#book nerd
Some time back I bought these books due to someone saying they reminded them of my story the truth about hell ( which I’m working on )
When I’m done with the one I read I can’t wait to start on these
Review of Jade Chang’s The Wangs Vs. The World
10 Word Review: Wealthy family loses everything during the financial crisis, hilarity ensues!
Spoiler Free Review: I really enjoyed this book! It was funny and touching, though it does take a bit to warm up to some of the characters! I think it’s also a fantastic representation of how the U.S. got into the financial crisis, and includes one of the best explanations I’ve seen yet. It’s simple, to the point, and well illustrated!
I thought that this was an interesting twist on the classic immigrant story. The ending was completely fitting and I did grow to really care for the characters. I’d definitely recommend it!
Review of Brene Brown’s Daring Greatly -
10 Word Review: Analysis of how vulnerability and shame affect our daily lives.
Spoiler Free Review: I’ve had a bunch of people recommend this book to me, and I am so glad that I’ve finally read it! It made me think about vulnerability and shame in a completely different way. It really is remarkable how those two things truly do affect my everyday life. It also made me come to several realizations about myself and how I want to live my life. I’m sure this book means something different to everyone who reads it, so I’ll just say that you should definitely give it a chance!
Current Read is The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver! This book is awesome!
Can’t Wait Wednesday features my BOTM haul for January!
Latest Library Haul!! I’m really excited to read The Watch That Ends The Night and Heartstopper!
Mountain Monday features my Happy Planner with all of my Readalongs for January!
Current Read is Red Dragon by Thomas Harris! I’m so excited to finally be starting this!
Shelf Sunday features the books I’m hoping to read this week! So excited to start my Hannibal Lecter Readathon!
Review of Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women
10 Word Review: Insightful glimpse into the sex lives of three different women.
Spoiler Free Review: I read this book as part of a book club that I’m in, and it’s one I probably never would have picked up on my own, but I’m glad I did! It really led to some fascinating and deep conversations with some wonderful women.
While the book’s central focus is around the sex lives of three women, it’s really about what it means and looks like to be a woman in today’s society. The challenges that are faced and how these women are overcoming them or not overcoming them in some cases. It does feel a little intrusive to get such an intimate and raw portrait of their lives, but that’s what makes the book so interesting and I think important. These women who participated in this book were able to be so open and vulnerable with their story, and I found that to be extremely brave! I’d definitely recommend reading this one in a group and you won’t be disappointed!
Current Read is Daring Greatly by Brene Brown! So many people have recommended this book, and I’m excited to finally read it!
Current Read is The Wangs Vs The World by Jade Chang! So far this book is hilarious!
My Top 12 Books Of 2020!! I think my favorites of the year are The Starless Sea and Devolution!
Can’t Wait Wednesday features my January TBR!! I am so excited to read the Hannibal Lecter series for the first time!!
Current Read is The End Of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe! This is a reread for me, and I think I like it even more the second time around!
Scythereview: kinda spoilery
★★★★★
Scythe is one of the best scifi books I’ve read in a long time. It makes readers think about so many things—death, technology, knowledge—in ways that most of us probably avoid. It was interesting to read about a world most people would consider to be a utopia, no conflict, no sickness, no natural death…one that could so easily be turned upside down—not just by the scythes, but by anyone who decided they wanted to know more. All of mankind’s knowledge is at their fingertips, it isn’t too much of a stretch to think that one day someone will become curious and go looking through the Thunderhead, and then find weaknesses that will bring the Thunderhead and society as they know it crashing down around them. Also, the Scythdom, Scythe Goddard has already proven that there is discontent and a desire for greater power, though most of his immediate followers have been killed in the first book, there are always more looking to grasp on to whatever tendrils of power they can find. I’m looking forward to reading more in this series, but most of all I’m very excited to see if chaos and destruction will reign in the end.
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★★★★
To Stay Alive: The story of Mary Ann Graves and the Tragic Journey of the Donner Party was a very emotional read. Just like the title says, the story is incredibly tragic, but it is told so beautifully. The prose is situated on the page in a way that you can almost get an idea of what Mary Ann and other pioneers felt while they were making the journey West. Even the really disturbing parts about cannibalism and all the death were still somehow beautifully conveyed. I don’t read a lot of historical fiction, or fiction written in prose, but this book has inspired me to read more. I think the author choosing to tell this story in prose was the right move, it was a really heavy story, but it felt a little less so because of the way it was written—I don’t know if I could have made it through 300+ pages of this story written any other way.
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★★★★☆
“Had our hearts really become so numb that we needed dead bodies in order to feel a beat of compassion in our chests?”
All American Boys was another tough one to read. I read it after The 57 Bus, and my emotions were already running high—I kept waiting for it to get worse. Luckily, though, it never got as bad as I anticipated. This book did a really good job of showing that your heroes are human, and not always deserving of the pedestal you put them on—not to say that they are bad people, but that even decent people can do bad things. Though this story ended on a fairly good note—I know it would have been an entirely different story if Quinn had not been at the scene and seen with his own eyes what happened. This would be a good book to help encourage readers to stand up for what is right, to question their heroes even though that is really difficult, and not to not be complacent and expect that problems will just fix themselves—especially when those problems are ones that you could ignore from a place of privilege.
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Kaz Brekker
