Recently Read: Title: The Travels of Reverend Ólafur Egilsson: The Story of the Barbary Corsair Raid on Iceland in 1627 Author: Ólafur Egilsson Pages: 248 Rating: 4 Read: Wed, 1 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This was better than I expected. It felt like every other page I was encountering things I had misconceptions about. Even in the beginning it was a shock when some of the captured Icelanders are released from captivity for various reasons. A man with a bad hand was freed because he wouldn't make a good slave. They didn't kill these people, and they weren't mistreated on the ship after they were underway. Even from this Reverend's point of view it's hard to see the raiders as entirely evil. There's a more complex story here. Title: Words of Radiance (The Stormlight Archive, #2) Author: Brandon Sanderson Pages: 1088 Rating: 5 Read: Wed, 1 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: The Way of Kings (The Stormlight Archive, #1) Author: Brandon Sanderson Pages: 1007 Rating: 5 Read: Wed, 1 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: I absolutely loved this book. I can't wait for the next in the series. +I bought it in hardback instead of on my kindle because I'd heard there were lots of maps in the print that were unreadable in the digital versions. Well, I think that sentiment is completely right, but it's more than maps. Character journals, sketches, and all sorts of things are spread in the pages. It's great to flip back to the awesome maps in the beginning too. It's certainly possible to enjoy the book without all the pictures, or to look them up online for reference. The book is really big and cumbersome too, so there's that to worry about. I guess if the worst thing you have to worry about with this book is what version to buy, that says something in itself. +Re-read: Still awesome. Title: Slimy Things Did Crawl (Halfway to Better Book 1) Author: Susan Kaye Quinn Pages: 34 Rating: 3 Read: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Solid solarpunk story. Cleaning up the ocean floor of microplastics gets a little bit hairy. I was getting into it when it wrapped up. It would have been nice to spend a bit more time in that world and see what happens next. +These short stories are indeed very short, so I'll need to reset my expectations for the rest. Title: Malleus (Eisenhorn, #2) Author: Dan Abnett Pages: 288 Rating: 3 Read: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: A strong second volume in the Eisenhorn chronicles. The rich history and universe-building of Warhammer is powerfully felt in every moment of this book. The intrigue of court crossed with the epic battles, arcane mysteries, and plain old sleuthing make for a dynamic read. Well performed in audio. Title: Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1) Author: Leigh Bardugo Pages: 358 Rating: 2 Read: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This book reminds me of the Sword of Shanara in that everything is really in your face and on the nose. The guy who seems like he's definitely going to be the bad guy is in fact the bad guy. The light and dark aspects were pretty trite. The Grisha weren't interesting to me when they were background in Six of Crows, so now that I'm getting their mainstay series I'm equally unimpressed. I'm going to push onward regardless. Hoping the later books get more... anything. Title: Under Ashen Skies (Beneath the Dragoneye Moons, #10) Author: Selkie Myth Pages: 627 Rating: 3 Read: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Back to the fun again, but with surprisingly few stakes. There were a few fights but everything felt safe in this tenth installment. It was lovely seeing the leveling and new powers evolving. It was also great to see some old friends get together again. I just enjoyed spending time in the story again even if not much happened. Title: The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels (Dangerous Damsels, #1) Author: India Holton Pages: 324 Rating: 2 Read: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This series had a lot of ups and downs for me in the first installment. It had a certain humor that really worked well a lot of the time, but occasionally the anachronistic elements cut into the theme a bit too deep and took me out of the story rather than add color. The characters are vibrant and there's just the right level of ridiculous. This was an audio listen and I think it may have worked better for me in print. Title: Klara and the Sun Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Pages: 303 Rating: 4 Read: Fri, 5 Apr 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This is a beautiful story filled with hope and pain and more hope. It made me turn to the sun several times. It's well worth the read. Title: Remarkably Bright Creatures Author: Shelby Van Pelt Pages: 360 Rating: 5 Read: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This was a fabulous read. At first I wasn't sure how the two storylines were connected, then I thought I knew, and then I had to learn something from an octopus. There's