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 ›
Book Reviews
Captive Rebel (Book 1: The Allegiance), Erin McDermott
Hello my lovely, love readers! Today I have for you a book review! Gasp! Shock! Really?! Yes indeed, I have actually managed to pull together the ragged edges of my focus long enough to finish an entire book! The focus… 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 ›
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 ›
Printed Pages and Coffee 