(I read this book as part of the Back to the Classics Challenge. Click on the link or image to join in the fun!) 1792 Paris is not an ideal place to be an aristocrat. The French Revolution is well underway, and heads are rolling faster than one can count. Aristocrats, guilty or not, are…
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Review: A Jane Austen Education
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in pursual of a Ph.D. in English Literature must be more interested in Joyce, Conrad, Faulkner, and Nabokov than in 19th century British literature. And such a man is William. Give him Madame Bovary, give him On the Road, but please don’t give him Jane…
Review: From the Mixed-Up Files…
(I read this book as part of the Back to the Classics Challenge.) Claudia Kincaid does not like discomfort. So when she decides to run away, she makes two decisions: to run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and to bring her penny-pinching—and therefore wealthy—little brother with her. This adventure alone would be enough…
Review: Murder on the Orient Express
(I read this book as part of the Back to the Classics Challenge. Click on the link or image to join in the fun!) When he hops aboard the Orient Express, Inspector Hercule Poirot expects a quiet trek across Europe. But when one of the passengers is killed in the middle of the night, Poirot…
Review: A Monster Calls
(I read this book as part of the Pay it Sideways Challenge. Join in anytime, we’d love to have you!) The only good thing about the appearance of a monster outside his bedroom window is that it’s not the monster Conor is expecting. He’s been having the same nightmare for months, since his mother got…