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 [...]
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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 [...]
I Want to Get Married!: One Wannabe Bride’s Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not-Quite-Rights by Ghada Abdel Aal
Ik wil trouwen! by Ghada Abdel Aal My rating: 3 of 5 stars 3.5 stars based on my level of enjoyment. Ghada’s sense of humour is either something you appreciate or find [...]
Nights of Rain and Stars by Maeve Binchy
Ugh. If I had to mention everything about this book that sucked, this would be a long ass review. Just a few things: 1. It was one giant dialogue. Maybe 2% was spent on [...]
The Eight by Katherine Neville
This book started out nicely and, as the back flap promised, I couldn’t put it down. However, the middle part of the book (about 300 pages long) was absolute rubbish. [...]
Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
Rode rozen en tortilla’s by Laura Esquivel My rating: 2 of 5 stars 2.5 stars It was an entertainable read, but I just don’t think that this type of magic realism [...]
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman #1) by Graeme Simsion
The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion My rating: 3 of 5 stars Ten pages in and chuckling several times per page, I thought I was going to end up with giving this book 4 – [...]
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