Something that has been lacking, however, has been updates to this blog (and to my Goodreads account, if you're also a friend of mine over there). Honestly, I only have myself to blame for this and a lovely mixture of me being too busy and too tired. I'm hoping to change this at some point but I'm not promising anything.
I can't believe October is just around the corner! Soon it'll be fall for real (which in the part of Sweden where I live, tend to start in October) which means lit candles, cups of tea and books galore!
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# of books read: 8 (that's two books per week!)
- There's Something About Sweetie (Dimple and Rishi #2) by Sandhya Menon
- A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski*
- On The Come Up by Angie Thomas
- Get it Together, Delilah! by Erin Gough
- Hetare by [multiple authors]
- The Furthest Station (Peter Grant #5.5) by Ben Aaronovitch
- Girls Just Want To Have Fundamental Human Rights by Jessica Hallbäck^
- Heartstopper: Volume One by Alice Oseman^
^ graphic novel
Best book of the month: The majority of all books I read this month were good; however, I'm going to have to go with On The Come Up. There's just something about Angie Thomas's books that I absolutely love; she might just be one of my all time favorite young adult authors. Her writing is sharp, quick and funny. Both her books have dealt with very important and hard subject matters in a very good way and I just. I just love her books to bits!
Worst book of the month: I think I'm going to have to go with There's Something About Sweetie. I did love Sweetie as a character, and I do love me a well-written fat character. However, I felt like both her and her LI felt very immature and just overall not like their age (and I'm not one to normally criticize young adult characters for being immature because god knows teens usually /are/). I don't know, there were just something about this book that I personally didn't love and I've removed all other books from this author from my Goodreads "want to read" shelf because apparently the same things I was struggling with are repeated in her other books and that made me think her writing's not for me.
Worst book of the month: I think I'm going to have to go with There's Something About Sweetie. I did love Sweetie as a character, and I do love me a well-written fat character. However, I felt like both her and her LI felt very immature and just overall not like their age (and I'm not one to normally criticize young adult characters for being immature because god knows teens usually /are/). I don't know, there were just something about this book that I personally didn't love and I've removed all other books from this author from my Goodreads "want to read" shelf because apparently the same things I was struggling with are repeated in her other books and that made me think her writing's not for me.
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