“First Book of the Year” is a book-bloggers’ meme hosted annually by Sheila of Book Journey.
My first book of 2021 is going to be Dominicana by Angie Cruz, which I received for Christmas this year from one of my daughters, who read it and thought I would like it.
Fifteen-year-old Ana Cancion never dreamed of moving to America, the way the girls she grew up with in the Dominican countryside did. But when Juan Ruiz proposes and promises to take her to New York City, she has to say yes. It doesn’t matter that he is twice her age, that there is no love between them. Their marriage is an opportunity for her entire close-knit family to eventually immigrate. So on New Year’s Day, 1965, Ana leaves behind everything she knows and becomes Ana Ruiz, a wife confined to a cold six-floor walk-up in Washington Heights. — From the Publisher
I completely missed 2019, as 2018 was apparently an especially spotty blogging year for me, but I have joined in the fun in other years, going back to 2015.
I won’t make any specific reading resolutions this year, because I don’t usually keep them, but I do hope to keep up with book blogging a little more this year, and maybe get back to reviewing books again.
We’ll see!
Visit Sheila at Book Journey for the “First Book of the Year 2021” photo collage(s) and to see what everyone else is planning to read as we welcome in the first year of a brand new decade.
Goodbye and good riddance to 2020! Happy reading in 2021!