Everything to do with books! Mostly book reviews, but occasionally, I have the non-review bookish post too.
I read and loved The Thirteenth Tale all the way back in 2016, so when I saw One Upon a River in BookXcess, I decided that it wasn’t much of a risk if I got it. And I was right because I absolutely loved this novel. Once Upon a River is set on the banks… Read More Book Review: Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
As you already know, I love myths and legends and I love collecting books about them. Plant Lore and Legend fills a gap in my collection, because I have nothing about this subject. Plant Lore and Legend is a slim book talking about the history of plants, including the lore and legends behind them. The… Read More Book Review: Plant Lore and Legend by Ruth Binney
Personally, I thought the tagline of this book was interesting. I know that Plato is a philosopher, but Winnie the Pooh? (it was about the Tao of Pooh) I figured that it couldn’t hurt to learn more about philosophy, so I took the plunge and book this book. To put the cart before the horse,… Read More Book Review: A Brief Guide to Philosophical Classics by James M. Russell
I bought this book purely because of the price and because it said “Jane Austen” somewhere on the title (when faced with cheap books, I am not the most discerning of buyers). Thankfully, I ended up enjoying this, and I think this will be a book that I return to in the future. The Genius… Read More Book Review: The Genius of Jane Austen by Paula Byrne
Before we start: I’m writing this in a post-book hangover and I’m in the mood to discuss it rather than review it, which is to say: I’m trying to avoid spoilers but no promises. If you need a spoiler-free review, please skip this. I first found Sarah Dessen’s books when I read The Truth About… Read More Book Review: The Moon and More by Sarah Dessen
I decided to buy this because the topic was interesting (and felt kind of meta) but sadly, the book did not live up to its promise. According to its blurb, A Brief History of Biographies will take a look at biographies throughout the ages and see “how our attitude to life-writing [has] been affected by… Read More Book Review: A Brief History of Biographies by Andrew Brown
I love keeping up to date with my writer friends, so when Nathan contacted me to see if I was interested in reviewing Sweet Sixteen Killer, his detective novel. Of course, I said yes, because I also really love mysteries. Sweet Sixteen Killer is a Mercedes Masterson detective novel and, I hope, the first in… Read More Book Review: Sweet Sixteen Killer by Nathan Weaver
This was one of the books where I borrowed it and then let it sit. If it didn’t have a deadline to return it, it may have never have gotten read because when I have high hopes for the book (and from the cover and description I definitely did), sometimes I don’t dare to start… Read More Book Review: Spindle Fire by Lexa Hillyer
Midnight Without a Moon is one of the books I bought from BookXcess and I am so glad I did because I could not stop reading this. The book is centered around Rose Lee, an African-American girl living in Mississippi in 1955. Although Rose is smart and ambitious, her grandmother openly favours her lighter-skin cousin,… Read More Book Review: Midnight Without a Moon by Linda Williams Jackson
It’s always interesting when a part of Japanese culture (that isn’t anime or manga) becomes really popular across the world. When I was job hunting in my last year of university, I heard the term “やりがい (yarigai)” so many times! And as it turns out, yarigai (which can be translated as “the motivation to work”… Read More Book Review: The Little Book of Ikigai by Ken Mogi