2018 Reading: The Girl Who Played With Fire

#5 Nordic noir

I found this book much easier to read than the first one. I think it was the fact that there wan't a giant family tree of Swedish names that I practically had to memorize so that I would understand what was going on.

I think the story for this one was fascinating as well. You got a little closer look into the life of Lisbeth and some of her motivations. I might go back and watch the movie for this one, as well. I watched the original Swedish movie for the first book (I might have already mentioned that) and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I'm anxious to see how this will play out. I don't really know about the books that were published by someone else after the author's death, but they are already making a movie out of one of them so I might see about giving them a shot, but I don't hold out much hope for them being as good as the original.

2018 Reading: The Tale of Despereaux

#33 A childhood classic you've never read

I don't know why I've never read this book before. It was adorable. The style of narration was perfect for the act of reading to a younger child rather than being actually read by the child. I think I liked that better than I thought I would.

2018 Reading: Stellaluna

Absolutely adorable.

2018 Reading: Passive Aggressive Notes: Painfully Polite and Hilariously Hostile Writings

This came across my desk at the library and I KNEW I was going to love it.

Spoiler alert: I did.

2018 Reading: Mrs. Dalloway

#25 A book about feminism

Get thee behind me, Satan!!!

If there is one thing I hate, it is a long-running story with no plot. THIS! This is what I hate.

It switches perspective in the middle of a paragraph (paragraphs which can last for pages upon pages, by the way) and then follows someone else entirely who has nothing to do with the first person. It will flit back and forth between these people forever without anything actually happening! The characters are only linked in the smallest and least interesting way so when you get to the end and nothing has happened, it's all the more confusing and disappointing.

I have no idea what type of message I was supposed to receive from this book, feministic or otherwise. The only thing I am certain of is that I am glad I am done with this book.

2018 Reading: The Screwtape Letters

#46 An allegory

I really had no idea what this was about before I picked it up. I knew it had to do with religion, but I was unfamiliar with anything else about this book. I've never read anything by C.S. Lewis before, so I couldn't even get a comparison of writing styles between his books.

I found myself chuckling during most of it. The idea that there is a hierarchy in Hell as well as Heaven that employs lesser demons and imps to do menial tasks and hold down office type jobs is something that we never really think about, but is kind of funny to picture.

I like the message that no matter what, evil will find you. I know that's probably not the message I was SUPPOSED to get out of it, but it came through all the same.

2018 Reading: Unicorn of Many Hats

I don’t know why, but I always love when a new one comes out and I try to read it as soon as possible.