Hello lovely readers! Now, for those of you who may not know (probably most of you, honestly), I absolutely adore the story of Peter Pan. I’ve loved it since I was a small child, and that love has only grown… Read More ›
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The Fellowship of the Ring, J.R.R. Tolkien
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock, Sammy Hagar
Let me just start by admitting that prior to reading this autobiography, I absolutely could not have told you who Sammy Hagar was. And that is not because of the fact that he is a rock artist; I grew up… Read More ›
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway
The Old Man and the Sea is the first book that I have read by Hemingway, and I will be brutally honest: the only reason I read it at all was because of the 2016 Grown Up Reading Challenge. I… Read More ›
2016 Goodreads Challenge – COMPLETED!!
In 2016 I committed to reading 50 books. Because I am a moron. Now ordinarily, that wouldn’t be an issue. It doesn’t even amount to a book per week. However, I am a Ph.D. student. Free time is not something… Read More ›
Printed Pages and Coffee 