whatcha readin' {goal 35::book 11}

I did not expect to love this book…
or even like this book
but I totally LOVED this book.

It was so interesting!
and heartbreaking.
and exhilarating!
and sad.
and exciting!

Read it. I heard people say
that they loved the movie
and it was ok
but for me, it did not match the book…
but there is so much in the book
that you couldn’t really
portray in the movie
without making it a different kind of movie,
I think.

5♥s out of 5
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whatcha readin'? 2020 {book 5::goal 30}

When I started this book
I had no idea what it was about
and I had never read anything by this author before.

But I was drawn in immediately.
The mix of old and new,
yesterday and today,
the connections and the tensions,
the love lost and found.

Very much worth the read.
I don’t want to say too much about it
and give anything away but I will
tell you I gave it 5 hearts.
:)

5 ♥’s out of 5 ♥♥♥♥♥’s
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whatcha readin'? 2019 {book 13::goal 25}

here’s a secret
that’s not really a secret…
i love fairy tales.

and this felt like a fairy tale to me.

a little girl lost and abandoned,
secrets kept and whispered and wondered about…
a mystery,
a book of fairy tales,
a hidden garden, walled away from the rest of the world…

oh, i loved this book.

i will warn you though…i had to make notes at one point
of who was who and how this person knew that person
and so on and so forth. :)

5 out of 5 ♥♥♥♥♥’s
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whatcha readin'? {book 19::goal 24}

In all honesty, I struggled a bit with this book.
I didn't really like it at the beginning, I found she had a
funny way with words that was sort of throwing me off.

I did like it more as I got further into it but,
seriously, it was a little too gritty and gruesome for me.

If I had read this when I was younger, I may have been more
enthralled...kind of the same way I was with the story of Charles Manson
and how people...girls...blindly followed him
whereas now, I just get irritated with the whole idea.

All in all, I thought it was good and after I finished it,
I did mark it as 4 hearts so I must have liked it but
I finished it back in May so I am wondering why my notes
don't seem to match up with my rating.  This is what happens
when I don't blog about it right away. 
:)

4 out of 5 ♥♥♥♥♥'s

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whatcha readin'? {2018::book 14 - goal 24}

I have had this book
on my list for a long time
and have finally read it.

I am not going to lie.
It was not a quick read.
It was not an easy read.
It was sad and scary and infuriating
and, at times, incomprehensible
that such things are really going on
in this world
in this day...

But it was also inspiring
and interesting and poignant.

It was interesting to see the parallels
drawn between fiction and life,
life as fiction....wishing fiction to be life...
as helpless as I felt reading it,
I also felt amazed by the author's tenacity
and bravery.

It wasn't quick
and it wasn't easy
but
it should be read.

4 out of 5 ♥♥♥♥♥'s

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