I started reading this series after I heard a rave review on NPR during their “Guilty Pleasures” segment.The middle-aged gentleman described Twilight with such enthusiasm that I couldn’t resist temptation.I bought the four-book set and settled in for a long weekend of reading.
Three days and 2400 pages later, I’d finished the four novels.I adored Twilight, [...]
When I began reading The Last Song, my first thought was this is the perfect book to read to finish out the summer. I thought it would be light, but an enjoyable read. To my delight, it became so much more as I read more of Ronnie’s story.
Ronnie and her brother Jonah are sent to [...]
I have long wanted to read this book by Nathaniel Hawthorne. It was one of the first books I downloaded when I got my kindle 2. The character portrayals are superb. It analyses the thoughts, motivations, strengths and weaknesses of the four major characters in the story – Hester Prynn, the vengeful doctor, the hapless [...]
I have always heard of Dorian Gray, but never got around to reading it until now. Very well written anda wonderful Gothic classic. This freebie is worth downloading. The devil seems to be none other than his so-called friend who points out some truths to the shallow Dorian. That begins his unravelling. I won’t be [...]
In THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE, the second volume in the late Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, publisher Mikael Blomkvist and the police are conducting parallel investigations into three horrifying murders — and their initial evidence points straight at young computer genius and social misfit Lisbeth Salander. Kalle Bastard Blomkvist (as Salander has begun referring [...]
I thoroughly enjoyed this novel.I am an avid reader of all types of fiction, but really enjoy well written Fantasy… and this novel is it.While the storyline is somewhat familiar to avid readers of the genre, thehandling of the coming-of-age hero theme is one of the novel’s strengths.Specifically, the pacing is quite unlike other standards [...]