Book 566: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter #3) – J.K....
This re-read, like each one before it, is about what I noticed more this time than I did the other times I’ve read the books. The older I get the more my perspective changes and the more I’m like oh...
View ArticleBook 568: Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Harry Potter #4) – J.K. Rowling
The primary reason I will always advocate this book series over the films is the amount of detail Rowling includes to flesh out her characters and her stories. From the minor characters that aren’t...
View ArticleBook 569: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Harry Potter #5) – J.K....
This book more than the first four has changed more than any of the others re-reading it this time. I’m not sure what it is that clicked for me, but it wasn’t as much of a slog and I wasn’t as annoyed...
View ArticleBook 788: Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell #1) – Hilary Mantel
I clearly was not in a hurry to read this one. It has been on my Kindle since I purchased it in December of 2011 and that was TWO years after it won the Booker Prize! I avoided it for some time because...
View ArticleBook 790: The God of Small Things – Arundhati Roy
OMG ya’ll, clearly, I should be judging the next Booker Prize. First Wolf Hall and now this, I get why they choose these beautiful books as winners. I’m only partially serious. I still think so many of...
View ArticleBook 792: Hallucinating Foucault – Patricia Duncker
I forgot how beautiful this novel is. That’s not surprising considering it’s been over a decade since I read it and I’m honestly not sure if this is my original copy or if I picked up a new one in the...
View ArticleBook 802: The House in the Cerulean Sea – T.J. Klune
I knew I was going to like this going in because of how much I enjoyed the quirkiness of Klune’s The Extraordinaries, but I didn’t know I would like it this much! I’m now desperate for Flash Fire (the...
View ArticleBook 911: The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison
Toni Morrison is one of those authors who have always been on my list, mostly due to the controversy around their books (stupid book banners), but I’ve never gotten around to reading them. Both The...
View ArticleBook 935: Dream Boy – Jim Grimsley
Bare with me for a moment as I go on a tangent. Recently, I’ve been obsessed with re-watching the Netflix adaptation of Alice Oseman’s Heartstopper series and I couldn’t realize why other than it’s a...
View ArticleBook 965: Flamer – Mike Curato
I was not expecting this one to be such a gut punch. I don’t know why because looking at the cover with the flames, the derogatory name, and the unhappy boy scout it should’ve been obvious, but still...
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