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year i will easily reach 35 books probably so without further ado here are the books i ve read since i last posted and ratings out of 5 will now preface every book rant with reminder that i have utter absolute respect for authors and just because i didn t like something doesn t mean the book is objectively bad for everyone everyone should remember that i also passionately love things like one direction yet cannot tell what is a good wine to save my life so a preponderance of the evidence definitely indicates that i just have really bad taste 12 the storied life of a j fikry by gabrielle zevin 5 13 between the devil and the deep blue sea by april genevieve tucholke 3 14 the disreputable history of frankie landau banks by e lockhart 3 5 15 sex with kings by eleanor herman 3 16 we were liars by e lockhart 4 17 everything leads to you by nina lacour 4 5 18 maybe one day by melissa kantor 4 19 why we broke up by daniel handler and maira kalman 4 20 the geography of you and me by jennifer e smith 3 5 21 isla and the happily ever after by stephanie perkins 4 5 22 the vanishing season by jodi lynn anderson 3 5 23 gilded how newport became america s richest resort by deborah davis 4 5 nothing super terrible this time as you can tell but a few disappointments and highlights disappointments between the devil and the deep blue sea started out quite promising and then the end literally just fell off the rails i have no idea what is going on with the plot but i certainly did not expect what happened to happen so i guess if you like surprises go for it but i pretty much disliked all the characters after about two thirds of the way in even all the ones that were supposed to be protagonists sex with kings was a super blah historical book like none of it was unexpected or scandalous but maybe i m just a history major with too much background in this type of royal intrigue stuff to have found anything groundbreaking i expected a lot more of frankie landau banks which has such great reviews and i feel is sort of a cult classic it was trying really hard to be feminist but actually failing aggressively so i disliked it on both points i m a feminist but i don t like books that are really obvious about an agenda i m reading for pleasure not a lecture and even while trying to push that agenda it was really crappy because i didn t find frankie to be very empowering at all i found her obnoxious and needy and in denial about her neediness whatever i don t regret reading it so i m not giving it lower marks the geography of you and me was underdeveloped and underwhelming i love sappy romances sometimes see my adoration of stephanie perkins but like why the fuck do these characters even like each other confusion great example of an excellent premise that had no follow through also main female character whose name i already cannot remember is the definition of first world white girl problems oh your parents don t love you enough to take you on their world traveling until the moment you use your words and ask them to take you with them cry me a giant goddamn river after tiger lily i expected more of jodi lynn anderson tiger lily continues to be one of my favorite books and i reread it every year the vanishing season was really boring highlights obviously a j fikry was phenomenal man when gabrielle zevin gets it right she nails it everything leads to you was good while i read it and it ended up being even better in the few days after i finished it s a book that sits with you and kind of leaves an awesome impression i don t know how to characterize it i would highly recommend we need more good lgbt fiction always why we broke up was less good than everyone has made it out to be i think it largely succeeds because it has a cutesy premise but i won t dock a book for riding on its premise and actually executing it with relative success i enjoyed it i read it in one sitting and felt satisfied when i was done isla and the happily ever after was less good than the first two in the series but i m not going to lie i cut stephanie perkins a lot of slack because i think she just conveys emotion really well so i was still pretty into it everybody loves reading about non ironic falling in love lola is still my favorite of the three books i m pretty sad this series is over i m excited to see what perkins comes up with next though with her it s always worth the wait posted by xixi at 12 46 pm no comments friday april 11 2014 book rant the storied life of a j fikry on the faded island books sign hanging over the porch of the victorian cottage is the motto no man is an island every book is a world a j fikry the irascible owner is about to discover just what that truly means a j fikry s life is not at all what he expected it to be his wife has died his bookstore is experiencing the worst sales in its history and now his prized possession a rare collection of poe poems has been stolen slowly but surely he is isolating himself from all the people of alice island from lambiase the well intentioned police officer who s always felt kindly toward fikry from ismay his sister in law who is hell bent on saving him from his dreary self from amelia the lovely and idealistic if eccentric knightley press sales rep who keeps on taking the ferry over to alice island refusing to be deterred by a j s bad attitude even the books in his store have stopped holding pleasure for him these days a j can only see them as a sign of a world that is changing too rapidly and then a mysterious package appears at the bookstore it s a small package but large in weight it s that unexpected arrival that gives a j fikry the opportunity to make his life over the ability to see everything anew it doesn t take long for the locals to notice the change overcoming a j or for that determined sales rep amelia to see her curmudgeonly client in a new light or for the wisdom of all those books to become again the lifeblood of a j s world or for everything to twist again into a version of his life that he didn t see coming as surprising as it is moving the storied life of a j fikry is an unforgettable tale of transformation and second chances an irresistible affirmation of why we read and why we love you can only live your one tiny life but with books you can live thousands more a quote from reddit this is a magical book as i mentioned before i read it i said if it came anywhere close to margarettown it would be high up on my life favorites list it s not as good as margarettown but man does it come damn close i love this kind of book from the cover the blurb and the actual story the book trumpets itself as one of those heartwarming literary reads that puts a smile on your face and a tear in your eye that s what it presents itself as and sometimes isn t it refreshing when that s exactly what a book ends up being in the whimsical journey through the life of an eccentric bookseller and his marvelous multidimensional friends and family you really feel what it means to be a reader a writer and a lover of books this is as many reviewers have noted is a love letter to book people it is littered with references to classics and modern bestsellers that any person loiters around bookstores and libraries hoping to meet the love of their life at these haunts instead of at a sporting event and getting proposed to with a favorite novel will not fail to delight in this book is rare it s hard to put my finger on it but there are some books that are