Book Reviews

I recently drove from Texas to Minnesota, and decided it was high time I dive into some classic literature that's long haunted my TBR pile: specifically, anything by Sir Walter Scott.

It's no secret that some summer reading books are better than others. Over the years, I've developed a few hard-and-fast rules to sort...

The moment I began annotating classic novels, people started asking, "Why don't you do Shakespeare?" "It's been done!" I'd reply.

Did you know it's a Christmas tradition in Iceland to exchange books for Christmas? To be specific, these books are exchanged on,...

'Great American novel' or 'worst school book ever'? Having recently annotated 'The Great Gatsby' for Vocabbett Classics, I'm here to say...

This book has been in the making for 10+ years, if not 3,000. In a way, you could say The Iliad is my odyssey!

I can't be the only person who grew up thinking "good books" and "school books" were mutually exclusive categories. Now that I'm older...

They say history is stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true that in the case of Agatha Christie. She may be one of the most...

Let’s preface this by saying that everyone’s tastes are different! I’m not saying these books are objectively bad, just that I personally...