Month: June 2024
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Book Review: Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
A friend of mine initially recommended this book to me, saying I would love the setting and the fact that the protagonists are writers. I’m always skeptical of fantasy even though I did find the premise intriguing. When it was chosen as a group read with The Global Book Nook, I figured it was a…
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Book Review: The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman
I had high hopes for this one and it’s partly on me for being let down. I haven’t tolerated any sort of pandemic fiction (or nonfiction) well since 2020, however, my main issues with the book lay elsewhere…
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Book Review: Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie
I’ve seen the Disney movie, I’ve seen two different productions of the musical, I’ve watched Peter Pan Goes Wrong, and I’ve watched/read other movies and books that retold the story, yet until now, I’d never actually read the source material. I have to admit, I’ve liked many of the other versions/adaptions better…
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May Wrap-up
May was, somehow, even busier than April. Or I should say I struggled even more than usual with time management. I read a lot more than I expected to, partially due to a random graphic novel kick that began. Unfortunately, even while I’m writing this halfway through June, I haven’t written many of my May…
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Book Review: A Pope and a President by Paul Kengor
As soon as I heard about this book I knew it was too intriguing a subject to let sit it on my TBR shelf for any length of time. I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect going into it as I’ve never given any thought to which U.S. presidents were in office while Pope John…
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Book Review: The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Though this book has caught my eye in bookstores, I went into it somewhat blindly. I knew it involved H.H. Holmes, but I didn’t anticipate everything else it included…
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Book Review: Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs
This series has caught my eye for a while, especially when the movie came out. I’ve been hesitant to pick it up because I’m not typically one for the horror genre. I joined a buddy read which gave me the push I needed to read it…
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Book Review: The Accidental Empress by Allison Pataki
I’ve been meaning to pick this book up for years. I first heard of the book series when I discovered the musical about Elisabeth of Austria. I was particularly drawn to the summary of the second book, but I wanted to start at the beginning…
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Book Review: The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave
I’ve enjoyed previous books by Laura Dave such as The Last Thing He Told Me and Eight Hundred Grapes so I was excited to see another book from this author. I’d categorize this one somewhere between the two I mentioned — part mystery, part family-oriented drama…
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Book Review: Middletide by Sarah Crouch
I see a lot of people comparing this book to Where the Crawdads Sing. Though I’ve been curious about that book, I’ve yet to read it. I was kind of glad about this as I didn’t have a comparison in mind…