I took things a bit slower in August and just went with how I felt each night. I think the large amount of reading in July had me tone it back and take a breather in August. I also feel that since summer is wrapping up, there weren’t that many romance books that caught my eye. I also haven’t seen any books for Fall that I’m really wanting to read, which is a bummer because of course I’m now like, “what the heck am I going to read during COZY SEASON?!”
Anyway, here are the three books I managed to read in August!
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After all the romance and lighthearted books in July, I needed a WWII historical fiction to bring me down. Slightly kidding, but with everything going on with the current administration, I wanted a reminder of what happens when you don’t speak out and just go along with things because you think it won’t happen to you.
The book follows Alina, a Polish Catholic in the height of the occupation and present day Alice who is caretaker to her autistic son and keeping constant vigilance of her dying grandmother, Hannah, in the hospital. You end up seeing how they’re connected and the story alternates between past and present and eventually all comes together. It very much reminds me of The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah and no matter how you spin it, it is just heartbreaking and a sad reminder of what sacrifices and the grief those went through.
DNF
Alright so I picked up this book because it was about a girl (Pearl) that has OCD and how she navigates through life as she says, “to hell with it.” I wanted to get insight in how others view OCD and peer into someone’s life as they go through it. I did appreciate that the author understood OCD and it’s not just “being clean and organized,” but Pearl was a little all over the place for me and the constant self-doubt and repetitive storyline got kind of boring. It’s ironic I say that, though, because that’s what OCD is and yet I couldn’t keep reading it, haha
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Jeneva Rose typically writes domestic thrillers and I first discovered her with The Perfect Divorce. However, she also dabbles in fiction and this book recently started getting traction. I think she said this was the first book she ever wrote and it was kind of like an autobiography.
It reminded me a lot of Freaky Friday in the fact that the main character, Alexis, transports back to her college days and tries to “fix” Lexi (her younger self) and make the future Alexis successful. It was basically a Freaky Friday situation where you wouldn’t be transported back to your original selves until you discovered or figured out how to work things out. It was a low-key, fun book to read, and a nice palette cleanser.
What did you read in August? What books are you looking forward to reading/what’s on your list?
-Julie
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