A Series of Unfortunate Events is like a Pixar movie, entertaining for the kids but enough adult humor for the parents. On both ends it is very imaginative. The Baudelaire siblings are suddenly orphaned after their parents are killed in a house fire. Instead of going to the next of kin they are shuttled off […]
Truthfully, this book pissed me off. I’ve never been “and they lived happily ever after” reader, in fact, I prefer they don’t as it can sometimes be too cutesy. In Envy, evil triumphs over good and it annoyed me that the two main characters I love to hate, Penelope and Carolina somehow always manage to […]
I thought for this review I’d do a rundown on all the characters. Elizabeth, it appears has been inducted into Sainthood after her untimely death and because of such, keeps creeping back into dark corners. Diana is looked upon as the poor younger sister to the deceased Elizabeth Holland and has tossed in her lap […]
At first, the Holland sisters, Elizabeth, and Diana seem to have it all being the desired socialites and now, despite her best friend Penelope’s resentment Elizabeth is suddenly engaged to Henry Schoonmaker. Everything appears perfect until Elizabeth is thrown from a horse and buggy and disappears into the Hudson River. Anna Godbersen’s The Luxe is […]
Even though I read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling every year, this time it’s different. With the up-coming last film approaching, it feels like an end to an era. I promise I won’t go weepy-eyed on you, or at least I will try… I cried, I laughed and then I […]
As I saw Sarah Palin in Dolores Umbridge in The Order of the Phoenix I’ve found Barack Obama as Harry Potter in The Half-Blood Prince. Let’s start with the basics shall we? Both Harry and Barack have been dubbed “The Chosen One” at one time or another bringing hope and the thought of change to […]
From the beginning I knew there was a secret even deeper repressed than just the fall of the Romanovs. His dear May had a vast collection of Fabergé eggs an item Alexandra Fyodorovna, Tsarina collected. The couple’s only child, a son had hemophilia, a disorder that the Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich had. And what happened to […]
I have a whole new appreciation for this book and another reason to loath Dolores Umbridge — Dolores Umbridge is Sarah Palin! The similarities are glaringly obvious. I shall start at the beginning with her being McCain/Fudge’s right-hand man {or women}. Both where not well-known outside of their community before being promoted to a higher […]
I won’t bore you with how wonderful I think Pride and Prejudice is, or my fictional crush on Mr. Darcy, or that I want Elizabeth Bennet as my BBF. You can read about that here Instead, I am going to discuss the Annotated part of the novel. To be honest, I have mixed feelings about […]
Frank McCourt’s Memoir focuses on his childhood living in Ireland during the 1930s. His father drinks away the dole money and has Frank and his brothers swearing to die for Ireland every night, because of this, the McCourts live in poverty living on borrowed time and money and the goodness of the St. Vincent de […]