All right, I'm on a roll with these books, well, I guess Freida is on a roll with these books. I had ordered The Housemaid after how impressed I was with Never Lie. Now, I've completed The Housemaid and once again, I was flabbergasted. The character development was extraordinary, the plot was diabolical, and the … Continue reading The Housemaid by Freida McFadden
A key aspect to being even a halfway decent writer is a healthy diet of reading. Reading books you enjoy that you can't seem to put down are a good measure of what is exciting, entertaining, and engrossing. I found all three of those things in Freida McFadden's novel Never Lie. This is my first novel … Continue reading Never Lie by Freida McFadden
Next on my reading spree following Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky was The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly. I felt like I couldn't read classic after classic because I either wouldn't finish them or I'd lose my groove of reading and then I wouldn't finish them. I felt that following a classic with a … Continue reading The Last Coyote by Michael Connelly
I've been on a bit of a reading spree lately. I wanted to finish a classic so I read Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. Not going to lie, that was a tough read but I found a way to help myself get through it without spending years trying to decipher Dostoevsky, especially at my … Continue reading Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
We The Living was published by Ayn Rand in 1936. Rand was a Russian-born writer who escaped Russia a few years after the Russian Revolution when the Soviets took over the country. Rand had stated that We The Living was the closest thing she had written to an autobiography, saying it was semi-autobiographical. This book … Continue reading We The Living by Ayn Rand
Drew Schroeder 