Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Rating: ★★★★★ I think I just found a new book to add to my short list of favorites. Station Eleven is perfect. In it's most basic form it...

Cold Weather Reads
When the temperature begins to fall and the rain turns to snow, my mind turns to Christmas. I want to surround myself in a comfy blanket...


Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
Rating: ★★ Generally, I think this book had a lot of potential, and it failed to deliver. I had really high hopes for this story. The...

The Girls by Emma Cline
Rating: ★★★★★ I picked this up just before Halloween, not because I thought it was a thriller, but because I saw it in my library and I...

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley
Rating: ★★★ Going into Before the Fall I expected a thriller. After the first few chapters I was not so thrilled. Don't get me wrong:...


Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Rating: ★★★★★ Charlotte Brontë is the master of beautiful writing. Every paragraph reads like a poem. Every description orchestrates an...


A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Rating: ★★★★★ "All he could feel, all he had felt since the monster revealed itself, was a growing disappointment. Because this wasn't...


The Brothers by Stephen Kinzer
The Brothers is an engaging, dramatic history of the Dulles brothers who led the age of espionage in America. I read this book for my...


The Diviners by Libba Bray
A novel rich with layers, The Diviners will keep you busy until all the leaves have fallen. I started this book back in July and it has...

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
"Planes going into buildings. Bodies falling. Planes going into buildings. Bodies falling. Planes going into buildings. Planes going into...
