A Belle in a Bookshop

Orange Is The New Black My Year In A Women’s Prison by Piper Kerman ” As Nina headed down the hill to the FCI, I felt a real sense of loss. She was the first real friend I had made, and I wouldn’t have any contact […]

The Alchemyst – The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel by Michael Scott ” I am legend. Death has no claim over me, illness cannot touch me. Look at me now and it would be hard to put an age upon me, and yet I […]

Dark Places by Gillian Flynn “I was not a lovable child, and I’d grown into a deeply unlovable adult. Draw a picture of my soul, and it’d be a scribble with fangs.” Gillian Flynn is best known for her astoundingly successful thriller, Gone Girl – […]

How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia by Mohsin Hamid ” We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of […]

Lost in a Book by Jennifer Donnelly “The second vulture screeched. He shook his head, and then his wings. Death’s pale cheeks flushed with indignation.  “I know there are rules, Truque!” she said. “I know I cannot go to the girl before her time. But […]

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams ” “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is a wholly remarkable book. It has been complied and recompiled many times over many years and under many different editorships. It contains contributions from countless numbers of travelers […]

Rhett Butler’s People by Donald McCaig “He was alone; he would always be alone. Rhett could endure being unloved. He could not live without loving.”  There are few books that I read that pull me in and keep me a willing prisoner. Few books can […]

Heartless by Marissa Meyer “Cath shivered and had the strangest urge to give him a nervous wave. An acknowledgment that yes, she was aware that her dress was unduly red. But by the time her hand had lifted, the Joker’s attention had skipped on. She […]

Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner ”  Peter had talked me out of it. “It’s one quarter of seventh grade,” he’d argued. “All she needs is time.” Time, I thought now. I sipped my drink and shoved the worries away. I’ve gotten good at that. At […]

The Red Queen by Philippa Gregory “My life comes down to this: a court that has forgotten me, a husband who mocks me, a son who has no use for me, and a God who has gone silent. It is no comfort to me that […]