My lovely readers, I’ve a confession to make: I caved. I caved like a dwarf in a mithril mine. I did not finish the four other books I was in the middle of before starting The Fellowship of the Ring… Read More ›
2017 Reading Challenges
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow, Jessica Townsend
Hello my lovely readers! This is, in all honesty, not a review I ever expected to write. In fact, it’s for a book I never expected to read, for no other reason than it is middle grade fiction. And I’m… Read More ›
The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien
My dear readers, this is a book that has been a long time coming. A spectacularly long time. I am twenty five, and I feel like I have read this book fifteen years late. But now that I have, I… Read More ›
At The Earth’s Core, Edgar Rice Burroughs
Hello, lovely readers! Unbelievably, I am back already with another book review! On the one hand, I feel pretty good about the fact that I have both read and reviewed another book so quickly, but on the other hand I… Read More ›
Cyber War Will Not Take Place, Thomas Rid
Hello lovely readers! Right on the heels of Rise of the Machines: The Lost History of Cybernetics, I decided to read the book Thomas Rid actually released first: Cyber War Will Not Take Place. I know, I know, it’s a… Read More ›
Rise of the Machines: the lost history of cybernetics, Thomas Rid
Morning everyone! It has been a hot minute since I actually sat down and wrote a book review for my blog, rather than for one of the academic journals that I have done numerous reviews for over the past eighteen… Read More ›
The Circle, Dave Eggers
I don’t know what I was expecting when I opened The Circle for the first time. I had heard of it when it was released a few years ago, but it wasn’t a book I’d have picked up then. In… Read More ›
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll
I’ll be honest with you. I originally bought this book because I really, really love the cover designs from the Word Cloud Classics editions of classic literature. I have a few of them now, and I just adored the bright,… Read More ›
2017 Goodreads Challenge – COMPLETED!!
Here we are again, at the beginning of a brand new year! And I think I speak for all of us when I beg any heavenly being paying attention to not have 2017 suck as much as 2016 did. Please?… Read More ›
2017 Popsugar Reading Challenge – COMPLETED!!
Well hello again readers! Happy New Year/Holiday Season/start of January, depending on your particular belief system. I hope you have had an excellent couple of weeks! So, after last years Grown Up Reading Challenge, I decided to have a go… Read More ›