I love to read, I do. It’s been an escape and an entertainment for me since I was knee high to a grasshopper. The first books I remember reading on my own were the Little House on the Prairie series books. I still reread them from time to time.
When I’m not rereading childhood favorites, I read everything else I can get my hands on and review them for this blog. LOL Below is my rating system justification. If you’d like to be reviewed, drop me a line.
One Page (℘): I couldn’t slog my way through this mess if I had a machete.
Two Pages(℘℘): I finished it but only out of sheer stubbornness.
Three Pages(℘℘℘): It was readable. Shrug. Nothing more, Nothing Less. I read fifty pages a day.
Four Pages(℘℘℘℘): That was good. Really Good. I was happy to find time to read it, often completing more than my 50 pages a day.
Five Pages(℘℘℘℘℘): Loved this book. Read it in one sitting. Will look at other things this author has written.
Six Pages(℘℘℘℘℘℘): Ignored the people in my life or was severely irritated when I had to stop reading this book to help them. Note: did not actually put the book down for anything. I’m grudgingly writing this review right now because I would rather be on my way to the library to pick up everything else they have written before someone else gets there first.
6 Pages Reviews
Big Little Lies – Liane Moriarty
The Martian – Andy Weir
13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi – Mitchell Zuckoff and the Annex Security Team
Heather Wells – Meg Cabot
The Demon in the Freezer – Richard Preston
5 Pages Reviews
Follow Me Back – A.V. Geiger
Frozen in Time – Mitchell Zuckoff
Bird by Bird – Anne Lamont
All Quiet on the Western Front – Erich Maria Remarque
My (Not So) Perfect Life – Sophie Kinsella
A is for Arsenic – Kathryn Markup
Death by Chocolate Lab – Bethany Blake
Scratch – Manjula Martin
three amazing things about you – Jill Mansell
Escape From Mr. Lemoncello’s Library – Chris Grabenstein
The Boy Is Back – Meg Cabot
Frindle – Andrew Clements
Kill Switch – Jonathan Maberry
Maphead – Ken Jennings
Gone With The Wool – Betty Hechtman
The Last Star – Rick Yancey
Patient Zero – Jonathan Maberry
The Readaholics and the Poirot Puzzle – Laura DiSilverio
Good Intentions – Elliott Kay
The Last Condo Board of the Apocalypse – Nina Post
Neil Patrick Harris Choose Your Own Autobiography
The Fifth Wave – Rick Yancey
Forget Me Knot – Sue Margolis
Something Blue – Emily Giffin
Something Borrowed – Emily Giffin
Bookends – Jane Green
Rilla of Ingleside – L. M. Montgomery
Mr. Darcy’s Daughters – Elizabeth Aston
How to Murder a Millionaire – Nancy Martin
Overturning Wrongful Convictions – Elizabeth A. Murray, PhD
Laying Down the Paw – Diane Kelly
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie – Alan Bradley
Mystery of the Moss Covered Mansion
The Stranger Beside Me – Ann Rule
Hooked on Murder – Betty Hechtman
Vanished – Meg Cabot
I’ve Got Your Number – Sophie Kinsella
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War – Max Brooks
4 Pages Reviews
Death by Chocolate Lab – Bethany Blake
Hungry Heart: Adventures in Life, Love, and Writing – Jennifer Weiner
The Seventh Seed – Allison Maruska
Confessions of a Domestic Failure – Bunmi Laditan
The Bad Ass Librarians of Timbuktu – Joshua Hammer
Telling Lies for Fun and Profit – Lawrence Block
The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up – Marie Kondo
No Baggage – Clara Benson
Sushi For Beginners – Marian Keyes
The Crossing Places – Elly Griffiths
The Zig Zag Girl – Elly Griffiths
Bridget Jones, Mad About the Boy – Helen Fielding
Cheddar Off Dead – Julia Buckley
A Little Night Murder – Nancy Martin
Because I Said So! – Ken Jennings
Grilled For Murder – Maddie Day
Guns, Germs, and Steel – Jared Diamond
Come Tell Me How You Live – Agatha Christie
Down The Rabbit Hole, Curious Adventures ad Cautionary Tales of a Former Playboy Bunny – Holly Madison
The Lost Track of Time – Paige Britt
Death, Taxes, and a Satin Garter – Diane Kelly
The Art of War for Writers – James Scott Bell
Al Capone Shines My Shoes – Gennfier Choldenko
The Man Who Never Was: World War II’s Boldest Counterintelligence Operation – Ewan Montagu
Luke Skywalker Can’t Read and Other Geeky Truths – Ryan Britt
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less – Greg McKeown
Shark Trouble – Peter Benchley
Seducing Strangers, How to Get People to Buy What You’re Selling – Josh Weltman
The Ultimate Book of Impostors – Ian Graham
King Leopold’s Ghost, A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa – Adam Hochschild
In Cold Blood – Truman Capote
3 Pages Reviews
Modern Lovers – Emma Straub
Wine. all the time. – Marissa A. Ross
I’m Traveling Alone – Samuel Bjork
A Knit Before Dying – Sadie Hartwell
Unsolved Mysteries of American History – Paul Aron
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies – Jane Austen and Seth Grahame Smith
Secrets of an Organized Mom – Barbara Reich.
Truly Madly Guilty – Liane Moriarty
War and Peach – Susan Furlong
The Kick-Ass Writer: 1001 Ways to Write Great Fiction, Get Published, and Earn Your Audience – Chuck Wendig
And Then There Were Nuns – Kylie Logan
Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d – Alan Bradley
The Bone Collection – Kathy Reichs
Much Ado About Muffin – Victoria Hamilton
Death Among the Doilies – Molly Cox Bryan
Meternity – Meghann Foye
Murder, Hand-Crafted – Isabelle Alan
In The Woods – Tara French
Angel Face: The True Story of Student Killer Amanda Knox – Barbie Latza Nadeau
Green River, Running Red – Ann Rule
2 Pages Reviews
The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever – Jeff Strand
Cut, Crop, & Die – Joanna Campbell Slan
The One and Only – Emily Giffin
Solo – Jill Mansell
Dressed to Kilt – Hannah Reed
Parchment and Old Lace – Laura Childs
Mystery – John Hamilton
The Code of the Woosters – P. G. Wodehouse
One Page Reviews
Unrated Books
The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder – James Alan Fox and Jack Levin
The Year of Reading Dangerously – Andy Miller
Mad Science Institute – Sechin Tower
The Sociopath Next Door – Martha Stout, Ph.D.
Star Wars: Jedi Academy – Jeffrey Brown
Wedding Night – Sophie Kinsella
The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World’s Most Perplexing Cold Cases – Mike Capuzzo
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