Round Table Book Club discussion

So the theme for this month is a bit personal. My sister's birthday is this month, so the theme is related to her:
Everyone should read a book either with the name Katherine in the title (my sister's name) OR something vampire/dark fantasy related (her favourite book is Vampire Academy)

I have two book choices this month, but obviously you do not need to read two books on these topics, nor do you have to choose the two I pick. Though you are welcome to do both.

My book choices for the month are "An Abundance of Katherines" by John Green An Abundance of Katherines; and "Vacations from Hell" by a compilation of authors including Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, and Maureen Johnson. Vacations from Hell
(I know, these are both older releases, lol)

I'm excited to hear about what others are reading.

Emma wrote: "So the theme for this month is a bit personal. My sister's birthday is this month, so the theme is related to her:
Everyone should read a book either with the name Katherine in the title (my siste..."

Month roundup!

This month I ended up only reading these two books, haha. ( I also started Motley Crue's "The Dirt" but I haven't finished it yet)
I was satisfied with both, but not quite amazed by either--I didn't really expect to be though, tbh. I gave both of them a three star rating... I wrote a review for An Abundance of Katherines, but not for Vacations from Hell (mostly because I forgot).

An Abundance of Katherines was a very typical John Green novel, I've read a few of his now and they have a similar dynamic. Some lead male teenage boy character who was told he was special and smart and he wants to make a mark on the world, but doesn't have the means to. He gets attached to some unattainable girl and spends the whole book trying to rectify that, only to realize that that too is impossible. He usually has some sarcastic best friend who is always overly obsessed with getting girls, and giving the main character terrible girl advice, but somehow always ends up with a date.
Though this was written before Paper Towns, this felt like a PT rip off (in that, paper towns was way better, tbh). This was Green's second novel, I believe, so I can't really expect too much. But I just found the whole story to be completely unrealistic (I still can't believe he knew 18 Katherines..... like I don't even know two Katherines that have the same spelling. Completely ridiculous).

Vacations from Hell was a mixture of well known authors writing "scary" stories for a compilation. I will admit that the last story, written by Libba Bray, was actually a little scary. But the best were subpar at best lol. I don't even remember a couple of them. The first one was not scary at all, nor particularly good. I appreciate that they built up to the actually well written story at the end... but I feel like they should have perhaps staggered the stories--if I hadn't had motivation to read this book maybe I would have put it down after that first story, cuz it wasn't that great...

That was my experience this month. What did everyone else read??
Stay tuned for this month's theme. Sorry it's late!!