a lot of joy in this book and the ending was perfect. Title: Grilled Armageddon (Cooking with Disaster, #1) Author: Dakota Krout Pages: 460 Rating: 3 Read: Wed, 6 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: A resurrection litrpg? Well, it was also a bit cozy since it was focused on a friendship. I like the cooking angle and I can see hope for that continuing well in future stories. I'm on the fence about picking up #2. Title: Miniatures: The Very Short Fiction of John Scalzi Author: John Scalzi Pages: 142 Rating: 4 Read: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Scalzi is a delight and this collection of his short works is as well. He packs in such humor with the essential questions of science fiction. Title: So Late in the Day Author: Claire Keegan Pages: 47 Rating: 4 Read: Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Short stories do such a great job getting at it, don't they? This one certainly packed in a lot. Title: Domestication (Battle Mage Farmer #1) Author: Seth Ring Pages: 412 Rating: 1 Read: Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: I have two main complaints that led to a one-star review. One of these complaints is the fault of the audiobook narrator and the other the fault of the book author. +First, the audio narration contains two character voices: grizzled cowboy and annoying anime boy. Every character in the story is given one of these two treatments. It rarely works. +Second, the main character is invincible, omnipotent, and also a whiny bitch. He literally has max stats in everything. He has no actual motivation to do anything. And what does he do with his unlimited power? Very sketchily recreates modern plumbing, I guess. Goes on a pointless adventure with his enemies because he's bored. Fights some things with one hand tied behind his back so that the drama seems more realistic. I dunno. There really is no point at all. +I really don't get this overpowered main character thing that's going on recently. It's really boring and I would very much like it to stop. Title: Plain Bad Heroines Author: Emily M. Danforth Pages: 640 Rating: 2 Read: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: It was longer than it needed to be and never really came together in that satisfying way it felt like it should. There was a lot to like, but it really did drag on when it should have been building more tension. The author can write the horror of a scene quite well but it was lacking from the book as a whole. Title: The Torch that Ignites the Stars (Arcane Ascension, #3) Author: Andrew Rowe Pages: 571 Rating: 3 Read: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: I struggled less with book 3 than book 2. I think it's because the author really leaned into the crafting this time around and made it very clear that this story isn't trying to be too many things at once. The main character's motivations were more clear, his choices and those of his friends seemed in keeping with their character, and the encounters with overwhelming forces finally seemed to have some impact on them. +This is an interesting series. It really does go for the throat with game mechanics and high-science of fantasy elements, but it's not quite giving up on these other tropes. I think Mr Rowe could take the training wheels off, abandon the school, perhaps even abandon the dungeonesque spires entirely, and push forward with his budding political landscape, rich variety of magical systems, and find a stronger book for it. Title: A Symphony of Echoes (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #2) Author: Jodi Taylor Pages: 235 Rating: 1 Read: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Audiobook review. This series needs a new reader or at least some care in crafting the work. I can't distinguish between the reader's characters at all. They all have exactly the same voice quality and manner of speaking. I was constantly getting lost. +As for the book itself, I was really engaged early-on. The mythical quality of the monster and its relentlessness really struck a strong chord. We were deep in horror territory from the start and I was here for it. +Sadly I couldn't enjoy due the problems above and DNF. This book, and indeed the series, deserves another look in print. I suspect I'll really enjoy it. Title: Fox 8 Author: George Saunders Pages: 21 Rating: 4 Read: Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Solid short story. The spelling helped convey the innocence of Fox 8. A true fable through and through. Title: On the Shoulders of Titans (Arcane Ascension, #2) Author: Andrew Rowe Pages: 742 Rating: 2 Read: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This one is really strange. On the one hand it still has all the fun bits from book 1, but I'm finding some new issues as the series continues. +First, the main character is strangely involved in epic workings with some of the most powerful beings on the planet, yet is barely finished his first year of schooling. He's underpowered, pretty much useless against anything, but somehow survives going toe-to-toe with