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in books fiction only human by sylvain neuvel august 13 2018 august 11 2018 heather 4 comments only human by sylvain neuvel published by del rey books the third book in this series made me so happy i know that when i have talked about the first two books all i ve done is gush about how great and fun and lovely they are and only human is also all of those things neuvel wraps some things up but leaves a lot of issues up to get sorted out later the world that has been created between these three books and in the forty ish years that the books span has a lot of stuff to sort out there are no easy answers here and a lot of what is within these pages is rumination on human nature and the decisions we make when faced with fear and otherness and differences between people species whatever but it s within an incredibly suspenseful creative and unique story about humans and aliens colliding in the most unpredictable of ways i can t say enough great things about these books please read this series if you haven t already especially if you don t think you re a sci fi fan i really don t read sci fi and these books were so perfect for me i want more accessible and creative sci fi please with great characters give me all the recs super highly extremely recommended read these books posted in books fiction science fiction you are a badass how to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life by jen sincero july 31 2018 july 30 2018 heather 2 comments you are a badass how to stop doubting your greatness and start living an awesome life by jen sincero published by running press adult while i m not hugely into self help books i can find them ahem helpful from time to time especially when i hear they have applicable advice about issues that i truly struggle with you are a badass promised exactly that according to the publisher the book should help you identify and change the self sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want blast past your fears so you can take big exciting risks figure out how to make some damn money already learn to love yourself and others set big goals and reach them it will basically show you how to create a life you totally love and how to create it now and it s not that i dislike my life or hate myself or anything that extreme but i struggle with insecurity and anxiety am sort of bummed out about my job right now and just kind of wondering if i should be actively looking to change anything about my life in order to be more successful so did the book help me at all in short not really i like sincero s message but i didn t feel that she told me anything i didn t already know i could give myself this advice if i really sat down and thought about it really took the time to think about why i m unhappy at work and why i feel that i am not in a career that i absolutely love and was born to do i also don t feel that she had much to say about real issues such as depression and anxiety that aren t cured by getting off your ass and doing something while loving yourself at the same time this advice is great and is meaningful to a lot of people but for a person really struggling with depression and or anxiety it may not help much that being said i liked the book and found a few pieces of inspiration within its pages i recommend the book for someone who needs a simple kick in the ass but not much more than that posted in nonfiction self help waking gods by sylvain neuvel july 26 2018 july 22 2018 heather 3 comments waking gods by sylvain neuvel published by del rey sleeping giants the first novel in this series introduced the reader to rose franklin a researcher who leads a team of people trying to understand these strange alien robot that was found in multiple pieces scattered across the earth buried underground waking gods takes place ten years after the first book ends and rose and her team are shocked when a fully formed second robot shows up in london one day the unanswered questions form the first book become more pressing than ever as this team of scientists and government officials race against time to protect the world from whatever these things are and whomever is in control of them this series continues to be fantastic and is just one that you need to read to fully comprehend its greatness to talk too much about the plot of waking gods would spoil not only the book itself but many things that occur in the first book so i won t get into details but these books are so good just like the first book this book is told through interviews diary entries scientific logs transcripts and a bunch of other things that make it an incredibly unique and fast moving experience i feel that each book is examining different things about the human condition and about what people do when facing fear hope and other emotions this book gets really bleak and ultimately terrifying but people do rise to the occasion and look for solutions when it seems that all hope is lost one thing i like about this series is there really isn t a good evil dynamic pretty much everyone in the book does good things sometimes and bad things other times and most of the time they just make the best decision they can with the information they have at the time sometimes those decisions turn out to be awful sometimes they save the day but they are just being people thrust in an unfamiliar landscape trying to do the best they can read these books they are so great posted in fiction science fiction love hate other filters by samira ahmed july 24 2018 july 22 2018 heather 8 comments love hate other filters by samira ahmed published by soho teen review copy provided by the publisher maya aziz is seventeen and feels as though she s caught between two worlds the life her parents want her to lead as a dutiful indian daughter looking to be paired up with a muslim boy that they choose for her and the life of a typical chicago area teenager hanging out with her friends and crushing on the white boy she s not allowed to date when a crime is committed far from her neighborhood issues that maya has ignored for years within her community suddenly come to the surface and her teenager problems don t seem so bad anymore now that she is facing real issues this was an interesting novel for me because i appreciated what samira ahmed did with the plot of this book the first half of the book is very ya with a multicultural twist teenage girl with parents who don t understand her she has a crush on a guy who is wrong for her she is culturally different from most of her friends but in general fits in pretty well you know the drill very standard but good for ya stuff then halfway through the book this major event happens and supposedly changes the way that the main character maya sees the world around her and possibly herself although to be honest i m not sure how successful the melding of these two story lines was and that s the main issue i had with the novel i felt that ahmed was trying to do too much with the book in a way that never really gelled for me i believed in maya as a character and i was definitely on board with the whole dating a guy her parents chose for her while at the same time starting up a friendship with this other guy who she truly liked but knew she wouldn t be allowed to actually date that felt very ya and very fun for me to read i just wish that the terrorism stuff wasn t made to be this huge thing in the book because while it of course is a huge