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Review: In the Beginning

In the Beginning by John J. Higgins. My rating: 4 of 5 stars. “Before there was a universe, a spirit existed, without form or limit, unrestricted by beginning or end. Nameless, the Being was composed of all the energy, matter and substance that would become the Universes, known and unknown, and all lesser life and […]

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Review: Dear Evan Hansen

My rating: 4 of 5 stars      “On the outside, always looking in Will I ever be more than I’ve always been? ‘Cause I’m tap, tap, tapping on the glass. I’m waving through a window I try to speak, but nobody can hear So, I wait around for an answer to appear While I’m […]

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Review: Gravity Falls: Lost Legends: 4 All-New Adventures!

Gravity Falls: Lost Legends: 4 All-New Adventures! by Alex Hirsch   My rating: 5 of 5 stars     Well, this was a nice little treat…. That being said, I’ve never reviewed a graphic novel before, so bear with me. I feel I should also make readers aware of spoilers in this review, not just […]

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Review: The Wise Man’s Fear

The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Kvothe nodded. ‘Teccam said the same thing: no man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, […]

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Review: The Name of the Wind

The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss My rating: 5 of 5 stars “I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger […]

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Review: Lolita

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov My rating: 5 of 5 stars “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta.  She was Lo, plain Lo, in the […]

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Review: A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle My rating: 4 of 5 stars “They left the great granite plain and flew over a garden even more beautiful than anything in a dream. In it were gathered many of the creatures like the one Mrs. Whatsit had become, some lying among the flowers, some swimming in […]

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Review: The Black Cauldron

The Black Cauldron by Lloyd Alexander My rating: 4 of 5 stars “Dallben straightened and turned. In his hands he held a sword. Taran’s heart leaped. He grasped the weapon eagerly, his hands trembling so that he nearly dropped it. Scabbard and hilt bore no ornament; the craftsmanship lay in its proportion and balance. Though […]

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Review: Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett   My rating: 4 of 5 stars     “‘Let’s go.’  ‘We can’t.’  ‘Why not?’  ‘We’re waiting for Godot.’  ‘Ah!’” This review is pretty much a spur-of-the-moment thing, because I never intended to write a review for this one, since I read it for the first time last year […]

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Review: The Third Man

The Third Man by Graham Greene My rating: 4 of 5 stars “It was not the face that was familiar, for he could not make out so much as the angle of the jaw; nor a movement, for the body was so still that he began to believe that the whole thing was an illusion […]