As the new year dawns, it seemed like the perfect time to share my favorite books of 2014. Though I read roughly the same number of books in 2014 as 2013 , 94 to last year’s 90, I read the largest number of pages yet! Over the month of January I will share my favorite … Continue reading 2014 Library of Alexandra Book Awards: Popular Nonfiction
As the new year dawns, it seemed like the perfect time to share my favorite books of 2014. Though I read roughly the same number of books in 2014 as 2013 , 94 to last year’s 90, I read the largest number of pages yet! Quite a feat given that when I started tracking my … Continue reading 2014 Library of Alexandra Book Awards: Short Stories
Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer Rating: 2/5* *(first third 3/5, final third, 1/5) In what might be the first time ever, I did a 360 in my feelings for this book AFTER I started writing my review. I sat down to read Belzhar and had to stop two chapters in to write up my (gushingly … Continue reading Book Review: Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart Rating: 5/5 I rarely rate new books a 5/5, but this one more than fit the bill. All of the things that challenged me about Antonia Lively Breaks the Silence and Gone Girl made me love We Were Liars. I loved the unreliable narrator, the sudden twist close to … Continue reading Book Review: We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
Note: This list is a work in progress Heat Wave by Richard Castle Chanel Bonfire by Wendy Lawless Devil Bones by Kathy Reichs Above All Things by Tanis Rideout Mrs. Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn 84, Charing Cross Road by Helen Hanff Tim Gunn’s Fashion Bible by Tim Gunn Strands of Bronze and … Continue reading 2013 Reading