Harry Potter & the Goblet of Fire

It’s time for the Triwizard Tournament! My husband and I continued our journey of Harry Potter and his friends into the fourth installment, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. If you’re not familiar with Harry Potter, this is the one where Hogwarts hosts the Triwizard Tournament, which is where other wizarding schools are invited […]

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 […]

Demon Slayer

This year I had gotten into a manga reading and buying phase. Anime is at a strong point right now where studios are acquiring rights to adapt manhwas (Korean manga) and light novels, which has never really been done before. For Christmas last year, my husband had bought me the carry case box set of […]

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 […]

Rasputin’s Daughter

Oh, jeez, I did it again. A whole month and a half and you do not hear anything new. I wanted to try again to read something that I have had on my bookcases the longest. There is still at least a third of them that I have had since I moved out on my […]

Gilgamesh

What a bright sunny day it is today. Set predominately in Australia starting from the end of WWI to the end of WWII, this is a book that is probably one of the best in a long time for me. Gilgamesh is about Edith, a girl of British/Russian heritage who grows up on a farm […]

Silas Marner

I had read a book, Silas Marner, recently and I want to share that with you. Silas Marner is a man who throughout his life has lived quietly content. He is known for his work with fibers and the village folk appreciate him. When a longtime friend frames Silas for a crime that he himself […]

Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Another book fresh out of the bookcase; I give you Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. It took me longer than expected, but then I had the usual experience where the I start out slow then once I hit the halfway point I was cruisin’ for a bruisin’. The book has three sections; the setting being […]

The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea

It has been multiple hot minutes. The Sailor who Fell from Grace with the Sea was a very fairly short book to come to after reading Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, but apparently I was still on a train of reading some dark content. I was able to read through it within a week, […]