I tried to read this one for the second time, and finally managed to make it all the way through, but I definitely see why I struggled the first time though. Since I was listening to the audio version (and I'm usually multitasking at the time) I actually had to stop about an hour or so in, and read ...
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I absolutely loved this! I'm in some ways a big Sherlock Holmes fan (I loved the Cumberbatch version, and in general I love the characters of Holmes and Watson as portrayed in film, though I find the original Arthur Conan Doyle stories painfully dry). Rather than yet another retelling, though, this ...
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Really fascinating! I rarely review nonfiction here, but I'll make an exception for this one. I already had a framework for the concepts, so that made it much easier to listen to as an audiobook. What I knew already was that dopamine was associated with pleasure and reward, and the lack of it ...
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This whole series is like the literary equivalent of a bowl of pasta -- empty calories, but tasty comfort food nonetheless. It's got a little bit of everything: adventure, magic, romance, intrigue, and a sappy happily-ever-after. This one was a very loose retelling of Little Red Riding Hood... ...
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Another winning start to a series by Jeff Wheeler. I've come to be very familiar with his fantasy worlds, which are all interconnected. This one was probably written before the Harbinger series, as the Harbinger series references what happens to Maia as Sera's ancestor. Because of this, there were a ...
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Apparently this was the last book Jane Austen ever wrote, rather than one of the first, as I had supposed. I definitely notice a formula in Austen's stories: the unlikely protagonist who is quiet, retiring, but deep and intelligent. The wealthy suitor who doesn't seem to pay her any attention at ...
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