As I sat here waiting for my copy of Six of Crows to arrive, I kept thinking back to the Grisha series, and what an exciting time I had reading it, and how sad I was I had never taken the time to review it. But it’s not too late is it? I embarked on that fantastic adventure in December of last year, and it’s all still fresh enough in my memory. So let’s do this! (Since I didn’t review the books individually at the time,...
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Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan Pages : 528 Genre : Fiction Stand alone My Rating : 5/5 About the Book : For the Kellehers, Maine is a place where children run in packs, showers are taken outdoors, and old Irish songs are sung around a piano. As three generations of women arrive at the family’s beach house, each brings her own hopes and fears. Maggie is thirty-two and pregnant, waiting for the perfect moment to tell her...
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The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Pages : 552 Genre : Historical Fiction Stand Alone My Rating : 5/5 About the Book : It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her...
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J. K. Rowling Pages : 223 Genre : YA and Children, Magic! Series : Harry Potter, book 1 My Rating : 5/5 About the Book : When a letter arrives for unhappy but ordinary Harry Potter, a decade-old secret is revealed to him that apparently he’s the last to know. His parents were wizards, killed by a Dark Lord’s curse when Harry was just a baby, and which he somehow...
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A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness Pages : 215 Genre : Middle Grade, Horror Stand alone My Rating :5/5 From the back of the book : The monster showed up after midnight. As they do. But it isn’t the monster Conor’s been expecting. He’s been expecting the one from his nightmare, the one he’s had nearly every night since his mother started her treatments, the one with the darkness and the wind and the...
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Night Film by Marisha Pessl Pages : 602 Genre : Thriller Stand alone My Rating : 5/5 From the back of the book : On a damp October night, beautiful young Ashley Cordova is found dead in an abandoned warehouse in lower Manhattan. Though her death is ruled a suicide, veteran investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. As he probes the strange circumstances surrounding Ashley’s life and death, McGrath comes face-to-face...
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Relish : My Life in the Kitchen by Lucy Knisley Pages : 192 Genre : Graphic novel, Memoir, Food Stand alone My Rating : 5/5 From the Back of the Book : Lucy Knisley loves food. The daughter of a chef and a gourmet, this talented young cartoonist comes by her obsession honestly. In her forthright, thoughtful, and funny memoir, Lucy traces key episodes in her life thus far, framed by what she was eating at the time and lessons learned...
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The Uninvited by Liz Jensen Pages : 320 Genre : Speculative Fiction Stand Alone My Rating : 5/5 From the back of the book : A seven-year-old girl puts a nail gun to her grandmother’s neck and fires. An isolated incident, say the experts. The experts are wrong. Across the world, children are killing their families. Is violence contagious? As chilling murders by children grip the country, anthropologist Hesketh Lock has his own...
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