Reviewing the 11 (Amazing) Books I Read in September! 📚 Reading Wrap Up ✨

There were quite a few stories in here that I loved and gave five stars and will be thinking about for a very long time. But there were also some stories in this collection and some sections of certain stories that really dragged on and honestly made me a little mad. So to try to even it out, to try to come to some sort of consensus of my thoughts, I feel like four stars is fair.

I still loved that book. It's was still a four-st star read and I highly recommend it. It was great, but it definitely had some stuff that personally does not do it for me in this book.

I just really love this. I feel like it said so much of what has to be said, what people need to hear, and said it beautifully because a lot of the writing in here was absolutely gorgeous, which has made me really want to read some of Ela Castillo's fiction.

This is a devastating yet gorgeous exploration of one man's experience going through and surviving and dealing with the trauma of residential school and trying to work through it later in life. Just a gorgeous book and I read this earlier in the summer.

I just was pretty disappointed because this felt so up my alley, so well suited to me and I was really excited about it and it just fell flat unfortunately. So two stars from me for Catabus.

I loved this. It was so fun. The literal only thing I didn't like about this book is that Vosti referred to Georgiana's voice as being like cut glass a few too many times and it started to jump out at me.

I did end up dropping a star because of the whole not telling him for two years straight that she wasn't dead and letting him fall deeper and deeper into substance abuse and grief and depression. I couldn't fully get over that. But it was a four-st star read otherwise.

Because it was a collection of stories, and some of them resonated more with me than others, as I tend to find with pretty much any short story collection. This wasn't quite a five-st star read for me, but I would say a solid four stars. It's really great, and I would definitely recommend.

It's not as in-depth as maybe some other stories could be, but I definitely think this is a really helpful primer if you're wanting to learn more because it is such a quick read.

I have my issues with this series, and as the series goes on, there are more issues and they are more blatant, but this first book is just about perfect in my opinion. Again, very subjective, and I do think it's worth reading even if you don't have nostalgia goggles.

Both of these books I read as part of reading vlogs, so I'll link the reading vlogs down below if you want more extensive complete reviews cuz I didn't actually read them in September, so I should probably stop talking about them. But both of those I would also recommend and all of these are written by indigenous authors living in what we now call Canada.

It's really well done. I can't believe I waited so long to read this. I had an amazing time reading it.

I ended up loving both of these books. I gave them both five stars and they actually had a lot more in common than I initially expected going into it.