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 […]

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 […]

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children I, II, III

I do not know if I have mentioned it, but besides the books I read for myself, my husband and I also began a thing where we read something together. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children was kind of a precursor for it seeing as I read halfway through the series on my own before […]

Poor Folk

I am not very familiar with old English literature as a warning, but the hope to be better at it if I am going to continue reading, especially if I dive into Dickens, Tolstoy, etc. I had only ever read The Death of Ivan Ilyich and Other Stories before I had read Poor Folk. I […]

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 […]

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 […]

Gap Creek

I literally just finished reading this one. It took longer to read for me for multiple reasons. I was focusing more on work than reading, to be real. Anyways, my husband and I had started reading books together where it’s actually me just reading out loud. We had started Gap Creek and we didn’t even […]