Book Ramblings from a Lifelong Bookworm

My Rating: 3.5 stars I definitely have mixed feelings when it comes to my thoughts on this book.   Admittedly, I don’t read a lot of non-f...

My Rating: 3.5 stars I debated for a long time how best to rate this book.   On the one hand, there were elements of the story that I real...

My Rating: 3 stars This book was a bit of a mixed bag for me. While I did enjoy some aspects of it – for instance, some of the sardonic humo...

 My Rating:  3.5 stars In her latest work, Chanel Cleeton tackles the gothic theme by centering her dual timeline story around Marbrisa, a ...

My Rating: 3.5 stars As has probably been evident from the sparseness of my postings in recent weeks, I've been a bit behind on my leis...

 My Rating:  3.5 stars   Having read all of Alice Feeney's previous books, I of course couldn't pass up her latest,  Good Bad Girl ...

 My Rating:  3.5 stars First off, I have to admit that I actually finished this book a couple days ago, but had to put off writing the revi...

My Rating:  3.5 stars Now that I have a little bit of a break from the demands of work and school, I am hoping to get caught back up on th...

My Rating:  3.5 stars Amy Chua's debut novel  The Golden Gate  is an ambitious work of historical fiction that weaves together many th...

My Rating:  3 stars I have such mixed feelings about this book.  On the one hand, I really liked the story and absolutely appreciated the w...

My Rating:  3.5 stars This was an interesting collection of 15 short stories by Alexandra Chang, whose previous novel  Days of Distraction  ...

My Rating:  3 stars I read Elizabeth Acevedo's YA novel-in-verse  The Poet X  in book club a few years back and absolutely loved it.  I...

My Rating:  3 stars I was drawn to this story initially because of the bookish premise.  After twenty five year old Takako loses her boyfrie...

 My Rating:  3 stars  I'm not a huge fan of contemporary romance novels, and rom-coms especially can be a bit of a "hit or miss...

My Rating:  3.5 stars Elysha Chang's debut novel  A Quitter's Paradise  is an interesting story about a Chinese-American woman nam...

My Rating:  3.5 stars Short story collections can be a bit of a hit or miss for me.  One reason is because I need stories to have some type...

 My Rating:  3.5 stars  I'm honestly not sure how to feel about this one.  Part of me wants to approach this from the satire angle, ...

 My Rating:  3.5 stars I read Tara Conklin's previous novel  The Last Romantics  and absolutely loved it!  That book was so well-writt...

My Rating:  3.5 stars Let me say up front that I don't care much for social media.  Yes, I do have accounts on all the major platforms...