By Willa Cather ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I did not want this book to end. After the last book I read, it felt like I got this one finished in an afternoon. The story follows Professor St. Peter and his friendship with the mysterious Tom Outland. The story plays out on a few different levels. The professor is … Continue reading Review: The Professor’s House
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Review: The Closing of the American Mind
by Allan Bloom ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I sit here and wonder where to even begin. This book is a mammoth to digest, hard to categorize because it is so multilayered, and wonderfully and frighteningly brilliant on top of it all. Bloom wrote the book in the eighties, yet you feel as if he's looking through a window … Continue reading Review: The Closing of the American Mind
Book Review: The Sun Also Rises
By Ernest Hemingway 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 This novel drew me in--- as most Hemingway stories do--- with its prose. I love how bare bones it is. He uses as few words as possible to convey his scenes and descriptions, and something about the LACK of floweriness makes it masterful. The story follows Jake Barnes and Lady Brett … Continue reading Book Review: The Sun Also Rises
Book Review: The Rise of the New Puritans
by Noah Rothman 🌟🌟🌟 & 1/2 This book has been on my TBR for a while, and I just haven't been sure I was really in the mood to read it. I knew it would be far more centered on current events and politics than I usually go for, but the premise was something that … Continue reading Book Review: The Rise of the New Puritans
Book Review: The Bonfire of the Vanities
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 by Tom Wolfe The story follows the downfall of a Wall Street bond salesman--- a Master of the Universe (his words, not mine)--- who accidentally hits and fatally injures a young man one night while lost in the Bronx. What follows is a story of fate, power, manipulation, and deception. When I started the … Continue reading Book Review: The Bonfire of the Vanities
Review: Doom
The Politics of Catastrophe by Niall Ferguson ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I soaked this book up! Unfortunately, I'm a shallow sponge, and I will probably have to revisit it at some point to really process all of the information here. This was a good book to read on the Kindle where you can export your notes and highlights … Continue reading Review: Doom
Review: The Bone Garden
⭐⭐⭐ & 1/2 By Tess Gerritsen I would call this book "cute"--- as in, it did everything that it was supposed to do and stayed comfortably in its lane. The story was compelling. It entertained. It had a good historical angle. It just never really "blew my socks off"--- to borrow a cliche. The story … Continue reading Review: The Bone Garden
Review: Anne of Green Gables
By L.M. Montgomery How have I never read this book before!! From page one I kept thinking: I would have loved (cannot bold that word enough) this book as a thirteen year old. The story--- as many of you know--- follows the formative years of Anne Shirley, an orphan who is mistakenly adopted by brother … Continue reading Review: Anne of Green Gables
Book Review: The Fiery Cross
by Diana Gabaldon 🌟🌟🌟🌟&1/2 Recommend to lovers of historical fiction I always love my excursions back into the world of the Frasers. However, I downgraded this book to four and a half stars because I felt the story just wasn't as tight this time around. In fact, it's rather hard to give a synopsis of … Continue reading Book Review: The Fiery Cross
Book Review: Christmas Holiday
🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 by W. Somerset Maugham Recommend to lovers of literary classics and more cerebral fiction. Reading this story felt rather like comfort food. Not because of the subject matter. The story had very little to do with Christmas. But because it's just so pleasing to fall into the written arms of someone who knows what … Continue reading Book Review: Christmas Holiday
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