I did it! I hit the goal of five books this month! Taking a break from the nonfiction this month really helped. Overall, I had a great haul of books this month which always helps me hit my goals. I also used audiobooks to help me stay on track this month. I fly through the books when I have the audio versions since I’m able to listen to the books while doing the never ending household chores.
This month I focused on multiple points of view mentor books to aid in my endeavors to tame my current beast of a revision. My favorite multi-pov book was I’ll Give You the Sun. I think Jandy Nelson did an amazing job of not only getting into a characters' heads, but viewing the world through their eyes. Jude is always seeing good luck and bad luck in everything that is happening around her while Noah is always seeing the world through an “artistic” lens. I could open this book up at any point and read one sentence and know exactly which character’s pov I was in. Which is amazing! She also used her MC’s quirks to really ground the reader in their pov. Noah always has these little notes about how he would paint his emotions and Jude’s sections had quotes from her grandmother’s “superstitious bible”. I highly recommend this book for anyone who is trying to write a multi-pov book.
Another favorite of this month was Spellbreaker. This book made me realize the importance of holding information back from a reader. I devoured this book because I had to find out why Bacchus needed that one spell so badly. And the more information Charlie Holmberg gave me, the more questions I had! I’m definitely going back and pulling out some information from my first chapter and sprinkling it throughout the story like Charlie Holmberg does.
