Library Hauls ~ #4

So I got a little carried away this week at the Library and while I am confident I will not finish all these I am excited.

Title: the sun and her flowers
Author: Rupi Kaur
Challenges: Library Love, new author, Personal Reading Challenge

Summary per Goodreads:
From Rupi Kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by Kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.

this is the recipe of life
said my mother
as she held me in her arms as i wept
think of those flowers you plant
in the garden each year
they will teach you
that people too
must wilt
fall
root
rise
in order to bloom

Reasoning:
I haven't read poetry in so long I was struggling to figure out what I exactly wanted to read and where I should start back up. This was on the goodreads pick of 2019 for poetry and I thought I would give it a shot. Sure as poop I am only a few poems in and I'm like whelp I need to own this book and everything else this author has written. She spoke to me more than any other poet has in a good while. It has been refreshing so I am super excited to review this one.

The next book is:

Title: The Likeness
Author: Tana French
Challenges: Library Loot, Cloak and Dagger,

Summary from Goodreads: 
In the “compellingˮ (The Boston Globe) and “pitch perfectˮ (Entertainment Weekly) follow-up to Tana French’s runaway bestseller In the Woods, itʼs six months later and Cassie Maddox has transferred out of the Dublin Murder Squad with no plans to go back—until an urgent telephone call summons her to a grisly crime scene. The victim looks exactly like Cassie and carries ID identifying herself as Alexandra Madison, an alias Cassie once used as an undercover cop. Cassie must discover not only who killed this girl, but, more important, who was this girl?

Reasoning: 
Well this would be the 4th book I have read by this author because I love her stuff so much so I was excited to be able to read it in order from the last one. 

Title: The Ruin
Author: Dervla McTiernan
Challenges: Library Loot, Cloak and Dagger, new author

Summary from Goodreads: 
It's been twenty years since Cormac Reilly discovered the body of Hilaria Blake in her crumbling Georgian home. But he's never forgotten the two children she left behind...

When Aisling Conroy's boyfriend Jack is found in the freezing black waters of the river Corrib, the police tell her it was suicide. A surgical resident, she throws herself into study and work, trying to forget - until Jack's sister Maude shows up. Maude suspects foul play, and she is determined to prove it.

DI Cormac Reilly is the detective assigned with the re-investigation of an 'accidental' overdose twenty years ago - of Jack and Maude's drug- and alcohol-addled mother. Cormac is under increasing pressure to charge Maude for murder when his colleague Danny uncovers a piece of evidence that will change everything...

Reasoning: 
Whelp I love me some Tana French and this author was highly recommended by the librarians and others online if I enjoyed Tana and now that I have discovered *cough* always known that I have OCD when it comes to reading books in order I figured I would start with the first in the series. 

Title: The Dry
Author: Jane Harper
Challenges: Library Loot, Cloak and Dagger, new author

Summary From Goodreads: 
A small town hides big secrets in this atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper.

In the grip of the worst drought in a century, the farming community of Kiewarra is facing life and death choices daily when three members of a local family are found brutally slain.
Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk reluctantly returns to his hometown for the funeral of his childhood friend, loath to face the townsfolk who turned their backs on him twenty years earlier.
But as questions mount, Falk is forced to probe deeper into the deaths of the Hadler family. Because Falk and Luke Hadler shared a secret. A secret Falk thought was long buried. A secret Luke's death now threatens to bring to the surface in this small Australian town, as old wounds bleed into new ones.

Reasoning:
Again it was suggested by the librarians for someone who was a fan of Tana French and that was really all it took.