Book Review: West With the Night by Beryl Markham

Official Synopsis from Amazon: Beryl Markham’s West with the Night is a true classic, a book that deserves the same acclaim and readership as the work of her contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Isak Dinesen. If the first responsibility of a memoirist is to lead a life worth writing about, Markham succeeded beyond … More Book Review: West With the Night by Beryl Markham

Book Review: Winterdance by Gary Paulsen

Official synopsis from Goodreads: Fired by a passion for running dogs, award-winning author Gary Paulsen entered the Iditarod, a grueling 1180-mile race across Alaska, in dangerous ignorance and with fierce determination. After a spectacularly inept period of training and an even more spectacularly inept start to the race, Paulsen and his team of 15 dogs … More Book Review: Winterdance by Gary Paulsen

Book Review: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville

I finally finished it!!! WAHOO!!!! I’ve been reading this book since January, and it seemed to take forever. I ended up liking it, and being thankful that I read it, but I’ll probably never read it again. Moby-Dick tells the story of Captain Ahab and his relentless pursuit of the White Whale, Moby-Dick, putting the … More Book Review: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale by Herman Melville