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January 18, 2015

Review: Teacher Man by Frank McCourt

I should preface this by saying, when this book was lent to me by a friend I had never read any of his books. I knew the name, I knew about Angela’s Ashes but Frank McCourt had always seemed to remain in the periphery of my reading life. I knew he had written one book,… Continue reading

Reviews

Genre: Biography, Genre: Non-Fiction
January 18, 2015

Review: The Silkworm by Robert Galgraith *cough* JK Rowling *cough*

Cormoran Strike would probably be a very hard person to like if he were real. He’s gruff, sometimes insensitive, often clueless despite being quite intelligent and can be quite rude. However, that doesn’t stop me from utterly loving him on the page. I know he’s flawed, he’s a pain in the ass and yes, sometimes… Continue reading

Reviews

Author: JK Rowling, Female Authors, Genre: Mystery
January 14, 2015

Review: The Storied Life of A.J Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin

Pardon my French. But this book, this fucking book. It’s beautiful. Just one word. Beauty. The writing wove itself around me, bringing back memories of childhood spent in the stacks of my old library, of an old bookstore run by an older woman who genuinely cared about what people were reading and the impression it… Continue reading

Reading Challenges, Reviews

Author: Gabrielle Zevin, Challenge: Woman, Genre: Contemporary
January 13, 2015

Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

When I was eighteen or nineteen do you know what I was doing? Not crafting a masterpiece of literature while spending time with my soulmate. I believe I was actually freaking out over college applications coming in. Mary Shelley was fast working on something that would leave her a master of a genre, perhaps one… Continue reading

Reading Challenges, Reviews

Author: Mary Shelley, Challenge: Banned Books, Challenge: Woman, Genre: Classic Fiction, Genre: Horror
January 7, 2015

To be read…or not to be

My to be read list is more than eighty titles long. I know, I’ve heard all the jokes. I have more books than time. I am an addict. I might need some sort of twelve step program. Sometimes I even find myself getting overwhelmed by what I should read. The solution came in a post… Continue reading

Bookish Things

To Be Read
January 6, 2015

Three Reviews for the Price of One

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton I don’t know what made me wait so long to read any of Michael Crichton’s books, after all he was definitely a master of plot, characters and he usually did a pretty good job on his science as well. Jurassic Park, the book which the movie phenomenon ended up based off… Continue reading

Book List 2015

Author: Michael Crichton, Author: Patricia Briggs, Challenge: Diversity, Challenge: Woman, Genre: Modern Fantasy, Genre: Sci-Fi, Genre: Supernatural, Reviews, Series: Anne of Green Gables, Series: Jurassic Park, Series: Mercyverse
January 6, 2015

Reading Challenges 2015

I have decided to participate in a few reading challenges this year. The first being the Banned Books Challenge at the level of Trouble-Maker, reading 3-5 banned books. The second challenge will be the Women Challenge at level 2 reading 6-15 books by a female author. The third challenge is the Diversity Challenge, in which… Continue reading

Reading Challenges

Female Authors
January 4, 2015

The Weirdest Top Five Books from 2014 List You’ll See

I managed to read, including comics, 125 books in the year 2014. Not all of them were published in 2014, in fact fuew of them were but this list is based off books I read, and here they are. So here are my top reads from 2014, in no particular order. They were even fun, or… Continue reading

Lists

Author: Damien Brown, Author: Diana Gabaldon, Author: Diana Rowland, Author: Eoin Macken, Author: Rainbow Rowell, Genre: Historical Fiction, Genre: Modern Fantasy, Genre: Non-Fiction, Genre: YA Fiction
December 24, 2014

Descent-A Review

Descent-A Novel by Tim Johnston There are certain books that might actually end up making better movies, or TV shows than novels. In my mind this book is one of them, with certain scenes needing a certain photographed or captured moment to illustrate them properly. That is not to say that this is a bad… Continue reading

Reviews

Author: Tim Johnston, Genre: Mystery, Genre: Suspense
November 18, 2014

Review: Peter Pan Must Die

In John Verdon’s most sensationally twisty novel yet, ingenious puzzle solver Dave Gurney brings his analytical brilliance to a shocking murder that couldn’t have been committed the way the police say it was. The daunting task that confronts Gurney, once the NYPD’s top homicide cop: determining the guilt or innocence of a woman already… Continue reading

Reviews

Author: John Verdon, Genre: Mystery, Series: Dave Gurney