Gurlaffe Reads

     Hello hello! Somehow it's the weekend again and here I am posting a day late... It's been a really great week for me, though. I posted my first review in over a month, received a super exciting ARC request, and, more importantly, actually finished a book! I also got mostly caught up on my self-paced summer math course, which, let me tell you, has been much more difficult than anticipated. It's hard to keep yourself accountable with something like that! Stay motivated, friends.      Let's talk about what I read this week! Unfortunately, I ended up DNFing the two sci-fi novels I was going to read. I did, however, get through Julie Otsuka's  The Buddha in the Attic  and gave it a whopping five stars. Check out my full review  here .      Next week I'm going to try and get in everything that I meant to read earlier in the month and didn't. Here's the books that includes: Goodbye, Vitamin  by Rachel Khong I'll be starting ...

     What an incredible read! Julie Otsuka's The Buddha in the Attic presents the story of thousands of Japanese women who came to America in search of a better life. Many of them never found it, but through this novel and others like it, I certainly hope their stories are heard.      This book is written in an almost eerie first person plural perspective. It begins on a boat full of the "picture brides", sometimes called "mail-order brides", exchanging photos of their husbands, looking to the future with bright eyes and excitement of what awaits them in America. The brides are Japanese women who came to America in the early 1900s to marry men whom they'd previously been matched with. They arrive in San Francisco to find that many of their husbands aren't quite as young or attractive as they thought, and many of them aren't as well-off as they were told either. We follow these women through their terrifying first nights as wives, watch them as they v...

     Hello friends! It's been a while, hasn't it? I have to admit that I haven't been reading as much as I'd like to recently. My summer is turning out to be crazier than I anticipated, and I'm trying to rework how blogging and bookstagram will fit into it. I am getting back on track, though, so I should be on here a lot more in the coming weeks.      Speaking of reading and crazy schedules, I was gone all of last week training to volunteer at a summer camp. I thought this would mean I would have reading time without my phone and spontaneous reorganizing as distractions, but boy, was I wrong. I think I read 20 pages the whole week!       Things are calming down, though, and I have about a week before I'm off on another adventure (which will involve 26 hours on a bus round trip, so there should be reading time there???). Let's take a look at my tbr for this week! The Rose  by PD Alleva I've gotten about a quarter to a third of the wa...