Poetry of Reading

“We must find a gentleman in this house who is so chivalrous, he would move a dead body for a lady, and has so much integrity, he would never use that favor against her. Is there such a paragon on this earth?” A Lady’s Guide to Etiquette and Murder is the first book in...

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 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner (****)Very happy I read this book, however, it’s a fairly tough read. Hard to follow at times and has a rather depressing story. But it is a must-read, and I found the way the author used past and present intermixed extremely refreshing and worth the...

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“Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.”Death of Kings covers the events surrounding the death of Alfred the Great of Wessex in 899. His son Edward is heir to the throne, much to the chagrin of Alfred’s nephew, Æthelwold. Uhtred, the protagonist of The Saxon Tales and the warrior who defeated many a...

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 The Gentleman by Forrest Leo (***)Entertaining, and started strong, it was hard to finish, but the last two chapters picked up. Funny unique banter between characters which is the glue that holds the book together.Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak (***)The quality of writing, and imagination, is as strong as ever. There’s nothing...

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 The Healer's Apprentice by Melanie Dickerson (✵✵)While this book was not terrible, it was extremely predictable and very cheesy. Finally, this book was advertised as a ‘re-telling’ of the famous fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty”. There is only the thinnest of connections between the fairy tale and this story. If this is the reason...

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 “This was not judgment day - only morning. Morning: excellent and fair.”Sophie’s Choice, by William Styron, has an interesting plot and some wonderful characters. Stingo, a young Southern man who is learning to be a writer, narrates the book. Recently arrived in New York City, Stingo lands a job that he hates, leaves...

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“If there’s a corner where you plant your heart, it’s always with you.”The story is centered around Polly, a woman in her thirties, who loses her job and her boyfriend. Her long-term boyfriend lost his business, so they bankrupted. He leaves her and goes back home to his mother, and Polly is left...

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