I really wanted to like this book. My interest was peeked when one of my favorite book bloggers put it on her list of top Summer new releases and the premise grabbed me immediately. Unfortunately, despite its promising synopsis, the novel never really found its rhythm and the reader is left to slog through a couple hundred pages of fairly boring and frustrating material. A River of Stars follows the journey of a young Chinese woman (Scarlett) who find herself pregnant with her Boss’s baby. An early ultrasound reveals the baby to be a boy and her Boss (who has…
Posts Written OnMay 2018
The Girl Who Drank the Moon by Kelly Barnhill
The Girl Who Drank the Moon is a solidly good middle grade book that is full of appeal, if not life changing. This book is packed full with life truths about love, loss, grief, ignorance, hope, and endurance. Its quite amazing now that I think about it in retrospect but this little book had a lot to say about some pretty heavy topics. The Girl Who Drank the Moon is about a town who lives in fear of the witch that haunts their local woods. To appease the witch and keep her from their door they offer up the youngest…
Walk on Earth a Stranger by Rae Carson
I was an avid reader of Rae Carson’s Girl of Fire and Thorns series and I was prepared to fully enjoy her Walk on Earth a Stranger series as well. Upon finishing this first installment I am a little let down to admit that this book was good but not great. I’ve never been enthusiastic about magical realism but the historical setting and strong female lead persuaded me to set aside my apprehensions and take a chance on Walk on Earth a Stranger. Lee Westfall is the only child of a prospecting couple in Georgia. Her life is standard for…
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
I was such a mess after finishing Educated; Westover’s account of her path from rural Idaho to Cambridge doctorate is the most emotional book I had read so far this year. It is a harrowing and beautiful memoir, and many will be drawn in immediately. Westover’s memoir directly addresses the three topics I feel most passionately about: family, faith, and education. She is tried and tested to her limits in each element and is forced to make a choice no one should ever have to make (especially in the twenty-first century). As a heartbreaking result, two of the three are…