Just a girl and her books
DRACULA | Bram Stoker 2018 | Paper Mill Press First published 05.26.1897 Rating: 4.5/5 stars Jonathan Harker has recently been sent to Transylvania for a work assignment to assist a man known as Dracula with his move to England. While residing at his home, a castle upon a hill, Harker comes to realize that there … Continue reading Book Review: Dracula
THE HALLOWEEN TREE | Ray Bradbury First published 01.01.1972 | Yearling Rating: 4/5 stars On Halloween night, eight costumed boys meet, ready to head out for a night of tricks and treats. They realize their friend Pipkin hasn’t met up with them and decide to head to his house. Pipkin tells them to go on … Continue reading Book Review: The Halloween Tree
WE HAVE ALWAYS LIVED IN THE CASTLE | Shirley Jackson First published 1962 | Penguin Rating: 4/5 stars Merricat Blackwood lives on her family’s secluded estate with her sister Constance and Uncle Julian. The Blackwood family has been blacklisted in the neighboring town. Not long ago there were more Blackwoods living on the estate, but … Continue reading Book Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle
A CLOCKWORK ORANGE | Anthony Burgess 04.07.2011 (first published 1962) | Penguin Essentials Rating: 4/5 stars Alex is fifteen. He lives in a society where the youth are trying to overthrow the world around them and show that they are the group in charge. It’s common for teenagers like Alex to engage in extreme violence, … Continue reading Book Review: A Clockwork Orange
THE GREAT GATSBY | F. Scott Fitzgerald 09.30.2004 (first published 1925) | Scribner Classic Rating: 5/5 stars Nick Carraway has just moved East to start a new life in the New York suburb of West Egg. He quickly finds that most things in New York are out of his economic status and settles on a … Continue reading Book Review: The Great Gatsby
Lolita | Vladimir Nabokov 04.07.2011 (originally 1955) | Penguin Rating: 4/5 stars Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged college professor looking to make a change in his life after losing who he believes is the love of his life. He makes a decision to move to a new town, however, his plans are thwarted because of … Continue reading Book Review: Lolita
ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST | Ken Kesey 06.26.2008 (first published 1962) | Penguin Classics Rating: 4/5 stars Chief Bromden is a patient living on a mental ward run by the tyrannical Big Nurse Ratched. Bromden has been here for years and most would categorize him as the mute, half-Indian found mopping random areas … Continue reading Book Review: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
FAHRENHEIT 451 | Ray Bradbury 06.2012 (originally published 1953) | Simon Schuster Rating: 5/5 stars Fahrenheit 451, the temperature at which book paper catches fire and burns. This is what drives Guy Montag's life. He is a fireman, which means that his job is to respond to calls about citizens illegally housing copies of books … Continue reading Book Review: Fahrenheit 451
Read: Hunting the Five Point Killer by C.M. Wenelboe The Snowman by Jo Nesbo White Bodies by Jane Robbins Still Life by Louise Penny 1984 by George Orwell The Dark Lake by Sarah Bailey UNSUB by Meg Gardiner I can't believe October is over already! What a whirlwind! I spent the first half of the … Continue reading October Wrap Up
1984 | George Orwell First published 06.08.1949 | Signet Classics Rating: 5/5 stars The current year is 1984, or at least that’s what the newspapers indicate. Winston Smith is living in Oceania, one of the three ever-warring superstates that the world has been divided in to, in a small one-room flat and belongs to the … Continue reading Book Review: 1984
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