The Accidental by Ali Smith: A Deep Dive into the Themes and Style

I recently had the pleasure of discussing my favorite reads of the month with Russell, and one book that stood out was Ali Smith's The Accidental. I must say, I'm a huge fan of Ali Smith, not only because she reminds me of Virginia Woolf, but also due to her unique writing style and ability to tackle complex themes in her novels. As I delved deeper into the book, I realized that it's a masterpiece that requires multiple readings to fully appreciate its depth.

One of the aspects that drew me to this book was its exploration of family dynamics and the unhealthy patterns that can be passed down through generations. The story is told from the perspective of a family - the DA (David), the stepdad, the mom, the 12-year-old daughter, and the teenage son - who repeat in the same order three times each, with the exception of Amber, who walks into their lives on vacation and shakes things up. Through this narrative structure, Smith masterfully exposes the dark secrets and repressed emotions that have been hiding beneath the surface of this family.

I must admit that I found some parts of the book to be a bit confusing, particularly the interludes with Amber, which were all about film and stuff. However, as I continued reading, I began to appreciate the way Smith weaves together themes from different literary traditions, including Virginia Woolf's work. The more I thought about it, the more I realized that Smith is indeed a masterful writer who can tackle complex ideas in her own unique way.

One of the things that impresses me most about Ali Smith's writing style is its ability to withstand close reading and analysis. Like Virginia Woolf, she has a gift for creating novels that are both deeply personal and universally relatable. Her writing is like a rich tapestry, with layers upon layers of meaning that can be uncovered with patience and attention. I've always loved the way Smith writes about themes that are often overlooked or underappreciated, such as the complexities of family relationships and the power of storytelling.

The Accidental is no exception to this pattern. On one level, it's a story about a family who discovers hidden secrets and repressed emotions, but on another level, it's an exploration of the human condition - our hopes, fears, desires, and dreams. Smith's writing is both poetic and precise, capturing the nuances of human experience with a depth that's rare in contemporary literature.

In conclusion, The Accidental by Ali Smith is a novel that requires patience, attention, and multiple readings to fully appreciate its complexity and depth. While it may not be my favorite book (that distinction belongs to one of her earlier works), I can confidently say that it's a masterpiece that will continue to inspire and challenge readers for years to come.

A Conversation with Russell

I also want to extend a special thank you to Russell, who joined me in reading The Accidental. Our conversation was both enlightening and entertaining, as we delved into the world of Ali Smith's writing and explored her unique approach to storytelling. Russell brought a wealth of insights to our discussion, including his observations on how Smith tackles themes that are often overlooked or underappreciated.

Our conversation was also notable for its lack of gushing (well, almost). While I'm certainly a huge fan of Ali Smith, Russell's calm and measured tone helped to balance out my enthusiasm. Together, we explored the ways in which Smith uses her writing style to create novels that are both deeply personal and universally relatable.

Reading The Accidental with Russell was an excellent experience, and I highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys literary fiction. Not only did our conversation shed new light on this complex novel, but it also highlighted the beauty of reading with someone else - the way shared insights and observations can deepen our understanding of a text, while also making the experience more enjoyable.

In conclusion, The Accidental by Ali Smith is a novel that rewards close attention and multiple readings. Its exploration of family dynamics, themes from Virginia Woolf's work, and poetic writing style make it a true masterpiece of contemporary literature. If you're a fan of literary fiction or simply looking for a new book to challenge your reading habits, I highly recommend adding The Accidental to your list.

The Evolution of Ali Smith

As I delved deeper into The Accidental, I began to realize that it's part of a larger body of work by Ali Smith. Her writing is characterized by its unique blend of style and substance, tackling complex themes in a way that's both poetic and precise.

I couldn't help but think of Virginia Woolf, another writer who shares some similarities with Smith in terms of her exploration of the human condition. Both writers are known for their lyrical prose and ability to capture the nuances of human experience. However, while Woolf was more focused on exploring the individual's inner world, Smith tends to focus on the interconnectedness of all things - the relationships between people, the power of storytelling, and the complexities of family dynamics.

Smith's writing is also notable for its ability to blend different literary traditions and styles. Her work often incorporates elements of magical realism, absurdity, and social commentary, making it a true original in contemporary literature. While some readers may find her style challenging or unconventional, I believe that it's precisely this versatility that makes her novels so compelling.

