Vinnie had a fascinating life. She did actually marry Charles Stratton, “General Tom Thumb,” who toured with P.T. Barnum from the age of 5 until his death. Vinnie started her career with the American Museum but after her marriage, she and Charles toured Europe, the US, and eventually the world. That trip would have been almost […]
So. I haven’t re-read any of the original novels since they were first published and I haven’t re-watched any of the movies since their respective releases. So I’m fuzzy on those plot points. But this didn’t do much to further the broader story. Snow is a manipulative prick. We know that. All I learned in this book is that he […]
Soooo…. Hi? IntrovertedJen here. It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Almost four years to be exact. I can’t believe it! I blogged as The Introverted Reader from 2009 – 2016 but I lost that domain in 2017. That’s a long story about a lack of communication on my hosting company’s part and my own oversight, Continue Reading…
Welcome to my weekly update for October 24, 2016! Autumn has finally arrived here in the mountains of North Carolina! Our temperatures hovered around 80 degrees until Friday, when they dropped into the fifties. We’ve warmed up a bit over the weekend but the cooler temperatures have finally brought on some spectacular fall color. My Continue Reading…
Welcome to my weekly update for October 3, 2016! I made it back two Sundays in a row, so that must mean my schedule’s getting back to normal. I ran a 5K yesterday morning. My time wasn’t as good as I had hoped, but considering that I’ve had very little time for any workouts this Continue Reading…
I try hard to avoid any blurbs or early reviews of books that I’m really anticipating, but somehow things just seep into my consciousness and I’m not even sure how they got there. So in addition to having my own ridiculously high hopes for this book, I’d come across things like “Hill’s magnum opus!” and “his best work to date” […]
Welcome to my weekly blog update for September 26, 2016 Holy moly. I’m not sure where this summer’s gone. My last post was on April 7. April 7! That seems crazy. But it’s also about right. That’s when work just exploded on me. I haven’t had time for much of anything because I’ve had so Continue Reading…
I adore Neil Gaiman’s work, so I jumped at the chance to review this new collection of his nonfiction. I’ve read bits and pieces of his graduation speeches and stuff like that and it always makes me stand up and cheer, “Yes! This! This man gets it!” And that should probably tell you where my expectations were. The collection […]
I finally found a way to easily keep my list of reviews by author updated but I have to do some heavy lifting to get old reviews onto the list. Bear with me!
I really, really want to give Save the Date four stars, and I would have, but somewhere about halfway through I got fed up with Cara. Up to that point, she’d been such a little fighter that I’d been rooting for her all along. And sure, she has a lot on her plate, but then she goes looking for–and creates!–trouble where none […]
4 Stars. I needed these Lunar short stories to get some closure after the emotional turmoil of Winter. (I was so angry at Levana that I almost gave up on the book. It was that torturous). When I realized that this book was happening, I jumped on it as soon as I possibly could at the library. Most of the stories are prequels to Cinder […]