I'm really into science-fiction TV and movies: Star Trek, Star Wars... I love them both. Weirdly enough, however, is that my enthusiasm for the genre hasn't really translated much over to literature. Don't get me wrong, I love it when stories take place in an alternate reality (like Harry Potter or any of the great … Continue reading Book Review: If, Then
Since I heard about the release of My Oxford Year by Julia Whelan this past year, I knew I had to read it. I spent a year studying in England myself, and I remember the trip we took to Oxford... the campus took my breath away. If I had decided to continue my education and get my … Continue reading Book Review: My Oxford Year
I'm not going to lie, I haven't picked up a book in the mystery/thriller/whodunnit genre for a while. I read The Girl on the Train and The Woman in the Window around the same time (and we all know Gone Girl is still playing a role in pop culture these days), and I was just finding the genre to be … Continue reading Book Review: The Perfect Alibi
I've never had a problem with spoilers. Whether I find out the big twist or the ending of something before the fact or as I'm consuming it, I still react emotionally when I get there. This is part of the reason why I'm so intrigued by Adam Silvera's They Both Die at the End. I mean, he gives away the … Continue reading Book Review: They Both Die at the End
I honestly don't ever remember reading Choose Your Own Adventure books as a child (though I'm sure I did), but the concept is so appealing to me. It's kind of like a video game for book lovers... which for this girl means pretty much an ideal situation. When I heard last year that there was … Continue reading Book Review: My Lady’s Choosing
I had been hearing a lot of buzz about Matchmaking for Beginners by Maddie Dawson in my book club, so when it went on sale in the Kindle store over the holidays, I knew I had to get it and take a read for myself. I'm fascinated with the art of matchmaking (my mother-in-law actually worked for … Continue reading Book Review: Matchmaking for Beginners
My book journey so far this year has covered a lot of heavy subjects (murder, abuse, and WII on multiple occasions), so I was looking for something light to change things up a bit. I love a good romance novel every once in a while, and when I saw that The Secret Ingredient was published by Harlequin, … Continue reading Book Review: The Secret Ingredient
The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey, which will be available in stores on February 5, 2019, tells the journey of three women from Boston in 1944 who joined the Red Cross Clubmobile girls in order to try to track down one of their fiancés, who has been lost at war for months. It's the third and … Continue reading Book Review: The Beantown Girls
The next installment in my unintentional historical-fiction journey this month brings me to Paris in the 1940s, just as Hitler and the Nazis have taken over France. The Parisians follows three women who do what it takes to survive in the city they love during the tumultuous World War II. SynopsisParis, 1940. The Nazis have occupied … Continue reading Book Review: The Parisians
My second book of the year brings me to England, a place that I was lucky enough to call home for eight months back when I was in university. Though I was living an hour and a half outside of London, I got up to the capital a few times a month and truly fell … Continue reading Book Review: The Light Over London
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