Demon Slayer

This year I had gotten into a manga reading and buying phase. Anime is at a strong point right now where studios are acquiring rights to adapt manhwas (Korean manga) and light novels, which has never really been done before. For Christmas last year, my husband had bought me the carry case box set of […]

No Ego

I followed up reading The Bulletproof Leader with reading No Ego. My boss at work loves Cy Wakeman and wanted the other store managers to read it. When everyone had been able to finish the book, we had a meeting specifically about leadership styles, what we took away from No Ego, and its pros and […]

The Bulletproof Leader

In the last year or so, I have really lucked out in being at a great workplace where leadership development is taken to a whole new level. I work for a small business that believes very strongly in collaboration. My boss has become a mentor figure, and whether it’s a discussion between the two of […]

Hyde

The countdown to Christmas is coming! The end is nigh! Following the trend I have been on for a classic with a modern sequel or spin-off, I read Hyde. I like Daniel Levine’s approach and style to this. Hyde is told from Mr. Hyde’s point of view, starting from well before his first appearance in […]

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde & Other Stories

This is the beginning of a trend for me: series or an original text then spin-off. What a way to kick that trend off than with a classic. To explain terribly, Dr. Jekyll is a self-prescribing doctor who shoots up a medication with a result of becoming an entirely different person. Mr. Hyde is that […]

Children of God go Bowling

I was sifting through my bookcases and wanted to read something different that I had been throwing on the back burner for awhile, which is basically most of my books, which then makes it sound like the books I own have grown dull to me. I mean, maybe. Children of God go Bowling sounded like […]

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

My husband and I continue on our “read a book together” quest and have Harry Potter to share with you. In The Chamber of Secrets, Harry goes into his second year at Hogwarts in a flying car with Ron Weasley. Then students with muggle parentage start getting attacked, and the blame begins to fall on […]

Misfortune

Here is a book that is great for the summer. Super entertaining, engaging, and incredibly written, Misfortune will be a book that will give you a new perspective on gender identity. Set in Victorian-era England, effeminate Lord Geoffrey Loveall is returning from a trip in the city and comes across an abandoned baby brought to […]

A Question of Guilt

Intrigue. Mary Queen of Scots. Murder. Scandal. Oh my. I read A Question of Guilt earlier this year thinking that this was going to be another royalty book that was more lackluster than excitement. Not to say that books with old royalty storylines do not hold my attention, but eventually they lose their steam with […]

Rasputin’s Daughter

Oh, jeez, I did it again. A whole month and a half and you do not hear anything new. I wanted to try again to read something that I have had on my bookcases the longest. There is still at least a third of them that I have had since I moved out on my […]