Nonfiction and Nonsense

  • The One by John Marrs

    I cannot find the right words to express to you how much I enjoyed this book. I feel like it has been a while since I found myself looking forward to spending all my free time reading. I finished this in less than three days, beginning the book on a Sunday, reading during my lunch…

  • Sunrise on the Reaping by Suzanne Collins

    Ever since reading the scene in Catching Fire where Katniss and Peeta watch the 50th Hunger Games, I wanted to know more about what happened in the arena that year. Haymitch not only won, he won while competing against twice as many tributes. I knew that there had to have been something special about Haymitch…

  • The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

    A part philosophical, part political text which instructs how to be the best kind of ruler according to the circumstances that lead up to your ascension as well as how to conduct your reign after, this is another book I have acquired for my banned books collection. I don’t expect to ever be a ruler…

  • The Call of the Wild by Jack London

    I don’t read the classics very often, but this novel is part of a collection that I am slowly gathering. I decided, for reasons I won’t get into here, that I should start buying physical copies of banned books as well as books that have a possibility of being banned in the near future. This…

  • The Bootlegger’s Bounty by Adriana Herrera

    If you’re looking for a book that gets straight to the point, I have found it right here. This is yet another book that I can’t recall where I heard about it from. I needed another short read this week, I am still recovering from that cold, and this one seemed to be the perfect…