#40: The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket: 1 star. #41: The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket: 1 star. #42: The End by Lemony Snicket: 1 star. #43: Bachelor's Anonymous by P.G. Wodehouse: 1 star. #44: A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L'Engle: 1 star. #45: The Sign of the Four … [Read more]
Radical Daffodils Review "... Orzel takes a conversational tone both with the reader and in his asides with Emmy, and if his teaching style is anything like his writing style I'd love to take one of his classes one day." … [Read more]
England and Spain are squabbling. When a Spanish captain sees the notorious English pirate El Beauvallet … [Read more]
A coworker of mine knew that I had been reading a couple of books about various religions and movements earlier in the year and asked what I knew about Mormonism, his religion. Admitting that I didn't know much, I asked for a book recommendation. To read the resulting review, head over to my blog... … [Read more]
The main problem is the narrator and main character, Giovanna. While early in the book, Giovanna tries to convince the reader that she is brave and courageous because of that one time she carried a hawk, at no point do her actions in 1943-45 ever make her seem any of those things. Instead she comes … [Read more]
I don't quite know why I'm doing the Booker Longlist Challenge, since it's really become a forced march of books I haven't really enjoyed reading that much. I had high hopes for The Lowland, since the synopsis sounds aces, but it just didn't do it for me. I found it a mostly frustrating read, … [Read more]
