Publisher: Random House Audio

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead held great promise. The novel had an interesting idea of the Underground Railroad being an actual railroad, unfortunately, that is where it ends. The Underground Railroad was an undeveloped idea that never turns from a cocoon into a butterfly. The characters were rather dull and, despite all they had […]

Posted August 18, 2017 by Whitney in Review / 4 Comments
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Why Not Me? By Mindy Kaling

Why Not Me? By Mindy Kaling

Why Not Me? by Mindy Kaling was just the book I needed after the horrendous 2016 presidential election. I had been in such a funk and was having difficulty taking Taylor Swift’s “Shake it off” mantra. After binge watching the first three seasons of The Mindy Project I was going through withdrawal. To get me […]

Posted December 3, 2016 by Whitney in Review / 2 Comments
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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

Impressions on Book I had not read Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov in a least ten years and after watching the 1962 movie felt it was time to reread the classic novel. When I first read Lolita I remember being shocked by Humbert Humbert’s actions finding it grotesque. On this reread, in a generation jaded by […]

Posted November 4, 2016 by Whitney in Review / 5 Comments
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The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

The Grownup by Gillian Flynn

First Impressions The first sentence in The Grownups by Gillian Flynn includes the words “hand job”. I wasn’t sure how I felt about that. What direction will the story take? To be frank, it was a turn-off. Impressions While Reading The Grownups was odd, to say the least. An unnamed psychic who knows how to […]

Posted September 2, 2016 by Whitney in Review / 4 Comments
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