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 […]

Life of Pi

I have read books like this, described terribly: person ends up floating in the ocean for many days and survives it. I like that with books, depending on the general subject, like witch academies, or being stranded, there is still opportunity to be completely original. Other forms of media source material from books a lot […]

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 […]

The Mystery of Edwin Drood & Other Stories

I just finished reading Edwin Drood and I feel proud of myself. I think I had mentioned it before, in my review of Poor Folk, of my inexperience with classical literature. The first, and last, time I read Dickens, it was honors English in ninth grade and we had to read A Tale of Two […]

One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

This was an interesting read. This is another book where my ability to understand language was lacking, where if I read this now instead of one, or two years ago, this would be a different review, or my memory has simply betrayed me again. Which, honestly, can probably be said of any book we read. […]

The Princess Bride

I hope you are prepared, because I am opening up an ancient relic. The Princess Bride had to come from somewhere, and this gem is wonderful. [Spoiler] For those who have not seen the movie, the story is about two people, Wesley and Buttercup, who fall in love. Wesley worked on the Buttercup’s family farm, […]

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 […]

A Year by the Sea

A woman and her husband take a year long break at a time of change for job location and realization that their kids have their own families to dedicate their whole day, too. It is not so much fiction as it is nonfiction as well. Anderson wrote this as an experience she had in her […]