The old man and the sea & Mosquitoland (short review)

Hello everyone,

so I just finished reading 2 books from my summer reading list!! I’m so excited, because I might be able to pull it off and finish all of them 🙂

The first book I finished this week was: The old man and the sea 

I was really excited to read this book because obviously you read amazing comments on the legendary Hemingway everywhere, however I must admit that after reading this book, his style might not be one of my favorites. Don’t get me wrong, the book itself is really good, it shows the place man has in the world in a really metaphorical and beautiful way, but I don’t know, I guess he is really different from everything else I’ve read before. My all means you should read this book; it should be in everybody’s reading list, however if you are not that into the slow-paced event-development thing, then I must warn you. This novel is not to be read in a rush, the story itself forces the reader to slow down and really meditate what is written; only this way will you fully understand what the author portrayed in this book.

The second book I read was: Mosquitoland

This is a relatively new book that caught my attention from the very opening line “I am not okay”

This story is not about superficial things, when you read these words, let me tell you, they really mean something deep. The author shows a girl that at the beginning seems like a sick person, with some quirky facts about her, however as the story develops you begin to question how really sick she is, or if she is sick at all. I think that you can really see the deep internal pain a person can go through and most of all, be able to endure and manage to find the tiniest ray of light that life might give. It is definitely a YA novel, however if you want some light reading then this is definitely something you should consider. Funny, painful, sad and exciting are some of the words I can use to describe Mosquitoland.

If you read these books, please let me know what you think!! 🙂

Love,

Lily

A little summer reading

Hello everyone!

First of all, I have to apologize for the lack of activity on my blog these past weeks, it’s just that I’ve been really really busy with some things, but now, I’ve decided to get myself more organized and actually start using my calendar haha, set dates and follow a planner in order to get more things done.

Anyways, the reason I am actually writing this, is to share with you my to-read list of the summer, and I really really hope to finish it 🙂

1. Demian – Hermann Hesse (currently reading)  This one is in german and is a lot of work to try and tackle this bad boy! I talked about it more in a past post, check it out here
2. The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho
3. The Book Thief – Markus Zusak
4. The old man and the sea –  Ernest Hemingway
5. Mosquitoland- David Arnold

Please let me know what you think of it, have you read any of these books? Do you have any suggestions, comments, etc?? I would absolutely love to read your opinion.

ALSOOOO you can check out my entire to-read list, not just for the summer, here

Love,

Lily