May Wrap Up & Reading Journal Spreads 📚

Robin wall kimmerer who wrote breeding Sweetgrass which was my favorite book that I read last year

I found it incredibly fascinating I also was very surprised by Merlin sheldrake's writing style it was much more poetic and philosophical and lyrical than I had expected going into a book all about fungi

I thought the atmosphere was super creepy I thought the bad guy the villain of the book was really scary the characters I thought were really well drawn

I thought it was really beautifully done I cared so much for antsy this is a very personal story for seanan McGuire and I really appreciated that she included trigger warnings at the beginning for a story like this that has this kind of content

it's a very strange book but it was also really beautifully written very dark and funny sort of on that Razor's Edge between incredibly uncomfortable and upsetting and depressing and really funny and tongue-in-cheek and almost silly at times and I thought it was really well balanced

I did give it two stars because I thought the concept was really cool and I thought the tension and atmosphere was pretty well done but other than that it was not for me

as with most short story collections there were some stories that resonated with me much more than others so I ended up giving it four stars even though some of the stories were incredibly fantastic there were just a couple that I really didn't love so I didn't feel comfortable giving it a full five stars

I thought the book was really beautiful the characters were awesome I said I was going to be brief and I'm not being brief anyway I highly recommend it was very good

I didn't love the plot I didn't I didn't feel it was all that fleshed out I liked the characters well enough that they just didn't have a lot to do it was very meh for me