Eat, Pray, Love – Book Review

February 18, 2019February 17, 2019Nora Leave a comment

eat-pray-love Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert is a memoir about Elizabeth’s life after her divorce where she travels for one year to Italy, India, and Indonesia. In general, it was a well thought out and cleverly written book. I think Gilbert is a great writer. I had fun on her spiritual and physical journey towards, I suppose, finding herself. Some parts were long winded especially in India and a little in Indonesia, parts where I skimmed ahead. It definitely made me think about my own life but I think it would do with some editing. Great book for life quotes, though.

My rating: 3/5 stars

If you’ve read Eat, Pray, Love, what did you think about it?

My Top 5 Favorite Book Tropes

February 11, 2019February 10, 2019Nora Leave a comment

Image from FreePik.com I started Paralegal classes last week so I have even more stuff to read now. As a result, I haven’t finished reading Eat, Pray, Love yet but I’m sure I will by next week. So I have decided to do something different and list my top favorite book tropes.

1) Enemies to Friends to Lovers. I love that slow burn love where the couple starts out hating each other but by the end of the book, they can’t imagine being apart.

2) The Antihero. I love reading about morally grey characters and their redemption story, even unlikeable villainous characters about whom you find out the reason behind their villainy and understand where they are coming from.

3) Utopia is actually a dystopia. At the beginning of the story, it might seem great, this utopic world but you soon come to find out at what cost like in The Giver.

4) Unrequited love/forbidden love. We all have crushes and it’s something we can relate to when we read about them in books as well as forbidden love. Two people that stand against all odds.

5) Road Trip/Adventure. Especially with enemies who fall in love or a group of antihero’s who are all friends.

What are some of your favorite tropes that you love to read about in books?

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Rebecca – Book Review

February 4, 2019February 3, 2019Nora Leave a comment

rebecca I recently finished reading Rebecca by Daphne Du Marier. A tiny bit slow to start but I pushed through to the first 100 pages, reading it out loud to myself to focus, and then it was my jam.

At first, the narrator (whose name is never relieved) was annoying, a pushover and a 21-year-old who was easily persuaded into marrying a 40-year-old man, which I was very bothered by. Come to think of it, I didn’t like any of the characters in this book but in a good way. I felt like the main characters were all morally gray (a mix between good and bad) and I love that in a book.

At 200 pages, we were steaming along a well-paced, beautifully written and subtly creepy story, a classic and one that I hope you read. It’s definitely worth it.

My rating: 4/5 stars

If you’ve read Rebecca, what did you think about it?

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis – Did Not Finish

January 28, 2019January 26, 2019Nora Leave a comment

american-psycho I get what this book is about. We are too involved in our first world problems, in ourselves, in surface things to realize what’s going on right under our noses. The relevance of this has not faded until today, 2019. We still struggle with this.

I picked this book up at a discount book store a while ago because I’ve heard of it before. I didn’t really know what it was about until I decided to read it. I read about the author before starting and learned that he’s from Sherman Oaks, CA, the same area where I’m from and that he went to school with Donna Tartt (one of my favorite authors) and Jonathan Lethem, who’s book Motherless Brooklyn we are reading for my book club.

After having read 100 pages, I decided to DNF (Did Not Finish) it. I love satire and I understand this book and its message, I just wish it wasn’t as graphic as the reviews say. I guess I’m not in the state of mind to read this type of book and I don’t think I will ever be.

If you have or have not read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, what are your thoughts?

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine – Book Review

January 21, 2019January 20, 2019Nora 1 Comment

eleanor-oliphant I was very interested in reading Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman because after I read the blurb, I felt like I could relate to Eleanor and what she might go through during the course of the novel. After I started reading, I was not wrong, even though what she went through was very unique. I loved reading this book because it was effortlessly intriguing and slow moving, which I love in a book. Not too much plotting. I thought it would go to a dark place but it didn’t. The shoe dropped in a totally different place than where I imagined. I really liked the other characters as well and how their relationship developed. I really recommend this book to anyone who likes character driven books.

My rating: 5/5 stars

If you read Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, what did you think?