The Emperor of Ocean Park

I thought I would try a book that was outside my typical genre and point of view. The Emperor of Ocean Park is about familial intrigue, questioning the character of a parent where the relationship was already imperfect, and all the while trying to hold your own personal life together. I don’t normally read political, […]

The Brothers Karamazov

I participated in an online book course earlier in the year that was led by a pastor I follow on social media. Brian Zahnd is a theologian, leads travel groups to the Middle East where you can learn on-site Biblical history, and loves to read. He has an obsession with Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov. Besides […]

Nick

I wanted to read something shorter and hop off the series train, so I read Nick. Nick is a prelude to The Great Gatsby, exploring the time Nick Carraway spent toward the end of his tour in France during WWI to when he went to New Orleans to escape the monotony of home, leading up […]

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 […]

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 […]

Riverfinger Women

The book that I read while I took a break from the Robert Langdon series was called Riverfinger Women. It was a book that was part of a large buy my husband and I bought from a Craigslist ad. The guy we bought it all from said that they were books that were denied being […]

Origin

Here we are, the last stop on the Robert Langdon train, and what a ride it has been. Edmond Kirsch is an ultra genius in the tech and science world. Edmond is also going to give an announcement that will be cast online and viewed by millions, affecting the world and its view on religion. […]

Inferno

Almost to the end of the series. After the low point of The Lost Symbol I do not know if I want to keep going. It was at this point that I took a break to read a completely different book, which I will get to at a later time. Robert Langdon finds himself in […]

The Lost Symbol

It is now book three of the five book series of Robert Langdon. In The Lost Symbol, Robert finds himself back home in the States, innocently working on his book that is way overdue. He is invited last minute to give a talk in DC by someone he has known for a long time in […]