In the beginning I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this one or not, but after only a couple chapters in, I was hooked. Labor Day by Joyce Maynard is a book that I couldn’t wait to pick up before I went to bed to see what was happening next. It was not […]
This is my first book by Kent Haruf. Our Souls At Night is a story that contains mostly dialogue between the characters. There is not a lot of flowery details or background, but you still totally get what the author is trying to get across. I found Our Souls At Night to be a simplistic […]
I had so much fun with this book. The premise was something you just can’t go wrong with (Prohibition era outlawing addictive magic instead of alcohol? YES PLEASE) and then on top of that we got some extremely engaging characters, solid worldbuilding, and a plot that just won’t stop. There is nothing about this book […]
Whitley’s review of The Turnip Princess by Franz Xaver Von Schonwerth. With this volume, the holy trinity of fairy tales – the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault, and Hans Christian Andersen – becomes a quartet. In the 1850s, Franz Xaver von Schönwerth traversed the forests, lowlands, and mountains of northern Bavaria to record fairy tales, gaining […]
Tina’s review of The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd. Hetty “Handful” Grimke, an urban slave in early nineteenth century Charleston, yearns for life beyond the suffocating walls that enclose her within the wealthy Grimke household. The Grimke’s daughter, Sarah, has known from an early age she is meant to do something large in […]