multiple god-tier opponents. His close friends are super powerful, yet also somehow useless? It's a weird situation. +Why would they involve this annoying kid who has such strong demands on people yet no real contribution? Why are powerful creatures after him in the first place? +Oh and why can he stand up to god-beasts but not his own father? Worse, why do none of his close friends help him in that situation? +It's becoming harder so suspend disbelief, and the power dynamics are also becoming droll. When the third massively powerful creature squared off with him I sorta tuned it out knowing nothing would come of it. +I'll give the series one more book to see if it turns around or does something new based on how much I liked book 1. Title: Unruly: The Ridiculous History of England's Kings and Queens Author: David Mitchell Pages: 433 Rating: 3 Read: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Book club read: +I don't have much interest in the subject matter, so it was really nice that the tone and humor carried me along so well. This is a delightful read. Title: The Sunset Years of Agnes Sharp Author: Leonie Swann Pages: 360 Rating: 2 Read: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: Being Arab Author: Samir Kassir Pages: 96 Rating: 2 Read: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This took me an unusually long amount of time to read for such a short work, and I think I got about 10% of what I should have out of it. I simply don't have enough background on the historical and political landscape of the region to know what Samir was talking about in much of this book. His observations were interesting, but also confusing for me. I suspect this is a fabulous read for someone more familiar with the topic. Title: A Snake Lies Waiting (Legends of the Condor Heroes, #3) Author: Jin Yong Pages: 429 Rating: 4 Read: Sun, 21 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: It's so frustrating when problems exist only because one character doesn't say something to another character. The amount of misconception based plots in this third chapter of Legends of the Condor Heroes was overwhelming. But perhaps more of interest to me was the cultural differences on display. +Two examples (spoilers): +[spoilers removed] Title: The First Tail (The Nine Tails of Alchemy #1) Author: Taniko K. Williams Pages: 534 Rating: 4 Read: Sat, 6 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: I wasn't sure if I was going to like this series at first. It's more litrpg, which is a weird genre for me. I generally dislike a lot of it unless it's really solid like The Wandering Inn. This had a good justification for a game world, and the connection back to the real world was a neat twist. Ultimately it's the attention to crafting detail and the passion the main character has for alchemy that makes this a success. I'll be continuing. Title: Aftermath (Expeditionary Force, #16) Author: Craig Alanson Pages: 697 Rating: 4 Read: Mon, 1 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Welcome back, Skippy! I honestly thought the series was finished after the last book so I was pleasantly surprised to see this release. It was great to dive back into this universe and travel with Joe Bishop again. The story is strong and the ending sets us up for more to come. Hooray! Title: On Bullshit Author: Harry G. Frankfurt Pages: 67 Rating: 3 Read: Wed, 27 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Two takeaways: 1) Wittgenstein may have been on the spectrum. 2) The lack of benevolence in bullshit is the most important quality of it, far more than the difference between it and lies. That's giving me something to think about. Title: The Witch of Duva (Grishaverse, #0.5) Author: Leigh Bardugo Pages: 48 Rating: 3 Read: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: Düngeonmeister: 75 Epic RPG Cocktail Recipes to Shake Up Your Campaign (Düngeonmeister Series) Author: Jef Aldrich Pages: 160 Rating: 3 Read: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: A lot of these are actually cute and sound like they might be fun to try out on a game night. Title: Practical Machine Learning: Innovations in Recommendation Author: Ted Dunning Pages: 59 Rating: 1 Read: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: All but useless high level info. Title: When a Child is Born (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #2.5) Author: Jodi Taylor Pages: 21 Rating: 3 Read: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Cute. I should come back to this series. It's quirky fun. Title: Long Chills and Case Dough Author: Brandon Sanderson Pages: 67 Rating: 3 Read: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Sanderson admitted this is an odd duck of a story in the introduction and it's true. It's cute and the characters are fun. I laughed out loud a few times. Ultimately it was a good length and enjoyable, but it wouldn't have worked in a longer work. Title: 25 Icelandic Ghost Stories Author: Jón R. Hjálmarsson Pages: 126 Rating: 2 Read: Tue, 26 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This book of