 Hey fam, and welcome back to Conversations With Carrie. Now, we are going to the holiday season and I want to tell you about some books. Y'all know I love me a book review. Book review. Hey, hey, I said book review. You know, I got a song for everything, child. But anyway, if you have not checked out my to be read list, please go take a look at that because I have some books here that read from that list and I want to tell you about them. First, I want to start with Wish You Were Here. This book, Jody Ficult, first of all, I love her books. I talked about that. I've talked about plenty of her books in the past in my book reviews. This, though, took me in a completely different direction than what I thought. Again, y'all know I don't like to get spoiler alerts, but in the middle of the book, it totally flipped the script on me. Either way, there it goes. This woman like gets stuck on a stranded island in COVID during COVID and her boyfriend is back home in New York. She's on this island. She ends up like kind of falling for another guy and like helping this young girl who's dealing with like she's cutting herself. So like there's a lot going on. But then there's a twist and I can't tell you what the twist is because otherwise I think it will ruin the book. But I'm going to say I highly recommend this read. It's very different than what I thought. The price also I don't want to read about what people were dealing with during COVID. You know, that was a hard time. That was a dark time. But it has a great twist. I highly recommend it. Go get it. I'm actually keeping this book. Sometimes I sell my books back to half price bookstore. I'm keeping this one because I'm like I might read this again. And now this one, I think I had told y'all like I don't read too many love stories. Like I'm like I'm trying to be mindful of where I'm at in life and not I just don't want to always be reacting to love stories. This one was really cute. And I love that it was black folks because I like to read about you know people that look like me but also learn about other cultures. But it's cute. It's very sweet. It's romantic but not in the like grossly mushy kind of way. It's like oh passionate kids and like oh no we shouldn't have kids type moment like that kind of stuff. This is like this time of the year with all the hallmark and like Christmas movies is giving you that vibe but with like a few extra cuss words. I think it was cute. Like I if you like romantic novels, yes. Again, you have to know where you're at in life. If this is not for you, check yourself in like if you single and ready to mingle, great. But if you single as a Pringle, this may not be the one for you. But again, it's cute. It's an easy read. I highly rate like you could probably finish it in one day laying on the couch one day doing hopefully your Christmas break between Christmas and New Year's. You're not doing too much work. But it's a good read. So and then my last one. You know how you get a book and you're like this is called Jojo Moyes. It's one plus one. You know you get a book and you're starting to read and you're like I read this before. That was my moment with this book. As I'm reading I'm like this feels familiar but not familiar enough. Child, I did read this book and I think I paid regular price for this book. It is a good one though. So I did enjoy it. It's about a young woman who has a family. Her husband has left her to go sort some things out and get some things together. And she has her son who wears makeup and getting badly bullied for it. And then she has a younger daughter who I would say that she's maybe autistic and really great with numbers. And you know the mom is like has her own cleaning business but you know she's literally scraping to get things together and make it happen. And the father's of no help and she's trying to be a woman of integrity and not just like poo poo on the father. And turns out the boy's not actually even hers. It's the it was her husband's first child. But she's trying to her best to just hold things together. And she meets this guy who was also dealing with some some legal issues. And he's made some bad decisions. And you know he's kind of like a nerd who got money all of a sudden. And she meets him ends up getting some money from me. But not in an honest way. And they go on this like road trip together. And her daughter cannot ride above 40 miles per hour in the car without getting sick. Can you imagine child listen I want people I drive okay. I ask people to get out of the fast lane. So for those of us who like to break the law we can actually do what we need to do. So 40 miles like an cross country trip. No, I ain't doing it. But anyway, it's such a good little story. I really enjoyed it. It hits on so many things like you know bullying for being different and the child like the importance of a father in a household. She gets a big surprise about the daddy towards towards the end of the book. I'm still love story as well. But it's also talking about like a dynamic and like you know shout out to all my single moms out there. Y'all are holding it down and doing what you need to do. I know it's not easy and single dads as well because I know it's not easy for y'all when it's one parent that feels like they're holding the majority of the responsibility. That's never easy. And so this is a book that you will be able to relate to. So I highly recommend it apparently I've read it twice because I was reading the last part. I was like, I don't know what happens. Don't carry. So you know what when you read a lot sometimes that happens but I still enjoyed the book and I still recommend it for you. So again, the neighbor favor by Christina Forrest. I don't know if I said that earlier. I recommend it for her one plus one. And Jody Pickle which wish you were here. Yeah, I'm enjoying books right now and I'm getting inspiration and all of that. So if you want to come back for some more book reviews, y'all know I like to get my book reviewed then so be sure to like and subscribe and leave me a comment. What are you reading? Or if you've read these, give me your thoughts. Okay, talk to you next time.