April's Books

Man, April was a lllooooooong month for me.  Maybe that's why I read so many books.  Because I did.  I did read many, many a book.  And, of course, I have no idea which book I will base my Literary Stylings look on, but we're still having it next Tuesday, so please to link up with me then.

Here are the many books I read this month:

Getting Waisted: A Survival Guide to Being Fat in a Society That Loves Thin, by Monica Parker

This is the first book I read in April and I think I actually finished it at the very end of March, but it didn't included with my March post, so I'm including it here.  I've already written about this book and wrote about my interview with the author, but I'd like to say again that this is a great book.  The author is all about body diversity and that is a  topic that is near and dear to my heart.  I think if more people were to embrace body diversity they'd all understand that we can't possibly look like everyone else and we'd stop killing ourselves trying to.  Anyway, let me get off my soapbox and just end with this: read this book.  It's smart and funny and great.


The Divergent Series, by Veronica Roth

This series is basically the reason my numbers were doubled for this month.  The first two books, especially, are very quick reads.  And Roth does a good job of hooking the reader so you want to read them quickly.  I thought the first book was great.  I thought the first three quarters of the second book was great.  But, the final book, Allegiant, just didn't do it for me.  In Allegiant, I felt like the author wasn't sure what direction the book was going and kept changing her mind.  Which is cool, but she just slapped the new ideas in without editing the previous work so a lot of it didn't make sense.  At least not to me.  But, I admit that I'm not her target audience, so if you like YA and somehow still haven't read these, I say go for it.


Bad Things Happen, by Harry Dolan

 I was actually surprised by how much I liked this book.  I'm not a huge fan of mysteries, but this one was great.  The plot twists were actually twists and they were all unexpected, at least for me.  That's pretty rare, but this author did a great job.  I believe he's written a couple of other books featuring the same protagonist and I think I'm going to try to read those too.  I definitely recommend this book, especially if you're a fan of mysteries.


A Child's Book of True Crime, by Chloe Hooper

I selected this book based solely the title.  Because sometimes, that's just how I roll.  Sadly, it wasn't as good as I had hoped.  I really, really like how the author writes, she can definitely turn a phrase, but I didn't like the story that much.  It was the opposite of the Twilight for me; great writer, terrible story whereas Twilight was a great story and a terrible author.  In my opinion; don't yell at me Twihards!


Don't forget, Tuesday, May 6th, we're linking up here, for Literary Stylings!

xoxo,

Gracey