The First Snow on Fuji

I have read something different from what I have normally read. I have usually read singular stories and books, but in all that I can remember I have never read a book of short stories. So here is The First Snow on Fuji, written by Yasunari Kawabata, who was the first Japanese to receive the […]

The Sorrows of Young Werther

I apologize for being a few days late. This last weekend has been busy in our household- weddings, birthdays, and taking a three day sabbatical from doing keto; but I am back in the saddle, enjoying what is left of vacation before I get back into the retail saddle. I hop from one classic to […]

The Castle

Going off of the classics theme, I thought I would add Franz Kafka to my list of authors read. Over the years, I would come across Kafka and he was someone that was in the back of my mind to read if I was going to start reading much more dense content. Even though I […]

Love in the Time of Cholera

I am finally hopping off of the mystery train and hopping on to the classics train with Love in the Time of Cholera. This was a doozy to read, fighting between being angry at the differing cultural views on love and women, and being caught up in the romanticism because of Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s wonderful […]

The Murder on the Links

Still riding high on the mystery train, with this next pit stop being at The Murder on the Links, another Hercule Poirot mystery by Agatha Christie. This will be a short review, unfortunately, because when you read a series, things to get repeated over and over when reviewed. My husband and I are also currently […]

Parade

As I continue linking books from one to another, I am going to keep riding the mystery train. This book is not so much mystery, but more of a slice-of-life. Parade really was not bad and I would definitely recommend reading it. Four young people live in a two bed/ one bath apartment in Tokyo: […]

The Fig Eater

I think I have been on this craze where the next book I read is somehow related to the book prior to it. The book reviewing now, The Fig Eater, is another historical fiction like Burning Bright, and that is where the similarity ends, ha-ha. The Fig Eater was a book that I had would […]

Burning Bright

Since the beginning of the year, I have been listening to The Daily Poem, a podcast on Spotify where the episodes are usually around 5-9 minutes long and there is a reading of a poem, some opinions on why it was worth reading, then a re-reading; I have learned a decent amount of poetry and […]

They Both Die at the End

I decided to read something different this time around: a book that has come out in the last five years. Usually I do not do this, usually because I try not to let hype dictate my decision or what I read. My husband and I were exploring through a thrift store and I found They […]

I, Mona Lisa

Still on a good pace, I think, during this crazy summer we all have been having, I have another book that was put off talking about. We all know the painting, but there is a novel on the woman behind it. I, Mona Lisa gives you semi-realistic snapshot of her life leading to her time […]