Hey y’all! I read a ton in May, breaking my other recent record for most-I’ve-read-in-a-month, previously set in… April. 😅 Clearly not much has changed in my habits. This also meant, though, that there were a lot of books that I haven’t been able to post a review for yet! So below are short thoughts and overall impressions I had from the books that I haven’t featured yet. 😁
Mini reviewed books below (in page feature order):
- The Cat I Never Named by Amra Sabic-El-Rayess
- Banned Book Club by Kim Hyun Sook
- The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
- Mooncakes by Wendy Xu
- Rascal by Jean-Luc Deglin
- Lexicon by Max Barry
- The Book of Unknown Americans by Cristina Henriquez
- If I Had Your Face by Frances Cha
- William Shakespeare’s Star Wars: Verily, A New Hope by Ian Doescher
- The Girl in the Garden by Melanie Wallace
- Pretty Funny for a Girl by Rebecca Elliott
Expected Publication: September 8, 2020
2 sentence summary:
A true story of a teenager’s experience living in Bosnia during a genocide against her people… by her people. A powerful and scary-because-it’s-true story about fear, hate, and unexpected bonds (yes, including with a cat.)
This book is critically important and taught me a lot, both in terms of literal information that I did not know and understanding of the experiences of others that I have not had. It’s too important a story to summarize in a few sentences. I’ll have a post about just this book soon as well as a full review closer to its publication this autumn.
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