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Blink by Malcolm Gladwell

4.0

This book will make you really understand the way you make decisions and teach you that our gut is usually always right. I enjoyed the insight this book brought me.

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

5.0

There is a reason Bradbury is well-received: His writing is amazing! I loved everything about this book. Carnivals already have this certain appeal to it and making it haunted only makes sense. I love this classic so much!

A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf

4.0

I adored this feminist essay. I was intimidated by it for so long because I believed that it would be hard to follow and boy was I wrong. I zipped through this book and read it in one setting. This is worth your time, I promise.

Rose Madder by Stephen King

5.0

I, like every other book of King's, enjoyed this. I loved that it was a story about a survivor of domestic abuse. It was scary in general and, in my opinion, even scarier for women or victims of domestic abuse. It is a story of power play and how some people go to great lengths to escape their terrible reality and how others go just as far lengths to have their way.

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

2.0

I read this simply because it is a classic and is on every list of 'books every reader should read in their lifetime' and I am here to say I have no clue why it is so well liked. I did not enjoy a single chapter. I hate to leave such a negative review but I believe it should be out there for others who may be thinking the same thing as me and feel like a major outsider.

Everything's Eventual by Stephen King

5.0

I am never disappointed. Seriously. Even though there were a few shorts I wanted to skip, this was overall very amazing.

A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines

4.0

This is a beautiful story of hope and perseverance. It is a story of overcoming prejudice and facing adversity. You need to read this book and then make those around you read it as well.

Wally's World: Life with Wally the Wonder Dog by Marsha Boulton

5.0

I already want to read this book again. I am a sucker for any story about dogs and I fell in love with wally the second he was introduced. You will cry with the author as she shares the ups and downs of her life with wally. If you love dogs and believe in their pure goodness, you need to read this book right now.

The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury

4.0

I am not a big fan of sci-fi but I believe this book has converted me. It was the perfect balance between extraterrestrial and human. It wasn't so foreign to my knowledge that I did't know what was going on, but enough to leave me mystified. I love love love this book as much as I love it's author.

A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

5.0

This book made me cry because it was so beautiful. I have never been so INTO a book before. I found myself thinking of the characters as my in real life friends and family. It is pure magic when an author can make their readers cry with the characters, laugh alongside the characters and celebrate each emotion that the characters go through. Backman and his writing is just that: pure magic. I plan on reading every single one of his books after being introduced to Ove and his writing.