Learning how labels and pages work, I've deleted my static page "Books" and am creating a new "Books" tab with the old content and new content to be added as individual posts! I think it'll make it easier to read up and find different book posts as opposed to having to scan through a static page. Without furthur ado, my original post below:
My memory being as it is, I decided to keep a list of all the books I read. As with what I've included on my bucket list, the goal of reading 12 books a year, it was more of a "I don't want to ask too much of myself, so if I read 1 book a month, that'll be a good start". It's weird to have to give myself a goal for reading, I used to eat books. Not in the literal term obviously, but I used to live, eat and breathe books. When did that passion, of wanting to read almost disappear and with it, my memory seems to have faltered.
You know, you can almost expect an old person to start losing bits of their memory and it's almost normal with age, that you can't remember what you did 5mins ago.. but I'm not even 32 and my mind, my memory, is no longer what it was. Does that have anything to do with not reading as much anymore? I don't know. But I used to enjoy reading, and this is me, wanting to get back that joy.
I'm good at straying off topic and rambling on, as you can tell from the above.
Anywho, I want this to be a place where I can write down the books I read from now on. To kind of keep track of how many, but also of what I've been reading.
I'm not sure if I'll write summaries of the books yet. Maybe for some I will and others I won't. I'll see how it goes along the way.
So, without further ado, here is the list (so far):
1. Who Is Eddie Leonard? by Harry Mazer
- about a boy who was raised by his grandmother and throughout his childhood was told many tales of how he came about. Sometimes he was told he was found in the trash, sometimes he was taken home off the streets. Never getting a straight answer to his questions, he was also abused emotionally and physically. In his teens, he finds a poster of a missing child that looks strikingly familiar...it's his own face. This book is about his life, his search for who he really is and the process of finding his family and his true self.
2. Yakuza Moon ~ The True Story of a Gangster's Daughter (Manga Edition) based on the book by Shoko Tendo
- this is basically the memoirs of Shoko Tendo. How it was like to be raised in a Yakuza household, her experiences through life, more bad than good. Her fight with drug addiction, abusive boyfriends, life in general and how she's able to gain strength and get back up after it all.
3. The Brightest Light by Colleen O'Shaughnessy McKenna
- about a 16yr old girl who's grown up with her grandma and dad, her mom having passed away in a car accident when she was two. This is the story of her summer and all the things that happened that changed her life as she knew it.
4. The Butterfly House by Marcia Preston
- this is the first book in a while that has not only been able to grasp my attention, but also keep it, drawing me back for more whenever, for one reason or another, I had to put it down.
It tells the story of Roberta, better known as Bobbie, throughout much of her life. Spanning from childhood to adulthood, back and forth, in a nice flowing pattern. We remember with her, flashbacks of her very young childhood, learn about her life with her alkiholic mother, about the bond formed with her best friend Cincy and Lenora (Cincy's mother), butterflies, and her estranged father. The whole of it was captivating and while some parts I was able to guess before it was revealed, it still kept me hooked. The last part of the book, with Cincy, required a time out on my part.. it brought back memories of three years past with my dad.. memories I still have trouble with. So, it was definitely a harder part for me to get through, bringing tears to my eyes.
