There are two books I have spent a good portion of the year reading, at a daily pace. The Intellectual Devotional I have read a page a day since January 1st, whereas I started The History of the Hobbit in May, took a lengthy break and then took up a daily schedule in September in order to finish it by the end of the year without reading too much at once […]
Author: Peter S. Beagle Title: The Last Unicorn Date read: 17 December to 21 December Published: 1968 Publisher: Penguin Length: 212 pages Genre: Fantasy Why I picked it up: Favourite of Neil Gaiman’s Rating: 3 stars This book started off very promising…I even made a Goodreads update around page 50 professing how charming I found the tale to be. But this eventually tapers off and we are stuck with too […]
The Stranger by Albert Camus Date read: 9 December (part of the 3rd Annual Holiday Readathon hosted by Liz @ WhoRuBlog) Published: 1942 Genre: Philosophical fiction Why I picked it up: Interest in existentialism, this book often referenced Rating: 3 stars My Thoughts: Not really sure what I was expecting but this was totally different from any unconscious expectations I held! Actually, I was expecting something more like The Trial…and while I think […]
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 […]
Author: Bruce K. Hanson Title: The Peter Pan ChroniclesDate read: 21 December to 26 December Published: 1993Publisher: Birch Lane Press Length: 288 pages Genre: Non-fiction Why I picked it up: Interest in Peter Pan Rating: 2.5 stars Buy: Amazon| Chapters | Check your local bookstore! I wasn’t going to write a ‘full’ post on this book, but once I started writing it came out longer than I expected so […]