just written in a way that captures you that transforms you not just enjoying a book or getting caught up in a book i read a lot of books and there are many that i deem good and got lost in while reading but this is a special kind of experience for the time you are reading you feel as though you are exploring some magical land you feel as though you have entered your own narnia i can t describe it as well as i would like to i love those books and they do not come around nearly often enough i spend my life looking for them when i find them i rarely forget the feeling the book inspires in me i was enchanted i was engrossed it is the feeling of falling in love for those of us in the know books and love they are much of the same thing it occurred to me as i was reading that this was really a book about nothing a book with a plot that did not matter much and surprises that did not surprise you knew where it was going you could feel it coming to an end and when it did it ended as quietly as it began with little fanfare a nothing book but i ve rarely read a book with so much heart it sweeps you away and at one point a j fikry asks perhaps for a brief moment revealing the voice of the ever lovely and wise gabrielle zevin is a twist less satisfying if you know it s coming no dear readers it is every bit as satisfying as it promises to be posted by xixi at 12 34 am 2 comments labels book rant tuesday april 8 2014 books of 2014 part i long time no update so sorry am still alive working on law school you know the drill getting stuff nailed down for the summer and spending time with friends probably a better use of my time than hanging out on the blogosphere ranting to nobody although somehow i gained a new follower in the time that i ve been away so maybe there are still creepers out there i mean creepers in the most loving of ways it s probably an internet robot that is following me but i m going to pretend like it s a real person i m still something like 7k from the end of my novel womp womp i m going to finish it this year i swear in the meantime i wrote a substantial academic paper for the first time since undergrad so that happened things of extreme disinterest to everyone who might be reading things that are of interest though isla and the happily ever after finally has a release date august 14 2014 my faith is blind i know this delay will have been worth it these are the books i ve read so far in 2014 sadly the first eight i basically read in january and then i severely dropped off until a couple of weeks ago that s how i roll i m all about teh books for a short burst and then i don t read for basically two months c est la vie but you know what people in law school continued to be shocked and super impressed that i read for fun still this is good because i am neither shocking nor impressing in any other aspect of my law school life i think i m going to do a new thing where i rate the books goodsreads style here because i m obviously way too fucking lazy to write reviews i ll have ratings in parentheses i m a harsh reader and things fail to impress me often so 3 is what i consider not a waste of a read but solid ish and average anything that drops under 3 means i pretty much wish i hadn t read it i m not one of those people who gives 4 s and 5 s out like candy guise this all hinges on whether you believe in my memory skills and stuff because it has likely been a while since i ve read the book i m about to arbitrarily rate will now preface every book rant with reminder that i have utter absolute respect for authors and just because i didn t like something and i may virulently dislike something doesn t mean i think the book is objectively bad for everyone everyone should remember that i also passionately love things like one direction yet cannot tell what is a good wine to save my life so a preponderance of the evidence definitely indicates that i just have really bad taste 1 eleanor park by rainbow rowell 3 5 2 a monster calls by patrick ness 5 3 more than this by patrick ness 3 5 4 bright young things by anna godbersen 2 5 the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky 3 6 the silmarillion by j r r tolkien 4 7 hollow city by ransom riggs 4 5 8 when you were here by daisy whitney 4 9 fingerprints of you by kristen paige madonia 4 10 pages for you by sylvia brownrigg 1 5 11 nothing but ghosts by beth kephart 3 plus if we re going to cheat and count things i read for fun but weren t fiction 12 captive audience the telecom industry and monopoly power in the new gilded age by susan crawford 4 5 i realize this rating system makes my comments on best worst of the bunch kind of redundant so instead general comments this collection of books should really be called all those things i have been told to read for years but never did until now a monster calls was obviously freaking awesome just like everyone has said it is the only book i rated 5 for a reason although hollow city was really close i d give it a 4 75 if i was splitting hairs holy shit it was extremely powerful and moving and i was reduced to tears multiple times through the book it was surprising and illuminating and one of those things you think about for long after the book is over unfortunately i think ness tried to do the thought provoking concept thing with more than this and it read like a crappy version of the matrix eleanor park i already reviewed and don t need to rehash wow now going back and reading my review i seemed to have liked it much better immediately after reading than i do now curious bright young things had literally nothing interesting happen in the entire book only people whose motivations i gave less than zero fucks about doing things that seemed entirely irrational unless you were a 12 year old with no real concept of the world but come on people you live in goddamn new york city please grow a brain before you go out and make bad decisions even if this is the 1920s maybe especially because this is the 1920s only a sheer stubbornness to finish since i d bought it on my kindle instead of just checking it out at the library prevented me from dropping it about a third of the way through also the description is way too over the top the perks of being a wallflower i think was perhaps not as impactful on me because i watched the movie first and i m no longer 15 i do think if i had read it as a teenager i would have identified with charlie more but i m just not at a moment in my life where the character or his writing resonated with me i kept thinking okay this must be a trope so as the book goes on charlie s writing is going to get better right right is it not oh okay then the silmarillion was amazing of course but i m a lotr girl so duh fun fact though i ve never made it through the hobbit or the lotr series stopped somewhere into rotk so i may be the only person whose never finished those books but managed to plow through the silmarillion i dunno i liked the silmarillion more it was like a mythological bedtime story for adults ransom riggs freaking delivers on hollow city i never got bored the book runs at such a consistent level of quality and excitement throughout it s almost astonishing this is how all reading experiences should be he s a veritable treasure to the ya community cannot wait to see how he wraps this series up he ends on a cliffhanger but i can t even be mad about it because it s so good the only reason i don t give this book a 5 is not even a real reason which is that sometimes the book relies ...