There will come a point in the life of a Dickens fan when they reach the worst of times: the moment when, despite is vast bibliography, they will run out of things to read by him. Or perhaps you're in the mood for something Dickensian, but you just don't feel like actually reading Dickens (this… Continue reading What to Read When You Love Charles Dickens
My Rating: 4 stars Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead is a stunning piece of literary fiction that won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2018. Janina lives in a middle-of-nowhere Polish village and is considered a crazy old woman by most of the people who live there. When various neighbors start… Continue reading Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
Since I have a giant TBR list on Goodreads, I thought it might be fun to feature a few every once in a while and talk about why I want to read them and why I haven't yet. So I used a number generator to pick these six random books from the list. The Darkest… Continue reading What’s On My Never-Ending TBR
My Rating: 3 stars Though I usually don't discuss it, I was a huge Twilight fan as a teenager. I wasn't going to buy this originally. I thought maybe I'd get it out of the library at some point a few months after it was published. But then it came out and this overwhelming feeling… Continue reading Midnight Sun by Stephenie Meyer
My Rating: 5 stars My Favorite Thing is Monsters is framed as the diary of 10-year-old Karen, an artist and horror fan living in Chicago in the 1960s. When her upstairs neighbor Anka dies under suspicious circumstances, Karen doesn't buy the explanation of suicide and decides to investigate for herself. The first thing we have… Continue reading My Favorite Thing is Monsters, Vol. 1 by Emil Ferris
I know I'm not the only one who had a book hangover when finishing Jane Eyre for the first time. Almost everyone I've spoken to who has read and loved it had a similar thought upon reaching the "Reader, I married him" moment: where can I find another book like this? Here are some books… Continue reading What to Read When You Love Jane Eyre
Many thanks to Random House and NetGalley for the ARC! This book will be published on Tuesday September 1 2020. My Rating: 2 stars After reading and loving The Girls a few years ago, I was excited to read something new from Emma Cline. Unfortunately, Daddy: Stories missed the mark for me. Several of the stories intrigued me at… Continue reading Daddy: Stories by Emma Cline
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Janeite who has read through all of Austen's work must be in search more reading material. It's hard when you've read through all of Austen's books multiple times (even the fragments!) and are still left wanting more. You want something with that distinct Austen charm, but you… Continue reading What to Read When You Love Jane Austen
Many thanks to REUTS Publications and NetGalley for the ARC! This book was published on July 9 and is now available for purchase. My Rating: 4 stars Speak the Ocean is a new adult contemporary fantasy that uses aspects of "The Little Mermaid" while still distinctly being it's own story. After discovery mermaids, or the… Continue reading Speak the Ocean by Rebecca Enzor
My Rating: 3 stars The Swallows brings us to Stonebridge Academy, a co-ed New England boarding school with dark secrets lurking in it's halls. Alex Witt, the new creative writing teacher, quickly becomes aware of the boys' secret website the Darkroom, where they post vulgar pictures and descriptions of women and rate blowjobs from their… Continue reading The Swallows by Lisa Lutz
A Literary Princess 