Straight

Here is the latest book my husband and I read together. It follows a guy whose brother passes away suddenly, leaving him to find the pieces of a couple of puzzles that bring him close to death. My husband enjoyed this one because it was not easy to guess how everything happened and who did […]

The Virgin Suicides

Warning: This book can be a huge trigger. Please be careful if you decide to pursue it. You and your life matter. I see a really big argument about this book and its relevancy in the world we are in. With all of the forms of media portraying suicide, you can say it is glorifying […]

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 […]

Look at Me

Another book finished, and to be honest, I am a little stuck with this one. I do not know how to feel with the end result. I am beginning to wonder if I am just not a fan of the beginnings of books because, again, Look at Me started out funky for me. Look at […]

Heavenly Expressions

This was a book I bought at a prophetic conference I went to at the beginning of the year where Janet was doing art on stage during worship. When I went up to her table I was struck dumb and could not find the words to form questions for her. So I got her book. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Fatal Fixer-Upper

My husband and I just finished this one last night as a part of our “read to each other” thing. I think he knows how to pick a good book. I do not remember how we came across this one, but it was actually not that bad. It was funny, the language was great, and it […]