Tag: reading
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Book Review: Alcatraz: The Last Escape by Ken Widner and Mike Lynch
For years, I’ve been fascinated by both Alcatraz as an institution as well as the famous escape. Although this book focuses far more on the escape, I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of history about the jail and some of the better-known inmates included as well…
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Book Review: The Lost Colony and Hatteras Island by Scott Davis Dawson
I’ve become moderately interested in the Lost Colony of Roanoke in the past year and found a couple of audiobooks on the subject. I haven’t looked deeply beyond that format, but I was surprised that not much was coming up on Audible. I was excited to dive into this one, but I was disappointed to…
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Book Review: The Ingenue by Rachel Kapelke-Dale
I bought this book years ago but I couldn’t remember why I was drawn to it, so I went in blindly. I don’t think I would have picked this up had I taken a deeper look into the content. Alas, it held my attention to finish it…
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Book Review: Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman
This book is unlike anything I’ve ever read before. Because of this, I was kind of nervous going into it, but since I was reading it with a book club, I figured it would be a good opportunity to read outside of my comfort zone…
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Book Review: The Vanishing Cherry Blossom Bookshop by Takuya Asakura
I have been loving this genre of cozy Japanese magical realism books lately. A small part of me was nervous that I would be fatiguing myself with these types of books by picking this up relatively soon after the last one (given it’s not a go-to), but it’s now one of my favorites in the…
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Book Review: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Despite my love for classics, I was never drawn to Jane Austen. I think I tried watching the movie of Pride and Prejudice when I was younger, but I wasn’t interested. Although by reading this I confirmed that this isn’t my preferred era of stories, I’m so glad I finally gave it a try…
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Book Review: Graham Greene: The Last Interview
I didn’t want this year to end without reading this much-anticipated book from my bookshelf that somehow kept getting shuffled to the bottom of my priority list. Unfortunately, now that I’ve finally read it, I realize that this wasn’t as spectacular as I’d built it up to be in my mind…
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Book Review: Dunamys: Foreign by Carlos G. Moreno
This is a series that I began out of order. I meant to get to this book shortly after reading book two… alas, my time management skills are terrible. But the wait was worth it!…
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Book Review: Terms and Traditions by Morgan Taylor Giesbrecht
I’ve been on the hunt for more sweet romance books. I saw this one recommended on Instagram and/or YouTube and thought it sounded like a nice, cozy Christmas read…
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Book Review: Food for Thought by Alton Brown
Growing up, Good Eats was my favorite Food Network show. I remembered enjoying Alton Brown’s approach to teaching about food and food science (to this day, I cannot pick up a bag of sliced bread without thinking about him squishing the bag to show how much air is in there)…