This cover is really gross Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews 🌺🌺🌺/5 Cathy and Chris and Cory and Carrie have the perfect life—a beautiful mother and a loving father, a lovely home and the best toys ever. But when their father tragically dies, their mother takes them to their grandparents' house, where their entire … Continue reading Book Review: Flowers in the Attic
Book Review: A Season of Daring Greatly
A Season of Daring Greatly by Ellen Emerson White 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Jill Cafferty is good at baseball. Not just for a girl—she's good, period. And when scouts start sniffing around, Jill decides that if she's drafted before round ten and the team doesn't just want her for a gimmick but to actually play, she'll set aside her scholarship … Continue reading Book Review: A Season of Daring Greatly
Book Review: To Be Taught, If Fortunate
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Ariadne and her crew of four travel four of the planets (well, one moon and three planets), orbiting Zhenyi. All is well until they suddenly receive silence from Earth. While the idea of a long-term space exploration team losing track of Earth due to ~reasons~ isn't … Continue reading Book Review: To Be Taught, If Fortunate
Book Review: Into the Drowning Deep
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant 🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 Seven years ago, the Atargatis set sail to the Mariana Trench to film a mockumentary on mermaids. But the mermaids found them. Now, Tory Stewart joins a scientific expedition to hunt down the mermaids and track down the last greatest mystery of the sea. Except some things aren't meant … Continue reading Book Review: Into the Drowning Deep
December TBR
It's the end of the year, and the end of the decade. I've seen a lot of memes rolling around with folks talking about how their reading habits have changed (or not) in the past decade, and so I'm going to jump in, briefly. In 2009 I read a lot of adult fantasy, particularly urban … Continue reading December TBR
November Wrap-Up
This was a good reading month but not a great posting month. But hey, this is my 100th post! I had planned on posting a weekly series of books on women in the military, with a schedule and everything and then...didn't. I still have the books prepared for the women in Vietnam and the 80s, … Continue reading November Wrap-Up
Book Review: Angel Mage
Angel Mage by Garth Nix 🌺🌺🌺/5 Liliath has woken from her hundred year sleep, and is determined to complete the task she set out to do. But first—gather the Refusers, those refugees who fled her home country with her. Find the four chosen and bring them to her. And return to Ystara. To finish her … Continue reading Book Review: Angel Mage
Book Review: The Scorpio Races
The Scorpio Races by Maggie Stiefvater 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺/5 It is the first day of November and so, today, someone will die. Talk about one of the most iconic first lines in YA. Every year in October, the island of Thisby becomes the home of dangerous water horses, who are captured and raced on the first of … Continue reading Book Review: The Scorpio Races
Mid Month Musings: November 2019
It's mid-November, and this month has been busy, and is only going to get busier. Every weekend is jam packed with either travel or work, and this home-body is not liking it, mainly because travel and work cuts into my reading time. On the other hand, somehow I've managed to read eight books so far … Continue reading Mid Month Musings: November 2019
Women in the Military: WWII
By the time the United States entered the Second World War in December 1941, the war had been raging around the world for over two years...although honestly it had been going a little longer than that. While the war officially started in Europe during the invasion of Poland in September 1939, Asia had been at … Continue reading Women in the Military: WWII
The Suspected Bibliophile 