“My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.�
I probably should have read this as a teenager “My words are unerring tools of destruction, and I’ve come unequipped with the ability to disarm them.�
I probably should have read this as a teenager and maybe then I would have seen why so many people are in love with this book. But now, I found it a bit boring. The plot is just not super interesting and the Raven boys are not doing it for me. It was just a meh book. Not bad, just meh. It was a very easy read though, I listened to it as an audio book while working on some projects and that worked well. So maybe just because I can listen to the books while working on other things, I might pick up the other books in the series as well, who knows.
This was super short and fun, actually this was what Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore should have been (but full length novel). I wanted the puzzles aThis was super short and fun, actually this was what Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore should have been (but full length novel). I wanted the puzzles and the mystery, I kind of felt cheated by the shortcuts Clay had taken in his journey. This made up for it a tiny bit.
“It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape.�
This was a great start of the new year! I finally read Station Eleven a“It was gorgeous and claustrophobic. I loved it and I always wanted to escape.�
This was a great start of the new year! I finally read Station Eleven and I liked it! I was a bit afraid this was going to be over hyped or maybe didn't feel very accurate since it was written before Covid. But it was actually kind of scary how close she came to describing peoples behavior during an epidemic outbreak.
The book was gripping, had a good pace and I was very invested in the plot. I really liked how the past and future came together and how the characters were connected. The book offered an interesting mirror to our own modern world.
"She seems to him both powerful and delicate, like a wild thing that thrives in its place but withers when stolen away."
This was right up my alley. Li"She seems to him both powerful and delicate, like a wild thing that thrives in its place but withers when stolen away."
This was right up my alley. Living in a remote place, close to nature with a magical element, this book exactly gave me what I was looking for.
The atmosphere is incredible. Right from the beginning the book was mesmerizing and magical in just the right amount. At first you're still wondering if it is in the main characters head, or if it's real. But slowly thing get undoubtedly real. The book is a retelling of an old Russian fairy tale and I think Eowyn Ivey did a great job bringing it to life. The writing is beautiful, with some very quotable sentences and it made me feel like I was reading this book in a little cabin in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness, I could almost smell it. I also liked that the book took place in the 20s. Made it somehow all a bit more magical.
One thing that kind of bothered me from the start were the main characters of the book, Jack and Mabel. I just really did not like them and until the end never really felt a connection with them. This is a personal opinion, because I do think they are well suited for the story and they developed a lot over the book. I just made my reading experience a little bit less enjoyable. One other thing that made me not give this book five stars was the plot and especially the last 100 pages. I think the first part had a really great pace and lingered just the right amount of time on the sad parts. But the last part was a bit unnecessary for me. It kind of left me with a lot of unanswered questions, which I think, especially because of the ending could have been answered. If the ending would have been different it might all have been a bit more mysterious and I would not mind the unanswered questions. If that makes sense?
Would definitely recommend reading this if you like magical nature stories.
Reading this was exactly like having a fever dream. It was very uncomfortable and disturbing. What the actual story is about is a bit open to your ownReading this was exactly like having a fever dream. It was very uncomfortable and disturbing. What the actual story is about is a bit open to your own interpretation. Some may say motherhood, other maybe environmental issues, I don't really know. It can be both.
I am completely in love with the setting of this book. A circus, at night, that just appears out of nowhere and no one knows its next location. No colI am completely in love with the setting of this book. A circus, at night, that just appears out of nowhere and no one knows its next location. No colors, just black and white and always a new tent to discover, no matter how often you visit.
But there was just too much going on. I've read The Starless Sea as well from Morgenstern and I had a similar problem with that book. Her imagination is incredible and the settings of the books are what make me want to read them. But the switching between time and characters was sometimes so confusing. Also, plot wise I felt very dissatisfied. The game is a very vague concept and I never really figured out how it worked. Throughout the book I was never really sucked into the story, up until the last page.
A.J. Fikry owns a bookstore on Alice island, a remote place he and his wife moved to before she died in a car accident. After hiA cute bookworm story.
A.J. Fikry owns a bookstore on Alice island, a remote place he and his wife moved to before she died in a car accident. After his wife's death A.J. Fikry is in a really bad place and on top of that his most precious possession gets stolen, but his bad luck eventually leads him towards his daughter, Maya and a books sales rep, Amy. Both will change his life for the better.
The story was cute, what book lover doesn't love a book about books? But I sometimes had the feeling that I was reading a long summary of someones life. Especially the second half of the book felt like that. You will read about something that is going to happen, then it happened, and suddenly we are already months/years ahead. This happened with almost all the big things in A.J. Fikry's life. I just found it a bit weird that something big and life changing is happening and we don't even get to read what happened right after that event. Only a few years/months later will you know how he/they feel about it and then they have already processed it. (this is really hard to explain without giving away any spoilers..) So to me it felt like I skipped a lot of the things I would have liked to read about.
But nonetheless I like the story and apart from liking books about books, I also love reading about happy families. It's a relieve sometimes to not have a main character that has (had) a problematic youth because of his/hers family. (Doesn't mean I don't like reading those books, but it's nice to change things up now and then.)
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