Candy Bunny Reader

This is the second book I have read (well, this one for today I listened to on audiobook) from this author. I enjoyed it waaay more than the first book I read from her ( The Secret Garden , which I gave 2 stars). It is worth it to give authors another chance! A Little Princess by Frances Hodgeson Burnett is about Sara Crewe, the daughter of a wealthy businessman/officer. She has just come back from India and will attend a boarding school for girls in London. Sara is a sweet girl with a huge imagination, and everyone in the school has taken a liking to her. Especially a girl named Ermengarde and another girl named Lottie. Well, almost everyone likes Sara. Miss Minchin, who is the headmistress, a two mean girls named Jessie and Lavinia, can't stand her. One day, Sara receives news that her father made a bad investment, and he lost all of the family's money. Shortly afterward, her father dies of an illness. Miss Minchin decides to downgrade Sara into being a scullery maid for th

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett is an adult historical fiction literary novel about the Vignes twins--Desiree and Stella, and their families. The Vignes family is black and they are light-skinned black people. They lived in a town called Mallard, in Lousiana, which was a town with mostly light skinned people. As they were growing up, the sisters were inseparable. Life wasn't always easy, but they had each other. But when they moved to New Orleans to get jobs, Stella decided to pass as a white woman in order to get a job as a secretary. Then she fell in love with her boss, a white man named Blake, and they moved to Los Angeles and had a daughter named Kennedy. Stella decided to lie about her true heritage and family.  The other sister, Desiree, got in a relationship with a black man named Sam, and had a daughter with him named Jude. Desiree got a divorce from Sam because he treated her poorly, and so she and Jude moved back to Mallard to care for her elderly sick mother, Adele.

My wonderful friend @books.below.stars over on Instagram tagged me in this and I thought it looked neat!  This tag is based off of songs by Maisie Peters. As always, feel free to do this tag if you see this.  1. you signed up for this (a book character you relate to) It's a tie between Richeh from Witch Hat Atelier and Luffy from One Piece . 2. cates brother (your favorite tropes) Found family, friends to lovers, witchcraft, and mysteries. 3. glowing review (most recent 5 star book) Fake Dates and Mooncakes by Sher Lee 4. there it goes (comfort book) It's a tie between Anne of Green Gables, Kisses and Croissants, and Just Ella .  5. john hughes movie (a book you want an adaptation of) Let the Bone  graphic novel series by Jeff Smith finally have an adaptation!!! 6. truth is (a book you wish you didn't read) Unpopular opinion but...Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen  7. adore you (a book you will always recommend) Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin

So I actually read this book last month. But it's not too late to talk about it! Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier is a classic historical fiction book set in the 17th century in the UK. It is about Dona St. Columb, a noblewoman who has grown disillusioned and bored with her high class life and decides to engage in escapism to one of her estates in the countryside. While there, she finds out the house has been used as a hideout for a French pirate. She meets the French pirate and his crew one day while out for a walk, and falls in love with him. He also asks her to join his crew. Dona decides to lie to everyone in her social circle back home that she is sick and is not to be visited, but the truth is that she escapes to the Frenchman's pirate crew! She goes on a little pirate adventure with him and makes herself his unofficial cabin boy. However, her little trick causes a lot of tension back home, as everyone in the community knows about the pirates' crimes and th

So this is just a snapshot of the books I plan on reading and series I want to finish/catch up on in 2024. As always, the list is subject to change. This is just what I am currently in the mood for and can see myself reading/finishing/catching up with at least in the first half of 2024. Tell me your reading plans for 2024! Witch Hat Atelier Volume 11 by Kamome Shirahama Hollowpox: The Hunt for Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townscend Serafina and the Twisted Staff by Robert Beatty Cosmoknights Volume 2 by Hannah Templar A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett To The Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf The Story Girl by LM Montgomery Little Women by Louisa May Alcott The Trumpet of the Swan by EB White   North and South by Elizabeth Gaskill Unbowed by Wangari Mathai Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson Holes by Louis Sachar Piranesi by Susana Clark Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes If You still Recognize Me by Cynthia So Ellie Engle Saves Herself by Leah

All the books I read in December! I read a total of 14 books . I hope your reading month was great, too! As usual, links to full reviews will be available if applicable. 1. The School for Whatnots by Margaret Peterson Haddix. This is about Max, a rich boy who's family wanted him to grow up with the best life possible, so his parents sign a contract to send him to a whatnot school. Those are schools where all the children are actually very humanoid robots who are all nice and well-behaved. Max becomes friends with a whatnot named Josie. But Josie has her own secret: she's actually human. Max then gets a strange note from Josie one day telling him "No matter what anyone tells you--I'm real". Max doesn't understand what it means at first, but eventually he, Josie, and some new friends find out about the truth about the whatnots and their shady corporation. Very cool book! Gave it 4 stars .  2. Magical Boy 1 by The Kao . This is about Max, a trans boy who is de