This or That Reading Challenge discussion

This: A funny and/or inspiration memoir.
That: A book with a green cover or red cover.

I chose That and read Sins of the House of Borgia by Sarah Bower. This is a reread but heck if I remember it from 4 years ago, felt like a new book, haha. It was about a handmaid to Lucrezia Borgia named Violante and her life in the courts that they all frequented. I love historical retellings like this. Makes me feel like I'm living history in the pages of a book but modernized.

For this month I chose That: A book with a green cover or red cover, and read Satan Says by Sharon Olds (which unsurprisingly had a very red cover). This was the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner's first poetry collection - the first of theirs I had read - and I was impressed. The writing was stark by design, and really hit hard. Great use of language. 4 3/4 stars - definitely plan to read more from this poet!