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Kiwiria's August Reads
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kiwiriaA VERY slow reading month... but then I did read about 2000 pages' worth of HP fanfic, so I guess I'm excused ;-)
Heartstopper volume 1-4 - Alice Oseman*, 1376 pages total
Reread after watching season 2 ♥
The Third Person - Emma Grove, 3/5, 920 pages
Don't be intimidated by the length - due to its form, it's very quickly read and I finished it in just a few hours.
I'm not entirely sure what I thought of it. Parts of it were very jumbled and confusing to read, but that was explained in the end, when Emma explained the process she went through to write the book, so I guess it couldn't really have been any different. Also, I sometimes got confused which 'person' was presenting... but again, I think that was more or less deliberate and we weren't supposed to.
Mostly I got insanely frustrated by Toby. Possibly an extremely incompetent therapist - DEFINITELY a bad fit for them, and he should have pushed harder on getting them to see a different therapist. I know he tried - but still. I know very, very little about D.I.D. - only what I've learned through following D.I.D. creators online, which I know is terribly flawed - and even I could see some of the mistakes he made.
But all that aside, it was a very interesting book, and I'm glad I've read it.
Christmas Every Day - Beth Moran, 4.5/5, Audiobook ~10hrs
Really, really cute book. And despite the title, not at all Christmassy, so it didn't matter that I read it in July/August :-)
Getting my few complaints out of the way first...
Incredibly predictable, of course, but that kinda comes with the genre, so didn't bother me at all. I wasn't completely thrilled with the foreshadowing, but it was typically revealed within a few pages of the foreshadowing occurring, so didn't bother me as much as it normally would. Also, Jenny made a few bad choices that could REALLY have come back to bite her, but fortunately that didn't happen - although I will say that was more down to sheer dumb luck rather than anything else.
Apart from that, I loved it. I loved the small-town community, I loved the book club, and I loved how Jenny found her feet after having lived under her sister's thumb for far too long. I loved reading about the house renovations and would have been very keen to give her a hand - I love rummaging through old stuff and separating the junk from the treasures :-D
Definitely a feel-good comfort read that I may eventually need to get for my physical library as well.
Books Read: 71
Pages Read: 14,475
Hours Listened to: 229
Book of the Month: Christmas Every Day
Biggest Disappointment: None this month.
Heartstopper volume 1-4 - Alice Oseman*, 1376 pages total
Reread after watching season 2 ♥
The Third Person - Emma Grove, 3/5, 920 pages
Don't be intimidated by the length - due to its form, it's very quickly read and I finished it in just a few hours.
I'm not entirely sure what I thought of it. Parts of it were very jumbled and confusing to read, but that was explained in the end, when Emma explained the process she went through to write the book, so I guess it couldn't really have been any different. Also, I sometimes got confused which 'person' was presenting... but again, I think that was more or less deliberate and we weren't supposed to.
Mostly I got insanely frustrated by Toby. Possibly an extremely incompetent therapist - DEFINITELY a bad fit for them, and he should have pushed harder on getting them to see a different therapist. I know he tried - but still. I know very, very little about D.I.D. - only what I've learned through following D.I.D. creators online, which I know is terribly flawed - and even I could see some of the mistakes he made.
But all that aside, it was a very interesting book, and I'm glad I've read it.
Christmas Every Day - Beth Moran, 4.5/5, Audiobook ~10hrs
Really, really cute book. And despite the title, not at all Christmassy, so it didn't matter that I read it in July/August :-)
Getting my few complaints out of the way first...
Incredibly predictable, of course, but that kinda comes with the genre, so didn't bother me at all. I wasn't completely thrilled with the foreshadowing, but it was typically revealed within a few pages of the foreshadowing occurring, so didn't bother me as much as it normally would. Also, Jenny made a few bad choices that could REALLY have come back to bite her, but fortunately that didn't happen - although I will say that was more down to sheer dumb luck rather than anything else.
Apart from that, I loved it. I loved the small-town community, I loved the book club, and I loved how Jenny found her feet after having lived under her sister's thumb for far too long. I loved reading about the house renovations and would have been very keen to give her a hand - I love rummaging through old stuff and separating the junk from the treasures :-D
Definitely a feel-good comfort read that I may eventually need to get for my physical library as well.
Books Read: 71
Pages Read: 14,475
Hours Listened to: 229
Book of the Month: Christmas Every Day
Biggest Disappointment: None this month.
