What I Read This September

 
All the Light we Cannot See by Anthony Doerr  ★★★★
A Pulitzer Prize Winner
 
  

I was super keen to read this for the longest time, then I finally bought it and put it off for ages (story of my reading life). It took me a long time to get into it because I was always super tired and reading a page or too each night before falling asleep. I nearly gave up but then I got into it. It was probably a good thing most of the chapters were like 3 pages long. It was a beautiful story which at some times totally confused my brain as it is not written in order of events, which I figured served a purpose as a writing style but at times it made me so mad! 


Extraordinary Means by Robyn Schneider ★★★★




I needed something to read on the train, so, I finally got around to reading this ARC I got when I signed up to Net Galley and foolishly clicked on everything I thought I might like. But this book was definitely the best of the lot. It was very much in the style of a John Green novel with bonus excellent pop cultural references I appreciated. Also it made me cry a little and learn a little about the history of TB and freak out a little about disease outbreaks, but not too much. I would like to try her other books sometime in the future.

 
Big Stone Gap by Adrianna Trigiani ★★★★
A book your Mother Loves



My Mum reads a tonne more than I do so when you ask her for a list of her favourites you know they will be good. This book didn't disappoint.
In the past we made one of the recipes from one of Adriana Trigiani's books, the Our Lady of (Drown Your) Sorrows Consolation Cake, with Heavenly Frosting and it was truly insane. I mean it could probably kill a man. But *drools* there is something like $30 of candy in the thing. Anyway, so I knew I should one day read the book series that lead to me eating said cake. I'm currently reading the second book and my Mum, Whoppi Goldberg, and Sarah Jessica Parker recommend it, so maybe you should read it too.

 
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl by Jesse Andrews ★★★




I needed another book for the train so I went with this one because it was the cheapest on my Kindle. It was okay, I didn't love it or hate it. The writing style was a little annoying at times. I think this may be better as a movie, but I have not seen said movie though so can't report on that.

That was the only book I purchased this month. I am plotting purchasing the illustrated version of Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone it can totally count as a book from my childhood.