Northanger Abbey (1817) by Jane Austen – Fiction Rating: 4/5 Northanger Abbey is my least favorite Austen novel. It only receives this distinction because it is the book I have read the least. Northager Abbey was the first completed novel by Austen but published posthumously along with Persuasion. Keeping that idea in mind, it makes…
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (2011) – Fiction Book One of the All Souls Trilogy Rating: 4/5 I have a soft spot in my heart vampires. I was a freshman/sophomore when Twilight first came out and of course I became attached. Prior to that, as a middle schooler who preferred books to people,…
The Jane Austen Society by Natalie Jenner (2020) – Fiction Rating: 4/5 I tend to reread books and rewatch movies a lot. I have always been like that. I rewatched The Lion King so often when I was a kid that I soon learned all the lines, saying them out loud while I would watch…
Spillover – Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen – Nonfiction (2012) Rating: 4.5/5 We are in information overload. For the past six months since the pandemic started, the world has turned upside down. Or so it seems for a lot of us. Schedules changed, businesses closed, jobs were lost. But the…
Hidden Valley Road by Robert Kolker (2020) – Nonfiction Rating: 4/5 I have always been a vivid dreamer. While not in exact detail, I have always been able to easily recall them the next morning. Most of my dreams revolve around the usual – falling or being chased or elaborate imaginings. Those never frightened me.…
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