My Summer Read

So far, so good. I did not go far and wide to make my list of books to read this summer. As usual, my friends and sisters and cousins have good books to recommend.

I am mostly into light read, romance and young adults stories. But it has been frustrating this year. Nothing ignite my imagination or evoke my emotions. Don't get me wrong. I did enjoy them but I won't give them more than three stars.

Love, Rosie, Paper Towns, The DUFF: (Designated Ugly Fat Friend), Meant to be, Eleanor and Park, and Wonder.

I guess the plot of these stories are getting way too familiar to me. So many similarities.


Thus, I read some "out of the box". Gone Girl, The Kite Runner, The Mythology Class, and The Girl on the Train.

Talk about evoking emotions and imagination! Kept me at wits end because I am one scaredy-cat. I have to put in down when it gets too brutal and too real for me. Then, I picked it up to know if the character survived. Even to a point that I refused to read some chapters at night time!




Yes, these are fictional stories and it is not the first time I get to read thriller books. But it is truly not my "cup of tea". I want something that makes me smile and laugh and feel-good rather than being scared.

Would I recommend them, though? Yes.

Stars? ****