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I think this is my hobby I put the most hours and time towards now. Which is fun and well deserved. I have so many books that I've held on to for years and I'm glad I now am making the time and effort to read them. Plus reading has caused me a certain happiness that I've found helpful in these times with political changes and such related news. I'm grateful for the apps Good reads and Story graph. It's nice keeping track of my read books plus the other uses those apps have.
So I think the last time I wrote about books was at the end of last month? Or middle of last month? I guess it doesn't matter. For once I'm going to write about books I read that I did not like. Because that happened. There will be spoilers for once. You have been warned. I'm not going to go into full details of what each book is about, but feel free to ask me and I will explain further. This post will be rather long. Also you have been warned!
I've been slowly making it through the wizard of Oz series by L. Frank Baum with Mike. It's been an up and down hill battle. Some of them start off good but then just slowly get bad. I've found most just feel repetitive. This last one was 'The scarecrow of Oz' and it was actually somewhat decent.
'At the edge of the orchard' by Tracy Chevalier was just toxic... and at the same time had little to no emotion. It's hard to put into words but this family in this book was all pretty miserable and difficult to read about. The crazy part was the parents ended up killing each other in fight. Also the mother openly cheats on the father at these religious cult-like groups they go to as a family... it was weird. And I feel like that is putting it lightly. I was unhappy while reading it due to mainly this family and how boring the characters were. I didn't care about this family. I didn't care about the plot. It was hard to get through. I guess the writing was okay.
'The promised Neverland' volumes 8 and 9 were amazing! I love how this series has gotten over time! I'm greatly looking forward to reading the rest of the series. There has been so much world building and character development. I like reading manga and returning it to the library. Buying and storing manga stresses me out and I feel that by reading this manga series from the library has opened by eyes up to that option. The series is a total of 20 volumes long so I am almost halfway done.
'The original sin' by Marius Gabriel was so good for about 90% of the book. I love it so much. The writing! Learning about the three generations of woman and how life effected them all differently, there was some drug use which I really haven't read a ton about but it was okay, how the plot keep going and I was pretty invested in the story... but then towards the end we learn of incest. incest between one of the main characters who she basically liked and it turned into an even stranger situation when two siblings (but actually not siblings - plot twist - hah!) get the hots for each other and it complicates things so much more... I get it, the title... I knew something was going to be bad... sinful if you will, but I was not expecting somewhat welcoming incest like that. It left such an awful taste in my mouth. I'm debating if I should keep it or not. It was one of those random smut novels I've had for years and never knew how or why I had it but I'm glad I read it overall... just the way the ending had to go left me disappointed.
'Sung: A collection of comics about dating your best friend' by Catana Chetwynd was overall wholesome but the art style sort of left me feeling weird. I get it most people like those huge eyes but I just found their facial expressions sort of freaky. But the comics themselves were cute. I don't want to sound like a snob when I say that. I know my art style isn't anything to brag about either. It just left me feeling 'eh' at times while I read the comics.
'Always' by Sarah Jio was probably by far the worst book I have read in a long time. Worst than the toxic family from 'The edge of the orchard'... worst than the incest in 'The original sin'... It had parts of it that made me pretty uncomfortable. And I feel like this is such a common theme these days when it comes to romance novels/movies/shows. A girl has a rich, successful - handsome even - man. Then one day an old flame comes back and she questions everything she has. It usually always goes border-line cheating but then after so much confusion she finally picks her old flame and they live happily ever after. It's frustrating. In this one the main character lies several times in the start of the book to her Fiancé, even including spending thousands on her old flame because he's homeless and has a traumatic brain injury, has him over to their apartment without her Fiancé knowing (to stay for a few days while he is out on a business trip) and only comes clean when he's opening the door and finding her and her old flame having a slow dance together. Throughout the story the main character is unlikeable to me and just keeps being wishy washy. It gets old fast. I didn't care for the writing either. Not to my taste.
So I think the last time I wrote about books was at the end of last month? Or middle of last month? I guess it doesn't matter. For once I'm going to write about books I read that I did not like. Because that happened. There will be spoilers for once. You have been warned. I'm not going to go into full details of what each book is about, but feel free to ask me and I will explain further. This post will be rather long. Also you have been warned!
I've been slowly making it through the wizard of Oz series by L. Frank Baum with Mike. It's been an up and down hill battle. Some of them start off good but then just slowly get bad. I've found most just feel repetitive. This last one was 'The scarecrow of Oz' and it was actually somewhat decent.
'At the edge of the orchard' by Tracy Chevalier was just toxic... and at the same time had little to no emotion. It's hard to put into words but this family in this book was all pretty miserable and difficult to read about. The crazy part was the parents ended up killing each other in fight. Also the mother openly cheats on the father at these religious cult-like groups they go to as a family... it was weird. And I feel like that is putting it lightly. I was unhappy while reading it due to mainly this family and how boring the characters were. I didn't care about this family. I didn't care about the plot. It was hard to get through. I guess the writing was okay.
'The promised Neverland' volumes 8 and 9 were amazing! I love how this series has gotten over time! I'm greatly looking forward to reading the rest of the series. There has been so much world building and character development. I like reading manga and returning it to the library. Buying and storing manga stresses me out and I feel that by reading this manga series from the library has opened by eyes up to that option. The series is a total of 20 volumes long so I am almost halfway done.
'The original sin' by Marius Gabriel was so good for about 90% of the book. I love it so much. The writing! Learning about the three generations of woman and how life effected them all differently, there was some drug use which I really haven't read a ton about but it was okay, how the plot keep going and I was pretty invested in the story... but then towards the end we learn of incest. incest between one of the main characters who she basically liked and it turned into an even stranger situation when two siblings (but actually not siblings - plot twist - hah!) get the hots for each other and it complicates things so much more... I get it, the title... I knew something was going to be bad... sinful if you will, but I was not expecting somewhat welcoming incest like that. It left such an awful taste in my mouth. I'm debating if I should keep it or not. It was one of those random smut novels I've had for years and never knew how or why I had it but I'm glad I read it overall... just the way the ending had to go left me disappointed.
'Sung: A collection of comics about dating your best friend' by Catana Chetwynd was overall wholesome but the art style sort of left me feeling weird. I get it most people like those huge eyes but I just found their facial expressions sort of freaky. But the comics themselves were cute. I don't want to sound like a snob when I say that. I know my art style isn't anything to brag about either. It just left me feeling 'eh' at times while I read the comics.
'Always' by Sarah Jio was probably by far the worst book I have read in a long time. Worst than the toxic family from 'The edge of the orchard'... worst than the incest in 'The original sin'... It had parts of it that made me pretty uncomfortable. And I feel like this is such a common theme these days when it comes to romance novels/movies/shows. A girl has a rich, successful - handsome even - man. Then one day an old flame comes back and she questions everything she has. It usually always goes border-line cheating but then after so much confusion she finally picks her old flame and they live happily ever after. It's frustrating. In this one the main character lies several times in the start of the book to her Fiancé, even including spending thousands on her old flame because he's homeless and has a traumatic brain injury, has him over to their apartment without her Fiancé knowing (to stay for a few days while he is out on a business trip) and only comes clean when he's opening the door and finding her and her old flame having a slow dance together. Throughout the story the main character is unlikeable to me and just keeps being wishy washy. It gets old fast. I didn't care for the writing either. Not to my taste.
