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More like Aru Shah and My Extensive Collection of Unread Galleys amirite? I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Aru Shah and the Song of Death by Roshani Chokshi. Therefore, the version I read is just a proof and not the final version, so I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. In this … Read more

In 2013, The Book Thief movie came out, but I barely remember the first time I watched it. However, since I adore the novel (here’s my review) I wanted to watch the film again and do an analysis/comparison of the two! I’ll ramble, then I’ll score both versions. The categories I’ve chosen are: plot, characters, setting … Read more

I received an advance reader’s copy (ARC) of Melmoth by Sarah Perry. Therefore, the version I read is just a proof and not the final version, so I won’t quote directly and will keep my comments general. Melmoth tells the story of a woman named Helen Franklin, from Essex by birth but who now lives in Prague. She … Read more

I Am the Messenger is Markus Zusak’s fourth book (though his first three are hard to find in America). It chronicles the story of Ed Kennedy, a taxi driver in a small town in Australia. He is pretty much a nobody, and has virtually no goals for his life. But when an incompetent criminal robs a … Read more

An Ember in the Ashes is Sabaa Tahir’s debut, the first in the Ember Quartet. It tells the story of a girl, Laia, a Scholar living under the violent, oppressive rule of the Martial Empire. After her brother is arrested for treason and her grandparents are killed, she finds the shadowy Scholar Resistance, a group supposedly … Read more

Circe by Madeline Miller is her second novel, and is in a similar vein to her first book, The Song of Achilles, though quite different in plot and tone. Circe retells certain myths from the nymph Circe’s point of view, featuring various figures from ancient stories we know well. The plot traces the events of her life from infancy … Read more

I’ve read this three times now, and it still astonishes me. This is one of my favorite books ever. There. That’s my review. What, that’s not enough information? Well then, allow me to gush. The Book Thief is a masterpiece. Markus Zusak tells us the story—set during the Second World War—of a girl named Liesel Meminger, … Read more

Signs of a fantastic series: When you finish, you sit in a daze, unable to focus on anything else but what you just read for at least half an hour. You recommend it to anyone remotely interested in that genre (or, sometimes, not even then. You might recommend it to complete strangers on the street. … Read more

I’m not the first person to point this out, but I still wanted to provide an analysis, since I just posted a review of A Christmas Carol. I neglected to mention this topic there, which is why I decided to make an additional post. Get ready for a short essay that is actually more a ramble. In … Read more

Back in October, I got myself a Halloween present: a ticket to StarKid Productions’ new musical The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals. I posted a spoiler-free review of it here already, but now that the musical is available to watch on YouTube (and also on DVD/digital download), I’m going to sit here and talk about the more spoiler-y aspects of … Read more