The Book Shire

3.5 stars

Mosquitoland by David Arnold

Another book hyped to the point of no return… Look, guys, I wanted to love this book. I heard great things upon even greater things about it over the course [...]

The Jewel by Amy Ewing

Ugh. I so wanted to like The Jewel. My sweet husband gave it to me as part of my first ever book box from him, and I am all about that YA dystopian life. But [...]

My Kind of Crazy by Robin Reul

I had very high expectations for My Kind of Crazy... Probably because the blurb marked it as a book that was great for fans of contemporary YA by the likes of [...]

The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion

"Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others." I love Sheldon Cooper - The Big Bang Theory is easily one of my favorite shows, [...]

Like No Other by Una LaMarche

My mother used to say that no one knows what's going on in a stew but the pot and the spoon. I wanted to love Like No Other by Una LaMarche as much as I [...]

Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter

I miss Italy. Like, I-think-about-it-every-single-day-dream-about-it-talk-about-it-constantly miss it. Sometimes it's hard to believe that I left [...]