I've been a little slow on the reading these days. I blame Candy Crush, and primetime television, and really everything else for taking over my mind and leaving me little room for digesting the written word. Except blogs. And twitter. I can digest those.
Grave
Mercy - Robin LaFevers This was recommended by Jonna and I loved it.
When does the next one come out?
Under the Never Sky - Veronica Rossi
recommended by Whitney, also wonderful, also can’t wait to read the next one
(my library doesn’t have it yet)
A Girl Named Zippy - Haven Kimmel This was …
cute, I guess. I read it for book club and it was a lot of little stories about
people in the woman’s hometown. It had a very young feeling, and I had a hard
time continuing to read after each chapter. I don’t really know how else to
explain it. The book was okay.
Tiny Beautiful Things - Cheryl Strayed The
first Dear Sugar letter was sad and the answer well written and thought
provoking and I thought I would like this. But there’s a reason that advice
columns are written 1-2 letters in the grand scheme of a whole newspaper. A whole
book of them was just grating, and several pages of an answer to every single
question wherein most of the answer was stories about her … I couldn’t do it.
No.
Unbearable Lightness - Portia de Rossi I
loved this book, until it got to the epilogue, and then I wanted to, well, do
something very bad. The idea that she was “saved” by Ellen and that she is
fully recovered and life is peachy – well, I know a lot of people with a lot of
problems and I don’t think anyone with a problem (eating, drugs, alcohol, anything)
would ever say that they were “fully recovered”. It’s a struggle. Own it.
Pretty Little Liars - Sara Shepard The first
part of this book was written so young that I couldn’t get into it. I was also
having a reading problem and I can’t say I tried very hard though.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette? - Maria Semple I
thought this was charming, and I never exactly knew where it was going which
was refreshing. It was sweet.
3 comments:
I have Where'd you go, Bernadette on my list to read next. I've been struggling to get through Under the Never Sky. It's in my wheelhouse - YA dystopian society and yet I can't get through it.
I'm adding Grave Mercy, Under the Never Sky, and Unbearable Lightness to my list.
I'm reading Horns by Joe Hill right now, which started out so sad that I almost stopped reading it. It's pretty strange and interesting though. Hopefully it won't fall apart and ruin the entire book.
Michelle, I felt that way at the beginning, and I can't remember exactly what point it changed for me. But it did, and I loved it and I hope you do enjoy it!
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