pick3.5/5
What a super cute read! I know the “coincidences” are pretty unrealistic, but I‘m a sucker for them (if done right). I don‘t usually read YA or romance, but I‘m glad I read this one.
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pick3.5/5
What a super cute read! I know the “coincidences” are pretty unrealistic, but I‘m a sucker for them (if done right). I don‘t usually read YA or romance, but I‘m glad I read this one.
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pick5/5
This has to be one of the most heartbreaking books I‘ve read. I just finished this minutes ago and I don‘t have the energy or words to accurately depict what I thought. The writing was absolutely stunning. The characters were complex, albeit at times a bit unbelievable. Regardless, this book left my heart in pieces and I don‘t know how to feel...
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so-soI read this one for the #readharderchallenge2018 (assigned book I hated). I no longer hate it, but I don‘t like it either. It had some exciting scenes, but mostly it‘s full of macho BS romanticizing the wild. To make matters worse, London appears to have known very little about dogs or physics or what it actually takes to survive in the wild.
pickMy commute & clean the basement audiobook last week. I found myself talking to the characters & telling them to do or not do this thing or that. It's hard not to compare it to A Man Called Ove, but I loved this book as a separate entity. I took care of #LitsyBingo #MeantToReadIn2017 and #ReadHarderChallenge2018 #FemaleProtagonistOver60 with this book!
pickA subtle, enraging story about a woman who marries young in spite of her dreams of travel and adventure. She lives hemmed in by a failing farm, a self-absorbed invalid husband and a small-minded rural mentality that is quick to sell scandal when a young Hungarian count takes up lodging on the farm. Deftly, deeply written. #ReadHarderChallenge2018 - A cover you hate and L for #litsyAtoZ
pickA powerfully introspective and personal allegory that muses on the nature of the human spirit and experience, the pain of isolation and the strength of endurance even when it is tired, unheroic and mundane. It also interrogates the painful legacy of Vichy collaboration and the Nazi occupation as well as undercutting the mythologised rhetoric that followed French Liberation. #readharderchallenge2018 Colonial or postcolonial literature.
pickOh fun! I've always loved Chris Riddell's illustrations but I've never read anything written by him. Goth Girl is a delightful adventure, chock-full of sly, pun-tastic literary and historical allusions (Jane Ear!) that had me giggling on virtually every page. And of course the illustrations are BEAUTIFUL. #ReadHarderChallenge2018 "The first book in a new-to-you YA or middle grade series".
pickI wish I had the next installment of this memoir, I would read it right away! I had only the most basic understanding of Iranian history. I found this book so compelling. Highly reccomend. It also checked off some categories for #readharderchallenge2018 and #readingwomenchallenge. I am 5.5 hours in to my first #24in48readathon. Time for a bit of a break :)
