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  • Asgardians: Thor Review

    As Thor attempts to traverse a river, he is forced to prove to a grouchy, mysterious old man that he is truly the one and only, mighty Thor! 

  • Ranking The Gilded Age Heiresses

    The last romance series of the year brings the former colonies to its English roots with the Crenshaw family touring England for a vaction. Unbeknowst to the girls, the true intention behind the trip is for their social climbing parents to marry them off to entitled gentlemen. Well, August and Violet aren’t going down without…

  • Star Power

    As part of my nostalgia year, I decided to finally look at a series that keeps popping up on Goodreads suggestions when I filter Hollywood, celebrity etc. It was for lower schoolers in the vein of Hannah Montana and such. After all these years of reading the summaries I had to find out what they…

  • Book of the Month: Gone with the Wind

    Ah yes, the book that has lived for almost a hundred years and it makes one feel like they’ve lived through a hundred years. Yes, I’m talking about Margaret Mitchell’s decade-spanning work, Gone with the Wind, covering before, during and after the Civil War from the POV of one stubborn hellion, Scarlet O’Hara. There’s not…

  • Ranking Hundred Oaks

    After vicariously reading the Pretty Tough series, I was in the mood for more girls in sports narratives. Again, of which there are surprisingly few series dedicated to the premise. The only other one I remembered was this. I wanted to read it when it was first coming out but I never got round to…

  • America’s First Daughter Review

    After thoroughly enjoying Dray and Kamoie’s book on the Hamiltos, I had to go read their first book together about Jefferson’s eldest daughter, Martha “Patsy’ Jefferson and how she shaped the founding father we know today. It is always said that behind every great man, there was a great woman and this is especially prominant…

  • Book of the Month: Crocodile on the Sandbank

    A bit of The Mummy, a bit of a stand-alone Agatha Christie, the adventures of Amelia Peabody feature a plain, spinster along the lines of Jane Eyre. Albeit a more sprightly Jane Eyre what with the shooting, escavating and mummy-hunting. Let me back up a bit with the death of Amelia’s father, she decides to…

  • Ranking The Secrets of Charlotte Street

    This was really, really hard. In fact, I almost considered not ranking the series because each of them were so well-written that the minor flaws made it impossible to rank one above the other because they were insurmountable compared to what Peckham did right in subverting tropes and creating three-dimensional characters of complexities and layers.…

  • Book of the Month: The Great Alone

    Ah the great Alaskan wilderness, a place to reconnect to nature. Or in Hannah’s novel, a place where family demons come to tear them apart with no chance for help in the middle of a blizzard. Aka a nightmare in my thinking.

  • Finished Nancy Drew!

    It only took over a year and browsing through Internet archives to get to the final two Nancy Drew books that escaped my grasp-The Clue of the Whistling Bapipes and The Strange Message in the Parchment. Oddly enough, they both involve a lot of sheep. The Bagpipes have Nancy heading to her ancestral Scotland homeland…