What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty
30 Books in 30 Days, Vol. 2 Book 24/30 This one was a long time coming. I’ve owned it for years, and recommended it to a handful of friends, most of whom were confused why I was recommending a book to them I hadn’t read, but I know about books even if I haven’t read them! And they liked it! So! This is the second book of two that I had on my TBR that was about a woman getting a head injury and losing […]
Warriors: Winds of Change by Erin Hunter
Warriors: Winds of Change is an enjoyable graphic novel story. Even though, it can be a standalone title, I probably needed to have a little more background about the Warriors series and their world to understand some of the backstory of where the characters are from. There are several points about their religion, the idea of littermates and the rivalry between clans though might have been cleared up. Yet, the stronger reader could pick up some of that while reading. Erin Hunter’s anthropomorphic cats are […]
The Lilac Bus by Maeve Binchy
Re-read June 27, 2022: I haven’t been doing too much but laying in bed and forcing myself to eat food with no taste for about a week now. I got to this one last night and finished it up today though. I also finished a horror book I really enjoyed, so that’s three books down after what felt like an endless year. “The Lilac Bus” is always great to re-read. You in essence get a lot of short stories tied around 8 people in the […]
The Copper Beech by Maeve Binchy
Re-read June 27, 2022: I just needed a book taking place in a different time and place right now. Though this book starts off in the 1950s and ends around 1971 or so, it still brought me some comfort. Maybe because Binchy really does lay out how hard it was for women in Ireland in that time and place and even mentions a few times how the inhabitants of Shancarring were poor and how many women just had too many children they were just kind […]
Memories from Limon by Edo Brenes
I can understand why people find this graphic novel slow, uninteresting, and only a one or two-rating. However, I can support my five-rating thinking the above as well. Memories from Limon is not an easy read. Not that it is a difficult subject or has something “rough” to it (such as violence, sex, or such), but the personal nature of the tone, the pacing and the illustrations are meant to be taken slowly. There is mention/showing of the grandfathers drinking, and mention of his infidelity, […]
A Pslam For The Wild Built by Becky Chambers
Would you like a soothing balm for your mind right now? Dive into another charming book by Becky Chambers – the first in the Monk and Robot series. In this novel, the world has moved past the rise of sentient robots. While machines were once used for all sorts of labor, and the environment was neglected, the world that we are dropped into in this series has moved past that sort of behavior. Robots and humans live separately, and both do their best to avoid […]
