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: […]
Author: Eoin Colfer Title: The Last Guardian Series: Artemis Fowl Published: July 2012 Publisher: Hyperion Length: 336 pages Genre: Science fiction/Fantasy Why I picked it up: Fan of the series Rating: 3 stars The first book I reviewed on this blog was The Atlantis Complex, the penultimate book in the Artemis Fowl series. It was one of the more awful books I’ve ever read. It made me dread the next […]
*The following information refers to the original French edition* Author: Gaston Leroux Title: The Phantom of the Opera Published: 1911 Publisher: Pierre Lafitte and Cie Length: 260 pages Genre: Gothic (mystery/horror) Why I picked it up: Currently obsessed with the musicalRating: 4 stars Buy: IndieBound | Chapters | Check your local bookstore! As I described in my post about The Phantom of the Opera, I am going through a bit […]
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. […]