I'm a little late, but still wanted to post a quick review of the last book I read as part of the December Project, and to provide some overall thoughts on how I spent the month. Also, my book club is considering The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah as a future selection, which will be voted on tonight, so I thought it would be a good time to share my thoughts on the book.

I've read numerous books that focus on the plight of women in occupied France during World War II (All the Light We Cannot See, The Girl You Left Behind are just two recent examples), so while I had heard good things, and had purchased this on sale for $1.99, I was not in a rush to read it. As December drew to a close and I looked back on what I had read that month and throughout the year, I decided I really wanted to end the year with a book that was published in 2015, so I picked up The Nightingale. I'm so glad that I did.

This book focuses on two sisters, and the ways in which they use their skills to resist the occupying German forces. I love anything about sisters, and the addition of a little girl power only made me like this more. As I mentioned in my Book List - 2015 post, where I named the top 10 books I read in 2015, this book managed to both surprise me (difficult), and to make me cry (easy). I recommend it highly.

I managed to read five books during the December Project, which did not put much of a dent into the unread books that were already in my Kindle Library (of course, that did not stop me from buying more during all of the holiday sales). Of the five, two made it into my top ten list, and the other three, including Mindy Kaling's latest - which became available from my library queue and does not really meet the parameters of the project - were enjoyable reads. For 2016, I think I will try to do a better job of reading through some of my Kindle Library on an ongoing basis, instead of dedicating one month to it. There are certainly some excellent books hiding in there, but I know I need to be flexible enough to read new releases and library books as they become available throughout the year.