This month was filled with books of ALL genres! There’s a thriller, a mystery, a young adult fiction and self-help motivational book. Something that will float your boat for sure! I’d love to hear your latest read! You can also see more reviews HERE.
I’m pretty much a Rachel Hollis junkie. Everything she does I just eat it up! This book is kind of a follow up to Girl, Wash Your Face. It is a “take action” type book about chasing your dreams and making them happen. Although it was very motivational and I enjoyed a lot of her tips, the main theme of the book was very repetitive to me. A lot of the stuff I feel like I heard before and it wasn’t very helpful. I wasn’t completely sold on “put yourself ABOVE all else to get things done”. It seemed very self serving and not faith-based at all. Don’t get me wrong, she had some great tips on being successful in your career, but if you’re looking a faith filled, motivational book this might not be for you. I liked this one, but not as much as Girl, Wash Your Face. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this if you have read it.
Woah, this one was a good one! For those of you unfamiliar with this 70’s, young adult fiction let me give you the run-down. It’s about a 15 year old girl that gets served a drink at a party that is laced with drugs. A few months later she is completely addicted and is in a downward spiral. The perspective is pretty cool because it’s written in diary entries so there are days and weeks missing and you can tell she was on a binge. It’s very dark and not for anyone with a sensitivity to drugs or drug abuse. Go Ask Alice is a classic that was recommended to me and I’m glad I read it.
WOW… just wow. This book is absolutely amazing. This one is a Memoir about a young girl that was raised in a Mormon survivalist home in rural Idaho. She worked, along with her 6 siblings in her father’s junk yard until she finally had the courage to ask her parents if she could attend public school when she was 17 years old. She continued to teach herself algebra and trigonometry. Enough so that she gained admission into Brigham Young University and eventually earned her doctorate.
This isn’t an easy read, by any means. At times I found myself angry at the fact that people would rather suffer than go to the hospital or the use of real medicine.
Of course her experience is an extreme version of what others may go through with their parents or upbringing but it is a powerful story about self discovery.
This thriller was really good! It’s about a girl whose mother committed suicide on the day she and her twin brother were born. After her dad dies she starts to question what really happened that day.
So that’s it for now. I am now onto my next reads and let me tell you… one of my favorites of the year for sure! Follow me on Instagram for a detailed look of each book. Happy reading!
