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Mexican Gothic by Sylvia-Moreno Garcia
Mexican Gothic follows the story of Noemi Taboada, a glam, rich kid (tbh, sana all??) living her life freely in the city - partying, hanging out with friends, drinking, smoking. His father received this weird letter from her cousin, Catalina who married a man from the countryside. Catalina talked about how his husband was poisoning her, she talked about ghosts, spiders, snakes, and everything creepy. Noemi's dad suspects Catalina should be needing a psychiatrist so just to be sure, he convinced Noemi to visit the countryside and check on Catalina. Noemi went, though when she arrived, Catalina's new home felt creepy and old and weird. Noemi's stay in the mansion…
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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
I was not a big fan of classic books. I only had experience in reading the classics when it was required in school back in HS and university. Beyond the syllabus, ah, nah. Until I got interested (among any other things that get me interested my whole life) into watching reading vlogs a.k.a booktube which influenced me to do the same for my channel as well. One of the booktubers I am following is a foreign (Canadian if I remember it right) Lit Major, and if you see or hear her too I know you'll get back to that phase in your life (if there's any) where you just want…
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The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner
Na-budol ako. I honestly thought it was interesting, and I was excited to dive in. Now, I don’t know what really happened. I just didn’t like it. But please do not let this rant prevent you from trying it out. I genuinely think there’s beauty in this book that just isn’t for me or that I wasn’t able to find. I’m giving it a second try and re-read this time with the ebook. I am trying soooo hard to understand the good and bad reviews from other readers and weigh the pros and cons so I am able to grasp what truly happened in the story.
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The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
I found this book in an article published by Business Insider because apparently, my Goodreads feed is just not enough (???) and I needed more from an external site. However this article was also based on Goodreads’ published list, only I didn’t see it from before and now I’m dozens if not hundreds beyond my TBR. Anyway, hello, friends. This blog is about my newest favorite book and author, The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. Okay, can’t say she’s my fave author because I haven’t read other works of hers yet, but this book really got me excited to know Hannah more.
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American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins
What I appreciated the most is that the book did try to incorporate as many issues as it could, such as the life in a community controlled by cartels, the fear of writing and exposing high-ranking individuals, life of migrants, life of a single parent, and other experiences and stories encountered by our protagonist, Lydia. The character I liked the most was Lydia's son, Luca. Only because he reads books at a very young age, which is not very usual these days. But I cannot shake off the fact that that "young age" was eight and the wisdom he has was like not even of a teenager. I mean...???
