Dracula the Un-Dead

Another book crossed off for the year. A slow and steady progress, especially when it is a book that my husband and I read together. A sequel to Dracula, Dracula the Un-Dead was picked for the two us because when we were at a library sale one state over, I found a different book: Dracula […]

Hitler’s Niece

I was wondering yesterday how it had been since I wrote last. To my horror and embarrassment it has been five weeks about. Well, fuck. Whether you admit it, or not, there is something that makes you curious about Hitler. We all know what he did, we all know how truly awful a human being […]

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 […]

The Romanov Prophecy

Another historical book for the year completed, but at least this is on a different topic. Besides WWII-era, the Revolution of 1917 and the Romanovs were a great topic of historical interest to me. Their whole story, both relationally and politically speaking, has been interesting to learn and relearn. Miles Lord is on a highly […]

The Historian

What a ride this was. A daughter finally persuades her father to take her with on his trips throughout Europe for his work. One day, she asks him to tell her a story, so he begins to tell her of an incredible adventure of his college days where he meets the mother she never knew. […]

Heyday

Looks like a double whammy for y’all, ha-ha. Just finished Heyday yesterday. This may by far be the best thing I have read this year. Heyday, described badly, is a group of friends who come together to make their journey west at the very beginnings of the discovery of gold in 1848 California. Based off […]

The Californios

Happy Fourth of July everyone! My husband and I have finished another book together. This was a book he bought at Book Revolution in La Crosse, Wisconsin. I bring it up as a small blip because they were a great bookstore, so if you are ever in the Midwest, I would recommend them. We have […]

The Memoirs of Cleopatra

It took me about a month, but another book closer to my goal for the year. I have always wanted to read The Memoirs of Cleopatra, since high school long ago, but I always kept putting it off. I have only ever read one book of Margaret George’s, and I thought it was alright. I […]