The Time Machine by H.G. Wells My rating: 4 of 5 stars H.G. Wells‘s The Time Machine was required reading in high school for most when I was in 9th grade (about 25 years ago), and one of my teachers chose this book as 1 of 10 books we readContinue Reading
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe My rating: 4 of 5 stars Who wouldn’t find this insanity pure bliss? OK, possible exaggeration, but honestly… the rhythm and the beat of the words just make their own music in your mind and your breath as you read through them. AContinue Reading
The Complete Grimm’s Fairy Tales by Jacob Grimm My rating: 4 of 5 stars I adored fairy tales as a child… wait, I’ve always adored them, even now when I’m… not a child… so many different interpretations — truly the foundation for many of today’s TV shows, movies, children’s books…Continue Reading
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak My rating: 4 of 5 stars I loved this so much, I begged to star in it in an elementary school play. I won the lead role but had to share it with another classmate as we were doing 8 performances andContinue Reading
Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg My rating: 4 of 5 stars What an entertaining story! I first read this as a child, then I watched the movie with Robin Williams and fell in love all over again. But it was in my sophomore year at college when I was takingContinue Reading
Aesop’s Fables by Aesop My rating: 4 of 5 stars How often in life these little fables come up and we forget their original (or semi-original) source. Thousands of years old… parables told over and over again, then written down. What do they really mean, you can ask yourself theseContinue Reading
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl My rating: 4 of 5 stars One of the first books I ever read. I wanted to watch the movie, but wasn’t allowed to until I read the book. And so I did. And now, every few years, I want to again.Continue Reading
The Idea of You by Amanda Prowse My rating: 4 of 5 stars 4 stars to Amanda Prowse‘s book The Idea of You, a fictional story about a women craving motherhood but facing many barriers to success. I was offered this book through NetGalley and Lake Union Publishing in exchangeContinue Reading
4+ of 5 stars to Sally Hepworth‘s The Mother’s Promise, a touching story that will give you a tremendous amount to consider. I received this ARC from St. Martin’s Press as a giveaway through Goodreads, choosing it because it had a gripping summary and a similar sentiment as the bookContinue Reading
My rating: 3 of 5 stars to David Lagercrantz‘s The Girl in the Spider’s Web, the fourth book in the “Millenium” thriller series, written by a new author given the original, Steig Larsson, passed away several years ago. While the book carries on with great characters and a similar style, itContinue Reading