I love an easy read. I have no qualms with sampling a wide array of literature and would even venture to say that I love an easy read. However, while People We Meet on Vacation is an easy read, I wouldn’t say that it was one that I loved. Poppy and Alex had been friends…
Category: Book Reviews
A Court of Thorns and Roses series
Apologies for the delay, I know it’s been a bit quiet on reviews recently but I’ll go ahead and blame that on the series you see above. Disclaimer: there is one more book in the ACOTAR series (The Court of Silver Flames) which I haven’t read, so this will only be covering the first four….
Little Women
The mark of a true classic, I’m beginning to think, is the ability of the book to change over time. Not the text or the length, but what the reader gets from it, understands, and loves. This year, as I embark to read and re-read whatever tickles my fancy, I returned to Little Women –…
The Cartographers
From the first chapter, this book was raring to go. I don’t remember the last time I read a book that dropped you in the drama so fast, but The Cartographers had you mixed-up in the action from the start. Rather than being a fast burn that fades quickly, Shepherd does a great job of…
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
I’m a contrarian at heart and, as such, am loathe to jump on a bandwagon, especially a book bandwagons.* The more I see a book, the less likely I am to read it. Well, until my curiosity gets the better of me and I cave, which is exactly what I did with Tomorrow and Tomorrow…
Come Fly the World
The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am While flight attendants still hold a vaguely glamorous role in the back of my mind, I primarily see them through the lens of safety instructions given before flights and pushing the drinks cart up and down the aisle. Unfair? Certainly. Accurate? Maybe nowadays, but certainly not…
Killers of the Flower Moon
The main reason I picked up this book (other than the intriguing subject matter) was because I wanted an edition that didn’t have Leonardo DiCaprio’s face on it. Why books have to rebranded after a movie is beyond me. (I have the copy on the right, by the way.) However, I’m thankful for the movie…
A Guide to Midwestern Conversation
I’ll admit that the main reason I listened to this book (yes, listened to it) was because it was three hours long and I was making a last ditch-effort to catch up with my 2023 Goodreads reading challenge (which I have now completed!). What began as a means-to-an-end resulted in the discovery of a hilarious…
Janesville
When General Motors closed their plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, an entire town – its infrastructure and the lives of its inhabitants – was upended. Janesville is not alone in experiencing the vacuum a factory closing can have on the livelihood of a community, but Janesville had gone through this before and recovered, so why should…
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
As much as I love words, I’ve never given much thought to their origins or their standardization, and I’ve never considered a time before a dictionary, before a comprehensive “rule book” of words. The Meaning of Everything is a story of just that: a story of the world before, and during the creation of, the…