle to discover an identity, a home, a country and much more.
This subscription box has offered me new and exciting books I never would have received otherwise! Use this link to sign up and receive your first book box for $9.99 and a free tote bag!
Also, don’t forget to let me know which book you chose as your BOTM!
Advertisements Share this:
