This cake is not a lie
Inspired by ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ by Laura Esquivel, my love for all things pie, and my boyfriend(who reminded me there should probably be an Oxford comma [...]
Aug 2015
Upcoming reviews this fall!
Fall is my favourite time of the year. Mostly because I absolutely adore the weather in the fall, but also because of the beautiful colour palette you can find outside. Then [...]
Crimson Bound by Rosamund Hodge
Kindle Edition, 448 pages Published May 5th 2015 by Balzer + Bray After reading some of its raving reviews, seeing the purdy cover and reading the prologue, I was syperhyped [...]
The Missing (Seasons of Grace #2) by Beverly Lewis
My rating: 3 of 5 stars Twenty-one-year-old Grace Byler longs to find her missing mother and to uncover the secret that drove her to leave them three weeks before. Grace [...]
The Telling (Seasons of Grace #3) by Beverly Lewis
My rating: 2 of 5 stars Grace Byler leaves Bird-in-Hand in a fancy car to search for her mother in Ohio. But what if Lettie Byler doesn’t wish to be found? Meanwhile, [...]
Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
My rating: 2 of 5 stars It wasn’t a bad book, but it wasn’t a great book either. A story about a spiritual journey from ignorance to true enlightenment. I never [...]
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
My rating: 5 of 5 stars Wow! What an awesome little gem of a book. It’s cozy, it’s creepy; it’s sad, but really not THAT sad. I can recommend this book to [...]
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle #1) by Patrick Rothfuss
My rating: 4 of 5 stars I heard a lot about this book and how great it supposedly should be. That always makes me very sceptical when I start reading it myself. Nevertheless, [...]
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett My rating: 4 of 5 stars I listened to the Librivox audiobook edition read by Kara Shallenberg. Even though there were some [...]
The Secret (Seasons of Grace #1) by Beverly Lewis
The Secret by Beverly Lewis My rating: 2 of 5 stars While this genre was definitely a new experience for me, it reminded me a lot of my mother’s old teenage books about [...]
Inked Brownies 