Recommended by a librarian: I Can't Keep My Own Secrets
First in a series: Reason to Breath By: Rebecca Donovan
This was a 3 book series, and I absolutely loved the first book.I downloaded the 2nd book the second I finished the first. I was sad the 2nd book wasn't as good, and it left out a lot I would have wanted to read about. It talked about it briefly, but personally I would have actually written about it.
Recommended by an author I love: Flat out Love By: Jessica Park
This was recommended by Colleen Hoover. Originally I wanted to use a Tarryn Fisher book b/c they are bffs, but Colleen posted a review on Amazon of this book and it was free on KU so I gave it a shot. One of the characters reminded me of my brother was he was little and I loved it.
A book on my TBR list for too long: Suicide Notes from Beautiful Girls By: Lynn Weingarten
Thinking this book had to do with mental health and suicide, I added this to the TBR list for when I was able to handle a book about that subject. It wasn't really about that, and this was a book I totally picked based on the cover. But either way, I did enjoy it and it was my first book book of the year!
By an author who uses a pseudonym: Thousand Piece of You By: Claudia Grey
Honestly, I thought this one would be hard to find. But I added the book when I read it to goodreads, and I glanced over to the "About the author" and the first line said that she doesn't use her own name. For no other reason than she likes the name Claudia, which I thought was cute.
Book that took place over a characters life: Before the Rain Falls By: Camille Di Maio
I was told this book couldn't count b/c it just skims over the past years, but I decided it does. The main character goes to jail on her 18th birthday for killing her sister. She gets out when she is in her 80s. The story goes back and fourth between her childhood, and her time in jail, and then once she gets out. A random KU find, that was a very heartfelt story.
Unreliable Narrator: Without Merit By: Colleen Hoover
This one I struggled with too b/c honestly a lot of the narrators in the books I read were unreliable. But I picked this one, b/c she is also someone I can relate to. Merit has depression and although that doesn't necessarily make someone unreliable, I don't think it helped her case at all.
Book of letters :When I'm Gone By: Emily Bleeker
This book got a lot of grief on Goodreads for being too much like "P.s. I Love You" which it really was, with a bit more of a plot twist. I still enjoyed it, and I like the author. Plus, P.s. I Love You is one of my favorite movies, even though I claim to hate romance.
Best seller from a genre I don't normally read: Milk and Honey By: Rupi kaur
This was a poetry book, and I love poetry, it's just not from a genre I usually pick from. It was also one of my favorites of the year. Very emotional and heartfelt, its a book I very much related to, and definitely needed to read when I did.
A book with a character's name in the title: Unfinished Life of Addison Stone By: Adele Griffen
This book fucked with my head b/c the story seemed so real and the pictures were actual photos. I looked into it, and never really got a real answer on it being fiction or not. It was a book I picked from the library based on the cover, it was in the YA fiction section so I'm gonna go with it wasn't real but I felt like it could have been at least based on a true story.
Audiobook: Everything We Keep By: Kerry Lonsdale
This was the very first book I read in 2017 and honestly don't remember a thing about it.
Book involving travel: Ten Thousand Skies Above You By: Claudia Grey
I read a lot of books that had to do with travel in it, but I used this one. This was a series we read for book club, and this is one of those times I was glad I don't pick my books based on whats on the back. This series sounded way too Sci-Fi for me, but my best friend suggested it, so I went for it. And it was amazing! Not like any story line I have read before.
A book with pictures: Mermaid By: Jodi Picoult
This was a Kindle in motion book, so the pages on the kindle were all pretty, and that was the only thing I enjoyed about this book. As I said in my other wrap-up, this was the biggest disappointment book for the year b/c I absolutely adore Jodi Picoult and this book was awful.
Book by a person of color: Everything, Everything By: Nicola Yoon
Eccentric Character: Life and Other Near Death Experiences By: Camille Pagan
This was another book that I didn't really enjoy, so I honestly don't remember much about it, except that the main character fucking annoyed me. She finds out she has cancer and instead of dealing with it like a grown up, she acts like a child and runs away. I'm not 100% sure that is what eccentric means, but when I asked a friend of mine, this character came to mind.
Book by multiple authors: The Good Widow By: Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke
This is the book I cheated on, b/c the main character has Endo and knowing someone that has that, I know it very much is a disability so I also used it for that one.
A book involving a mythical creature: The Mermaid's Sister By: Carrie Ann Nobel
This book was (Obviously) about a mermaid and it was a very strange book....One of the sisters turns into a mermaid for some reason I can't remember, and when she does, she shrinks? So the sister and a boy from another family put her in a bath tub and have to take her to another town that accpets mermaids? I swear, it was better than it sounds, I suck at reviews esp for books that I read months ago.
Book about an immigrant or reugee: From Sand and Ash By: Amy Harmon
I so loved this book!! It was about a Jewish family during WW2, who ironically had a non Jewish family working for them. The grandson of the family that worked for the Jewish family was training to become a priest and later on, when the war hits their town, he actually works to hide Jews running from the roundups. Later on he meets up with the daughter of the Jewish family and they work together to save as many Jews as possible.
Book with a subtitle: Two Kisses for Maddy: A memoir of loss and love By: Matt Logelin
I already wrote a pretty long review of this book when I read it, so I won't repeat myself, but it was an amazing story on how a dad gets on with life having a newborn after he lost the love of his life due to complications from child birth.
love this!
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