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 [...]
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Book Review: A Wrinkle in Time
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 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: Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
Beezus and Ramona by Beverly Cleary
I just finished reading this with my 6 year old and we loved it! I read all of the Ramona books when I was younger, but I had forgotten how delightful and funny they are.
In this first book about Ramona she is four and she is really good at annoying [...]
Book Review: The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Read for: Obris Terrarum Challenge and 1% Well Read Challenge
I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to read this book! It was a slow read, but for the most part, I couldn’t put it down. The story is told by serveral different narrators and each narrator had his/her [...]
Book Review: The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton.
Read for: Gossip Girl
Last week on Gossip Girl, the characters were putting on this play. The episode was a particularly bad and unbelievable one and I thought they were trying to draw parallels between the play and what was going on in the show. Since I’d never read the [...]
Favourite Books V: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Ok, what female doesn’t love this book? All those who have fallen in love with Mr. Darcy say “aye!” I know there are some people out there that aren’t huge fans of Jane Austen, but I am not one of them and I would have to say that Pride and [...]
