January Wrap Up:
3 Books
1,292 pages
Average Rating: 4.33
My Dark Vanessa 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Handle With Care 🌟🌟🌟🌟
The Upside of Falling Down 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Well I am a little behind in posting my wrap up but it’s been a little crazy here lately.
January was a pretty good month for me. I stayed home and avoided all the madness going on around me in the country. Having faith that somehow we as a society will work it all out.
I read some great books! I was hoping to complete 4 but I feel good about it taking into account how busy I was.
We added 5 new reptiles 🐢🦎 to our collection. Penelope (Penny) a Cherry head Red foot Tortoise, Echo a Bearded Dragon, and Ragnar, Lagertha, and Freya are our Shinisaurus Crocodilurus (Chinese Crocodile Lizards). My husband does an amazing job on his enclosure builds. So much goes in to getting everything set up for them that it doesn’t leave a whole lot of time for anything else. 😄
My Dark Vanessa was definitely the stand out for the month for me and probably for the year. Devastatingly beautiful. Enthralled … how can something so horrible be written so beautifully. I was captivated from the start. You don’t want to put it down. Be aware that this contains very graphic instances of sexual abuse to a child, at times it is very difficult to read. The story goes back and forth between Vanessa as an adult and then as the 15 year girl reliving the juncture that changed her life forever. Definitely one of the best books I have read.
Handle with care is a heart jerker of a book for sure. Written in several points of view, directed toward the six year old daughter Willow who has Osteogenesis Imperfecta, a brittle bone disease. Her parents are suing the OB-GYN for wrongful birth. It’s definitely a conversation starter.
The Upside of Falling Down is a cute, easy, breezy New Age romance. Clementine wakes up in a hospital in Ireland with absolutely no memory; she was in a plane crash and she is the only survivor.
