Tag: literary
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Book Review: My Friends by Fredrik Backman
How do I even begin talking about my experience reading this book? How am I going to sum up all of my thoughts and feelings in a few short paragraphs? All while avoiding spoilers!…
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Top 5: Favorite reads of 2025 (so far)
The first half of 2025 has been such a fantastic year of books for me! I feel like this list may as well drop the ‘so far’ tag because I can’t imagine any books that will be able to top the reading experiences I had with these books. This list only includes fiction books. Nonfiction…
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Book Review: Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney
I knew going into this book that the style of writing was going to be different than what I am used to, so I actually started this as an audiobook to avoid the whole ‘no quotation marks’ issue. I have read books written in this style in the past and enjoyed them, so I wasn’t…
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Book Review: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles
This book was recommended to me several years ago by my grandmother. I remember her speaking about it with enthusiasm, and as far as I can recall, this was one of the last books I remember her talking about. I’ve put it off because I liked having that book recommendation frozen in time, but I…
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Book Review: The Wedding People by Alison Espach
I didn’t pay too much attention to this book when it was first published. I’m not one who gravitates toward wedding stories and, for whatever reason, I thought this was a murder mystery, and I had already read a book with this presumed premise I envisioned…
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Book Review: The Last Green Valley by Mark Sullivan
Yet again, I procrastinated reading a book that I’ve been actively wanting to read for several years. In this case, I’m going to use the excuse that I was letting this age like wine on my bookshelf. I enjoyed Mark Sullivan’s Beneath A Scarlet Sky so much that I think I was a little nervous that another…
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Book Review: Saturday by Ian McEwan
Listen. The Child in Time is one of my favorite books. It was so much a favorite that I binge-bought a bunch of Ian McEwan’s books. It was so good that I have been afraid to pick up another for fear no other book would live up to its memory. But I finally did, because I bought…
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Book Review: Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
This is a book I’ve been wanting to read for a while now, but I’ve put it off. This, unfortunately, allowed too much time to build my expectations to a point where I left little room for anything but those expectations to be met…
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Book Review: Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
The cover of this book has been jumping out at me since it was published and I’ve heard a number of different people reviewing it and speaking about it, but for some reason, I wasn’t super interested in picking it up (the idea of a narrating octopus, perhaps?) until a friend of mine gave a…
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Book Review: Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman
Eleanor Oliphant is certain she’s found ‘the one’ — a handsome band member who she sees on stage one night after winning tickets to a concert. It was fate…