January Reading Wrap Up

I found this really interesting and it's definitely one I'll keep on my shelves as a kind of like a reference and guide for the future especially when I might write historical fiction is a very it's kind of straightforward and quite quick introduction to Victorian fashion

I think the thing I would say more than anything about this book because it was just incredibly moving like one of the most moving things I've ever read in my life so powerful so beautiful but also so like horribly sad a time

I hear Madame Bovary compared to a Mikado all the time and it kind of makes me really upset that people compared the masterpiece that is an accreditor to Malibu dream which I did not love

this book is just everything I want in a rom-com it is incredibly good fun full of moments of sweetness and bonus of hilarity but also with a really fantastic acceleration of grease and mental health issues and gender power dynamics

this was one of the weirdest things I've ever read I think in a good way but I'm still kind of making up my mind

I read exposure by Helen Dunmore in December and loved it

I really enjoyed how cool Paris Christmas I thought it was good fun and had a really nice twist at the end as so many Agatha Christie's do and yeah I highly recommend it

I had a lot of issues with this novel and found the pacing very off and very weird and sometimes there would be whole scenes we're sort of slowed down when they didn't need to be because they were quite dull and then there'll be important things that were just kind of hurried over really quickly and I found the pacings all over the place I found the writing very dry and I found it almost impossible to engage with the book and to get into it slowly like I just felt completely removed from all the characters completely disengaged in the book

I really enjoyed this it's very dramatic and very tense but also like really moving and powerful at time with wreaths are a fantastic characterization

this is an absolutely fantastic but incredibly paced wonderfully written such a fantastic characterization exploration of grief and post-traumatic stress disorder like for so many interesting things going on in here about character relationships and sexuality love friendship childhood memory there's just a lot of fantastic themes I work and combined with the wonderful characterization and a really fantastic plot

this is a history of words and where words came from and this was an incredibly fun read not engine I find it really interesting and packed full of fascinating links between different words but also it's very funny and really readable and just really engaging such good fun

I found this really interesting I wouldn't say it's necessarily like one of the greatest Victorian books and ever read or anything like that but the war a lot of things in it that I found really intriguing a lot of themes that I found really interesting across various stories especially in the way it looks a kind of like morality and justice and the moments where maybe what would be a kind thing to do and what be a just thing to do don't quite a line