thing in the book and in real life i m not sure that maya as a character treated it as such which felt a bit inauthentic to me and didn t mesh with the maya i thought i d gotten to know throughout the beginning of the book on the other hand as i m writing this i also feel that maya handled the situation like any other teenager would yes it s a big deal yes she has to think about things a bit differently but there s school and boys and getting into college and all that other stuff on her mind so i m torn overall i did like the writing did like the main character and strongly believe in more books being published that do what love hate other filters does so i do recommend the book even though i personally felt that some aspects of the plot fell short posted in fiction review copy ya how to walk away by katherine center july 20 2018 july 19 2018 heather 6 comments how to walk away by katherine center published by st martin s press review copy provided by netgalley on the evening that margaret jacobson is going to get engaged to the love of her life a shocking accident not only ruins the proposal but severely wounds and almost kills her in the aftermath she is faced with the realization that her life will be completely different from this point on and the people and things she thought were most important to her become almost insignificant as she wrestles with the understanding that nothing will ever be the same again brief summary i know but this book was so much more than any kind of summary i or the publisher can provide on the surface how to walk away seems like it would be saccharine sweet full of clichés about trying to rebuild life after a huge tragedy learning what is most important and uncovering deep secrets about family and loved ones and it kind of is all of that but in katherine center s capable and creative hands it is so much more i absolutely loved margaret and rooted for her the whole way through this book at the beginning of the book i found her to be shallow and a bit self absorbed perhaps a little too interested in the material things in life but that quickly changed for me when she began recovering from her accident she turned into a person with sharp edges but a kind heart a person who really started to understand what she wanted out of life this transformation could have come across as inauthentic but it really was just the opposite i totally believed margaret s journey and loved watching her grow into this more mature more peaceful version of herself it felt very real to me there is a love story in the book but it is very soft not a huge focus of the story at all ultimately it becomes a thing but it s very sweet and done in such an adorable way i loved it so much the novel is so much more about margaret finding her way reconciling who she thought she was supposed to be with who she truly is and realizing that her family is imperfect but she can still love them despite their imperfections and secrets that have been hiding for years it s a coming of age story despite the fact that the person coming of age is a grown woman i thought how to walk away was just so darn sweet and charming and i loved every minute i spent with it these kinds of books just make me so happy and are exactly what we need to read sometimes to remind us that the world is not all darkness and sadness at least not all of the time highly recommended for a fun happy book to make you smile posted in fiction review copy a friend of the family by lauren grodstein july 10 2018 july 7 2018 heather 4 comments a friend of the family by lauren grodstein published by algonquin books this novel centers around pete dinzinoff a fortysomething doctor who loves his wife and his teenage son alec and is content with the choices he s made to offer the kind of life he has always wanted for his family pete s best friend has a daughter laura who was estranged for the family for years but has recently moved home while putting the pieces of her life back together the book explores what happens to these two families and to pete specifically after laura has returned home the summary i provided here is extremely vague because while this seems like an ordinary story there s a lot more than meets the eye but to say exactly what the more is would be giving too much information the summary on goodreads gives too much away in my opinion while the summary on my book jacket led me to believe that the book was going to be something completely different from what it was so if you re going to read this book skip the summaries anyway i am not sure what to think of a friend of the family for one thing it is a very character driven novel and i really didn t like any of the characters the reader spends almost the entire book inside pete s head and to be honest pete is pretty much a jerk he s self absorbed thinks his way is the only right way in just about every situation and believes strongly that he gets to make major decisions for his son s life without giving a shit about what his son actually wants he annoyed the crap out of me and since the reader only sees the other characters from his point of view it s difficult to really get to know any of them it s like a half assed version of the characters because grodstein presents them with some complexity but it s almost exclusively through pete s eyes so these characterizations aren t exactly reliable i really did like grodstein s writing the way she described things the simplest of moments and interactions between people became super poignant with her talented writing style i had a difficult time with the plot itself at times it was slow throughout much of the book but the way she twisted things towards the end of the novel barreling towards a shocking conclusion really impressed me the ending was unexpected and really threw me for a loop in a good way i think overall a friend of the family was just okay for me ultimately i will read more by grodstein because i think she is certainly a talented writer but the main character of this novel was just so insufferable that i could barely stand it and the plot left something to be desired the ending was good but didn t make up for those two major negatives for me posted in fiction we never asked for wings by vanessa diffenbaugh july 2 2018 june 29 2018 heather 5 comments we never asked for wings by vanessa diffenbaugh published by ballantine books letty espinosa is a young mother who has worked multiple jobs at a time to take care of her family financially while her mother has raised her two children alex fifteen and luna six when her parents decide to return to their home country of mexico letty is forced to step up and be a parent to alex and luna for the first time in her life while navigating her many jobs trying to pay the expensive rent and bills in san francisco where they live and creating a future that she hopes will result in a better life for her kids i really thought this book was going to be too sad for me to enjoy it starts off on a horrifying note letty s parents leave overnight without warning and letty makes the insane decision to drive to mexico to find them and beg them to come back to san francisco leaving her kids alone for days reading these pages was torturous for me as alex tries to feed and care for his little sister with zero support and zero money it was heartbreaking thankfully while things with this family take a while to improve letty does come to her senses and decides to mother her kids once letty makes ...