I wanted to read this book because I previously enjoyed reading Flynn’s other two books, Gone Girl and Dark Places (which I will hopefully review some other time). While it was obvious that this was Flynn’s first book of the three, her storytelling and characterization abilities are clearly strong from the get-go and I enjoyed…
I have been wanting to read this book for a while. I’ve found that reading books about people going through depression help me while I myself am dealing with a bout of depression. It helps me with the feelings of loneliness and isolation, even if only temporarily. Just knowing that someone out there knows how…
I really, really wanted to like this book. I truly did enjoy some parts of it, and so much of the humor is absolute perfection. I had reservations about reading it because it looked like it might perhaps be a book that tries too hard to be funny, and thus ends up completely lacking any…
This book is one of my all-time favorite romance novels to read and has been since I was in middle school way back when. I’m sure a part of my enjoyment is nostalgia, but a part of it is just how simply enjoyable it is to read. I find myself going back to it over…
Memoir / Nonfiction / Psychology / True Crime
I recently discovered a fascination for true crime. I mean, I’ve been interested for as long as I can remember and absolutely adored watching shows like Unsolved Mysteries, but for some reason it never occurred to me until the last year or so that I could also read true crime. A whole world was opened up to…
I am a huge fan of supreme court history, for an as-yet-unknown reason. Actually, do I really need a reason? With the amount of influence the Supreme Court is able to exercise on the lives of all Americans, it should really be no surprise that it’s a completely fascinating topic to study. My interest tends…
This book, admittedly, caught my attention because it is short, and I have always wanted to read Sophie’s Choice, another book by Styron. Once I looked further into Darkness Visible, however, I became even more intrigued because it’s a book about a personal experience with depression written in 1990 when there was still such a stigma associated…
I’ve been wanting to read The Shining by Stephen King for years now and finally received it as a Christmas present last year. I’ve seen Stanley Kubrick’s film version several times and enjoyed it, but pretty much everybody who has read it told me that the book is so much better so I just had to read it. I must say, I…
Of Pages and Perspectives 