Category: Books

• Giveaway: The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic

    Remember a few months ago when I reviewed The Thinking Woman’s Guide to Real Magic? Go check out the review, I’ll wait! Don’t you just want to read it? Not yet, okay well here’s a summary that put’s mine to shame: Nora Fischer is a bluestocking-ish grad student with a stalled thesis, unsure future,…

  alexandrap529

  August 11, 2014

  Blog Tour

  emily croy barker, giveaway, thinking woman’s guide to real magic

• End of Trilogies (The End of the Journey): The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman

  The Magician’s Land by Lev Grossman Rating: 4/5 Finishing a series is difficult (just ask G.R.R. Martin!) Many a great trilogy has fallen on its face in the final pages. Take Hunger Games, Divergent or the Matched Trilogy for instance. The world building is incredible….and then you get to the last book. Everything feels rushed…

  alexandrap529

  August 6, 2014

  Blog Tour, Book Review, Books

  book review, chronicles of narnia, fillory, lev grossman, the magician’s land, trilogy

• An Interview with Lev Grossman

  Today I’m pleased to be a part of the blog tour for Lev Grossman’s The Magician’s Land. I will have a review of the book up next week but I wanted to share an interview with the author.    A Conversation with Lev Grossman Q:  People considered The Magicians to be Harry Potter for grown-ups and…

  alexandrap529

  August 1, 2014

  Author Event, Blog Tour, Books

• Good Books I Know I’ll Never Read

  Today there was a really interesting post over on BookRiot about good books that the blogger knows she will never read. I thought it was such an honest look at reading that I wanted to share my own! 1. Crime and Punishment  by Fyodor Dostoyevsky I know, I know. I’m a bad English major. Crime…

  alexandrap529

  July 23, 2014

  Books

  books i’ll never read

• Book Review: The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness

    Rating: 4/5 Remember when I blathered on about Deborah Harkness last month? Well the last book in her trilogy is FINALLY out and it is a great conclusion to the story. Click through for more

  alexandrap529

  July 15, 2014

  Book Review, Books