Books I Recommend.

These are the books that I love personally, and though some of them are very popular indeed-I still quite enjoyed them for what they were.

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Before anyone jumps the gun about how problematic the relationship between the Chairman and Sayuri is, I know. I know it is, and a long time ago I even idolized that couple-but I realize now that it has it's issues and despite that I still recommend this book.

The one main reason why is that despite all of it it's faults, the character of Hatsumomo is something that is not to be overlooked. If that made any sense at all. As a character I hated her at first, but rereading this multiple times I've come to realize that unlike Sayuri who grew to like it where she was (because of the Chairman) Hatsumomo only wanted one thing.

To love freely.

Her character arc was something I loved, and honestly after she left the story I found myself wanting to know more of what happened to her after the events transpired.

I am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

Unfortunately when I started to read this, I hit my slump and I haven't picked it back up yet. But so far, it's really good. I know it's also an older book, but it's still important and even now Malala is doing so much for her people. 

Since I haven't read it all the way through, there's not much to say. But if you haven't picked it up yet, I would highly recommend it.

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

The beginning of the book is sort of hard to read; if you have any triggers I would highly recommend skimming through as it's pretty straightforward. Since I lost my copy, I can't tell you what pages to skip, but I'm sure a google search will tell you what pages to avoid.

I did watch the movie before reading this book, and I can tell you that as it always is with most book-to-movie adaptations-the book is better.

A Darker Shade of Magic series by V.E. Schwab

I stated before in my previous post how good of a series I thought this book was. I know a lot of reader's qualms was with Lila as a character, and it being too slow paced. Honestly I love how slow paced the book is, at least in this context, because I had time to breathe in the world and it's characters.

Representation is also done right in this book, so kudos to Schwab.

Vicious by V.E. Schwab 

Another by Schwab, but one that I highly recommend! I do also recommend the second part of this series, which is named Vengeful, but between the two Vicious is still my favorite. (Though Vengeful introduces a badass female villian!) This book sort of has a morally grey 'hero', if you can call it that. One of the characters says it best when there are 'no good men in this game.' 

You either side with the 'hero', who isn't much of a hero at all, and the 'villain'-who isn't necessarily bad. (If that makes sense at all.) 

I really love almost all the characters, I love how it's like a superhero book but not in the traditional way.  I honestly hope the book Vengeful won't be the last we see of Victor Vale.

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So there you have it, those are my personal favorites and ones that I highly recommend. If you have any recommendations, please feel free to share! I would love to know what your favorite books are or even your favorite authors!

That's all for now, thank you for reading and I'll see you next week!