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January Wrap Up
the 2 books and 6 movies i read/watched in jan. pls read and like blogging is hard ily
I haven’t done a wrap up in forever, so bear with me on this one. Hello! Happy 2024! One of my goals for this year is to be more consistent with blogging so I am bringing back monthly wrap ups! I only read 2 books this month so I’m also going to include some movies and shows I watched, and I think I’m going to continue this moving forward but we will see. I’ve been reading much less since…
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august reading wrap up
highlights
the hacienda by isabel cañas -- ★★★★★
lovable main character, hot priest, forbidden love, rebecca inspired, and beautiful writing. what more could you ask for? this book truly set me up to be a lover of this author and all future projects isabel produces. cannot wait to get my hands on 'vampires of el norte" next.
babel by rf kuang -- ★★★★★
lets start by saying that anything rf kuang has written is just an automatic five stars. but not out of pure bias (though i love her work), she genuinely is just stunning in everything she chooses to pursue. this, obviously, is my opinion. babel is an amazing story, and i genuinely wish i could reread for the first time.
percy jackson and the olympians -- ★★★★★
this is based on purely bias and nostalgia. i reread the first five books due to the announcement to show. like every other pjo fan (we're so predictable). surprisingly, the series still holds up extremely well even as i age. i cannot wait for the show. glad i set aside time to just read these because they were such a blast from the past.
jazz by toni morrison -- ★★★★★
the back of this book was the reason i read it. "a man shoots his teenaged lover and then his wife goes to her funeral with a knife intending to scar her. and so sets a story of love and obsession." what made this five stars - despite being written by toni morrison - is the way she went about telling this story. like jazz music, where everyone is ocnversing and interrrupting and changing the way the song unfolds to beautiful and memorable. such is toni morrison's writing in this book. a new perspective, a new character that ties everything in, the narrator, the way the city seems alive and character of itself. i adored this book.
other star reads + their ratings:
woman, eating by claire kohda -- ★★★★☆ frankenstein by mary shelly -- ★★★★☆ alone with you in the ether by olivie blake -- ★★★★★ imaginary girls by nova ren suma -- ★★★☆☆ blood over bright haven by m.l. wang -- ★★★★★ book lovers by emily henry -- ★★★☆☆ marrow by trisha wolfe, brynne weaver -- ★★★☆☆ the lovely bones by alice bold -- ★★★★☆ these violent delights by micah nemerever -- ★★★★☆