March 2022 Wrap Up

i didn't hate this book i really liked the plot it kept pulling me along even as i was finding veronica to be very grating but what i did really like about this book was that grumpy naturalist i was talking about stoker is his name i love him i thought he was such an awesome character

i thought it was a very interesting very thorough history i think if you're gonna go on to enjoy this one you'll probably need to enjoy discussions of everyday life but if that sounds interesting to you might like this one

right after i started this book i'm talking immediately i didn't like the writing i thought it was way too casual just was not getting along with it but i figured this is supposed to be fun so i'm gonna suck it up right i'm here for a good time i'm not here for a long time so i can handle that in order to enjoy the plot the plot has to be good right it wasn't and it just kept getting worse as we went along

this is a fantastic in-depth look at edith wharton's life and her work some of those sections i did skip over a little bit so i didn't spoil some of the novels i haven't yet read

i thought it was just so convoluted there were too many character perspectives bounced around in time i just wasn't enjoying it and since i wasn't being paid to review this one i decided to bail on it begrudgingly

this is definitely a very quirky little book which normally is not my thing at all but this book completely won me over i enjoyed this so much

but i can tell you that this was a really fun relaxing summary read as you would expect from the title it was nice to spend time with this book even though it did deal with the heavy topic of grief

i don't think this is the best book in meg wolitzer's backlist now that i've read more and more of them i'm actually getting close to being done reading all of her books but i liked it i could tell she was getting stronger as a writer by this point in her career

basically i thought this book was so nearly perfect it just needed some minor edits in that last section to make everything feel more balanced had that happened it would have been a five-star read but as it stands it was more of a 4.5 star read even with the minor issues that i had i still highly recommend this one

i didn't feel like i could connect with that large cast of characters who was introduced because we didn't get to spend any time with them we didn't get to learn anything about them besides the way they related to one another which just made them very one-dimensional very weak characters

this got one star from me because i can tell you that i did not like a single thing about it and the same thing went for the department of rare books and special collections by eva yurchik

this being her second novel i thought it was an improvement upon her debut i thought there was more nuance in here but there's also a lot more anger in this book than there is in really any of the rest of her books

i could definitely feel her getting closer to what she would later do in the interestings which is one of my favorite novels i think it is her masterpiece

in typical mark twain fashion i found this to be very fun and very amusing but i actually thought it would probably have made an equally as effective short story i wish this had been shorter basically

it's a gorgeously written book of course because it's edith wharton but it is very depressing and it's not her strongest book

i made a video in which i discussed both of these books i felt they made a good pairing because they both discuss very complex relationships between creatives

i made a video in which i discussed both of these books i felt they made a good pairing because they both discuss very complex relationships between creatives