The Accidental is no exception to this pattern. On the surface, it's a story about a family who discovers hidden secrets and repressed emotions, but on another level, it's an exploration of the human condition - our hopes, fears, desires, and dreams. Smith's writing is both poetic and precise, capturing the nuances of human experience with a depth that's rare in contemporary literature.

In conclusion, Ali Smith is a writer who continues to evolve and grow as an artist. Her unique blend of style and substance makes her novels both challenging and rewarding to read. While The Accidental may not be my favorite book (that distinction belongs to one of her earlier works), I can confidently say that it's a masterpiece that will continue to inspire and challenge readers for years to come.

The Future of Literary Fiction

As we move forward in the literary landscape, it's clear that Ali Smith is one of the writers who will shape the future of fiction. Her unique blend of style and substance makes her novels both challenging and rewarding to read. While some readers may find her writing style difficult to stomach (literally!), I believe that it's precisely this versatility that makes her novels so compelling.

In an age where literary fiction is increasingly fragmented and niche, Smith's work stands out for its ability to tackle complex themes in a way that's both poetic and precise. Her writing is not just about storytelling; it's about exploring the human condition - our hopes, fears, desires, and dreams. This is a challenge that many writers are not willing to take on, but Smith rises to the occasion with her trademark style and substance.

In conclusion, The Accidental by Ali Smith is a novel that rewards close attention and multiple readings. Its exploration of family dynamics, themes from Virginia Woolf's work, and poetic writing style make it a true masterpiece of contemporary literature. If you're a fan of literary fiction or simply looking for a new book to challenge your reading habits, I highly recommend adding The Accidental to your list.

A Final Word

As I close this review, I want to emphasize the importance of The Accidental by Ali Smith. This is a novel that will continue to inspire and challenge readers for years to come. Its exploration of family dynamics, themes from Virginia Woolf's work, and poetic writing style make it a true masterpiece of contemporary literature.

If you're looking for a book that will challenge your reading habits and reward your patience, look no further than The Accidental by Ali Smith. This is a novel that requires close attention and multiple readings to fully appreciate its complexity and depth, but trust me when I say that it's worth the effort.