Icelandic ghost stories probably won't appeal to people who haven't spent time in Iceland. The stories are dry histories, often with extensive lists of names and relationships, but rarely with much narrative to them. Before each story is a brief section detailing the area, farm, or town where the story takes place. These blurbs help place the context for the stories. +I found the location grounding really helpful. I've been to many of these places and know several of the histories of the people in the stories. That helps me connect some dots and brings more overall enjoyment than would otherwise be found inside. Title: Chess Story Author: Stefan Zweig Pages: 104 Rating: 4 Read: Sun, 24 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Really cool little story. I don't have any deep observations to add, but I really enjoyed it. Title: The Lost Cause Author: Cory Doctorow Pages: 368 Rating: 5 Read: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Finally, a novel I can point to and say, "this is it. this is solarpunk." +At times I felt like Doctorow must have been listening to my podcast because he hit all the notes perfectly. Community is the protagonist. Infrastructure is essential to the story. It is ultimately concerned with the human/environmental context. Just perfectly nailed it. +As far as the story goes and the characters we meet there's quite the gamut of personalities. We're taken on a trip between hope and rage and frustration at injustice, despair, hope again, and more. I'm singularly impressed by the way he managed to end the book in a way where we, the readers, can join the protagonists in their determined weariness. The future will be better because we must make it so. There is no alternative. +Kudos to Cory Doctorow. Now, everyone go read this immediately. Title: Beware of Chicken 3 (Beware of Chicken, #3) Author: CasualFarmer Pages: 785 Rating: 4 Read: Sat, 23 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: A great expansion on the story. Some things are revealed but it still has the peaceful vibe of the first. Title: The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human Author: Jonathan Gottschall Pages: 248 Rating: 1 Read: Sun, 17 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This book is terrible. The topic is so interesting but the execution a disaster. +The author has some very particular prejudices that stood out like a red flag in the beginning, but the true disappointment is the lack of engagement with the subject matter. He flits from concept to concept, gives some opinion or description, a few passages and examples, but never dives into depth in scientific analysis or literary criticism. The book ends up being a lot of padding and rants without any substance. +I would recommend you not read this. Title: The Number One Ladies' Detective Agency Author: Alexander McCall Smith Pages: Rating: 3 Read: Sat, 16 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: What a fun start to this series. Delightful characters in a great setting (Botswana). It makes me want to try bush tea. Title: Kitty Cat Kill Sat: A Feline Space Adventure Author: Argus Pages: 475 Rating: 2 Read: Fri, 15 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This story takes it's time building up into a story. For the first half of the book it feels more like episodes or vingettes of Lily's life. Once the bigger plot comes along it feels like an afterthought and rushes to the end. Title: Nothing But Blackened Teeth Author: Cassandra Khaw Pages: 128 Rating: 1 Read: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Yikes. This really needed an editor. +A group of people who all hate one another but call each other friends travels to a haunted mansion in Japan so that the author can demonstrate a sufficient knowledge of Japanese folklore while telling a self-are ghost story. The real horror here is the analogy work. It tries to hard and too often to turn a phrase into art. The examples are too numerous to share, but some of the worst are when the author demonstrates they don't actually know what the words they're using even mean. Ambergris isn't a color, after all. +And what about the story? Are we to take it on face value or ask questions about the alcohol? What role did the ghost play vs their own nature. Frankly, the story didn't do a sufficient job prompting me to question. It rolled in the filth of setting and berated me with vibes, and then it was done. Title: The Strange Library Author: Haruki Murakami Pages: 96 Rating: 2 Read: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This story immediately took me back to middle school where the reading is assumed to come with discussion and testing to follow. It felt almost pandering to that style, like Murakami was poking at me with a stick saying, "did you catch that symbolism? No? What does the Sheep-Man signify?" The tone, the choice of repetition, the allegorical stylings, the innocent and passive protagonist, it all adds up to a highly contrived type of fiction where the subtext is more important than the text. +Did I enjoy it, yeah. It