Official Synopsis from Goodreads: Generations of readers young and old, male and female, have fallen in love with the March sisters of Louisa May Alcott’s most popular and enduring novel, Little Women. Here are talented tomboy and author-to-be Jo, tragically frail Beth, beautiful Meg, and romantic, spoiled Amy, united in their devotion to each other … More Book Review: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Official synopsis from Goodreads: Anne’s own true love, Gilbert Blythe, is finally a doctor, and in the sunshine of the old orchard, among their dearest friends, they are about to speak their vows. Soon the happy couple will be bound for a new life together and their own dream house, on the misty purple shores … More Book Review: Anne’s House of Dreams by L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables #5)
Official Synopsis taken from the back of the book: It was a dark and stormy night. Out of this wild night, a strange visitor comes to the Murry house and beckons Meg, her brother Charles Wallace, and their friend Calvin O’Keefe on a most dangerous and extraordinary adventure—one that will threaten their lives and our … More Book Review: A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle (Time Quintet #1)
Official Synopsis from Amazon: In the decade since it won the Booker Prize, Ben Okri’s Famished Road has become a classic. Like Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children or Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, it combines brilliant narrative technique with a fresh vision to create an essential work of world literature. The narrator, Azaro, … More ARC Review: The Famished Road by Ben Okri
Official Synopsis from Amazon: The Bell Jar chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under — maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther’s breakdown with such intensity that Esther’s insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an … More Book Review: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Hype or Like Friday is a weekly meme created by Jill @ Rant and Rave About Books, Larkin @ Wonderfilled Reads, and Britt @ Geronimo Reads. Today’s Hype or Like Friday post is about those dreaded books I had to read in school. We all have some that we’ve read that we didn’t like! Here … More Hyped Books I Was Forced To Read In School
Today’s topic for Hype or Like Friday is Books That Made Me Want To Read. Hype or Like Friday is a weekly meme created by Jill @ Rant and Rave About Books, Larkin @ Wonderfilled Reads, and Britt @ Geronimo Reads. Here are seven books that I read in school that inspired me to read … More Books That Made Me Want To Read
Synopsis: Anne Shirley becomes a principal at Summerside High School, and moves to Windy Poplars for three years while she teaches and writes to Gilbert Blythe. Review: Sweet, enchanting, and a bit random. Anne of Windy Poplars is book four in the popular classic series Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. Told mostly in … More Book Review: Anne of Windy Poplars by L.M. Montgomery (Anne of Green Gables #4)
Synopsis: Set during the Trojan War, the great warrior Achilles has a war prize, Briseis, who is stolen by Agamemnon. Because of this slight, Achilles refuses to fight, therefore dooming the Greek side. Hector, fighting on the side of the Trojans, leads various raids into the Greek camp, bringing the battle closer and closer to … More Book Review: The Iliad by Homer
Synopsis: Set in Ancient Greece, Patroclus is an exiled prince. Achilles, the son of a goddess and a king, befriends him, and the two boys form a friendship, which turns into love. Trained by the centaur Chiron, Achilles decides to fight in the legendary Trojan War, and Patroclus follows. A re-telling of Homer’s classic, The … More Book Review: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
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