In conclusion, The Accidental is a must-read for anyone who enjoys literary fiction or simply looking for a new book to challenge your reading habits. With its unique blend of style and substance, Ali Smith has created a novel that will continue to inspire and challenge readers for years to come.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhi I'm Kendra Winchester welcome back to my channel and today I'm gonna be doing the first of three wrap ups for November apparently I just decided to kick it in gear and try to make my goal for the year and I read about I don't know 15 books so far this year and I'm gonna finish two today I don't know what's going on but I'm not gonna complain I'm not gonna complain so I decided to split up the wrap ups into three parts so I'll have this first part which is fiction and I think like one poetry book the second part will be the non-fiction books for nonfiction November and the last part will be the other regular wrap-up so there we go so I actually have to start though with a book that was from last month because as we know I always say I have to do the digital ones I forget them and I did that's what I get for not doing this first so the first book I'm going to talk about is a conjuring of light by ve Schwab this is the last book in her darker shade of magic series and I can't really tell you much about this book because it will be full of spoilers but basically the premise is that there are several different London's there's like a red London a grey London on black London in a white London there's like all kinds of rap magic systems and stuff like this and Samuel Wyatt and I have actually been reading these I'm somewhat together I think if we read them within the same year it counts as reading them together because we read so few books that are the same I enjoyed this book more than the other books the other books I guess if you want to start readings were like 3 stars for me they were good but I really struggle with her plot and I've seen her talk about her writing and she says she struggles with plot the most and I think you can definitely tell that but her characters are great her world-building is great but sometimes stuff will happen and I'm like why on earth did this happen like it says obviously just a device like I shouldn't be able to see the strings of the puppet you know moving around and I feel like though like she's so good at whirl building I'm still gonna read stuff that she writes but I just struggle because there's such a differing level of skill and the different areas of book writing and I don't know but I I did enjoy this last one more than the other two so I definitely will be picking up more in this series so speaking of digital books I read the humans by Matt Hague for well the book clubs I'm in and this is a book about an alien who comes to earth and inhabits the body of a dude that they killed and he's from like light-years away and way ahead of the civilization and he comes down and he begins to observe humans and the joy of this book is that because he's an alien and completely and totally like clueless about humans you make such interesting observations about humans and what it means to be human and why you know it's okay like he's immortal and he doesn't understand why humans live the way they do and he thinks like they're kind of pointless because they die so quickly and all those things and I just really enjoy that perspective of this book this is a fascinating book and the way that Matt had is able to look at different things about humanity and just make that kind of commentary I found really interesting and yeah I don't know it was a fun read it was a fun read and I had been reading a lot of heavy stuff and it was just light and enjoyable and I laughed out loud so many times so the next book actually is a book of poetry and that is bestiary by Danica Kelly and this is out from Graywolf press and I really love Graywolf press they are an indie publisher of pretty fairly well renowned and they have great poetry and this is about this entire poetry collection is about Donna Kelly's I guess growing up kind of deal she's an african-american woman who is trying to make sense of the world and also trying to make sense of some abuse and her childhood and different things or at least you know the narrator is and you could tell her some direct relations so I don't want to say what's true of the author and what's not because obviously that's poetry so who knows who knows but I really thought that she did such a great job with it and I really enjoyed the poetry so I definitely be picking up more of what she writes but what's interesting I think about hers is that she has this one poem I'm gonna show you here in a second it's called how to be alone and it's this these empty spaces and it's kind of like the paragrafix paragraphs themselves are isolated and so as she's going through that there's all this empty space and there's this poor lonely like isolated paragraph and she just used stuff like that throughout the entire collection and the bestiary part is like she'll take a creature as like the heading as the title and then she'll like write a poem that relates to that and I thought that was really well done throughout the entire collection it wasn't overdone like it was an over themed but they were all coherent and they all went together so I really enjoyed this poetry collection next up is an arc I have from Algonquin and that is an American marriage by Terry Jones and coming out on February 6 2018 and this book is about a african-american couple and they are doing I think they were like spending the night in this little hotel for their anniversary or some such thing and what happens is that he is accused of rape and wrongly put in prison and so he's there for several years and it's this whole idea of waiting and it's really an intense look at a marriage not just the marriage itself but how they came to be married and then during the marriage and then after the marriage and like would she will she wait for him if she doesn't wait for him was there something wrong with the marriage in the first place and if she will wait for him is it really worth her waiting for him and there's all of these questions and I didn't really expect to fly through this book like I did I started reading and I looked up and it was two hours later and 90 pages later and all this stuff was happening and I really appreciated the way that Terry Jones like she writes the novel in chapters and then there's while he's in prison it's all letters because that's the only way obviously they can communicate and then it goes back to the regular novel format I really enjoyed that and I really enjoyed her really intense look at the characters like on a sentence level like it's fine it's not like I feel like the sentence level it doesn't keep up with her like really zoomed