Everything, Everything by Nichola Yoon

About This Book:
Goodreads Summary
📌Stand-Alone: 
📌Release Date: September 1, 2015
📌Format: Hardcover
📌Setting: Los Angeles, CA
📌Page Count: 307
📌Genre(s): Young Adult, Romance, Contemporary,Fiction
📌Date(s) Read: 10/24-10/29
📌Rating:   Book:  4.5/5   Audio:  4.5/5  Narrator(s): Bahni Turpin & Robbie Daymond


My Rambles:

I enjoyed this book a lot more than I expected to. In the beginning, I wanted to DNF it but I think it was more me than the book. I just haven't had much of an interest in reading lately but I just set the book aside when I didn't feel like listening to it and did other things. I had gotten spoiled for this book sometime ago but thankfully, I didn't remember about it until after it had gotten to that part so I was still able to have a bit of a surprise when it came. 

One of these days, I may take the time to sit and watch this movie but it may be a while as I take so long to get to movies and I have to be in the mood to watch them because for whatever reason, I just stopped watching movies..well, I think I know why but that may be a story for another day. Plus, I still have the Harry Potter movies I need to watch and believe it or not, get through the "newer" Star Wars movies (I've seen the ones from the 80's but not the ones that started coming out in the late 90's through now..yeah yeah, I'm behind!..on more than just them!)

Glad I picked this book up and read it. I really didn't have an interest in it because I thought it would be depressing. I think I saw it at the library and decided "WTH, might as well give it a try!". If I didn't like it, I could always just take it back to the library right?!? 😁

I loved the characters, especially the nurse, Carla. Next to Madeline, she was my favorite. Of course, I loved the love interest as well. Yes, I liked Mom too.

Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks

About This Book:
Goodreads Summary
📌Stand-Alone: 
📌Release Date: August 2, 2011
📌Format:  Paperback
📌Setting: Southport, NC
📌Page Count: 368
📌Genre(s): Romance, Fiction, Chick-lit, Contemporary
📌Date(s) Read: 9/29-10/5/19
📌Rating:   Book: 4.75/5   Audio:  4.75/5  Narrator(s): Rebecca Lowman


Trick-or-Treat-athon 2019: 
Corn Maze: Read a book where someone gets lost and/or finds themselves
(This one started off under Fall Foliage but wanted to change it to this one because the one I had for Corn Maze, I had to send back to the library unfortunately)

*Trigger Warning*: Abuse

My Rambles:

This is the second book I have read by Nicholas Sparks, the first being Nights in Rodanthe (haven't seen the movie yet). I don't remember much about Nights in Rodanthe except it was a book about two people meet when they try to get away for a while from the things they are dealing with. I tried to read The Notebook but I couldn't get into it and it was hard to get used to the narrator so I just "gave up".

When I got to this book, I was not expecting the abuse aspect of it but the entire book was well done and I really did love it. I didn't read for a few days because I had gotten stressed out with some things that were going on but once I was able to pick it back up, I couldn't help but fall back in love with the characters and the writing. I do plan on trying some more of his books and hope that I can find some that fit me and what I may be looking for (not so much looking for one thing in particular except for maybe romance but it just pulls me in no matter what it's about). I typically try to steer clear of books about abuse or many things that are depression and anxiety inducing because I really try to keep myself calm and clear of having to deal with pulling myself out of both. Anxiety went up a bit sometimes but I was glad that he put in a lot of happy parts in between the times he had to write about the abuse.

Hopefully I'm making sense with this.

It is really worth reading if you haven't already. It makes me glad that I am able to get into more male authors. For a long time, it was hard for me to pick them up because when I tried sometimes, they'd be too drawn out and boring for me. Yes, I know, some female authors can do the same thing..it gets a bit boring for me no matter who does it. But, it's not just that, I tend to be nervous about a lot of different types of books. Straight sci-fi. Horror. Nonfiction, etc.

Thanks for reading my jumbled, stressed & tired thoughts.

Happy Reading,

Bridget

Contemporary-athon (Round 5): Wrap Up

Prompts:
X1. Read a 2019 release: ✔2. Read a contemporary with yellow on the cover:
Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian ✔3. Read a diverse contemporary (aim to read something outside of your own experience):
Always & Forever, Lara Jean (To All the Boys I've Loved Before #3) by Jenny Han X4. Read a contemporary with an illustrated cover: X5. Read a dark/hard-hitting contemporary: ✔6. Read a contemporary with plants on the cover:
Always & Forever, Lara Jean (To All the Boys I've Loved Before #3) by Jenny Han
(my thoughts linked above in #3) X7. Read a contemporary that is beloved by a member of the book community (and shout out the creator!):

10/5/19

Didn't do too well with this readathon as I had hoped but at the same time, I got two books read that I might now have otherwise so I will count that as a plus. I have been in a bit of a slump because I just wasn't in much of a mood to read so that is the main reason I didn't do more than two books. Then, on top of that, I forgot to publish it, which is why it is just going up now. I am now 5 days in to a month long readathon that I've been iffy about finishing but it is also helping me to read and get some books off my TBR shelf (physical shelf, not so physical shelf and/or authors I may have been wanting to try. Either for the first time and/or newer authors). The books I did read, the blogs for them are linked in the title of the book if I did one for it.

Happy Reading,

Bridget

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