Soooo....I'm not used to reviewing books I don't like, but Isabel Banta's Honey just didn't do it for me. Let me explain why!

Source:
Banta, Isabel. Honey. Celadon Books, 2024.

Music:
Bus Stop

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/city-slacker/bus-stop/

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Hooptie With The Windows Down

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/city-slacker/hooptie-with-the-windows-down/

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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Today I'm reviewing two amazing books with amazing character work...Funny Story by Emily Henry and If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio! These books have completely different moods to them, but I enjoyed both of these and I loved doing my analysis.

Sources:
Henry, Emily. Funny Story. Berkley, 2024.

Maas, Jennifer. “‘funny Story’ Author Emily Henry Breaks down New Romance Novel, ‘Very Discreet’ Easter Eggs for Previous Books and ‘Scary’ Feelings about What She’s Writing Next.” Variety, Variety, 24 Apr. 2024, variety.com/2024/film/news/funny-story-emily-henry-daphne-miles-easter-eggs-1235980167/.

Puckett-Pope, Lauren. “Emily Henry on ‘funny Story,’ Romance Novel Tropes, and Adapting Her Books into Movies.” Elle, Hearst Magazine Media, Inc., 24 Apr. 2024, www.elle.com/culture/books/a60569995/emily-henry-funny-story-interview/.

RIO, M. L. If We Were Villains. FLATIRON BOOKS, 2024.

Shakespeare, William, and Paul Menzer. Romeo and Juliet. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, an Imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017.

Shakespeare, William, Burton Raffel, et al. Julius Caesar. Yale University Press, 2006.

Shakespeare, William, G. B. Harrison, et al. King Lear: Text, Sources, Criticism. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1962.

Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Floating Press, 2008.

Music:
Nights Like This

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/beat-mekanik/single/nights-like-this/

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Bus Stop

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/city-slacker/bus-stop/

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

Hooptie With The Windows Down

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/city-slacker/hooptie-with-the-windows-down/

https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

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TikTok: @krizzakritza
Youtube: Krissi Reads Pod

Well...this book was hard to review, but we gotta talk about it! This month, we read No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai, and it's got a lot of heavy subject matter. Join Kristen as she discusses this novel.

Sources:

Dazai, Osamu. No Longer Human. New Directions, 2022.

Neporent, Liz. “What’s the Deal With Comedians and Depression?” ABC News, 12 Aug. 2014, abcnews.go.com/Health/deal-comedians-depression/story?id=24945911.

Music:

April Showers by HoliznaCC0, Free Music Archive, CC0/Public Domain
Intro Music link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/holiznacc0/spring-at-last-lofi-tape/april-showers/

License: https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/

(Ambient) Deep Sky by Kirk Osamayo, Free Music Archive, CC BY
Background Music link: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/kirk-osamayo/season-one/ambient-deep-sky/
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode