The Girl who Played with Fire

Another wild ride is over. The second in the Millennium series, Larsson does it again to bring you into this world he has made with the characters we already know and are invested with, a story to further our understanding of Lisbeth Salander, and a pace somewhat similar to the first yet not so long […]

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

This is the first time in a long time where I have read an actual series where you did not need to hop in at a random part. It is different in a good way if you think relationally to what you are reading. The pace might be a little slower because you are given […]

The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Happy New Year, everyone! I am starting the year off strong with a few new reviews and with a new fervor for reading. Last year showed me how little I actually read, even though I could throw in excuses of how much I work and have other things going on. It is the priority you […]

Desperation

We are coming close to Christmas, everyone! For those who are participating in the Goodreads challenge, I hope you have made your goal, because I cannot say that about myself, ha-ha. Just going to hop right to it. I was very surprised at how quick Desperation was to read, given that it was almost 700 […]

Black swan green

Now this book was a breath of fresh air. With how many books by David Mitchell books I have, I would have thought that I would have read one by now, but admittingly, Black Swan Green was the first. Jason Taylor is a thirteen year old with a stammering problem and a slowly crumbling family […]

A Splinter of glass

When I started to write this, I forgot the name of the book that my husband and I had finished reading together a week or so ago; when asked, he replies with “A Splinter of Ass,”. I guess we can begin to assume how this review is going to look for this book. A Splinter […]

Dracula

I was hoping to have this book done sooner because of Halloween. I found a podcast on Spotify called Pheobe Reads a Mystery, basically an audiobook for mysteries. So I listened to it while reading my own physical copy. I think it took away from the reading experience, but at the same time it sets […]

Shutter Island

I finished Shutter Island rather quickly; maybe I am on a roll. Teddy Daniels and Chuck Aule are US Marshals sent to Shutter Island, a mental institute, to solve the disappearance of a patient, Rachel Solando, convicted of killing her three children. Right from the get go, things are sketchy; the Vice Warden and Head […]

Moon tiger

I got a short burst of speed going. This was a well written, short read. Claudia Hampton gives us a summary of her life, a history of the world. Her world. Claudia is argumentative, beautiful, loyal, free, highly independent, pretentious, but addictive. The small group of people in her life that matter, her brother and […]

Gloria

I finished reading Gloria a day or so after I got home from my vacation to Arizona. There honestly was no reason for it to take as long as it did for me to read. Life got in the way. Gloria, to describe badly, is about white privileged people in the 50s. There is also […]