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Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
fast-paced
4.5
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
4.75
“I will share your joy and sorrow / Till we’ve seen this journey through.” ❤️🩹
Everything I Know About Love: A Memoir by Dolly Alderton
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
dolly alderton so perfectly describes the importance and the kind of unique love felt from female friendships. i couldn't help but think of my best friends as i was reading. some of my favorite quotes:
"I know what it is to feel like you’ve always got a lighthouse – lighthouses – to guide you back to dry land; to feel the warmth of its beam as it squeezes your hand... I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain... It’s introducing them to your colleagues at a work event and basking in pride as they make people laugh and make you look lovable just by dint of being loved by them. It’s laughing until you wheeze. It’s waking up in a country neither of you have been in before. It’s skinny-dipping at dawn. It’s walking along the street together on a Saturday night and feeling an entire city is just yours. It’s a big, beautiful, ebullient force of nature... I know that love happens under the splendour of moon and stars and fireworks and sunsets but it also happens when you’re lying on blow-up air beds in a childhood bedroom, sitting in A&E or in the queue for a passport or in a traffic jam."
"The perfect man is kind, funny and generous. He bends down to say hello to dogs and puts up shelves."
💌🎀❤️🩹
"I know what it is to feel like you’ve always got a lighthouse – lighthouses – to guide you back to dry land; to feel the warmth of its beam as it squeezes your hand... I know that love can be loud and jubilant. It can be dancing in the swampy mud and the pouring rain... It’s introducing them to your colleagues at a work event and basking in pride as they make people laugh and make you look lovable just by dint of being loved by them. It’s laughing until you wheeze. It’s waking up in a country neither of you have been in before. It’s skinny-dipping at dawn. It’s walking along the street together on a Saturday night and feeling an entire city is just yours. It’s a big, beautiful, ebullient force of nature... I know that love happens under the splendour of moon and stars and fireworks and sunsets but it also happens when you’re lying on blow-up air beds in a childhood bedroom, sitting in A&E or in the queue for a passport or in a traffic jam."
"The perfect man is kind, funny and generous. He bends down to say hello to dogs and puts up shelves."
💌🎀❤️🩹
The Wishing Game by Meg Shaffer
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
5.0
this might be my new favorite book. it felt like a love letter to reading, like a hug in book form. this story, the characters, it all emulated love and warmth. the ending is predictable but the kind of predictable where you don't even care because you've come to love these characters and want them all to be happy. i cried lots of happy tears.
Out of Love by Hazel Hayes
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
i have mixed feelings about this book.
it was interesting to read a book about a love story told in reverse, starting at the break up and ending when they first met. that being said, it was sometimes hard to remember where you were in the timeline of their relationship. but hazel hayes is a great writer and i found myself flying through the first half of this book. strangely, not knowing the main characters name made me feel a bit disconnected from her, though we know everything else about her. then i found myself not as interested towards the end. i felt like i was waiting. for what? i'm not entirely sure. i feel like i was waiting for some sort of resolution or big emotional moment. i didn't want the book to simply end after the day they met, i wanted to be brought back to the present and to know what lessons the main character learned from the last 5 years of her life that we just finished reading about but that didn't happen so i felt disappointed with the ending. but i really enjoyed the writing style and the main character was funny and i loved her friend maya. it certainly had potential, it just didn't fully execute well for me.
it was interesting to read a book about a love story told in reverse, starting at the break up and ending when they first met. that being said, it was sometimes hard to remember where you were in the timeline of their relationship. but hazel hayes is a great writer and i found myself flying through the first half of this book. strangely, not knowing the main characters name made me feel a bit disconnected from her, though we know everything else about her. then i found myself not as interested towards the end. i felt like i was waiting. for what? i'm not entirely sure. i feel like i was waiting for some sort of resolution or big emotional moment. i didn't want the book to simply end after the day they met, i wanted to be brought back to the present and to know what lessons the main character learned from the last 5 years of her life that we just finished reading about but that didn't happen so i felt disappointed with the ending. but i really enjoyed the writing style and the main character was funny and i loved her friend maya. it certainly had potential, it just didn't fully execute well for me.
Ready Player One by Ernest Cline
adventurous
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.5
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
emotional
funny
hopeful
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
4.0
The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo
fast-paced
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? N/A
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.5
there were good moments in this book but most of the time i found each character incredibly insufferable. they all made stupid decisions that infuriated me. yet, i knew i had to finish it, to know how it ended. and i didn't like the ending. 🤷🏽♀️
Solito by Javier Zamora
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
5.0
will be thinking about javier, chino, and pati for the rest of my life 🥹🥲❤️🩹