Meadow'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.
Read MoreWuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
I have to warn you, the characters are terrible, perfectly written and developed, but pretty much all of them are pretty horrendous people. The descriptions bring you into the turbulent emotions of these characters and I loved the way the descriptions of the landscape, rooms or weather truly set the mood of the storyline, adding to each scene and setting.
Read MoreI Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
I Am the Messenger caught me completely off guard. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it and how much it really moved me. It was such an authentic story that went straight to my heart, and made me examine how we treat strangers.
Read MoreReady Player One by Ernest Cline
I highly recommend the book, even to those that aren’t the biggest Sci-Fi fans as I feel it’s a great balance and very interesting story that doesn’t go completely out of the realm of possibility.
Read MoreNeverwhere by Neil Gaiman
One of the things I enjoyed most about this book was that the fantasy world Neil Gaiman creates isn't a complete 180 from the world we live in.
Read MoreMWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search for a New Best Friend by Rachel Bertsche
This book had some extreme moments at times but being a woman who had just moved to a big city where none of my close friends actually lived besides my boyfriend and family, this author was telling my story too.
Read MoreThe Wedding by Nicholas Sparks
"But love, I've come to understand, is more than three words mumbled before bedtime. Love is sustained by action, a pattern of devotion in the things we do for each other every day."
Read MoreMe Before You by JoJo Moyes
I love how real this book is. It deals with a difficult subject matter and makes you feel like you are going through the ever changing emotions right along with the characters. But also, it's not the typical romance book.
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