In the last two weeks, I finished 11 books! Whoa!! I have a lot of reading time on my hands, don’t I?
In all fairness, a lot of them were YA books, and a lot faster to read than, say, classics. But since I’m definitely not going to give each book a detailed review on its own, I thought I’d just say a little bit about the ones I liked and the things that stood out to me.
The books (click on the images to go to the Amazon page):
Ok, so Damn You, Autocorrect! was just a fun and fast read, mostly all the jokes taken from the website of the same name.
Sometimes It Happens and May: Daughters of the Sea were so-so. As were The Poison Diaries and You Against Me. However, I did learn something very interesting from The Poison Diaries.
I’m studying herbology, and I’m interested in plants and their medicinal properties in general. The Poison Dairies mainly focuses on using deadly plants like the belladonna and other really scary plants. I don’t study these plants in my courses, but one thing the book *and* my courses do mention, is that every plant can be a medicine, and every plant can be a poison; it is all a matter of dosage.
But that’s not what I wanted to share about what I learned from The Poison Diaries. I’m also interested in botany and gardening, so finding out what kind of conditions and care plants need to be able to grow is really intriguing for me. So it seems that the belladonna seeds need to be soaked in cold water everyday, and the water changed everyday and thrown out somewhere safe (drinking the water would kill you), for at least two weeks, before they’d grow. Apparently, doing this simulates conditions of winter where the snow falls and melts and falls again and melts, soaking into the seeds in the ground.
Isn’t that just fascinating?
You Against Me has a good premise, but it just wasn’t very well-executed, in my humble opinion.
Unwind was a good read, another one of those dystopian YA novels, the first of a series. It’s about how children can be legally harvested for all the parts of their bodies, a process called unwinding. Until the age of 18 when they legally become an adult, their parents or guardians can sign them up to be Unwinds. It is a good standalone book, and I don’t plan to read the other books in the series, just because I have wayyyy too many other books I want to read.
Forgotten was great! Loved the idea, loved the story! What Happened To Goodbye wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t great either.
Lily Dale is a non-fiction about about the town with the same name. It’s a spiritualist community where everyone who lives there is a medium or a psychic or both. It was an interesting and informative book, but you don’t really get a resolution to the author’s personal questions.
No More Dirty Looks is about how many products for our skin, face, and hair have potentially dangerous chemicals in them and how we can go more natural. 
There are lots of information in the book about where you can get natural and healthier products, which is great, but I was looking for information on going completely natural, as in making your own products or something along that vein. And the times they did mention about going completely natural, like with the no shampoo movement, they don’t give clear instructions about how we could do that too.
I’d still say that No More Dirty Looks is worth taking a look at, but I’ll be keeping my eye out for more information about going natural.
Last but not least, 20 Times a Lady, now made into the movie called What’s Your Number starring Anna Faris and Chris Evans, was just deliciously fun and sexy to read. I can’t wait to watch the movie!
So that’s pretty much it for now. Sorry to bore you with my bookworm-ness, but hey, reading’s fun for me!
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