Category: Book Review

Book Review: The Golem and the Jinni

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker I absolutely adored this book. I found it in my list of “books added” accidentally, having marked it there from a goodreads giveaway and then forgotten. Faced with a need for a good book, I bought it from audible and started listening to it the same day. …

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Book Review: If Walls Could Talk

If Walls Could Talk: An Intimate History of the Home by Lucy Worsley This book could more accurately be called “Every day life in pre-modern England.” It’s great for anyone who wants to learn about what every day life in England was like in the middle ages through the early 20th century. Categorized by themes …

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Book Review: Wicked Bugs

Wicked Bugs: The Louse That Conquered Napoleon’s Army & Other Diabolical Insects by Amy Stewart This is a book written on a similar vein to Amy Stewart’s WICKED PLANTS, which has a similar shape and layout. The previous book I read from a hard copy, but this one I listened to as an audiobook. I …

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Book Review – Second Glance

Second Glance by Jodi Picoult I’d never head of Jodi Picoult, and only got this book because a secondhand copy was selling at the library for too cheap to pass up, so it surprised me that two separate people told me how much they loved her as an author when they spied the book cover. …

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Book Review – The Story of Doctor Doolittle

The Story of Doctor Doolittle by Hugh Lofting I got this as a free audiobook, and it was prefaced by a foreword from someone letting me know that what I was about to read was the pinnacle of children’s literature, much better than most of the trash out there, and was, in fact, a work …

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