Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All

After three long months, I have finally completed my first book of the year. Call it burn out from life, but I think I got my groove back a little. I stayed up until 4:30 in the morning just to finish it and get a third of the way through a new book. Oldest Living […]

Girl In Hyacinth Blue

Interesting how I read out of order of when I got books by certain authors. I already had owned something by Susan Vreeland, but read Girl in Hyacinth Blue first even though I purchased it later on. It seems trivial, but it is just a little funny to me. Centered around a Vermeer painting, Girl […]

The Catcher in the Rye

Staying on the coming-of-age and short read path, I have read something much more familiar. The Catcher in the Rye. It was a random buy while I still had all of my books in storage. I had always been aware of The Catcher in the Rye growing up: the acclaim, the love for it, the […]

Passarola Rising

Oh, do I have a fun read for you. I put it in the same category as Empires of Sand, for those who have been following my reviews for awhile now. It was a random buy when I was at Half Price Books a couple of weeks prior, and not all of my books were […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

Empires of Sand

A book that I read earlier in the year and, yet, never posted about, Empires of Sand was a book that I really should have posted so much sooner. Adventure, love, camaraderie, familial relationships, on and on. It never failed me for a moment. Parisian explorer and innovator Henri DeVries falls in love with Serena […]

Kristin Lavransdatter

I have finally done it; I was able to finish a 1100+ page book in just over a month. Given that I am still working full time and doing a major project with my husband and other life circumstances… I could have done a little better, but not bad. So, here it is: Kristin Larvansdatter […]