Simple Meals + Honest Book Reviews + Practical Living
Hello, and welcome back to a much overdue edition of overrated reads! It’s been a while, but I’m pumped to start up this series again.
I should preface with the fact that I did enjoy these books, but I did find them to be hyped up quite a bit. With that said, I still ended up giving each of the three books below either a 3 or 4 stars on Goodreads.
The Murmur of Bees is a historical fiction set in Northern Mexico in the early 1900’s during the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Flu. The novel was originally written in Spanish, later translated into English, and every sentence was absolutely poetic and magical. I think there’s also something charming about novels that are translated into English!
Last year, I managed to surpass my reading challenge of 52 books by finishing 54. Which was v surprising to me because I had a four week old baby at the start of 2019. I plan to keep the same goal of 52 books for 2020, just being realistic here — I’m due with my second baby in June, and have a strong feeling my reading time will drop to essentially zero with two babies, two cats, and one husband.
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I honestly don’t know if there’s anything better than reading several fantastic books back to back. Books that hook you in with equal intensity, in very different ways. I lucked out with my Kindle picks this month, and finished four wonderful books that were all very, very bingeable. I’m thrilled to share them with you over the holidays.
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