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Book 166: Midnight in Austenland – Shannon Hale
This is why reading a sequel/spinoff isn’t necessarily the best idea. Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed it and the changes and plot twists were definitely worth the invested reading time and the...
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Book 211: Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
This was a surprising read and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Unlike many of the ‘classics’ I’ve read the writing style and even the vernacular speech patterns were easy to read and kept the story constantly...
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Book 329: A Jane Austen Education – William Deresiewicz
Warning: Goodreads rant – skip to second paragraph. I’m not sure what jumped up everyone’s butts on Goodreads (I shouldn’t really be surprised), but this book doesn’t deserve as much vitriol as it has...
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Book 412: Are You My Mother? – Alison Bechdel
After re-reading Fun Home for book group I dove right into the follow-up Are You My Mother? As much as I enjoyed it and ultimately identified with it, it didn’t live up to the magical experience of Fun...
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Book 432: The Stranger – Harlan Coben
WHOA. Like really WHOA. It’s books like this that make me think I should give up my list of all the books I want to read and juts read thrillers and mainstream fiction! Who needs literary fiction or...
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Book 434: Eligible (The Austen Project #4) – Curtis Sittenfeld
I really should’ve read Trollope’s Sense and Sensibility and McCall Smith’s Emma before I read this, but getting my hands on a galley/uncorrected proof copy from Random House* sort of made that a moot...
View ArticleBook 533: Ready Player One – Ernest Cline
This is one of those books that has been on my metal list to look into since it came out. For some reason though, I had lumped it into the same sort of release period as Ender’s Game and The...
View ArticleBook 654: Law and Addiction – Mike Papantonio
Unlike, Off the Grid, this book was worth saying yes to the publicist.* This book was engaging, a fast read, and had characters that were written well and believably realistic from the newly minted...
View ArticleBook 657: Pride and Prejudice and Mistletoe – Melissa de la Cruz
Once again, the dangers of allowing me loose online or in a library result in me reading a random book I found while looking for something else specifically. Don’t get me wrong, I would’ve read this...
View ArticleBook 723: Once You Go This Far – Kristen Lepionka
I wasn’t sure what to expect going into this. When the publisher reached out to me about an ARC I liked the synopsis and loved the fact Lepionka co-hosts a podcast called “Unlikeable Female...
View ArticleBook 786: No Blanks, No Pauses – Shelly McNamara
When the publisher reached out to me about this I immediately knew I was going to say yes (even if it took me a few days to get around to telling them).* I’m always interested in LGBT individuals’...
View ArticleBook 851: One to Watch – Kate Stayman-London
Blazed through this wonderful debut novel after stumbling across it on a list of great beach reads. It took quite a while to get it from the library, but it was 100% worth the wait. I can easily see...
View ArticleBook 899: Year One (Chronicles of the One #1) – Nora Roberts
WHOA. So, I’m really glad I didn’t read this book two years ago this time or I would’ve been freakin’ the f*** out as coronavirus took over the planet! Thankfully, I didn’t discover the fibercast...
View ArticleBook 911: The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison is one of those authors who have always been on my list, mostly due to the controversy around their books (stupid book banners), but I’ve never gotten around to reading them. Both The...
View ArticleBook 994: Ice Angels (Bethesda Barracudas #3) – Ryan Taylor & Joshua Harwood
In this book, we find out that not only is Drew, a captain of an opposition team, gay and has been for the entire series (we met him in The New Next One) but he’s been in a long-term committed...
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