ranam's reviews
79 reviews

The Semi-Attached Couple and the Semi-Detached House by Emily Eden

5.0

Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

adventurous fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? N/A
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

4.5

Middle grade fantasy. Lord how I'm getting tired of children's literature. 
But I'm going to try and pursue all the books on my bucket list. 

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

dark emotional sad tense

What Stanley did to Blanche was gas lighting incarnate.  And his wife is a repulsive slattern.

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

informative mysterious reflective relaxing

5.0

Shopaholic Ties the Knot by Sophie Kinsella

5.0

Shopaholic Takes Manhattan by Sophie Kinsella

5.0

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

5.0

Bleak House by Charles Dickens

5.0

My Father's Glory & My Mother's Castle: Marcel Pagnol's Memories of Childhood by Marcel Pagnol

5.0

The Odyssey by Homer

adventurous challenging hopeful inspiring tense slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

It pulled me in at first,  but it started becoming slow-paced about a quarter of the way through. It's an epic poem so there's a lot of literary techniques like rhythm, rhyme,  repetition, similies and personification, even in translation. Poseidon was the only god I didn't like because he held a grudge against Odysseus for gouging his son, the man eater, in his one eye.