How To Build A Girl | Reading Challenge

I have a feeling that these sorts of posts are going to become a little more frequent than once a month as reading is the thing I seem to be doing the most recently. I hope that you don't mind and that you enjoy reading these sorts of posts as much as I enjoy writing them. My last Reading Challenge post is one of my most popular so that appears to be the case!

The second book that I read for my reading challenge was How To Build A Girl by Caitlin Moran. 

This book took me a very long time to read. I started reading it a couple of months ago over summer and unfortunately lost interest in the middle of the book, I found it to be a little tedious and dull as the plot didn't really seem to be moving anywhere. However, when I decided to embark on my reading challenge I wanted to ensure that I finished all of the books that I had started but never quite got round to finishing. I currently have one last unfinished book to read but I will probably not write a post about this one.

Although I did lose interest in the middle part of the story once I got past the 'hump' I really managed to get into the story a little more and found the last half of the book to be more enjoyable. I found 'Dolly' to be quite entertaining and the book did make me giggle at some points.

I think the main thing that stood out to me about this story is based around a character from a working class background which is something that you don't see all too often. But other than that I could not find anything else to relate to within the main character (my life is simply not that wild) which I think may be to blame for my loss of interest.

I also found it quite hard to keep up with how time was passing as one minute she was 14 and the next she was 17 and appeared to be a completely different person. Although this may be down to the long break I took in between reading the book.

At times I found the language to be vulgar which is something that I am not a fan of. There was a considerable amount of talk about sex in the last part of the book. If this is something that you do not like I would probably steer clear of this book. I personally found a lot of the pages to be somewhat awkward to read a little bit too cringey for me.

Although this review does seem to be mainly negative points I did somewhat enjoy the book and grow a liking for the character towards the end when she begins to see 'the error in her ways'. I also found one chapter at the end of the book to be quite inspiring and it did leave me with a warm feeling and a sense of a little more self-acceptance.

I hope you enjoyed this post and as I mentioned in my last Reading Challenge I have been getting back into Goodreads recently. If you would like to follow me on there Click Here!
As always, thank you for reading and I hoped you enjoyed.

-Chloe

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Eleanor & Park | Reading Challenge

I absolutely love reading but over the past couple of years I have found it difficult to find the time. At the beginning of this month I set myself a reading challenge, this is something I set myself every year but this time I think I may be able to stick to it. I currently have way too many books left on my shelf unread and every time I look at it I feel a little bit guilty.
Like every teenage girl I cant resist young adult fiction, particularly ones that I feel I can relate to. These usually feature a slightly awkward young girl.

The first book I decided to read on my new journey was Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell, which I'm sure many people have already read so I'm pretty late on the bandwagon.

I'm a bit of a cringe, I love reading about people falling in love. Although sometimes I do get tired of the cliche slightly awkward, unconventional girl falling in love with a perfect boy I still very much enjoyed this story, so much so that I managed to read the whole book within a week.

The writing style of this book is quite different to a lot of the books that I have read from this genre. The book is written in third person which took a little getting used to at first because most young adult books are written from the perspective of the 'awkward' girl. Another thing that was different about the style of this book was the perspective change multiple times each chapter. Normally when books are written from both characters perspective a new chapter marks the change of perspective. Although this style was different I actually quite prefer it, I like that it allows you to have a better idea of how each character is feeling in each scenario.

Another thing that made this book stand out to me was that an effort was made to not ignore the drama and minor paranoia that comes with a new relationship and getting to know the person, finding out about who their exes are, who was their first kiss, etc. I liked that this was included in the book as it really made the love story a little more believable.

I also particularly enjoyed the nerdy comic book references, they made me smile a little bit as they remind me of my own boyfriend, like I said, I'm a bit of a cringe.

I really enjoyed reading a love story again. I hope that this will get me back into reading them. My plan at the moment is to post one book post a month, this will hopefully encourage me! I'm also trying to get back into using Goodreads. If you would like to follow me on there Click Here.
As always, thank you for reading and I hoped you enjoyed.

-Chloe

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