The Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls

I just finished this one yesterday, and I am still stuck on it a little. Thea comes from a wealthy family in Florida during the Depression-era. We come in when she is just being dropped off by her father at the Yonahlossee Riding Camp for Girls; oh look, they said the name of the book […]

Zorro

I was able to finish Zorro an hour before the new year started. I believe I have already done a review for another work by Isabel Allende, Portrait in Sepia, and have overall been a big fan of her writing. Zorro was different from Allende’s other books, though. I have always been a fan of […]

The Tattered Cloak & Other Novels

Just completed The Tattered Cloak and I will say that I was quite a fan. Inside are six short stories about various Russian characters who are either going from Russia to Paris, or are already there, or are leaving to somewhere else; they all take place between 1920s and the 40s, and no, World War […]

Elske

I put in some work while I was on vacation from my grown up 40-50 hour a week job, ha-ha. This one is different for me because it is more of a fantasy book and that is a genre I have yet to explore. Elske is about a girl named Elske, because figures, who is […]

The Crimson Petal and the White

Just finished reading this monster of a read; I will say, I know that I could have burned through it a lot faster than the pace I was going at. At the same time, Crimson Petal and the White had so many unexpectancies that by the time I read the last sentence, I wanted more. […]

House of Leaves

This has to be one of my favorite books ever read. I got my first copy of House of Leaves when I was just graduating high school and going into college from my neighbor who had said she had to read it for her psychology class. This is not a regular textbook, though. Going through […]

The Mysterious Benedict Society

This may be one of the few books that I have had the longest, and a true stereotype of bibliophiles where we mean to read something, but then we go and buy more books. I have had The Mysterious Benedict Society since I was in sixth, or seventh grade, and only now as a late […]

Free Food for Millionaires

Literally just completed, Free Food for Millionaires is going in my Top 5 easily. Free Food talks about a group of first and second gen Korean-Americans in New York during the 90s. In the center of the group is Casey, who is stubborn, incredibly prideful, and creates her own path. She is also broke as […]

The Pit: A Story of Chicago

Good evening! I just finished this moments ago and wanted to share with ya’ll The Pit. I had no idea how old this book was until I googled it after reading; the copy I had has little description of the content let alone any context as to when it was written, or any information on […]

The Help

Here is a great book with a great message done in a way that is not over the top. For those that have seen the movie especially, this is something up your alley. For those that are unfamiliar to The Help, it talks about an issue that is not so much in the forefront of […]