Left to Tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza
Read for: Global Reading Challenge
Wow, was this one ever intense! Immaculée was a university student who had travelled home for easter in 1994 when the Rwandan genocide began. As a Tutsi, she and her entire family were in danger. She managed to make it to a neighbour’s house where he [...]
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Book Review: Left to Tell
Book Review: A Wrinkle in Time
A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
Read for: Banned Books Challenge
I’ve been meaning to read this book for a very long time. It’s been sitting on my night stand (where I keep my TBR in the next month pile) since September because I planned to read it for Banned Books Week. But I just never [...]
Book Review: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley
Read for: Canadian Book Challenge 3, What’s in a Name? 3 Challenge
I loved this book! I don’t know how I haven’t heard of it sooner, I know people have been blogging about it because I just read a bunch of reviews, but somehow I’ve missed [...]
RIP Challenge – Completed!
Woohoo! My second challenge completed. I had so much fun reading these books for the challenge. It’s normally a genre that I tend to ignore, but I read some really good books for the challenge. I think my favourite was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, but I also really enjoyed The Moonstone. Thanks Carl [...]
Book Review: The Moonstone
The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
Read for: RIP IV and 1% Well Read Challenge
The Moonstone is a huge yellow diamond (valued at 30,000 pounds in 1848 – (I have no idea what that translates to in today’s money but 30,000 pounds today is a lot of money!) with a history. Originally set in the forehead of [...]
Book Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
Read for: R.I.P. IV
Wow! I’ve heard a lot of good about this book, but I still wasn’t expecting it to be quite as good as I found it to be! Also, I obviously didn’t read the summaries of the book because it was not at all what [...]
Book Review: The Year of the Flood
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Read for: The Canadian Books Challenge
I find the more Atwood I read, the more I appreciate her writing. Sometimes I don’t love the plot but her writing is brilliant. If you’ve read Oryx and Crake you might recognize the setting and some of the characters in this novel. [...]
Book Review: The Brothers Karamazov
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Read for: Book club, The Orbis Terrarum Challenge – Russia, and The 1% Well Read Challenge
I’m not really sure what to say about this book. I’ll start with a short summary but there is so much going on that it’s not really going to cover much! The book is basically [...]
Book Review: City of Glass
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Read for: RIP IV Challenge
This is the third (and I believe final) book in The Mortal Instruments series. (The first two book are called City of Bones and City of Ashes.)
I can’t say I enjoyed this one as much as the first two. Clary is still trying to revive her [...]
Book Review: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Read for: Banned Books Week, 1% Well Read Challenge, Canadian Books Challenge
The more I read of Atwood, the more I come to realize what a brilliant writer she is. I read a few of her books about ten years ago and I think I just wasn’t ready for them yet. [...]