was okay. It wasn't moving, nor do I feel a strong sense of moral or lesson because it felt like the underlying message of the story drifted by the end. +[spoilers removed] Title: Return of the Jedi: The Original Radio Drama Author: Brian Daley Pages: 4 Rating: 2 Read: Wed, 6 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Not really as bad as the other two, which sort of makes this one an even bigger waste of time. Title: The Brightest Shadow (The Brightest Shadow, #1) Author: Sarah Lin Pages: 1057 Rating: 2 Read: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This started strong with some interesting world building and politics between various groups and factions. When "the hero" first showed up I thought we were in a turn for progress, but it became the exact opposite. The characters were all mired in the foggy reality of the hero's presence and stopped being the forces driving the plot. Quickly things became a slog. +I didn't have enough time with the main characters to develop a true empathy for them or their plight, and then the spent forever acting not like themselves. It was hard to know if I should care at all. In the end, I didn't. +This story has strong roots, as Mr Miyagi would say. The author has a good command of her craft as well. I think where this failed for me is in the places where a strong editor would have been helpful. It needed some big pacing revisions, perhaps a bit of chapter reordering, some condensing, or maybe some expanding to break up the long stretches. Ultimately I wanted to feel like the characters actions made the story progress. If it's not them making things happen we have the wrong POV and this story should be about someone else. Title: Icelandic Language: Texts in Icelandic Author: Baldur Hilmarsson Pages: 76 Rating: 2 Read: Sun, 3 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This practice texts collection follows a different strategy than the last one I read. Rather than focusing on language at a certain level of difficulty and letting you decypher vocabulary meaning in context it tries to frame a bunch of new vocabulary by subject and introduce a text that utiziles it all. The result isn't great. The grammar is all over the map in complexity and these brand new words you're learning may show up in any number of declanations adding to the difficulty. If you're more advanced at learning and just looking for a vocab dump, maybe this will serve you better. Title: Short Stories in Icelandic for Beginners Author: Olly Richards Pages: 224 Rating: 4 Read: Sun, 3 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: These are fantastic and pushing the limits of my language skills perfectly. There's some opinionated instructions in the beginning that I've been trying to take to heart. If you're learning Icelandic this is a good buy. Title: The Empire Strikes Back: The National Public Radio Dramatization Author: Brian Daley Pages: 309 Rating: 1 Read: Sun, 3 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: This was pretty bad. Empire is arguably the strongest of the Star Wars films (though I may prefer Rogue One myself), but this extended script version in the radio drama did it dirty. The extensions on scenes and dialogue undercut what was working, weakening the overall story. Han was outright creepy instead of roguish, and Vader continues to feel like a cartoon villain. He just never stops talking! +If you were curious about checking out this format for the Star Wars stories, you can probably just skip it. You're not missing anything. Title: System Collapse (The Murderbot Diaries, #7) Author: Martha Wells Pages: 245 Rating: 3 Read: Sun, 3 Dec 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: I think I made the mistake of changing formats with this book. I've been reading the previous ones on my ebook and this one I listened to the audiobook version. The voices, tone, and interpretation didn't match my head-version well and I didn't connect as well as I have in the past. Note to self: murderbot is for print. Title: All My Friends Are Dead Author: Avery Monsen Pages: 96 Rating: 5 Read: Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Nailed it. Cute and horrible. Title: SQL in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference Guide Author: Kevin E. Kline Pages: 591 Rating: 2 Read: Wed, 4 May 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: Grammatically Correct Author: Anne Stilman Pages: 352 Rating: 3 Read: Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: Bread of Life, Cup of Salvation: Understanding the Mass (The Come & See Series) Author: John F. Baldovin Pages: 232 Rating: 3 Read: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: The Last Graduate (The Scholomance, #2) Author: Naomi Novik Pages: 389 Rating: 3 Read: Sun, 1 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: Invisible Man Author: Ralph Ellison Pages: 581 Rating: 2 Read: Mon, 1 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: A Clockwork Orange Author: Anthony Burgess Pages: 192 Rating: 4 Read: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: The Death