Breaking up is hard to do I went through a Jodi Picoult phase when I was in my twenties. True her novels are formulaic but they were still enjoyable and that’s the important thing. Unfortunately, that was not the case with The Tenth Circle. While it is a timely book The Tenth Circle just fell […]
When I was eleven, and a new resident of Missouri my family made a weekend trip to Hannibal, the boyhood home of Samuel Clemens AKA Mark Twain. You would think as a reader, I would have loved this, and at first I was excited. However, that excitement ended soon after we arrived. We toured the […]
Review The Pearl Sister is the fourth book in the Seven Sisters series. Like the rest of the books in the series The Pearl Sister is told in two parts, one from CeCe, the Seventh Sister in question and the second from her ancestor Kitty McBride. To be blunt, I could have done without CeCe’s […]
First Date: Readers of this blog will know that I enjoy reading books on famous persons’ signficant others. Therefore, it should come as no surprise that I picked up The Other Einstein. Unfortunately, I had a little difficulty getting into this novel and even tried listening to some of it. This helped a little, but […]
Impressions In a Nutshell: Sylvia Plath did an excellent job drawing the reader (or in this case the listener) into Esther’s world and her slow journey down the rabbit hole. My attention was not captured right away. I continued to ask myself when she was going to “get crazy”. I questioned Esther’s stability through the […]
Review I have mixed feelings about The Silent Child. It held my attention and listened to it in two days. I was engaged by Joanne Froggatt’s narration and hope to listen to more by her. However, despite all the build-up surrounding Aiden’s disappearance it just kind of fell apart at the end. However, I still […]
I’ve tried reading Brideshead Revisited several times and I always end up putting it to the side. I find it hard to get into and takes too long to “get there”. However, when I saw Brideshead Revisited on sale at Audible and that it is narrated by Jeremy Irons I decided to snatch it up. […]
When starting Plastic-Free July I promised to focus on my co-op’s bulk section when buying food and; if I wanted something sweet I had to make it myself. Well, my sweet tooth struck and deemed it was time to put on my baking hat. I looked in my refrigerator and compared its contents to that […]
Big Little Lies is my first in my analysis of books vs their film (or series) counterpart. Big Little Lies has been circulating the book blogosphere for a while so the novel is nothing new, however what brought me to read it was the HBO series. It looked like a trashy romp and is one of […]
Review: I purchased Everything I Never Told You on a whim. When I walked into Barnes & Nobel I only had eyes for Little Fires Everywhere. However, I am usually hesitant to splurge on a hardcover by an author I’ve never read before. Therefore, I reached for Celeste Ng’s début novel. The plot of Everything […]