#BookWorm: Two By Two

Hello fellow readers!

It's been a while since I finished a book for fun, and so this was the one I have been working on since November. Yeah, not a lot of free time to read fiction lately! Which is super sad because that is obviously one of my favorite things to do. God willing I will be done with this OCN exam by the end of February and can get back to reading for fun! Anyways, Two by Two written by Nicholas Sparks was my most recent read and his most recent novel. It was a pretty typical Sparks book, except for me there was a lack of spark. This book focused on Russ, a mid-aged man married to Vivian and their daughter London. Basically he goes from being the bread winner, to quitting his job while his wife goes from being full time stay at home mom to going back into the work force. Now he has to be Mr. Dad and learn about the world of a four year old. It honestly was easy to depict what happens, even the little plot twist at the end. I liked Russ' character, but Vivian pissed me off (which I guess was kind of the point). To me, it was more of a long drawn out story of a marriage catastrophe instead of a romantic love story. Which I get not all of his books have great happy stories the whole time, but this was just kind of annoying. And the title was explained like once during the book and wasn't the besst title for the book in my opinion. Overall I would give it a 6/10. It was "ehh" compared to his other books. An easy, mindless read.

There are SO many books I need to catch up on reading, so I am hoping I can take and pass this test within the next month or so and then be back to my normal routine of fiction reading on the daily! Keep sending me book names, I have been writing them all down and adding them to the list! In the world of Madi and I, it's been a lot of work and school with some Duke basketball mixed in. Go devils! He will be traveling in February for school, and I will be in March but we are excited for the spring and summer as we have some fun trips planned!

Thanks for reading with me,
- Olivia :)