of Ivan Ilych Author: Leo Tolstoy Pages: 86 Rating: 4 Read: Mon, 1 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn Author: Betty Smith Pages: 496 Rating: 3 Read: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: Paradise Lost Author: John Milton Pages: 512 Rating: 1 Read: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: Sonnets from the Portuguese Author: Elizabeth Barrett Browning Pages: 64 Rating: 5 Read: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: Beowulf Author: Unknown Pages: 256 Rating: 2 Read: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: Ivanhoe Author: Walter Scott Pages: 496 Rating: 3 Read: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: The Federalist Papers Author: Alexander Hamilton Pages: 688 Rating: 3 Read: Wed, 1 Jan 1997 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: The Lottery and Other Stories Author: Shirley Jackson Pages: 302 Rating: 3 Read: Mon, 1 Jan 1996 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: The Aeneid Author: Virgil Pages: 442 Rating: 3 Read: Sun, 1 Jan 1995 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: Anthem Author: Ayn Rand Pages: 105 Rating: 2 Read: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: The Raven Author: Edgar Allan Poe Pages: 64 Rating: 5 Read: Wed, 1 Jan 1992 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Title: Reign of Madness (King's Dark Tidings, #2) Author: Kel Kade Pages: 587 Rating: 2 Read: Review: Title: Pygmalion Author: George Bernard Shaw Pages: 82 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: The Miracle Worker: A Play Author: William Gibson Pages: 120 Rating: 4 Read: Review: Title: The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1) Author: Robert Cormier Pages: 267 Rating: 4 Read: Review: Title: The Lovely Bones Author: Alice Sebold Pages: 327 Rating: 2 Read: Review: Title: Dragonsong (Harper Hall, #1) Author: Anne McCaffrey Pages: 192 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: Lolita Author: Vladimir Nabokov Pages: 368 Rating: 2 Read: Review: Title: The Tempest Author: William Shakespeare Pages: 218 Rating: 5 Read: Review: Title: The Cask of Amontillado Author: Edgar Allan Poe Pages: 24 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1) Author: Arthur Conan Doyle Pages: 123 Rating: 4 Read: Review: Title: For Whom the Bell Tolls Author: Ernest Hemingway Pages: 471 Rating: 4 Read: Review: Title: The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1) Author: Jeanne DuPrau Pages: 270 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: The Red Badge of Courage Author: Stephen Crane Pages: 149 Rating: 2 Read: Review: Title: Inferno Author: Dante Alighieri Pages: 490 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Author: Harriet Beecher Stowe Pages: 438 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: The Giver (The Giver, #1) Author: Lois Lowry Pages: 208 Rating: 4 Read: Review: Title: Death of a Salesman Author: Arthur Miller Pages: 144 Rating: 2 Read: Review: Title: Julius Caesar Author: William Shakespeare Pages: 175 Rating: 2 Read: Review: Title: Heart of Darkness Author: Joseph Conrad Pages: 188 Rating: 2 Read: Review: Title: The Trial Author: Franz Kafka Pages: 255 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: Pride and Prejudice Author: Jane Austen Pages: 279 Rating: 5 Read: Review: Title: Our Town Author: Thornton Wilder Pages: 181 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: The Taming of the Shrew Author: William Shakespeare Pages: 291 Rating: 4 Read: Review: Title: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Pages: 139 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: Little Women Author: Louisa May Alcott Pages: 449 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1) Author: James Dashner Pages: 384 Rating: 2 Read: Review: Title: A Modest Proposal Author: Jonathan Swift Pages: 48 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: The Masque of the Red Death Author: Edgar Allan Poe Pages: 9 Rating: 4 Read: Review: Title: The Pit and the Pendulum Author: Edgar Allan Poe Pages: 64 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: Rip Van Winkle and The legend of Sleepy Hollow Author: Washington Irving Pages: 51 Rating: 2 Read: Review: Title: Merchant of Venice: the Shakespeare Made Easy (Shakespeare Made Easy Study Guides) Author: Linda Wendler Pages: 68 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: Poems Author: John Keats Pages: 128 Rating: 4 Read: Review: Title: Walden & Civil Disobedience Author: Henry David Thoreau Pages: 320 Rating: 4 Read: Review: Title: The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories Author: Oscar Wilde Pages: 331 Rating: 3 Read: Review: Title: The Scarlet Letter and Other Writings Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne Pages: 178 Rating: 4 Read: Review: Title: Star Wars: The National Public Radio Dramatization Author: Brian Daley Pages: 346 Rating: 2 Read: Sun, 26 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000 Review: Hilariously bad. Holy moly, bad. Like, you need to listen to this crap it's so bad, bad. .