All my purchases and free stuff I got at the huge #Bookfair in Leipzig this Saturday! Spot the cute Fourth Wing booksleeve and the cute pink one with the reading woman 😍✨.
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All my purchases and free stuff I got at the huge #Bookfair in Leipzig this Saturday! Spot the cute Fourth Wing booksleeve and the cute pink one with the reading woman 😍✨.
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so-soThis month‘s #bookclub pick was undoubtedly the one the least amount of people finished (2/3s did not), but I am not sure why. I thought it was a quick read. Sold into slavery at six years old, Little Flower‘s life certainly goes from one tragedy to the next for most of the book. Linjing, her owner, does grow as a character but not before the reader wants her to receive some of the suffering her jealousy causes. Well-researched & fast paced!
so-soI‘m not sure how to rate this book. It was one of the most complicated books I‘ve ever read. I learned way more about Sir Isaac Newton and Alchemy than I‘d care to. Although I normally love stories about ghosts and magic, I didn‘t love this one. I can‘t say that the book was bad, because it was obvious that amount of research the author put into it. It was just way too technical for me, footnotes and all.
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ I hadn‘t been aware of this book until a physical therapist recommended it to me, and it was wonderful! Story of a girl and her foster parents outside of Munich during WWII, narrated by death. Fantastic characters, writing, and narration for the audiobook.
pickA young trans man in Victorian England with violet eyes is sent to an institution for girls with "veil sickness" when he's caught trying to commune with spirits. The institution and being forced to live as the girl he is not would be bad enough, but something even more sinister is going on here--and Silas is determined to find out what. A dark and heartbreaking read, mostly because despite the supernatural elements so much of it is based in truth.
so-soThis brutal brick of a book is the story of dozens of characters surrounding the real-life events that resulted in the martyrdom of the Archbishop of Canterbury. If you‘re into detailed descriptions of violence, rape, feudalism, architecture, pubic hair, castle politics and Catholicism, this book is for you. I read it based on a recommendation. I finished it because I liked the challenge, not because I liked the characters. I cannot recommend it.
