First Week Wrap Up

This past week I've read 4 books.

The first was Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann. This is a non-fiction book about the formation of the FBI and one of their very first cases solving the murders of the Osage Indians that occurred in the early 1900s. While the people, corruption, and murders were fascinating, I felt this was somewhat disorganized and didn't hold my attention as much. I gave it 3 stars.

Then I listened to Binti by Nnedi Okorafor. (This was for my un-slumpathon challenge to listen to an audiobook.) I enjoyed this sci-fi novella and found the African roots interesting. However, I wanted more to the story. I guess I'll just have to pick up the next one. I gave this 4 stars.

Next I picked up Jessica Jones: Uncaged. This was for the challenge to read a comic book. I've really been enjoying the t.v. show on Netflix but this story was much further in the future which spoiled some info for me. In addition, I was lost on what had happened before. However, Jessica Jones is a badass and I loved her character so I gave it 3 stars.

Lastly, I picked up The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros. This fulfilled the challenge to read a story under 200 pages.  I was told it is a classic coming-of-age story in a poor neighborhood- all the things I usually love. However, this was written in vignettes with stories that were very loosely connected. Some were heartbreaking and left me wanting to know more, and others seemed like filler fluff. I think I would have enjoyed this story if it had followed more of a narrative. It seemed like the author had 17 different ideas for the story and just crammed them in together without connecting the dots. I gave this 2 stars.

Overall, my reading has not been very exciting. I'm hoping to turn that around this next week.