Hi everyone! Hope your summer is full of ice cream and pool time. I'm definitely enjoying both since they help with this Texas heat a little 😉 Today I am excited to review a recent read of mine, The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway. I decided to include one Hemingway piece on …
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[Les Miserables] Part 1: A Review
Hi everyone! Hope you are staying cool and more comfortable than me this June! Today I thought I would share some updates on my reading progress of Les Miserables by Victor Hugo. I have 5 "huge" novels on my list for The Classics Club so I am reading them one per year. If you recall, …
[The Great Gatsby]: A Review
Hello, fellow bookworms! Can you believe it's the last day of May? Time is flying by this spring. Today I am trying to be extra ambitious and write two reviews to catch up for the month of May. May has been a great reading month for me. And consequently I've been behind on reviews all month. …
[War and Peace]: A Small Review
Happy Saturday, my friends! As you probably recall from this post, I recently finished the 1000 page masterpiece, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy. Check out my earlier posts about War and Peace as well. Guys, I still kind of can't believe it! This is, by far, the longest book I have ever read and …
Top 10 Tuesday: I need to read more…
Welcome back to Top 10 Tuesday hosted by The Broke and the Bookish! This week's prompt is I Wish Had (More/Less) ___ In Them. I surprisingly found this topic kind of hard. So I twisted it a bit and decided to share some of the books that I can't believe I haven't read. I'm talking …
Longest Book I’ve Ever Read
Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great weekend. I've been hoping to get more blogging done this week but I haven't really felt up to it. But I had to get on today to share some exciting news. I finished War and Peace this week! Guys, this is huge! This is literally the longest …
Top 10 Tuesday: Most Intimidating Classics on my TBR
Welcome back to Top 10 Tuesday hosted by The Broke and the Bookish! This week is a freebie week. I was looking through their list of former topics and came across "most intimidating books." This topic intrigued me because I am only about 50 pages from the end of War and Peace! Can you believe …
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[Frankenstein]: A Review
Happy Saturday, y'all! I'm excited for some good family time this weekend and hopefully knocking this nasty cold out for good! Today I am here with a review of a book that surprised me: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. This book has an interesting reputation. We all know the name. We can name several movies that …
[War and Peace, Book 11]: A Review
I am so excited to review book 11 of War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy today. First, because this is the last long book of the novel. And second, because finishing this book makes me feel like I'm almost done with the novel. THIS. IS. HUGE. I feel like the books are running together a …
Top 5 Wednesday: Longest Reads
Welcome to a new week of Top 5 Wednesday! T5W is a weekly meme is hosted by Sam @ThoughtsOnTomes. You can visit the Goodreads T5W group for more info. October 5th: Books That Took You the Longest to Finish --These are the books that you had on your nightstand "in progress" for months or years. The …