Since I'd learned the trick of making a KU curated list, I had much better luck this time going straight to the books that were worthwhile. As I've stated before, I pay almost nothing for the KU subscription, but end up reading voraciously to "get my money's worth." Obviously, I didn't give some of these books their due, and ended up buying two of them to re-read and savor more fully. From most enjoyable to least, here are the titles that I read in December, January and February:
Cinderella - stunningly illustrated by K.Y. Craft
Portrait of a Murder: A Christmas Crime Story by Anne Meredith (vintage detective fiction)
Unfinished Portrait by Mary Westmacott (aka Agatha Christie)
Baking for Two by Tracy Kabiku (and 7 other cookbooks)
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
Heroes of the City of Man - Peter Leithart (guide to the Greek classics)
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein
Behind Barbed Wire and High Fences by Helen Angeny (WWII POW memoir)
Rochester's Wife - D. E. Stevenson (disappointing fiction from one of my favorite light authors)
I checked out two retellings of classic books that were AI generated (I didn't know it at the time), and they were as awful as you would expect.
I paid 99 cents for three months, but ended up spending $15 on books that I wanted to keep. So it came out to about $5 a month (the normal price is $12). I could have done worse.
Blessings,
If you ever dip into Kindle Unlimited again, read The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion--8 books series. Just getting to read those eight books are worth the $12!! From reading your blog and your reviews of DE Stevenson books, I think you would enjoy them. They are such good reading. I will be rereading them again and again. By the way, I have been very hesitant and choosy about using Kindle Unlimited and only use it when I get a good price.
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