December Wrap-Up // what i read to close off 2020

safe to say i adored it i think dickens writing is just so ultimately lovely it's so lovely so talented just every single sentence in here is filled with so much care and humor and like really sharp-sightedness into the lives of humans and christmas and sadness

i just loved every single thing about it the world building was incredible the characters i felt so connected to i felt like i knew who they were i sympathize with them so much i loved them so much they felt so real to me

this is my first philip pullman that i've read outside of his dark materials series and i loved it i fell so in love with it was so charming and quirky and strange it kind of read like a studio ghibli film which was so fun

i gave the first one three stars for me it was extremely entertaining a super quick read that i just like binged so quickly i just didn't want to put it down it was so fun it was a really fun read and i loved it

a book that definitely did wow me and captivate me and crush me and every single thing the writing was incredible everything was incredible about this book it's giovanni's room by james baldwin

i just it was so good obviously i gave it five stars i enjoyed it so much i don't know if i'm actually a huge fan of the art style that's employed in here when it comes to especially depicting your characters and stuff like that but honestly i loved it

this book first of all had some of the worst writing i've witnessed this year everything was inconsistent characters were not believable at all everything was so awkward one of the most awkward books i've read both in terms of the writing the general scenes the way people interacted with each other

i ended up liking restless lumber a lot more than the first one just because there's so much more that goes on in here we're introduced to a really whole bright huge colorful cast of characters and i really like got so invested in the second book

the book was also a very charming wonderful experience i do want to say i think the only critique i have it's not really a critique it's written extremely young it is a children's book a lot of it was a little bit like two on the nose for me and read a little bit too young i think if i was younger i would have enjoyed this so much more but as it was i still gave it four stars and it was just such a nice time

i don't love writing non-fiction memoirs so i didn't i did enjoy it to an extent but it also felt like something i shouldn't be reading i shouldn't be witnessing something extremely private and coming from a place of hurt

it seems to me this is an extremely short first volume so i'm missing a lot there's so many thoughts that like i can't give you but like from what i read i enjoyed it i enjoyed it

i didn't like this book i gave it 2.75 stars i didn't think the writing or the way that kathy marie buchanan chose to tell the story was extremely readable like it wasn't very reader friendly i really dreaded picking the book back up it was extremely slow moving extremely dry in my opinion but i loved the ideas and i loved like the concepts and the real history that she is playing around with

my main problem is just to outline them extremely quickly didn't think the writing was strong it felt very immature very young it read like a very sloppy y-a in my opinion

i think if i had to pick a favorite book this month it would definitely be this one because this was so mind-blowing i'm still i'm still feeling extremely not bright enough to understand a lot of what went down on here what went down in here but i think it's a book i just need to read again and again and again