Atonement

I remember watching the movie before reading the book and loved how well it was done. It was an excellent story with such a great cast of characters and visual appeal. The book carried to the movie well so it was easy to truly visualize locations and the colors of it all. So when I […]

Taiko

For me, Taiko is on the same level as The Red Horse; it was that stinkin’ good. It follows Hideyoshi, an unruly child who just wants to please his mother. We follow him as he grows up and, with charisma and an incredible sense of work ethic, rises to unite Japan under one ruler. This […]

Mozart’s Sister

Just finished today; I could have finished it a little bit quicker by a couple days to be honest. I liked Mozart’s Sister; usually I do not go to the 1700s for historical fiction because I used to hit that time period hard for books growing up. One of my personal things of history is […]

A Blessing on the Moon

I would like to first warn people that this is pretty graphic in terms of gore. There is also a moment of sexuality that is not in this day and age ethical. This was a hard read, which is probably why it took so long to get through. The main character, Chaim Skibelski, is supposed […]

Tanamera

This one is a good example of although having the plot be about the people, it always circles back to the home in which generations have lived. You do not see this often with books, and Barber did a really great job of doing so. Tanamera is on my personal favorites list where I would […]

The English Patient

I am copy/pasting the following from my Tumblr that I will be deleting once the reviews are transferred here. “To describe it terribly, basically Voldemort is a tour guide in the desert for a group of people that includes a married couple of which he becomes the other guy with. To describe it well, a […]

Songbird Under a German Moon

Oh, Christian fiction, how bittersweet the genre is; if we were going off of book cover appearances, this book would have been perfect for me: WWII era, faith-based, I do not know how to go beyond that. May it also be a lesson for everyone, including myself, that literally do not judge a book by […]

Mrs. Lincoln’s Rival

As I was reading, I found it a struggle to get through some days; other days it was fast pacing and enriching. I do not know if it was just me, or if it was just lulls in the book itself. It was an easy read and well to follow. Part of me wants to […]

Portrait in Sepia

For those who do not know, Isabel Allende is a big frickin’ deal for Chilean literature and it shows. I have read a few of her books and her way of writing is mesmerizing because she is able to combine history, romance, and adventure without making it lewd yet adult, I would say adult with […]

The Red Horse

This is one of the best books I have ever read; it was a random find at Midway Books in St. Paul, Minnesota a couple years ago, which that place in itself is an amazing place to go book hunting. Eugenio Corti has a brilliant way of bringing you into his world. It is WWII […]