Meadow's Most Recent: October 13, 2018
Beneath the Sugar Sky, Lolita, Anna Karenina, Shantaram and others.
Read MoreLolita by Vladimir Nabokov
This book is worth reading since it is a classic and Vladimir is a writer on his own level, but you won’t necessarily want to recommend it to others, nor will you probably ever want to reread it.
Read MoreBeneath the Sugar Sky by Seanan McGuire
This book of the series, like the others, is a perfect mixture of whimsical and important. It is about hope, acceptance and love and how we are all on the search for this in our lives. It is dark and weird, but truly charming. So I am now anxiously waiting for the fourth book set to come out in 2019.
Read MoreOne Last Thing Before I Go by Jonathan Tropper
I think that had I read this book of Trooper's first, I would have liked it more. But after reading "This is Where I Leave You", which I loved, I expected more from this book.
Read MoreLuckiest Girl Alive by Jessica Knoll
A friend told me I should read this book after we both talked about “Girl on the Train" and “Gone Girl" since it was compared to these books so often. Although there were moments I liked, overall I was just annoyed with this book.
Read MoreStardust by Neil Gaiman
I really enjoy Gaiman's writing style. This is the second book I've read of his and it definitely didn't disappoint.
Read MoreAll the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
Although the beginning was a bit slow, I was captivated the entire time by the different characters that were introduced as well as the story line. The fact that it slowly wove itself together so that almost all the characters were connected was an amazing way of writing it.
Read MoreMeadow's Most Recent: September 29, 2018
The Secret Keeper, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Every Heart a Doorway, Down Among the Sticks and Bones and the books I’m currently reading.
Read MoreDown Among the Sticks and Bones by Seanan McGuire
This book is once again an eerie, dark fairy tale from McGuire. But this novel focuses on breaking down ideas of what it means to be a girl. Because there is no one or two ways to be a girl. It’s a short, quick read with beautiful writing and made me even more determined to read the author’s next book.
Read MoreEleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Gail Honeyman wrote this novel with a perfect balance of sad and humorous scenes. She took a serious and difficult issue and somehow made it warm and funny, while still showing the severity and sadness of depression and loneliness. It was a book filled with emotion without making it overly-sentimental and made me laugh and cry with it’s perfect moments.
Read MoreThe Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Kate Morton has this great way of storytelling, especially since she focuses on using flashbacks in order to slowly give you the full picture.
Read MoreGirl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart
Although an interesting concept since it is based on some true events and has come action, I felt like this book was lacking in certain aspects.
Read MoreEvery Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
This story was very strange, but it was so wonderfully written. It is eery, with this almost perfect balance between comical and serious, dark and light, fairy tale and thriller. I have already put the next two books in the series on hold at my library.
Read MoreMeadow's Most Recent: September 15, 2018
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Choke, I’d Rather Be Reading, In Cold Blood, and other updates
Read MoreIn Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Capote does an amazing job of piecing together this crime. Although he begins the book by introducing you to both the victims and most obviously the killers, you are still in suspense throughout the entire novel.
Read MoreChoke by Chuck Palahniuk
One of my friends warned me that this book is dark and fucked up, it’s messy and also “weirdly heart wrenching”. I have to agree. The entire time I was reading this book I kept thinking “OMG”, “what the hell am I reading?”, “this is so good!”. I couldn’t put it down and thus finished it in a couple hours.
Read MoreI'd Rather Be Reading by Anne Bogel
This was a wonderful, quick little read that truly had me falling in love with reading all over again.
Read MoreOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
After all that I had heard about this book, it sadly did not live up to my expectations.
I wanted to love it, and at times, I did love Gabriel García Márquez’s stylistic way of writing. But, honestly sometimes I felt a little…dumb? less intellectual?… when I was reading this book.
Read MorePersuasion by Jane Austen
Sigh, I just don't think this is in the cards for me to enjoy Austen's books.
Read MoreOnly Human (Themis Files Book 3) by Sylvain Neuvel
I've loved almost every moment of this series and was so happy with the way this final book ended the storyline of these wonderful characters.
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