Sarah

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm by Charlie Mackesy

5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

This is super cute and a great reminder of caring and humility. I love the art and the fountain pen cursive, this whole vibe is comfort overload with loads of heart. It makes me wanna buy a copy and send it to everyone I know. I wish I could.

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman

3/5 ⭐⭐⭐

Honestly this fell a little flat with me. The characters seemed slightly off, even though it was good to be with them again.

The whole Joyce/daughter back and forth was kinda annoying to me but that's probably a me thing...

I did feel for Elizabeth and thought her coming back to herself was a nice touch after her loss but even that felt overly muted.

I also wasn't enthralled by the mystery this time and found it bland and not really interesting.

Poems and Prayers by Matthew McConaughey

3/5 ⭐⭐⭐

Some of these were pretty profound and some were pretty middling and ramble-y. No surprise. I remember really liking Greenlights and this had bits of that which I found a bit odd since this was a separate thing. It's cool that he kept journals since he was young though and he wasn't shy about writing poetry as a young man. Glad I got this one at the library, I'm sure it'll work great for someone!

Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping on a Dead Man by Jesse Q. Sutanto

4/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Vera's got quite the gang now after the end of this one. I wonder if there will be a third book?

The new characters were interesting and the fakeness with Instagram and tiktok felt relevant, since that's something you hear a lot these days.

I wish there were some legit recipes to go with this book toward the end or something cause there were a few dishes that sounded interesting. Makes me sad my grandmother wasn't someone who cooked.

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry

5/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

So I knew the gist of this having watched the miniseries religiously as a child with my father, I don't know if he ever knew this was a book series as he wasn't much of a reader but once I found out I always wanted to read it making it a bucket list challenge of sorts.

The story itself doesn't stray from the memory of the series I grew up with and even though we watched it a lot I found I had forgotten many of the POV's and stories and even how some of the major events paned out. I couldn't believe my memory was so poorly and it made me sad for my father to think I had forgotten so much he had loved so dearly.

After reading the series chronologically till now I knew what the prose was like and what I was getting into and like I thought they just keep getting better and I'm excited to finish the series with Streets of Laredo next.