Rainy Day Reads

I really enjoyed this book, and it was actually a pleasant surprise since I haven’t had the best of luck with my TBR Jar reads lately (or ever).  This book is about a young girl, Lennie, whose sister suddenly dies. She doesn’t really know how to cope and pushes everyone away until a new boy, Joe, turns up. They pretty much immediately fall for each other, but Lennie is not really making great life decisions and some of her not-so-great-ones come between them. This makes is sound like the entire book is about that relationship, but there is much more too it than that. We see how Lennie tries to deal with the grief of losing her sister and how this affects her relationships with pretty much everyone she knows.  As I said I enjoyed this book, even though I found it a little melodramatic at times. Both plotwise and the writing style itself. Sentences like “we drank the rain from each other’s lips” (quoted from memory so probably not exactly what it says but something lik

I found this tag browsing on Tumblr a while ago, and while many seem to have done it, I can’t seem to find the original. But kudos to whoever made it because who doesn’t love books and chocolate? Dark Chocolate: (A book that covers a dark topic ([abuse, domestic violence, rape, loneliness, bullying, death, etc]) Easy by Tammara Webber. This book deals with attempted rape at college and how people are discouraged from reporting it by the authorities who ought to help them. If you are interested in the topic you can also watch the documentary “The Hunting Ground”. It should still be on Netflix.  White Chocolate: (Your favorite lighthearted/humorous read) The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets by Eva Rice. This book still deals with some heavy topics but there is just this feeling about it that I really enjoy. Set in 1950s England it deals with family, friendship and love.  Milk Chocolate: (A book that has a lot of hype that you’re dying to read) I try not to get swallowe

I can’t remember where I saw this book, but I was intrigued by the format of it. It is essentially an auction catalogue, with items from a relationship. Through these items we get the story of a couple, how they met and how they broke up. This format of a story told through items interested me as it is new and different, at least to me.  I must say the format led me down a little. This is literally an auction catalogue with pictures and descriptions of the items for sale. As a reader you have to piece together the story yourself from the bits and scraps of information you get from the rather short and austere catalogue descriptions. And that is a bit hard to do. Among the items for sale there are a few letters and notes giving you some insight to the tale of this relationship, and a few times the description will veer away from the neutral and give a statement such as “given to Morris by Doolan to bring on travels, but Morris insisted it was too heavy” (this is not a dir

These are all the books mentioned as being on Rory’s reading list in the show “Gilmore Girls”. When I was younger I was totally obsessed with this show and I am very excited for the upcoming new episodes.  I can’t resist a good list and this one has been floating around as a sort of reading challenge/how many have you read tag sort of thing and I thought it would be fun to see how “well” I am doing. I say “well” because you don’t really need to compare yourself to other readers or feel like there are books you “should” read. Read what you want! But I do think it is fun to challenge yourself a little bit now and again, and lists like these are a fun way to do it. If Gilmore Girls aren’t your thing I am sure there are a number of other reading lists out there with a topic that appeals to you. And if you can’t find one, maybe you should make one.   The list is floating around pretty much everywhere, but I got it from this blog:  https://adventuresofabibliophile.com/reading-list