I am Princess X By Cherie Priest
I will admit that this is one of my first rereads of 2020. Instead of listening to the audiobook, I read the hardcover edition. I am still keeping this rating at five out of five stars on Goodreads, but I strongly recommend that you listen to the audiobook instead of reading it.
This is also another mystery story, but this one focuses on the mystery of a dead friend. When May finds a webcomic on a character that she created with her best friend Libby, she starts to believe that her friend was not killed. Through easter egg clues and search around Seattle, she finds her best friend and the man who kept her all this time.
I really don’t have any complaints. I loved this story the first time, and I love reading it again. However, I will admit that listening to the audio the first time, kind of ruined the graphic novel piece of the story the second time around. I felt as though the audiobook just made the comic piece so much more magical. The only main issue that I had with the story the first time was that I wished we got to see how Libby ended the comic with their new friends. The book is wonderful and the audiobook performance is spectacular. I am not joking if you need to read a book this year, pick this one up.
The Half-Life of Marie Curie By Lauren Gunderson
I will admit that this was my first audiobook of 2020. I wanted to read this in December of 2019, but I chose the listen to holiday music instead. I gave this book/ performance a five out of five stars on Goodreads.
I do not know where to begin. I just loved this performance. In reality, it is the play done in an audiobook format, and I love it. I love how you get to listen to music or the ocean waves and it makes you feel like you are there with the characters. It made me sad that I was not able to afford to go and see this play in New York. The ending of this play made me wish that I was able to talk to others about this because it was so blunt. I just wished that I was able to talk to someone and cry at the same time. I will forwarn people that there are some language and violence in the book, but in all the performance is amazing and it made me do some research on our famous female scientist.
In the end, I do recommend this audio to everyone. It is such a fun short read.
The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister
If you are not an America, let me tell you how essential this book is to us. This book is told in every preschool to kindergarten classrooms (3 – 5 years old). Who doesn’t love a story about how sharing can bring happiness in our life through a fish with beautiful shiny scales.
The reality is that I chose this book to help me complete a challenge for the Book Quest Vol. 1 because I was not sure if I would be able to get the other book that I wanted to read in time. The challenge that this book would complete is that it was published in a foreign language.
I really loved this book, and it brought back so many nostalgic memories for me. It was fun talking to the librarian about this book and we really connected through this story.
I do recommend this story for those who are parents to share this with their children. It is a beautiful book, not just in the story, but in illustration as well. It will easily become a favorite in your home as well.
That completes this second book review of 2020. I am hoping that I will continue to share with you all the wonderful books that I will read throughout 2020.
Until next time,
Super Bookworm.