May 2021 Reading Wrap-Up #2 [CC]

The poems that were about Partition in particular I really enjoyed them, and they were - they were informative as well as beautiful and kind of heart wrenching. And then more of the poems just had styles or topics that I wasn't as interested in and started to lose me a little bit.

I think I was most surprised that I liked the writing style of this so much because the only thing I've read previously by Virginia Woolf was Mrs. Dalloway, which has more of that stream of consciousness style, which I don't particularly like.

But I enjoyed it. I thought it was funny and kind of sly in places. It had some interesting things to say about gender roles and stuff - you know, from a 1920s perspective, and yeah.

Many people become infatuated with each other when they shouldn't have and it causes problems, and also there's a murder. It was fun!

And you know, I read Redemption in Indigo about five years ago and I loved that book. It was so good!

And what I really enjoyed about this was unraveling the mystery of essentially the twins’ birth, their family, and who actually has magic. I did not particularly love the main characters though.

The fourth one, though, I really enjoyed! The Ascent to Godhood is a very narrowly focused single perspective story that backs up and gives you a look at the “villain” of the series.

Anyway, I really enjoyed the Black Tides and I thought the Red Threads was still good but not my favorite.

So I felt like it served an important place in the overall story but I just didn't get much out of it.

It just felt like a masterfully told story. I really enjoyed it.

Anyway, I really enjoyed the Black Tides and I thought the Red Threads was still good but not my favorite.

And I liked the main plot line; I liked a lot of the characters. But it was confusing as hell!

She wanted to read this and I have been meaning to pick up more of Shirley Jackson's work since I really enjoyed We Have Always Lived in the Castle a couple of years ago.