This is one of the most unique and insightful self-help books I think I've ever read... and it's not at all what I assumed it would be based upon the title. I thought it would just essentially expand upon the truism that optimal experience is to be found in getting so immersed in an activity that ...
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This is a fun and fluffy chick lit story about a single mom whose husband abandoned her and her kids three years earlier, only to return in a fit of conscience and give her the summer off. It's the first time Amy has been free to tend to her own needs and make her own choices since her early 20s, ...
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Such a delightful middle grade novel! Audible made this a freebie for the month of October, and I could see why when I got to the end: the climax takes place on Halloween, specifically because that is the day of the year when legend has it the veil between worlds is thinnest. The story follows ...
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This was amazing, haunting, and such a unique concept! I was wondering how six authors would manage to co-write a cohesive story, but they did it by each writing their own novella and interweaving one another's characters throughout to draw a portrait of the women in the French Revolution. All of ...
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Technically I think this is considered high fantasy, because it occurs in an alternate universe... but it's what I guess I'd call YA high fantasy, because it has a modern style to it, and doesn't sacrifice characterization for plot the way (in my opinion) true high fantasy seems to do. The story ...
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I read this in high school and remember liking it (though I wonder now if it might have been the abridged version, because the full length is pretty long). Yet despite its length, Great Expectations is pretty action-packed, and reads like a modern novel. Pip is raised by his abusive sister and ...
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Loved this so very much!! First of all, though, that title. It's terrible. It tells you almost nothing. I never would have read the book, except that my husband sent me a list of Harry Potter read-alikes and this was on the list, so I downloaded a sample (plus I had also read "Ender's Game" and ...
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This wasn't at all what I expected. It was a lot more graphic, and far more of a sweeping epic than I bargained for, though I definitely got sucked in. The story jumps around to multiple characters' perspectives. The protagonist was Thea, though she didn't get any more "screen time" than the rest ...
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I read this years ago, and enjoyed it far more then, as I recall, than I did this time around. But having just finished "Jane Eyre," I very much wanted another story in the same vein. The plus: mostly the prose. I just love the Bronte sisters' style. But that's pretty much all this story had ...
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Classics, I find, are either super boring or AWESOME, and rarely in between. I don't know why that is, but this one is definitely in the latter category! Of course, I was predisposed to love it, since I love the musical so much--I've seen it on stage at least once, memorized the soundtrack and have ...
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