This was a reread for me though it’s been more than a decade since my last read. Instead of going through the plot since I think most people are familiar with the bare bones of the plot, I’m just going to share a few random thoughts I had while listening to this novel. So doing Austen as an audio book is interesting. It was obvious when reading Persuasion that Anne Elliot was the only one with any common sense and that everyone around her was […]
A Well-Written Romance Novel But Not Quite for Me
I immensely enjoyed For Real, and for some reason thought it made sense to me to follow it up with the next novel in the series even though publishing order really has no bearing on reading order for romance novels, in general. Usually, I don’t even look at romance novel covers because they have nothing to do with the book, but the Pansies cover has two men in a flower shop so it’s actually completely relevant to what is happening in the novel. I think […]
Why is it always the deal breakers that end up the hero in fairy tales?
While I definitely grew up with all the normal fairy tales that inspired Disney movies, I also remember Rumpelstilzchen (German version) leaving a deep impression. I can’t remember if it was because the story creeped me out (I mean, he tears himself in two when he loses the deal) or if I thought there was something unjust about the treatment of either him or the spinner’s daughter but I certainly thought it was an interesting choice when he became such a central figure in Once […]
The escort with the dragon tattoo
I started putting down my thoughts for this one, and then decided to check out what Malin had to say and noticed that we had similar reactions. Overall, I really enjoyed this one, and I am going to need another reader to do some fan art of what Michael’s tattoo might look like ASAP because an athletic, attractive, ripped man with a dragon tattoo? Obviously, going to need a visual on that! Stella is a highly successful econometrist working in the Bay area involved in […]
Learn From My Mistake and Get This as an Audiobook
Between this book and Gabrielle Union’s, I have realized that celebrity memoirs may be one of the genres I have a harder time reviewing, especially when they use more of an essay style than writing a straight up bio. It’s a nice mix between sharing more of her background and how she even got into acting, revealing some of her more entertaining interactions with celebrities, and gushing over her hand bags. She mentions that “Treat Yourself” has become the phrase she is most associated with, […]
Animal Husbandry and Home Renovation
This is the fourth of the Carsington Family novels, and focuses on the youngest and only remaining single brother, Darius. His father challenges him to either take an old family estate that has finally been released from some legal restrictions and make it profitable within a year or settle down and marry a suitably well-dowered woman. Darius considers himself the logical, unemotional brother though as the youngest, he also feels like there weren’t really many roles left to claim for himself. While his father might […]
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