Category: book review
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Book Review: A Girl During the War by Anita Abriel
Once again I was immediately drawn into not only a WWII plot but also one involving art. Unsurprisingly, I ate it up…
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Book Review: Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
Though I’m not much of a fantasy reader, I was drawn to this one, especially after hearing what a cozy book this is. I probably would have enjoyed this more as a fantasy reader, but I did find it cute…
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Book Review: How to Kill Men and Get Away With It by Katy Brent
The title of this book caught my attention. I mean, I think most women can find a bitter amusement at first glance. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately), I quickly lost amusement and felt like I’d crossed over a morally grey threshold…
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Book Review: Paper Targets by Steve S. Saroff
I love a good art angle in a book be it fiction or nonfiction. Pair it with a mystery and you don’t need to tell me much more to convince me to pick it up…
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Book Review: The Workshop: Week One by Matt Mills
As a hobbyist writer myself, I instantly loved the concept of this series. A group of college students/writers competing for greatness in a sixteen-week creative writing course? I’m in…
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Book Review: The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman
I didn’t realize first going into this that this was a memoir. I guess from the cover I assumed it was a depiction of the Holocaust with a ‘cat and mouse’ metaphor. I realized as soon as I started reading that this wasn’t fiction and it made the analogy all the more powerful…
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Book Review: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
I tried reading Frankenstein several years ago but didn’t get past the first few pages. Attempting it again, I was surprised at how absorbed I became. Not so much in the story itself, but the questions pondered, particularly involving the ‘being’…
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Book Review: Stateless by Elizabeth Wein
Elizabeth Wein is one of the authors that I will automatically read without so much as glancing at the plot. Maybe I’m biased, but there’s something about the style of her stories that I thoroughly enjoy…
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Book Review: The Lexicologist’s Handbook by Dane Cobain
I can’t say I’ve ever sat down and read a dictionary from cover to cover before. The Lexicologist’s Handbook isn’t your run-of-the-mill dictionary overwhelming in length. The pages are full of the more fun words in the English vocabulary…
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Book Review: The Officer and the Spy by Jenny Ashcroft
With a unique setting, great characters, romance, and let’s face it — a gorgeous cover, The Officer and the Spy was a treat to read…