First Line: “It was her idea to tie up the nun.” First Thoughts: Patricia Engel’s writing grabbed me from the first sentence and didn’t let go. Overnight I became invested in the well-being of Elena and Mauro’s family, as well as the trials and, the long journey they faced. Final Thoughts Infinite Country tackles immigration […]
Review I first heard of The Good Neighbor at a trip to Costco. I always check their book section and I grabbed ahold of this book as quickly as a child would candy. However, having just gotten into audiobooks I decided to see who narrated it. LeVar Burton. My boyfriend and I looked at each […]
Reasons to Read A Man Called Ove If you love character-driven, heart-warming reads A Man Called Ove is a must Ove is a rarity as he is a loveable curmudgeon and his story is like an onion, with each layer invoking more emotion. Fredrik Backman has a very subtle sense of humor that could bring […]
Quick Impressions Had I done to Dolly, perhaps, what Frank Lasalle, a fifty-year-old mechanic, had done to eleven-year-old Sally Horner in 1948? The Real Lolita is eye-opening and a fascinating true crime novel. While the novel does switch between Nabokov writing the book and the horror of Sally Horner “the real Lolita” I felt that […]
Review: I purchased Everything I Never Told You on a whim. When I walked into Barnes & Nobel I only had eyes for Little Fires Everywhere. However, I am usually hesitant to splurge on a hardcover by an author I’ve never read before. Therefore, I reached for Celeste Ng’s début novel. The plot of Everything […]
To better understand these motives Jon Krakauer, the author flip-flops between the heinous, unbelievable actions of 1984 and the creation of the Mormon religion and its prophet, Joseph Smith. Discovering the golden plates and the start of the religion was very interesting but the disturbing subject of polygamy and how Fundamentalists behave then and now […]
The Stranger has a slow strategic pacing almost making me put the book aside. Although this is two of my uncle’s favorite books so I plowed along. I soon realized the intentional snail pace was purposeful to completely understand our character and the stranger within. It is strange because while this was not thrilling nor […]
First Impressions I recently watched the Diane Sawyer interview with Jaycee Dugard. One word came to mind, why? What would possess anyone to commit such an act? A sick bastard. Room by Emma Donoghue captured my attention with atrocity that is hard to imagine. Impressions While Reading What I liked about Room was that it does […]
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 […]
To Kill A Mockingbird is a coming of age story, but the focus is not on raging hormones. Harper Lee’s novel deals with prejudice of race and financial standing, rape and the battle of good against evil, showcasing that life is not always fair or as black and white as it appears to be. The […]