Year 3, week 36: Beach Read / The Two Lives of Lydia Bird

Two books this week!



Beach Read
By Emily Henry

This week's book was one of my Book of the Month books for April. I may have bought two from the options for April and added a book from before I started getting books from them, because I was so excited.

This book was the pick I was most jazzed about. The story is about two authors (one that writes romantic books and the other writes more serious novels). It sounded like a light quick read and I was excited. It kind of seemed like the author was trying to write both and didn't succeed doing either.

I still enjoy the book and would recommend it, I was just a little too excited about the book and was a little disappointed by it.



The Two Lives of Lydia Bird
By Josie Silver

This book was my March Book of the Month book. When I was picking my selection for the month, I originally picked it because I had read another book by the author last Christmas, and when I read the little blurb about the book it reminded me of an episode of Ally McBeal.

The book is about a woman who is engaged to her high school boyfriend and he dies suddenly in a car accident. The reason the book sounded like that beloved show from the late 1990's was because there was an episode that Ally was defending a lady who wanted to be put into an induced coma because she had this whole other life that she lived when she was dreaming. The lady wanted to live this other life in dreamland instead of living her real life. When the main character in this book struggles, she starts taking sleeping pills that send her to an alternate universe where her sweetheart is still alive and they are still getting married. The main character jumps from each plot and it can be jarring sometimes.

I lost my mother over seven years ago, and I had and still have a hard time with her loss. The trauma of losing your way after the death of a loved one isn't really something I want to read. It was my fault for picking this book. I didn't enjoy the book, but maybe you would if you like a fantasy tearjerker type of book.