Hello my lovely readers!
I've finished four books since my last post, but life has been so hectic that I haven't had a chance to review them. Honestly, I don't feel like giving them all a dedicated post because I wasn't particularly moved by them, but I want to give these four books some kind of recognition. Let's get into it!
Part memoir, part history, Medicine River shares the legacy of Indian Boarding Schools from the mid-19th century to the late 1930s and how the affected the generations of Indigenous children placed in them.
*While it contained great history, this felt like two different books to me, which I wasn't expecting. I started to tune out when it ventured into the memoir territory. I'd give it a 3 out of 5 stars.
The Stranger, published in 1942 follows the story of a man who commits a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of a man faced with the absurd."
*For this to be such a classic, it was extremely boring to me and hard to get through. I don't see what the big deal is about this book. 2 out of 5 stars.
A young woman goes missing in Lagos, Nigeria and her estranged auntie will stop at nothing to find her.
*Another middle of the road thriller. Listened to it on Libby and it held my interest, but it wasn't amazing. 3 out of 5 stars.
They were the perfect couple and madly in love. Then one night, they're found shot in their bed. The husband is dead and the wife is fighting for her life.
*This was an Audible original, meaning there isn't a physical book counterpart, which I found interesting. This gave me heavy "radio dramas" from the 1930s. It was entertaining, but there was too much going on for me to even understand the "twist" at the end. 3 out of 5 stars.
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