A Series of Unfortunate Events Date read: June to October Published: 1999 to 2006 Genre: Children’s literature Why I picked it up: Longtime fan of the series Rating: 4 stars My Thoughts: I reread this series over the course of five months in preparation for Snicket’s Who Could That Be at This Hour? I first discovered ASOUE when I was ten years old, around the time when the sixth book was […]
I always find it odd at how I become worse at blogging (and even reading…I got drowned in work for the last two months of summer, basically the second half) when I’m not in school…I suppose working takes a lot more of my time than school does and blogging is more difficult to do when I’m not already writing other things like assignments and such…anyhow. Only less than a handful […]
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith Finished on: July 23 Published: 2004 Genre: Slice-of-life fiction Why I picked it up: Reading the series Rating: 3.5 stars My Thoughts: Normally I wouldn’t make any note of this on my blog, just mark it as read on Goodreads BUT there was a part where I did my little gasp-and-look-up-from-the-book which I never expected to do with this series. SPOILER: […]
In addition to the books below, I have been rereading A Series of Unfortunate Events because a) The Mysterious Benedict Society made me want some very good child lit about orphans, b) Snicket’s autobiography is coming out in October and c) I just really felt like it. I’ve been doing this over the past two weeks; I’ve just finished The Miserable Mill. I forgot how wonderfully, disgustingly evil Count Olaf is. […]
Here’s what I read while rushing through exams and final papers this month… Running the Books by Avi Steinberg Published: October 2011 Genre: Non-fiction/auto-biography Why I picked it up: Read a review, sounded interesting Rating: 3 stars My Thoughts: I read this book for something a bit lighter than The Dodecahedron (see below). Not a whole lot to say. The subject matter was interesting, but I’m not sure if I was […]