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Review: 'The Things They Carried' by Tim O'Brien
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Through short stories, The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien recounts a semi-autobiographical account of the author’s...
Caroline Selby
May 3, 20211 min read
Review: 'The Harvest Gypsies' by John Steinbeck
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Harvest Gypsies by John Steinbeck is a volume containing seven long-form articles that John Steinbeck wrote in 1936 about...
Caroline Selby
Apr 30, 20211 min read
Monthly Wrap Up: March 2021
Looking forward to April! In March 2021, I read a total of 3 books. The books I read were (in chronological order) Fried Green Tomatoes...
Caroline Selby
Apr 6, 20211 min read
Review: 'The Deal of a Lifetime' by Fredrik Backman
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman tells the story of the meeting of a father and son for the first time in a long...
Caroline Selby
Apr 1, 20211 min read
Review: 'A Farewell to Arms' by Ernest Hemingway
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway tells the love story of Lieutenant Henry and Catherine Barkley, backdropped by World War...
Caroline Selby
Apr 1, 20211 min read
Review: 'Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe' by Fannie Flagg
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg tells two stories at once. One is of Mrs. Threadgoode, an...
Caroline Selby
Mar 31, 20211 min read
March 2021 Classic of the Month: 'A Doll's House'
How Henrik Ibsen's classic play will inspire you to live more freely. The classic of the month for February 2021 is A Doll’s House by...
Caroline Selby
Mar 3, 20213 min read
Monthly Wrap Up: February 2021
Looking forward to March! In February 2021, I read a total of 2 books. The books I read were (in chronological order) As I Lay Dying by...
Caroline Selby
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Review: 'Sula' by Toni Morrison
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Sula by Toni Morrison tells the story of the friendship of Nel and Sula, two girls who meet as children in the small town of...
Caroline Selby
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Review: 'As I Lay Dying' by William Faulkner
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner recounts the harrowing journey the Bundren family takes across the Mississippi countryside...
Caroline Selby
Feb 28, 20211 min read
February 2021 Classic of the Month: '1984'
How George Orwell's famed dystopian novel is more relevant now than when it was written. The classic of the month for February 2021 is...
Caroline Selby
Feb 27, 20213 min read
Monthly Wrap Up: January 2021
Looking forward to February! In January 2021, I read a total of 4 books. The books I read were (in chronological order) A Doll’s House by...
Caroline Selby
Feb 7, 20211 min read
Review: 'Libraries in the Ancient World' by Lionel Casson
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Libraries in the Ancient World by Lionel Casson recounts the history of ancient libraries, all the way back to when “books”...
Caroline Selby
Feb 7, 20211 min read
Review: 'Exterminator!' by William S. Burroughs
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Exterminator! by William S. Burroughs contains 30 short stories on topics including science-fantasy wars, racism, corporate...
Caroline Selby
Feb 7, 20211 min read
Review: 'Letters' by Kurt Vonnegut
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 Letters by Kurt Vonnegut contains hundreds of letters the famous satire / science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut wrote and...
Caroline Selby
Jan 22, 20211 min read
Review: 'A Doll's House' by Henrik Ibsen
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen, written and first performed in the late 1800s, shocked audiences with its feminist, yet...
Caroline Selby
Jan 10, 20211 min read
January 2021 Classic of the Month: 'The Handmaid's Tale'
How Margaret Atwood's famous dystopian novel is more relevant now than ever before. The classic of the month for January 2021 is The...
Caroline Selby
Jan 7, 20214 min read
Yearly Wrap Up: 2020
Looking forward to 2021! In 2020, I read a grand total of 75 books, squeezing in seven books in the last six days to successfully...
Caroline Selby
Jan 1, 20212 min read
Monthly Wrap Up: December 2020
Looking forward to January! In December 2020, I read a total of 10 books. The books I read were (in chronological order) The Handmaid’s...
Caroline Selby
Jan 1, 20211 min read
Review: 'The Importance of Being Earnest' by Oscar Wilde
⭐️⭐️⭐️/5 The play The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde, first performed in London’s St. James’ Theatre on February 14, 1895, is...
Caroline Selby
Jan 1, 20211 min read
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