Tag: reading
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Book Review: Carrie Soto is Back by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I had been so geared up to read this book when it was first published (after reading Malibu Rising), but I kept putting it off for some reason. I wish I hadn’t now, because I felt like I was reading it out of a sense of duty to my past self, despite the fact that my excitement…
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Book Review: Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
I’ve been wanting to read this book since I fell in love with the (short-lived) Broadway musical. Why did I put it off for so long?! Although the book is short, it is so lovely…
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Book Review: Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Ransome
I’d been unaware of this series until I watched the movie adaptation. I fell in love with the story and charming characters. Seeing that this was a decent-sized series, I wanted to give the books a go…
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Book Review: The Engraver’s Secret by Lisa Medved
I’m a sucker for art history, and I haven’t read many (if any) books set in this time period and setting. How could I not pick up this book?!…
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Book Review: Pope Leo XIV by Christopher White
I wanted to love this book so much. Given how shortly after the election of Pope Leo XIV this book was published, I hadn’t expected this to be an in-depth biography. I did, however, expect it to be wholly about Cardinal Prevost/Pope Leo XIV…
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Book Review: The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit by Sara Jane Loyster
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit is one of my favorite paintings. I was ecstatic to see that someone had written a novel inspired by it! Going in, I didn’t realize it would be a time travel story. While those are hit or miss for me, I enjoyed how this one was done. It worked well…
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Book Review: The Secret War by Stacy Lynn Miller
For once, I was aware that I would be starting in the middle of a series. The synopsis was too intriguing to pass up. Unfortunately, within a couple of chapters, I realized that this is a series that absolutely needs to be read from the beginning. I was missing a lot of the backstory, and…
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Book Review: The View From Lake Como by Adriana Trigiani
I don’t think any modern-day author can capture the idea of Italy better than Adriana Trigiani. There is something enchanting about the country. Although I have only spent a week of my life there, I still speak about it as though it were a significant era. Watching Jess ‘come home’ was such a treat…
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Book Review: The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk
After reading The Winds of War duology by Herman Wouk over a year ago, I was curious to read more by him. Although his writing is slow to build, it does not disappoint…
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Book Review: What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
I have been chasing the literary high I felt when I read The Child in Time, being especially drawn back to Ian McEwan. I thought the premise of this sounded interestingly different than other books/synopses of his books that I’ve read, and was excited to read it…