But I still maintain that the text of the book doesn’t have anything new to say or even a creative way of saying it.

I’ve been told by my arty friends and family members that the art is beautiful, so there’s that.

This book is a bunch of inspiring platitudes accompanied by illustrations. Here are two things about me: I’m not at all visually-oriented and I don’t have a sincere bone in my body. This is another one that doesn’t actually deserve to be on this list. Overall, I did I still like this book, but I expected so much from it, but by trying to do too much it ended up doing too little.ĩ) The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy Instead of continuing the themes and storylines set up so beautifully at the start of the story, the second half of I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter crams in halfhearted plotpoints about everything from gang violence to teen abortions to eating disorders. Sánchez that she had to address literally every single topical social issue, and as a result everything is rushed. When Julia’s perfect sister Olga dies, Julia finds herself unable to fill the space left or answer the questions Olga left behind. I really, really wanted to love this book. Anyway, here we go! My Bottom 10 Books of 2019ġ0) I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. I hated putting some of these on this list, but I’m a stickler for format and I wanted to keep the top ten/bottom ten thing going even though top ten/bottom five probably would’ve been more fair. A lot of them, at least in the first half of this list, are either just not my thing or didn’t live up to their potential. I didn’t read as many books as usual in 2019, and I didn’t read all that many that I truly, actively disliked, so there are more books than usual on this list that even I’ll admit aren’t actually that bad. At the end of every year, I make top ten and a bottom ten lists.

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