and look at this marriage and she's really great at picking apart the marriage and looking at it that way I thought that was really interesting so and I found this really compelling so any faults that I found with the book I felt like we're fairly well balanced with the things I really liked about the book so I definitely think it's worth the shot and just I love books about marriages not just like getting together which seems to be the trend but like the marriage itself and will they stay together will he not stay together and why or why not that is so definitely check out an American marriage by Terry Jones the next two books that I read were here we go first month I'm every heart of doorway by Seanan McGuire and also down on the stacks and bones these or two novellas about children if you go off in two different worlds like Chronicles in already I couldn't do where they go off and this little gate like door Thor you know I was doing maybe like a walk through and like her role building is fantastic like I didn't find the writing itself that great and some of the characters I felt were more stereotypical but what's magical about this these books both of these books it's about like how she's created this world and how fascinating this world is if the books were longer I don't think I would have enjoyed them as much just because the Falls that are there with the writing and some of the characterization would be kind of annoying but because you're so short I just really enjoyed the world that she's made and this one is actually about two characters from the first book and the world they wander into in their stories specifically and then there's a third novella coming out oh I mean people really love these and I do think they're quite fascinating but yeah I don't think I'm quite like jumping on the bandwagon but I'm definitely gonna be reading the third one when it comes out just because these are fun and they are a great way to break up a really intense like reading schedule when you just need something short and fast and light-hearted like these are actually really dark and intense but they're not like as intense as you know say evicted you know by Matthew Jessamine which is about you know the poverty and low income housing kind of thing or not that kind of intense they're just kind of dark if that makes sense that makes sense okay I'm glad you understand me am I like stream-of-consciousness ramblings guys that's it's really encouraging and helpful speaking of stream-of-consciousness the last book I have the talked to you about is probably I would say oddly enough my favorite reads so far of the month and that is Ali Smith The Accidental all the tabs so I'm reading this over with Russell over ink or paper blog had he was such a gracious soul because I started reading this and I got so excited about this book a lot of books I enjoy but they don't have a ton of depth to them they could probably stand a few readings but like nothing like this book obviously I love Ali Smith because she's like Virginia Woolf and so once I googled Virginia Woolf and Ellie Smith all this stuff came up Alex Smith is actually lectured about Virginia Woolf and I realized that a lot of the themes that she writes about come from Woolf novels so for example how to be both you could argue that that's the same themes as Orlando just totally rewritten and it even has the same things of time and then you could say this woman has two themes up to the lighthouse and it's just rewritten and then the style is so similar to Virginia Woolf I feel like you couldn't definitely tell that like Ali Smith is like Virginia Woolf slike heir-apparent kind of deal like she is the direct descendent of Virginia Woolf kind of deal like I absolutely adore her style and what she writes about now on this book on a this book on a book level there are parts that I don't like so like for example the entire book is written from the perspective of this family so you have the DA the stepdad the mom the little girl who's like 12 and then the teenage boy and they repeat in the same order three times and then in between those and on the ends is amber and amber actually one day walks into the families of life while they're on vacation and she kind of disrupts everything about their life and they're kind of forced to reveal all of the bad things about their family dynamics all of the unhealthy things you might say and they kind of explodes all of that and then they kind of have to pick up the family and just basically face the repercussions of unearthing all of these true feelings that people have been repressing for so long so like that is really well done but I don't think the interludes with amber really worked for me because they're all about film and stuff but ultimately I really enjoyed this book the more I think about it the more I like it and yes it's confusing but I think part of that is just because Ellie Smith is so smart and I'm not as smart as Alice with it also like I can research the crap out of this book and still find more I could probably read papers about this book and still find more and that's something I've always loved about Virginia Woolf and that's something I love about good literature is that you can study it you could write papers on it you can write it can withstand the weight of hundreds of Papers written about it and I don't know like if it's gotten to that point yet but you understand like you should be able to peek into every crevice about this book and still find something new and that I think is what Ali Smith has so even though it's not my favorite Ellie Smith and like there are some things that just don't work as well I think she's fixed those problems in her writing later in later novels but also when we talk about a novel like Ali Smith not being as great as some other ones she still has like a novelist is way up here when the average novelist is like down here so you know I'm gonna stop talking about Ali Smith just and spare you all but yeah I many thanks to Russell for listening to all of my ramblings about this book and continuous gushing about this book yeah it was a lot of fun to read this book with him he had a lot of great insights about how Ali writes about themes in different books and how like her style is and how she approaches books themselves and that was really great so thank you very much for Russell for reading this with me I greatly appreciate it and I'll be enough both of my buddy reads that I have ever done have been Ali Smith I read how did we both over with Doris over all the books and so I don't know I feel like this is a trend so that was enough gushy for one day if you've read any of these books and have feelings about them please let me know I'm happy to read them and we have a lovely discussion in the comments so if you want to check out all of these books they are down in the description box below definitely check those out there's just so many good ones down there so that is all for me and I will be back later with probably my nonfiction wrap-up so I guess I'll see thathi I'm Kendra Winchester welcome back to my channel and today I'm gonna be doing the first of three wrap ups for November apparently I just decided to kick it in gear and try to make my goal for the year and I read about I don't know 15 books so far this year and I'm gonna finish two today I don't know what's going on but I'm not gonna complain I'm not gonna complain so I decided to split up the wrap ups into three parts so I'll have this first part which is fiction and I think like one poetry book the second part will be the non-fiction books for nonfiction November and the last part will be the other regular wrap-up so there we go so I actually have to start though with a book that was from last month because as we know I always say I have to do the digital ones I forget them and I did that's what I get for not doing this first so the first book I'm going to talk about is a conjuring of light by ve Schwab this is the last book in her darker shade of magic series and I can't really tell you much about this book because it will be full of spoilers but basically the premise is that there are several different London's there's like a red London a grey London on black London in a white London there's like all kinds of rap magic systems and stuff like this and Samuel Wyatt and I have actually been reading these I'm somewhat together I think if we read them within the same year it counts as reading them together because we read so few books that are the same I enjoyed this book more than the other books the other books I guess if you want to start readings were like 3 stars for me they were good but I really struggle with her plot and I've seen her talk about her writing and she says she struggles with plot the most and I think you can definitely tell that but her characters are great her world-building is great but sometimes stuff will happen and I'm like why on earth did this happen like it says obviously just a device like I shouldn't be able to see the strings of the puppet you know moving around and I feel like though like she's so good at whirl building I'm still gonna read stuff that she writes but I just struggle because there's such a differing level of skill and the different areas of book writing and I don't know but I I did enjoy this last one more than the other two so I definitely will be picking up more in this series so speaking of digital books I read the humans by Matt Hague for well the book clubs I'm in and this is a book about an alien who comes to earth and inhabits the body of a dude that they killed and he's from like light-years away and way ahead of the civilization and he comes down and he begins to observe humans and the joy of this book is that because he's an alien and completely and totally like clueless about humans you make such interesting observations about humans and what it means to be human and why you know it's okay like he's immortal and he doesn't understand why humans live the way they do and he thinks like they're kind of pointless because they die so quickly and all those things and I just really enjoy that perspective of this book this is a fascinating book and the way that Matt had is able to look at different things about humanity and just make that kind of commentary I found really interesting and yeah I don't know it was a fun read it was a fun read and I had been reading a lot of heavy stuff and it was just light and enjoyable and I laughed out loud so many times so the next book actually is a book of poetry and that is bestiary by Danica Kelly and this is out from Graywolf press and I really love Graywolf press they are an indie publisher of pretty fairly well renowned and they have great poetry and this is about this entire poetry collection is about Donna Kelly's I guess growing up kind of deal she's an african-american woman who is trying to make sense of the world and also trying to make sense of some abuse and her childhood and different things or at least you know the narrator is and you could tell her some direct relations so I don't want to say what's true of the author and what's not because obviously that's poetry so who knows who knows but I really thought that she did such a great job with it and I really enjoyed the poetry so I definitely be picking up more of what she writes but what's interesting I think about hers is that she has this one poem I'm gonna show you here in a second it's called how to be alone and it's this these empty spaces and it's kind of like the paragrafix paragraphs themselves are isolated and so as she's going through that there's all this empty space and there's this poor lonely like isolated paragraph and she just used stuff like that throughout the entire collection and the bestiary part is like she'll take a creature as like the heading as the title and then she'll like write a poem that relates to that and I thought that was really well done throughout the entire collection it wasn't overdone like it was an over themed but they were all coherent and they all went together so I really enjoyed this poetry collection next up is an arc I have from Algonquin and that is an American marriage by Terry Jones and coming out on February 6 2018 and this book is about a african-american couple and they are doing I think they were like spending the night in this little hotel for their anniversary or some such thing and what happens is that he is accused of rape and wrongly put in prison and so he's there for several years and it's this whole idea of waiting and it's really an intense look at a marriage not just the marriage itself but how they came to be married and then during the marriage and then after the marriage and like would she will she wait for him if she doesn't wait for him was there something wrong with the marriage in the first place and if she will wait for him is it really worth her waiting for him and there's all of these questions and I didn't really expect to fly through this book like I did I started reading and I looked up and it was two hours later and 90 pages later and all this stuff was happening and I really appreciated the way that Terry Jones like she writes the novel in chapters and then there's while he's in prison it's all letters because that's the only way obviously they can communicate and then it goes back to the regular novel format I really enjoyed that and I really enjoyed her really intense look at the characters like on a sentence level like it's fine it's not like I feel like the sentence level it doesn't keep up with her like really zoomed and look at this marriage and she's really great at picking apart the marriage and looking at it that way I thought that was really interesting so and I found this really compelling