Category: brief reviews

Quick Review: If I Stay and Nothing to Envy

12 April 2015 / brief reviews / 1 Comment
Quick Review: If I Stay and Nothing to Envy

It’s been a few months since I reviewed two books in one quick review post. The only way I could think to connect these two is that they’re both for Adam @ Roof Beam Reader’s TBR Pile Challenge. These are […]

Quick Review: The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel

6 April 2015 / brief reviews / 2 Comments
Quick Review: The Boundless by Kenneth Oppel

Goodreads | IndieBound | Chapters | Amazon  Krysta @ Pages Unbound Review | The Guardian Review ★★★½ Key words to describe this book: Diversity and Canadian history and classism and folklore and sexism and racism and adventure! Whoo, that’s a […]

Quick Review: Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman

12 March 2015 / brief reviews / 1 Comment
Quick Review: Empty Mansions by Bill Dedman

Goodreads | IndieBound | Chapters | Amazon  Book 3 for the 2015 TBR Pile Challenge Andi @ Estella’s Revenge review | Shannon @ River City Reading review ★★★★ Highly recommended if the story of one man’s accumulation of wealth and […]

Quick Review: Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan

28 February 2015 / brief reviews / 1 Comment
Quick Review: Brain on Fire by Susannah Cahalan

Goodreads | IndieBound | Chapters | Amazon  Book 2 for the 2015 TBR Pile Challenge New Republic review ★★★½ I think I added this book after seeing it featured at Chapters. This is an unusual memoir in that the person […]

Quick Review: Thank-You for Your Service by David Finkel

1 February 2015 / brief reviews / 0 Comments
Quick Review: Thank-You for Your Service by David Finkel

Goodreads | IndieBound | Chapters | Amazon  Book 1 for the 2015 TBR Pile Challenge Telegraph review ★★★½ Another book I might have given four stars (and I did on GoodReads) but I wouldn’t reread it. For the past few […]