Book Ramblings from a Lifelong Bookworm

My Rating:  4 stars As a result of busy season at work and school starting for me, finding time for leisure reading has been quite difficult...

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:  4.5 stars I loved William Kent Krueger's previous stand- alone novel  This Tender Land  and since finishing that book, I...

My Rating:  4 stars I had heard so many great things about Alice Hoffman's works, but didn't get the chance to read anything by her ...

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:  5 stars I read  Persuasion  for the first time back in high school and it quickly became my second favorite of Jane Austen'...

My Rating:  5 stars Ann Patchett has done it again!  One of my favorite authors on the planet has once again written a poignant, beautiful ...

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:  5 stars I've been in a nostalgic mood lately and felt compelled to revisit some of the entertainment that had given me so ...