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(2019) January Hits and Misses

Here's a summary of hits and misses and a trans-both from my January reads.

Posted on February 27, 2019December 13, 2019 by CarissaPosted in 2019 Books, 2019 Recaps, RecapTagged book review, Book-Recap, Books, Recaps, Review. 26 Comments

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The Starless Sea by Erin Morgenstern It’s a story about stories told through stories. My opinion on this book is mixed at best. I sort of enjoyed it, but at the same time I was a bit lost in its layered metaphors. At first, I was intrigued by the metaphorical expression and imaginative way of story telling, but then I quickly got buried in too many layers of symbolic description and code words. I felt like there’s no real plot to hang my interest onto. There were a lot of characters which actually sort of overlapped one and another, but they were a tad too many to actually be scrimped in a book, which is why at the end, there were just too many things the characters did or faced that went straight unexplained. Despite all my disappointments, it’s hard to completely write this one off still. At the end of the day, there’s definitely something interesting about its way of story telling, but I felt like it tried a bit too hard to be ingenuous and new and authentic and ended up being convoluted instead. #books #bookish #bookstagram #instabooks

Who is your favorite fantasy writer of all time? I am continuing to read City of Dragons by Robin Hobb. It's too early to say anything, but I can feel that some real interesting stuff is going to happen in this book. If you've read this one, could you let me know just this: will Thymara and Sintara ever get along well? I am tad annoyed with Sintara's haughty attitude, kinda feel like to tell her off myself! #book #bookstagram #instabooks #bookish

Do you guys re read books? Sometimes I feel like I give far not enough level of focus than what a good book deserves like this one I am currently reading, Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. I have not been able to focus well because of things happening concurrently in my life like work and family. And I feel like I've missed important stuff from the book, and I think I should re read it. But with that many unread books available out there, it's just getting harder and harder for me to ever re read a book. It's like as long as I finish the book, I get the gist of it, that's enough. Many other good stories are waiting for me. Do you guys ever feel the same way? If the answer is no and instead you like to reread a book, would you care to share how you manage to do it? #books #bookish #bookstagram #instabooks

We are currently out of town and I haven't been reading much, but I am opening the Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. Even though I am just as far of an image as possible from Jews or anything Jewish really, anything related to holocaust always feels important to me personally. Apart from the height of indignation that I absolutely feel towards discriminative politics, it is one of the biggest and the worst genocide ever happened on earth. Just to imagine that a person or a group of people can wage that level of atrocity is unimaginable. But that happened, didn't it? So no one should ever forget that. #books #bookish #bookstagram #instabooks

NEW YEAR, NEW FEELS, NEW CHANCES, SAME DREAMS, FRESH STARTS. At the beginning of 2019 I wished myself a life without regrets. Looking back, I was like an embryonic fool wishing that kind of thing. But anyway, learning my lesson late is still better than to never learn. At least, now I know that, a life without regrets is both inhuman and impossible. I wish I did it differently. I wish I didn’t go. I wish I were there. Those are the looks of regrets. Regret isn’t pretty, nor entertaining, but it is a part of life. We regret things that we regard as mistakes. But we are all bound to have made mistakes and to constantly make them for the rest of our life. For without mistakes, there’s no way for us to ever learn anything. Regret is here in each of our life to again and again remind us that there’s always a way to make things better in the future. Regret is a sign that we’ve learned something. And Regret also means that we’ll do and fare better in the year ahead. So now, cheers to as lots of regrets as we can have in 2020! Happy Year 2020, Nerdies! #bookish #bookstagram #instabooks #books

Hazel is the only girl Josh Im knows who must have lost her filter somewhere in her past. Because she seems to never not blurt out something embarrassing on every social occasion they’re in. And she can do seriously mortifying things like that one time in their college days, when Hazel managed to puke on Josh’s shoes right after telling him about her crush on Josh. Or that another time, when Josh found her naked butt in his livingroom while Hazel’s banging his roommate. Embarrassing, disconcerting, and positively perplexing, would describe Hazel all right. As a friend? She is such an entertaining show. But as a girl friend? Oh, no, no, no. She is just too much. If not for him, probably for any man alive. And under the tight circumstances, Hazel still chooses to be her true self even if no man would take no chance with her. That’s what makes her different and fun. And now, ten years later, Josh is in absolute need of different. He’s just found out that his skank girlfriend has been cheating on him for forever. And he could use some fun. And Hazel is right there, available with her too crowded menagerie at her small apartment, ready to amuse him out of his misery. With dates. Not each other, though! Or at first, at least. I enjoyed this freaking thoroughly! Brutally romantic and sweet. And loved loved the characters. I always admire any woman who can be herself unapologetically, be it fictional or not. And I loved Josh even better cause he loves Hazel while still letting her be herself, as quirky as she is. #bookish #bookstagram #books #rubbishtalke

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