Tag: Review
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Nabokov’s Favorite Word is Mauve
What word does an author rely on too heavily? Are certain authors more sexist than others? Should we really avoid exclamation points and adverbs?
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Camp Austen: My Life as an Accidental Jane Austen Superfan
Take a romp through three days at a Jane Austen summer camp,
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Eliza and Her Monsters
Eliza’s kind of a big deal online, as in web-comic famous, but no one knows who she really is. Until she mets Wallace: a real-life friend, and maybe more, who doesn’t yet know how that the creator of the web comic he writes fanfiction for is sitting right next to him at the lunch table
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Remains of the Day
One of my challenges to myself this year was to read a book by a Nobel Prize winner, and since Kazuo Ishiguro is the most recent recipient, I decided to make him the lucky one!
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The Woman in the Window
Agoraphobia, bottles and bottles of wine, and new neighbors. What could possibly go wrong? Well, for Anna Fox, just about everything.
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No Good Deed
It’s summer camp for social justice warriors and activists…but then it becomes more Lord of the Flies than Kumbaya.
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The Last Black Unicorn
Course language, hearty laughs, funny voices, tales of domestic violence, and hope for a future career. That’s what you can expect from Tiffany Haddish’s memoir, The Last Black Unicorn.
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Read Harder: Childrens’ Classics Published Before 1980
Stay atop of your reading challenges, slay your TBR pile, and check off this prompt on the BookRiot Read Harder challenge by reading a children’s classic published before 1980
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An American Marriage
If Oprah picked it as her book club selection it has to be great, right? Right.
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February Reading Recap
February is over! How did that happen so fast? I feel like January took six months and February took an hour. I started my internship at a publishing company in NYC this month, so while I’ve had a lot of time on trains, I’ve also been reading a lot of things that aren’t published (or…
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The Woman in Cabin 10
Lo Blacklock is a travel writer with a wee bit of anxiety, boyfriend problems, and a ticket on a luxury boutique cruise ship set to sail the sea
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On the Fence
It’s your typical tomboy girl falls for brother-like friend story, but that doesn’t make this Kasie West novel any less compelling.
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