August Review

Hm, well this is coming out later than I had intended. I had wanted to wait until the youtube video was out but...Don't know if that's happening. So here's this

Well....if I didn't separate Booktube-a-thon I might have added one or two more books...other wise this was a pretty poor month of reading. I blame one book in particular that you'll see in September's review.

Otherwise I only read 3 books for August, here's the break down.

Format:

1- Audio
2- Graphic Novels
0- Hard Cover
0- Soft Cover

Genre:

1- Contemporary
2- Fantasy

Star Ratings:

0- 1 Star
0- 2 Stars
1- 3 Stars
0- 4 Stars
2- 5 Stars

Leaving August with an average of 4.33

Pages:

I read a total of 612 pages in August, averaging 19.74 pages per day

Around the year in 52 Books Challenge:

As of the end of August (first week of September) we are on week 37 and I have completed 31 challenges. So the gap is getting a little bigger...but again, I'm not too worried about it, or stressing over it, it's just fun.

6) A book originally written in a language other than English
17) A book you epect to make you laugh

Britt-Marie Was Here  by Fredrik Backman

Published May 2016

Britt-Marie can't stand a mess, but an unorganized cutlery drawer is beyond forgiving. But she's not one to judge other, no matter how ill-mannered or unkempt they are. Sometimes people interpret her suggestions as criticisms, but they're not, they're helpful, you have to understand. She leave's her cheating husband and finds herself the small town of Borg, in a job as care taker of a soon to be demolished recreation center she soon gets drawn in to the daily doings of these: miscreants, drunkard, and layabouts only to be given the impossible task of leading a supremely untalented children's soccer team to victory. Hidden inside Britt-Marie, however, if you look past the socially awkward, fussy busybody, is a women who has more imagination, bigger dreams, and a warmer heart than anyone around her realizes. In the small town of misfits, has Britt-Marie found a place where she truly belongs?

So this is a sort of companion to My Grandmother Told Me to Tell You She's Sorry. However, this book fell flat for me. There were cute quirks in it sure, there were certain aspects of Britt-Marie that I found endearing, but other wise I just ultimately found this book very uneventful. I don't know how to explain it other than that. There was some character growth but it felt really mild. 3 out of 5 stars.

This book completed challenge 6) A book originally written in a language other than English

Rat Queens Vol 2:The Far Reaching Tentacles of N'rygoth By Kurtis J. Wiebe Arist: Roc Upchurch and Stjepan Sejic

Published May 2015

We follow these four women as they continue there adventure in this second volume that the first volume left off on. Continued wonderful art, continued humor, sass and snark I still continue to love this series. 5 out of 5

This book completed challenge 17) A book you expect to make you laugh

Rat Queens Vol 3: Demons By Kurtis J. Wiebe Artist: Tess Fowler

Published April 2016

We follow the Rat Queens to where it all began for Hannah, Mage University as they try to found out what happened to Hannah's father while battling their own demons.

Vol 3. we get to explore more of the world, which was awesome. We're met with more humor and snark, awesome. Ultimately I continue to love this series, however, upon finishing Vol. 3 I start searching for the next few volumes to add to my cart, only to find that their covers are different. Turns out that the next few volumes veer off as if these last three adventures don't even happen. The story stops here....on a cliff hanger....The reason behind this, so I hear, is that the Upchurch was accused of Domestic Violence, and Wiebe let him go as an artist, and picked up Owen Gieni. I haven't extensively heard about any of these artists, but from the reviews of Volume 4 I'm getting nervous. We'll see how that goes, but in the mean time Volume three was pretty intense and enjoyable. 5 out of 5.

And that is my August Review. If you've read any of these let me know and let's discuss what you thought about them!

Otherwise,

Until next time!

Litta

Top 5 Wednesday: Friend Groups

I was really kind of weary with the topic for this week, because I feel like I haven't read enough books to really be able to properly choose my favorite "friend groups"

But looking around my room I'm pin pointing a few, bare with me however as a lot of these are from graphic novels.

This week for Top 5 Wednesday we talk about our favorite

Friend Groups:

5) Harry Potter

Photo Credit: PopSugar (Artist link not found)

Couldn't go far into this list with out mentioning these three, I have to admit. I enjoy them over all as friends, even so far as the angst between them at times, but definitely draw the line when they started coupling. I felt like they over all really balanced each other out pretty well. Though truth be told, I enjoyed Harry and Hermoine's friendship a little more. I feel like they were beyond that "what if we were a couple" phase and just jumped into an almost sibling type of relationship. You ever have that? where you don't even consider a friend a potential sexual or intimate partner in any way because it never occurred to you? I appreciated that about their relationship and wish that the same had happened between Hermoine and Ron.

4) Howl's Moving Castle

Artist: Madi at MadiDrawsThings

I fell head over heels for this movie, to the point where I couldn't tell you how many times I've watched it and still get all giddy and never tire. The book was about as interesting and helped clear things up that the movie just kind of glances over. Howl, Sophie, Calcipher and Markl are just an awkward and quirky little family that I enjoy watching the antics of.

3) Giant Days

Artist Max Sarin

Giants Days makes me miss college. It also makes me think I didn't try hard enough to make friends in college. This trio is just so humorous and dramatic and I love it.

2) Rat Queens

Artist Roc Upchurch

Speaking of humor, these four have continued to crack me up through three volumes. They all have such depth to their characters and an interesting way of interacting with each other. So much arguing, but full of love, sex and alcohol.

1) Gotham City Sirens

Artist Joe Benitez

I've always enjoyed and had a fascination for Batman, particularly Joker and Harley Quinn. Though now that I'm older and can see the major issues with their relationship I appreciate Harley's friendships with Poison Ivy and Catwoman. The trio have a tendency for mishaps and heartbreak, strong will and humor, seduction and banter, they're my number one friend group for their loyalty despite all odds and heartbreaks.

And that does it for my favorite friend groups. Do you agree with any of these? If you are aware of them, what problems do you see in their dynamic?

Until next time!

Litta