This book was a bit of a disappointment. I wanted to experience the love I have for Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca, but I had to force myself through Mary Anne. It had a lot of political intrigue, which wasn’t my cup of tea, and I didn’t feel like the characters were strong enough to keep […]

This book is not entirely what I was expecting. I don’t know why, but I was expecting more of a Jane Eyre type of novel, with a romance between a sensitive lady and a stodgy gentleman that you grow to like as the novel progresses, but Wuthering Heights was infinitely darker. I rooted for Jane […]

From the very first page, I adored the writing in Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. It’s such beautiful writing with a compelling plotline. It’s revealed in the prologue that a group of college students murdered one of their classmates, and the rest of the book is delving into what led up to the murder and […]

I made the mistake of waiting too long after I read the book to write this review, so my feelings are not entirely fresh in my mind, but I do remember I found the book very moving. I appreciated a woman’s tale during a period where we don’t have many of those. Anita Diamant’s The […]

Mary Oliver’s poetry collection “Red Bird” is the first I’ve read of her. I think “Devotions” is the recommended collection to start with, so perhaps that was my mistake, but I didn’t really connect to any of her poetry. But I’ve also heard that Mary Oliver mainly writes about nature, and I honestly like to […]

I first read The Sun Also Rises my freshman year of college, and I reread it for the sole purpose of figuring out my favorite Hemingway out of the three I’ve read: For Whom the Bell Tolls, A Farewell to Arms, and obviously The Sun Also Rises. I can now affirmatively say that The Sun […]

Around halfway through the book, I was thinking maybe this book wasn’t doing it for me, though I didn’t dislike it and definitely didn’t want to stop reading it. I just wasn’t as invested as I wanted to be. And then I stayed up until 3:30 in the morning to finish the second half because […]

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller is a modern retelling of Achilles, specifically the age-old speculation about the relationship between him and Patroclus, which is actually a little more than I knew about the book going in. This is a quick, entertaining read, though not without its flaws, and I appreciate how Miller made […]

I’ve been into book hauls lately on Booktube, probably because I’ve been in a consumerist mood myself and I want to see what everybody else is reading. They led me to look up the books mentioned, and I was shocked at how much prices have increased over the past few years (I know, everything has […]