Miss Sherlock

I've recently discovered this peculiar TV show inspired by the adventures of the famous detective. If you love Japan and mystery stories, this may be a good series to watch while enjoying some sushi.

The Library of Lost and Found: review.

I have three questions for readers:

1. How much of your day is devoted to doing tasks for other people and how much time do you spend doing things for yourself?

2.Out of all the chores that are in your to-do list, how many will benefit you and how many will benefit others?

3. Is pleasing people  taking up too much of your time and at the end of the day you feel exhausted and still have a sense of unfulfillment?

If you've answered yes to any of the previous questions, you need to take a break and read this book.

Martha is a middle-aged woman who believes she has wasted her life, working for peanuts, taking care of her demanding parents and doing a wide array of favours to very ungrateful so-called friends. She just does not have a life of her own. As a child, she received little bits of conditional love and that's the way she thinks love is: you are worth how much people appreciate what you do for them. But then she finds a book and everything changes.

The Library of Lost and Found is in my opinion about the second chances we can give ourselves and about self-love. That's what I loved about the novel, the way Martha manages to turn everything around focusing on herself first. She doesn't become a selfish person, she becomes self-aware and starts living her own life.

For Better or For Worse by Margot Hunt: opinion.

Natalie and Will are a middle-class couple of attorneys who have to endure one of the hardest tests as parents and at the same time deal with a crumbling marriage. Their beautiful boy has been abused by someone they trusted.

Even though the topic of child abuse makes me sick, I finished the book and I didn't regret it. You will feel enraged when you read it and you will want the worse to happen to those who committed that horrendous crime. Well, the way it ends (view spoiler)[can be considered quite satisfactory (hide spoiler)] and may make you think what you would have done in the same circumstances.

I recommend this book to readers who believe that no crime should go unpunished.

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen : opinion.

Set time aside to read this novel because it's really hard to put down. You'll probably start questioning the morality of the characters and then your own one. If you have a therapist, you may even begin to wonder how honest that person is. This book will definitely give you food for thought.

When I finished reading it, I realised that the character I had disliked at the beginning was the one I pitied at the end.

I recommend this book to anyone who likes reading.

Come Find Me by Megan Miranda: opinion.

I wouldn't call this an entertaining book, it was certainly engaging but not fun to read. In fact, I found it quite blue.

Two teenagers whose lives have been shattered meet each other and are willing to believe they are receiving signals that will finally make everything make sense.

I guess I misread or misinterpreted what the book was about and was expecting some sci-fi or paranormal twist but I only found wishful thinking and real-life drama.

In spite of what I wrote before, I truly like the way Megan Miranda writes so I would recommend this novel to young adults and fans of the genre.