Last Library Book Sale Haul of the Year! Blogmas Day One!
Happy Blogmas Day One! Blogmas is a fun challenge to blog everyday until Christmas! I think this will be a great challenge to get me back into the swing of things blogging-wise. I am SO excited for Christmas and the holidays. All the fun and frolic during this time is just enchanting! I recently went to my last library book sale at my local library for the year. I got some really good books so let's get into it!
- Girl A by Abigail Dean. This is a hard hitting novel and not something I'd usually read, but I'm very intrigued by this book. It's about siblings (with the timeline veering from the past back to the present) who were held captive and abused by their parents in England. Girl A is the main character and she is the one who escaped and got help for their siblings. The story starts with their last remaining parent dying in prison and the now adult children being left with their childhood home. The story goes on to show what they decide to do with that house and how they are healing from their tumultuous childhood. There's definitely going to be some triggers in this book so look them up before you read!
- Everything Here is Beautiful by Mira T. Lee. This is another serious novel about the lives of two sisters growing up after their mother passes away from illness. One of the sisters develops a serious mental illness and lives an erratic life while the other sister watches from afar and wishes she could help her. Told in alternating points of view, it's going to be a serious book, yet powerful in showing how mental illness effects families and the power of sisterhood. I can't wait to read this.
- The Book of Essie by Meghan Maclean Weir. I can't tell if this is meant to be a YA book or an adult book, but it's about a 17 year old girl whose family is in a reality tv show and her father is a devout evangelical megachurch pastor. She becomes pregnant out of wedlock and the book starts with the family and show producers scrambling to figure out what to do with this scandal. This book kinda reminds me of the Duggar family and their scandals, so I think I'll really like reading this.
- White Ivy by Susie Yang. I'm halfway done with this book and am loving it! This is about a woman named Ivy and she is a Chinese immigrant to America when she turned 5. The book follows her journey as a child, moving to America, adjusting to life here and facing adversity, poverty, racism, and just being different from everyone else. I really love how the author addresses racial issues and classist issues in the book. I will do a full review when I am all done!
- Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler. This is a historical fiction novel about Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of the famous author, F. Scott Fitzgerald. I absolutely love Zelda and can't wait to learn more about her. Trigger warnings for this book about mental illness, because Zelda's life is very tragic and ends sadly, just to warn you.
- The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman. This is the prequel novel to Practical Magic, which I've never read nor watched, so I'm excited to read this and then Practical Magic and watch it! Witchy goodness is what it's all about and I'm so ready for that lol!
- The Lady of the Sea AND The Maid of the White Hands both by Rosalind Miles. These books are numbers 2 and 3 in a series about Tristan and Isolde. Mainly Isolde. I will do full reviews on this series and show off the beautiful covers. I'm so ecstatic that I found these books at the sale!
Alette
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