My Dear I wanted To Tell You: A Novel by Louisa Young is set in England during the World War One era. It opens with a young working class boy, Riley Purefoy, main character, befriending an upper class artist family, the Waveneys. Out of generosity, the Waveney family provide Riley with upper class schooling as […]
Book Review: The Last Little Blue Envelope by Maureen Johnson
May 31, 2011
Review of The Last Little Blue Envelope Contains Spoilers For 13 Little Blue Envelopes In this hilarious follow up to 13 Little Blue Envelopes, Maureen Johnson finally lets her readers know what is contained in The Last Little Blue Envelope to Ginny Blackstone from her dead Aunt Peg. Hilarity, Harry Potter, Dr. Who, and an […]
Book Review: Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake by Sarah MacLean
May 24, 2011
I never actively DNFed Nine Rules To Break When Romancing A Rake by Sarah MacLean, I just couldn’t get into it, so I set it aside for several months. Around Christmastime I was in the mood for a romance novel, and thus made my second foray into the world of romance (the first was One […]
Book Review: Graveminder by Melissa Marr
May 19, 2011
Graveminder by Melissa Marr’s main character Rebekkah Barrow doesn’t like to be tied down. She moves from place to place and never gets involved in romantic entanglements. It would seem she is fated to live the life of a nomad. However, Rebekkah is called back to the one town, Claysville, that feels like home for her […]
Book Review: How Shakespeare Changed Everything by Stephen Marche
May 16, 2011
How Shakespeare Changed Everything by Stephen Marche is a tiny, pretty (well, I like the cover and color) non-fiction book on the impact Shakespeare has had on culture and society. I found this to be fascinating. Old Shakes has changed everything from starlings in America to words in our lexicon. As a Shakespeare novice – […]
Book Review: Steel by Carrie Vaughn
May 12, 2011
I’m not gonna lie, I find swords to be pretty badass weapons. Fencing is a beautiful sport, evoking that scene in The Princess Bride when Wesley and Inigo Montoya are fighting. In Steel by Carrie Vaughn, swords and fencing take center stage. Time travel, sword play, and pirates pepper the plot of Steel, however, I’m […]