so any faults that I found with the book I felt like we're fairly well balanced with the things I really liked about the book so I definitely think it's worth the shot and just I love books about marriages not just like getting together which seems to be the trend but like the marriage itself and will they stay together will he not stay together and why or why not that is so definitely check out an American marriage by Terry Jones the next two books that I read were here we go first month I'm every heart of doorway by Seanan McGuire and also down on the stacks and bones these or two novellas about children if you go off in two different worlds like Chronicles in already I couldn't do where they go off and this little gate like door Thor you know I was doing maybe like a walk through and like her role building is fantastic like I didn't find the writing itself that great and some of the characters I felt were more stereotypical but what's magical about this these books both of these books it's about like how she's created this world and how fascinating this world is if the books were longer I don't think I would have enjoyed them as much just because the Falls that are there with the writing and some of the characterization would be kind of annoying but because you're so short I just really enjoyed the world that she's made and this one is actually about two characters from the first book and the world they wander into in their stories specifically and then there's a third novella coming out oh I mean people really love these and I do think they're quite fascinating but yeah I don't think I'm quite like jumping on the bandwagon but I'm definitely gonna be reading the third one when it comes out just because these are fun and they are a great way to break up a really intense like reading schedule when you just need something short and fast and light-hearted like these are actually really dark and intense but they're not like as intense as you know say evicted you know by Matthew Jessamine which is about you know the poverty and low income housing kind of thing or not that kind of intense they're just kind of dark if that makes sense that makes sense okay I'm glad you understand me am I like stream-of-consciousness ramblings guys that's it's really encouraging and helpful speaking of stream-of-consciousness the last book I have the talked to you about is probably I would say oddly enough my favorite reads so far of the month and that is Ali Smith The Accidental all the tabs so I'm reading this over with Russell over ink or paper blog had he was such a gracious soul because I started reading this and I got so excited about this book a lot of books I enjoy but they don't have a ton of depth to them they could probably stand a few readings but like nothing like this book obviously I love Ali Smith because she's like Virginia Woolf and so once I googled Virginia Woolf and Ellie Smith all this stuff came up Alex Smith is actually lectured about Virginia Woolf and I realized that a lot of the themes that she writes about come from Woolf novels so for example how to be both you could argue that that's the same themes as Orlando just totally rewritten and it even has the same things of time and then you could say this woman has two themes up to the lighthouse and it's just rewritten and then the style is so similar to Virginia Woolf I feel like you couldn't definitely tell that like Ali Smith is like Virginia Woolf slike heir-apparent kind of deal like she is the direct descendent of Virginia Woolf kind of deal like I absolutely adore her style and what she writes about now on this book on a this book on a book level there are parts that I don't like so like for example the entire book is written from the perspective of this family so you have the DA the stepdad the mom the little girl who's like 12 and then the teenage boy and they repeat in the same order three times and then in between those and on the ends is amber and amber actually one day walks into the families of life while they're on vacation and she kind of disrupts everything about their life and they're kind of forced to reveal all of the bad things about their family dynamics all of the unhealthy things you might say and they kind of explodes all of that and then they kind of have to pick up the family and just basically face the repercussions of unearthing all of these true feelings that people have been repressing for so long so like that is really well done but I don't think the interludes with amber really worked for me because they're all about film and stuff but ultimately I really enjoyed this book the more I think about it the more I like it and yes it's confusing but I think part of that is just because Ellie Smith is so smart and I'm not as smart as Alice with it also like I can research the crap out of this book and still find more I could probably read papers about this book and still find more and that's something I've always loved about Virginia Woolf and that's something I love about good literature is that you can study it you could write papers on it you can write it can withstand the weight of hundreds of Papers written about it and I don't know like if it's gotten to that point yet but you understand like you should be able to peek into every crevice about this book and still find something new and that I think is what Ali Smith has so even though it's not my favorite Ellie Smith and like there are some things that just don't work as well I think she's fixed those problems in her writing later in later novels but also when we talk about a novel like Ali Smith not being as great as some other ones she still has like a novelist is way up here when the average novelist is like down here so you know I'm gonna stop talking about Ali Smith just and spare you all but yeah I many thanks to Russell for listening to all of my ramblings about this book and continuous gushing about this book yeah it was a lot of fun to read this book with him he had a lot of great insights about how Ali writes about themes in different books and how like her style is and how she approaches books themselves and that was really great so thank you very much for Russell for reading this with me I greatly appreciate it and I'll be enough both of my buddy reads that I have ever done have been Ali Smith I read how did we both over with Doris over all the books and so I don't know I feel like this is a trend so that was enough gushy for one day if you've read any of these books and have feelings about them please let me know I'm happy to read them and we have a lovely discussion in the comments so if you want to check out all of these books they are down in the description box below definitely check those out there's just so many good ones down there so that is all for me and I will be back later with probably my nonfiction wrap-up so I guess I'll see that\n"