Between the Pages

Hello lovely readers! This week was my first week of school, so please excuse the lack of posts as of late. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote changed my life. I believe I posted on my story that if you did one thing, reader, just one thing for me (besides reading this blog) I want you to read this book.  SUMMARY In November of 1959, New Yorker Truman Capote read an article run by The New York Times . The story was of the Clutter family in Holcomb Kansas. "This is apparently the case of a psychopathic killer," said the Sheriff in Holcomb. Intrigued by the case, Capote impulsively traveled to Kansas with Harper Lee (yeah, that Harper Lee). Capote visited the site of the massacre. The massacre where an unknown killer or killers shot four members of the Clutter family, Herb, Bonnie, Nancy, and Kenyon, execution-style. In Cold Blood is the journey - Capote's whole journey. Remember the Clutter family.  REVIEW I simply love this book. I am a huge crime junkie and murderino. While ...

Hello everyone on this lovely day! I hope you all enjoyed my halfway recap. I have since finished three more books Just Mercy , It Ends With Us, and The Inheritance Games . That makes 26 books on the year! Sorry I have been MIA lately. Things are getting BUSY. Now, for the review of the first audiobook that I listened to on my recently acquired library card. (Yes, I know I know, I should have gotten a library card sooner. BUT, I have one now!) SUMMARY Charlotte and Jamie are back! (And I have never been happier!) Charlotte thought she was finished. She thought she could leave the Holmes family behind. The "Holmes Way" of sleuthing and hyper-attention is still as stuck to Charlotte as it was at Sherringford.  Charlotte and Jamie are both taking Oxford Summer Pre-college courses to get ready for their upcoming first semester in college. Just when their shot for a "normal" experience arrives, Charlotte (and by extension Jamie) gets asked to investigate a mystery in the...

 Oh, what a reading year 2021 has already been! I am so excited to share what I have read in 2021 thus far (whether I shared it on here with a review or on my Instagram or not!). I always enjoy seeing what others have read for two main reasons. The first being that I am genuinely interested in what books other readers gravitate towards in my favorite genres. And secondarily, I love organization and comprehensive reports on a lot of different topics. Readers' reading reports always hold a sense of such accomplishment. Please enjoy my stats as of today in the slides below!

 The Minerva House gang is back! This is NOT a drill. I repeat this is NOT a drill! SUMMARY Stevie Bell is back and better than ever (literally) in The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson, but this time, with another mystery. For three books, we have been riveted by the Ellingham Academy murders. Now that Stevie has solved those, she begins the summer before her senior year working in a deli - not exactly the perfect job for a mystery-solving teenager but it is a safe job (unless you count the deli-slicer as a dangerous weapon...).  In 1978, four prominent teenagers at summer camp in Barlow Corners went into the woods together to smoke after camp curfew. Sabrina, Todd, Diane, and Eric were never seen alive again. They were seen, however, stabbed to death in the woods. 43 years later, still, no one knows why. Cold. Case. When Stevie gets an offer to solve the Box in the Woods murders, she takes it - posing to everyone (even her parents) except her friends and the camp owner as ...

SUMMARY Dr. James Sheppard is a (the) well-known doctor in a wealthy town called King's Abbott. Dr. Sheppard wakes up on this particular Friday morning to a normal day (is there really such a thing as a "normal" day in the life of a doctor?) - his sister Caroline spilling out all of her most recently acquired gossip while he sips tea or coffee over a light breakfast. But, Dr. Sheppard's day doesn't stay normal. Mrs. Ferrars - a citizen of the extremely small town - has died. Sheppard is sent to give her medical attention, but he was too late.  One of Dr. Sheppard's best friends in King's Abbott - Mr. Roger Ackroyd - was seeing Mrs. Ferrars before her ultimate demise. As the amateur sleuth he is, Sheppard goes to pay a call at the biggest house in King's Abbott: the Ackroyd residence. Upon his visit, Sheppard is immediately ushered into Ackroyd's study where he is informed that Mrs. Ferrars was being blackmailed. Perhaps Caroline was right when she ...