I loved a thousand pieces of you!!! Such a cool concept to explore!!! 😍😍😍 glad you overall enjoyed it! Bummer about city of stairs 😫 but I can definitely understand your criticisms of it! I LOVEEE government politics so I think that’s why it connected with me!
I can’t remember if I congratulated you yet, but I’m pretty sure that I haven’t. Congratulations on your pregnancy!! 😀 👶 🍼 I recently read a novella by Robert Jackson Bennett called In the Shadows of Men. I really enjoyed it. It’s more of a horror story, which I think might be his only one?
The Rosie Project - I picked it up because you had picked it up. I had a lot of laugh out loud moments while reading it. I had so much fun, that I picked up the sequel, The Rosie Effect. This too was a lot of fun. Don, in my opinion makes so many mistakes, through being earnest and honest (to a fault), but this book has some serious issues...and the journey is a lot of un to go through with him. I hope you at least pick this book up. It might be another fun read. A Thousand Pieces of You - I am so happy that a book that I loved, and maybe encouraged you to read, was something you enjoyed. I haven't read a book by Claudia Gray that I haven't liked. She is special. I've read eight books by her. I do hope that you finish the trilogy. My favorite book of January was Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl. What an explosive book (5 Stars). I also had 7 - 4.5 Star books that I want to spotlight, too. 1. The Midnight Library by Matt Haig (Magical Realism) 2. Lethal by Sandra Brown (Mystery Thriller) 3. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow (Historical Biography) 4. The Dragon Republic by Rebecca F. Kuang (Fantasy) 5. A Promised Land by Barack Obama (Non Fiction Autobiography) 6. Maybe in Another Life by Taylor's Jenkins Reid (Contemporary Romance) 7. Here and Now and Then by Mike Chen (Science Fiction Time Travel) Thank you for your videos. Better late than never.
I liked hearing your thoughts on A Thousand Pieces of You and I’m glad you enjoyed it. I’ve owned the entire trilogy for years and still haven’t gotten around to reading it! But it’s higher up the priority list now.
I really enjoyed City of Stairs, which makes me wonder if I shouldn't pick up Memory of Empire. I avoided the latter because I'm typically not a fan of political intrigue but loved the murder mystery element to City of Stairs and think I'm opposite to you, where I like the government style intrigue but not the royal/noble family intrigue. I haven't read Foundryside yet but that's definitely on my list too.
If you enjoyed City of Stairs I definitely think you should give A Memory Called Empire a try! There were many people who thought they had some similarities other than me! I hope you enjoy it if you pick it up!
Yea anytime a book mentions periods I am like, how progressive, even though this is like a thing that has been part of the human experience for like ever 😆 There are lots of things I am eh on in the Witcher novels but he also talks about menstruations and brings up abortion in a relatively nuanced way that I was not expecting from a 90s fantasy.
So my wife is not a big reader, but she loved To All the Boys so much that she read all three books, and then read the other trilogy by the same author. Would you say Rosie is similar in feeling to To All the Boys, if you have seen the movie or read the book?
I know you are asking Jade, but I also jave read both books. They are different, thougj I enjoyed both. The Rosie Project is very focused on Don Tillman's Aspergers. How he sees the world. It is during their post university years. To All the Boys...is very focused, but more from a young teenager standpoint. Like a John Hughes film. Hopefully this is helpful.
