Nov 21, 20201 min read
Review: Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
How can a book be so compellingly fascinating and yet so mind-numbingly dull?
Oct 16, 20201 min read
Review: The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
I only managed to finish reading this because I had gotten through about 70% while stuck on a car ride with nothing else to read...
Oct 9, 20201 min read
Review: The Road by Cormac McCarthy
You know a book is incredible when you finish it in less than a day! From page one I was hooked and I just couldn't put The Road down.
Oct 6, 20201 min read
Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Okay wow. Wow! I came into this a little wary (as someone who typically hates classics)...
Sep 25, 20202 min read
Review: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
Arthur Golden's prose is stunning, there's no denying, but talk about tedious! Don't get me wrong, I adored the story, but it is just so wor
Sep 23, 20202 min read
Review: Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan
Talk about being juicy and scandalous, Kevin Kwan has made the an Asian soap opera that is entertaining and addicting. Think Dynasty,...
Sep 17, 20201 min read
Review: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman
4.5 stars I went into this book fairly confident I was going to love it: it was exactly the kind of book I like, with a complicated and...
Sep 12, 20204 min read
Review: Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald by Therese Anne Fowler
2.5 stars. meh. This wasn't really what I was expecting. The book is called "A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald" but a more accurate title would...
Sep 9, 20202 min read
Review: Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All by Laura Ruby
4/5 stars “Be something every minute of every day, be sad, be cold, be warm, be hungry, be full, be ragged or well dressed, be truthful,...
Sep 5, 20203 min read
Review: The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow
5/5 stars (yay!) There was something profoundly sad about closing this book when I finished it, because I knew with certainty that I will...
Sep 5, 20203 min read
Review: The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden
I'm always a bit cautious whenever beginning a book or series with so many gushing reviews seeing as I've been burned before. But in my...
Sep 4, 20202 min read
Review: Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng
So.......I don’t even know where start. I am drained, as if someone took all of the energy out of me. This book was so beautifully and...