WARNING: DO NOT READ IN THE WOODS WHEN YOU ARE ACTUALLY IN THE WOODS! I made the foolish mistake of reading Tana French’s In The Woods while at my family’s home in upper Wisconsin, in a wooded isolated area. I don’t want to come off as some kind of chicken because the novel wasn’t actually […]
What was I thinking? I read The Silence of the Lambs in a wooded, secluded area. It was like taking a shower after watching Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. Creepy. Back in the day before cell phones, my family went on vacation in the same wooded area that I read Silence of the Lambs. My mom read […]
Flavia is such a precocious child that you can’t help but love her and route her on from the sidelines. One thing that I found very interesting about The Weed That Strings the Hangman’s Bag is that a times it didn’t even feel like a mystery, the back story of the novel’s characters is so […]
Having just finished The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo I thought I would be hard pressed to come across as unique a heroine as Lisabeth Salander, but that was before I met Flavia. Flavia de Luce is an 11-year-old chemistry enthusiast and with her candied insight and dry sense of humor comes off like a […]
This novel was a very lite read, but felt more like a fantasy than suspenseful. The dialogue was rather witty and was interesting to see the mix and reintroduction to many characters. But as a Austen retelling just didn’t fit the bill for me. The leading characters could easily have been interchanged to any person […]
Review In Charlaine Harris’ first Sookie Stackhouse novel I couldn’t help but notice the similarities between Twilight and Dead Until Dark. In Dead Until Dark, Sookie has a “disability” she can read people’s minds making her somewhat of an oddity. This gift excludes the “undead” better known as vampires. This also happens to include her […]