May Reading Wrap Up

Very, very dry, witty sense of humor that I really, really enjoyed. Some of these poems are quite odd but like in a really entertaining way. I thought this was great, worked very, very well.

It is very, very staccato, lots of like one- and two-word sentences which is not necessarily my favorite kind of style to read but I am glad that I finally read it and I did find it an interesting read.

But I found that really, really funny. And in general, I just found it a very entertaining collection.

if you're looking for like a memoir about the love of books I would probably more recommend dear reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink

This is a very short Anthony Trollope novel, and another real favorite of mine, and it was lovely to reread it.

I really like Elizabeth Bains' writing. I've read a few things from her before and this was really great, something I would highly recommend.

I feel like some of the endings to the various storylines were a little bit too ambiguous for my taste but I think that's very much a personal thing. Overall though this was a great read.

I am in general not like a massive one for nature poetry but the way Mary Oliver writes nature poetry, I just love. so, I thought this was fantastic and I'd highly recommend it.

So there were bits where I was really engaged but there were other bits where I was struggling a bit , it feels very zoomed out and so that unemotional, , and also where there are so many characters, , introduced many of whom you're sort of not really getting to know as people at all, that it is a little bit hard to follow. So, I have sort of mixed feelings about it.

Very, very, very funny. Very, very fun. very charming in every way.

Overall, I really enjoyed Say You're Remember Me and I thought there were some really strong elements of it. I especially thought everything with Samantha's family and how her mom's dementia was dealt with very well and was really interesting. I genuinely feel like I preferred the life stuff to the actual romance in the novel.

So, I do think it's really fantastic book. I do think it's worth a read, but just not my favorite Thomas Hardy novel.

I did find this really interesting and enjoyable to read but I think I probably didn't like love it quite as much as I was hoping to

I listened to this on audiobook and really enjoyed it. this is one of my favorite Trollope stand-alones.

one that I read was Venetia Vesper's by John Banville, which I really didn't like at all. , this was very much not for me.

And then I also read The Pretender by Joe Harkin which I thought was absolutely fantastic. Just wonderful. One of my highlights of the year so far.