I started reading my gigantic collection of the Sherlock Holmes book but I'm not going to review it until I finish it...It'll be a while.
1.) What the Dinosaurs Did Last Night: A very Messy Adventure by Refe & Susan Tuma
My friends and I, being the cultured college kids that we are, often enjoy the occasional children's book. And I, being the mature 20-year-old that I am, f*cking love dinosaurs. (I reserve cursing for special occasions and this is one of them). So this was a really cute little book about how your plastic dinosaurs come alive and wreak havoc while you sleep. They eat your food, paint on your walls, play with your stuff and all around make a mess. It was inspired by something the couple who created the book did with their kids during what they call "Dinovember". Their kids would wake up and catch the dinosaurs brushing their teeth just like the dinosaurs in the book in the book.
2.) T-Rex Trying and 3.) T-Rex Trying and Trying: The unfortunate trials of a Modern Prehistoric Family by Hugh Murphy
You laugh! You cry! These two books hit both the tickle bone and the feels.
This was the most hilarious book I have ever read. I read a lot of the first book on the way home from the bookstore and could not stop ugly laughing! When I got to the Titanic (left) I had to stop reading or I was gonna pee in my boyfriend's new car because I was laughing so hard. And all it is is a T-Rex trying to do stuff! There are pages that are funny, there are pages that are cute and there are even pages that are kind of sad when he can't do the things. But there's an amazing moment in the end when he can actually do the thing! I won't spoil it for you.
In the second book we follow T-Rex trying to have a relationship with She-Rex and then the both of them trying to parent their baby Wee-Rex! It was absolutely adorable.
The last page (left) of the second book reminds me of this sticker (right) I had when I was younger. I thought it was notable.
It's the same Romeo and Juliet that you know and love but 10 times cuter! All the characters of Shakespeares's most famous tragedy are guinea pigs! It was pretty cute.
5.) If You Knew My Sister by Michelle Adams
Irini Harringford was given away by her parents at three years old but they kept her older sister, Elle. The book starts with the passing of their mother, forcing Irini to return home for the funeral.I didn't know when I picked up this book that it's labeled a "Psychological thriller". At one point my heart was actually racing in response to what was happening in the book. That was a first for me. Actually, I did have a panic attack and was unable to sleep due to a book I read when I was a kid. Anyway, as the secrets begin to unfold you think you know where it's going but you don't! The truth pushes so far it is completely unimaginable. I went from page 40 to 375. I read for hours. Once I was hooked I needed to know.
6.) The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One by Amanda Lovelace
See also: The princess saves herself in this one
While the first book in this series felt like an autobiography that was very personal to the author, this book has the broader topic of women. It explores feminism, women's issues, female empowerment and sooo much more. Honestly, I found it was a lot for me so it might have been better to read in small doses and maybe on the side of my main book.
I really like the special acknowledgments at the end of the book where you get to write in your own name.
7.) Simon vs the homo sapiens agenda by Becky Albertalli (Book Review) and Love, Simon (Movie Review)
At first, I had a hard time getting into the book; there were a lot of characters to follow and I thought it might have been a bit young for me. Once I got into it: I really liked it. Through most of the book Simon is emailing with another student at his school who is also gay but they don't know each other's true identity. Simon refers to himself as, "Jaques" and he emails a boy he calls, "Blue". I did have a suspicion about how Blue was (Don't worry I won't say!) so that kind of took away the excitement of finding out his identity but also added some excitement because: I knew it!. Once everything started coming together at the end it was so damn cute.
Of course, the story and the theme is a really important one. This kind of representation is important to the LGBTQIA+ community just like Black Panther is important to African Americans. I talk a lot of gay on here so I'm gonna leave it at that. it's important.
As for the movie I made sure to watch it after I finished the book. I'm a book lover so I read the book before I watch the movie as a rule. The only time I broke that rule was with the Harry Potter series because I was too young to read the books. I want to add that this does not make me stuck up because it's just my own personal rule. I don't force it on anyone and I don't make myself out to be better because I follow this rule.
Some people like me who are book over movie are very upset about the name change but I don't mind it especially because the author supported it (one of the main reason I read the book first is out of respect for the author). I did, however, dislike that in the movie they changed Leah's affections from Nick to Simon. That changes the whole dynamic of the friend group. I don't mind changes in the movie adaption that don't change the essence of the story. So that bothered me.
Overall I loved both the book and the movie.
Totally Ky
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