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A comedy of errors is the best way to describe this book. The Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules is the first book in The League of Pensioners by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg. It opens on Martha, an elderly lady who is approaching eighty years and lives in a retirement facility called Diamond House with…
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This next book is one that you have probably already heard of and may have even read already. I know it is both popular and controversial. However, neither of those are why I read it. Ever since I was a teenage I’ve been working my way through this list, “500 books every teen should read”…
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This book is one that is technically a continuation of a series that I had previously thought only had three books and I had finished. It turns out that Dragons of Summer Flame is the fourth book in the Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. However, it does not pick up after the…
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We are once again returning to the land of the peculiar with today’s book. The Library of Souls is the third book in the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series by Ransom Riggs. It opens on Jacob and Emma having narrowly escaped the hollows and wights but having been unable to rescue their fellow peculiar. Luckily,…
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Banning books is a bit of a hot topic in the United States right now. A topic that is handled rather adroitly in the book, Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books by Kirsten Miller. The book opens with Beverly Underwood, a member of the school board in Troy, Georgia and a woman who champions…
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This next book was interesting in many ways as it is a memoir but in the form of a few dozen, slightly disjointed, short stories. Out Of Africa was written by Isak Dinesen between 1914 and 1931 while the author ran a coffee plantation near Nairobi in Kenya. In it she describes her years there…
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The Demon Apostle by R. A. Salvatore is the final book in the First Demonwars Trilogy and the third book in the Demonwars Saga. It continues the story of Elbryan and Jilseponie as they continue fighting against Abbot Dalebert Markwart and the forces of the Abellican Church. The story opens with Jilseponie struggling to accept…
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For those of you who follow me, you’ve probably already read my reviews for The Trials of Apollo series. Having finally been able to read those I was inspired to go back and start at the beginning with The Lightning Thief, book one of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. It opens on Percy Jackson‘s field…
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Fool’s Errand is the first book in the Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb. It tells the story of how Fitzchivalry Farseer, living under the name of Tom Badgerlock, is drawn back into the political intrigues of the Farseer court. It starts with him being visited by a variety of old friends who he was…
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Time to travel back in time. River God is the first book in the Ancient Egypt series by Wilbur Smith and it starts the story of Taita. Taita is a slave and a eunuch that serves a rather brutal noble. The time frame is approximately 4,000 years ago. It opens during the festival of Osiris…
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