Category: Reviews
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Focus On: WWI & WWII
Ever since the latest season of Downton ended, I’ve been searching for something to fill the void. Though there’s nothing quite as funny as watching Maggie Smith talk about weekends, I found a few substitutes. It’s only natural that I turned first to historical fiction set in the 20s before moving on to fiction set…
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Abandoned!
There’s nothing I hate more than sitting down with a book and finding out that it’s just not right. For me this happens when I try to read something too deep on a rainy day or try to read a fluffy novel when I’m in a serious mood. Goldilocks, much? Most often, I pick the…
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Speed Reviewing: June 10
I read a lot if you hadn’t noticed! Sometimes I read things that I like but don’t think warrant a full review, but I feel bad for not giving them enough attention. Everyone needs some easy chick-lit now and again, right? Maybe that’s just me… Without further ado, here are tiny reviews of some books…
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Focus On: Unlikeable Narrators
Have you ever read a book where you hate all of the characters? How about one where the narrator is so annoying you’re tempted to abandon the book entirely? Over the past two weeks I’ve stumbled across two books that fit this description. They suffer from what I’ll call “the Gone Girl effect.” Don’t get…
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Book Review: The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls by Anton DiSclafani
The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls: A Novel by Anton DiSclafani Pub Date: June 4, 2013 Rating: 4/5 Lately I’ve been loving historical novels — Above All Things, Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, The Bookman’s Tale. When The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls: A Novel showed up in my mailbox last week I knew…
The Library of Alexandra 