Life of a Reader
A Reader’s Review of Literature
Thoughts . . . even though I haven’t read the book. Or seen the movie. 🙂 Where the Crawdads Sing lay in wait only momentarily for Reese Witherspoon to pick it up and read the now-famous story within its covers. In fact, it was actually only one month after publishing that Witherspoon read and praised the novel. Fast-forward to the […]
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious. – Albert Einstein According to the author, “This book started as a graduation speech, and graduation speeches are meant to be grandiose.” While I wouldn’t necessarily call it grandiose, it is philosophical and perhaps a little picturesque in it’s approach to life. There are a […]
Pony by R.J. Palacio Published in 2021 273 Pages Content: * * * (3.5) A few scattered cuss-words would normally cause me little concern; however, this is considered a junior fiction novel which should have zero cuss-words in my mind. There is also somewhat gratuitous descriptions of wounds sustained by ghosts, observed by our main character, Silas. These ghosts harm […]
. . . the wind gusted, ripping her hat from her head and sending it out over the bay. She spun to grab it, missed, and teetered precariously on the edge. The wind whipped again, lifting her skirts up around her knees, and she heard a voice on the wind – or was it her own voice speaking to her […]
There was another reason she took her books whenever they went away. They were her home when she was somewhere strange. They were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends – daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. Her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her […]
Living for now became my new goal: living in the house we have, in the city where we are, and in the moment when we’re alive. – Dana K. White I didn’t think I had a problem with stuff. My house is not a […]
I can’t believe you had so much fun being young. I just want to be old and rich and smell like butterscotch. Maggie Mayfield The Meaning of Maggie by Megan Jean Sovern It took me awhile to realize why I had a sense of deja vu while reading this book. It’s a junior fiction novel, […]
I didn’t quite make my goal of 52 books read last year, but I’m giving it a try again this year! I’ve got so many more books I want to read it’s almost painful to make a limited list. Below I’ve put down my top 25 books that I’m attempting to start and finish this year. It’s a fairly wide […]
Although neither of them had ever called their meeting a case of love at first sight, they’d both agreed it had certainly been a case of “pretty darn sure at first hour.” A First for Everything Sahara, starring Steve Zahn and Matthew McConaughey, is one of my favorite movies. We watch it as a family quite frequently. […]
It’s been so long since I finished my 24-hour readathon that I no longer have my time stamps for finishing my books, and I also forgot to write down the sixth book that I read. 🙂 Suffice it to say, I had a super fun time setting up this readathon for myself (even though it was three months ago . […]